After three years of growing pains, Twitter has managed to become an integral and necessary aspect of pop culture. TechCrunch notes an interesting illustration from InfoShots of Twitter’s history, reaching all the way back to 1980 when the concept of real-time text messages was implemented by UNIX.
From inception the purpose of Twitter was questioned, and the ability for Twitter to have any staying power was a ready topic of discussion, thanks to its frequent downtime fail whales. And the more recent Twitpocalypse and Iran-related use of Twitter has reiterated the importance of Twitter up-time, pointing out that Twitter has become a full-fledged mainstream application.
This is all duly noted in the illustration below, as the most influential points of Twitter’s history are tied to celebrities and politics. Because apparently that’s what makes Twitter great.
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