👍 Using Twitter as a lens for some thoughts on launching products
Twitter took about five years to go mainstream. Here’s a potted history of that time period from the Buffer blog:
- July 2006: ‘Twttr’ is available to the public
- October 2006: Sign up for Twitter without your phone number
- May 2007: You can block others and Twitter gets a mobile site
- May 2007: Twitter gets an @replies column
- August 2007: Twitter Profile Search goes live
- September 2007: Tracking Twitter alias #Hashtags goes live
- September 2008: Twitter gets Trending Topics
- March 2009: Twitter introduces “Suggested Users”
- October 2009: Twitter launches Twitter Lists
- November 2009: Twitter unveils the new native RT function
- March 2010: You can now add your location to your Tweets
- April 2010: Twitter launches “Promoted Tweets”
- September 2010: Twitter introduces the “New Twitter”
- June 2011: Twitter launches its own link shortening service