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> Famously you needed an invite for a very long time.

And then it opened to needing a college/university email address. Then it opened to everyone.

I got in with my college email address, and at the time it was considered a feature, not a limitation: a combination of higher quality since people couldn't just make new spam accounts whenever, plus a bit of a status symbol compared to just being on MySpace.




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