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The first post on my twitter account was "what is this and why would anyone want to use it?"

It was definitely not "this is precisely the thing that I had been hoping for 10 years somebody would code up."

If you had tried to estimate the number of potential twitter users by counting up the number of people in the world who were search for a service that would publish their SMS-length plain text messages on a web site, you would have gotten nowhere meaningful.




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