Twitter, for all its sins, has made it to 10. A whole decade. Which, given that the world wide web itself is only around a quarter of a century old, is no mean feat.
In the past 15 year or so, social networks have come and gone like Henry VIII’s wives: occasionally overlapping, but never lasting long amid our Tudor-esque attention spans. Meteoric rise is usually matched by catastrophic downturn after a decade or less.
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