1/ For clarification in case anyone sees this, we used to be one of the most popular services on Twitter way back in 2008/9, where we were the first to use a mix of social signals and textual semantics to drive recommendations before it was cool.
5/ For more web2 nostalgia, check out this very popular @SlideShare thing we did that preceded MrTweet and was based on a presentation we did in SXSW.
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6/ Anyhow, it is fun writing this mini-tweetstorm for reminiscence sake.
Having been in Twitter since super long ago, I do have a bunch of thoughts around the evolution of it all. If the new twitter overlords does not kill this account, will share more moving forward!
