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Why Twitter is such a big deal (2009)
April 2009 Om Malik is the most recent of many people to ask why Twitter is such a big deal. The reason is that it's a new messaging protocol, where you don't specify the recipients.
Om Malik is the most recent of many people to ask why Twitter is such a big deal. There are only a handful of commonly used ones: TCP/IP (the Internet), SMTP (email), HTTP (the web), and so on. Curiously, the fact that the founders of Twitter have been slow to monetize it may in the long run prove to be an advantage.
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