A Tiny History Of The @reply

A funny thing about Twitter: A lot of the features we use everyday, like hashtags and RTs and @replies were not invented by Twitter, but by Twitter users. The first ever @reply? Sent to Buzz Andersen on Nov. 2, 2006. Three weeks later, the convention exploded.

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A Tiny History Of The @reply
Matt Buchanan

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