A tweet history of social networking

Tweets

Corporate Watch @CorpWatchUK 1971

Programmer Ray Tomlinson sends 1st email between 2 computers. #ARPANET project funded by @USDeptofDefence

Corporate Watch @CorpWatchUK 1978

Bulletin Board Services exchange data between users over phone lines #whereisitnow?

Corporate Watch @CorpWatchUK 1994

@Geocities launched, one of 1st soc netwrk sites, lets users create own wbsites. @Yahoo buys 4 $3.6bn, 10yrs l8er closes US ops #nice1Yahoo!

Corporate Watch @CorpWatchUK 1997

@AOL instant msgs launched. Where ru now AOL? #goneandforgotten

Corporate Watch @CorpWatchUK 1998

@FriendsReunited launched in UK, 1st soc netwrk to get popular. @ITV bought for £120m in 2005, sold for £25m 5yrs l8er!

Corporate Watch @CorpWatchUK 1999

@MSNMessenger launched, now Windows Live Messenger.

Corporate Watch @CorpWatchUK 2002

Friendster born. 3m users in 1st 3 mths. @Ggle offered $30m but venture cap owners said no – ID1OTZ!

Corporate Watch @CorpWatchUK 2003

@Myspace starts – massive. @rupertmurdoch pays $580m, peaks then bombs. LOL! Now @jtimberlake owns it. WTF?!

Corporate Watch @CorpWatchUK 2004

Birth of @Facebook. @mark_zuckerberg wants to be your friend!

Corporate Watch @CorpWatchUK 2005

@Youtube launched by 3 ex-paypal drones. Sold to Google in 2006 for £1.65bn. Baby biting finger most popular vid evr.

Corporate Watch @CorpWatchUK 2006

Twitter njoys 1st tweets. Vent cap backed (ofcrs!). Jrnalists say changes wrld, stop doing proper jrnalism. #twitterdidntcausethearabspring

Corporate Watch @CorpWatchUK 2007

@iphone launched, ipad appears in 2010. Protests in China continue as Foxconn workers protest wrking conditions #jobsdidntcare

Corporate Watch @CorpWatchUK 2011

@Google+ launched. Wtvr!

Corporate Watch @CorpWatchUK 2012

Facebook has 900m users, 3rd biggest US IPO evr but @mark_zuckerberg still contrls 57% vting shares #facebookiswatchingu

Corporate Watch @CorpWatchUK 2012

@corpwatchuk releases mag, corp contrl of soc netwrkng endz.