On: Introducing Twitter premium APIs

[rhinoceraptor]

Also, if I’m not mistaken, retweeting and hashtags were done first by third party clients. Even the word tweet was coined in an email Blaine Cook sent discussing twitter’s auth API for 3rd party clients.

[oliyoung → rhinoceraptor]

you were right in that they weren't Twitter's idea, but they were community driven.

@ and hashtags came from IRC and retweets (back when it was the RT....) just evolved

[icc97 → oliyoung]

IRC then via Chris Messina [0]

edit: although disappointingly he seems to use this fact as quite a personal branding tool now

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Messina_(open-source_adv...

[nothrabannosir → porfirium]

I don't think it's possible to capture the essence of IRC more succinctly than your comment just did.

[Mayzie → nothrabannosir]

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[_Codemonkeyism → porfirium]

Not when I was using IRC on a VAX in the first half of the 90s. We used @ and noone was a 'n00b'.

[Simon_says → rhinoceraptor]

Surprisingly, though, the word "twit" predates the company.

[Karawebnetwork → Simon_says]

That's an old word.

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twit

noun informal

noun: twit; plural noun: twits

a silly or foolish person.

[Simon_says → Karawebnetwork]

I know; it's joke.