Stephen Fry will quit and return once a year … and nine other predictions for Twitter's next decade
by HAL 90210 from Technology | The Guardian on (#17GCY)
From TV spoilers and Deep Drumpf to Kanye West and badly drawn penises, here's the future of the social network as it enters double figures
"Just setting up my twttr": Jack Dorsey posted the first ever tweet on 21 March 2006, when Twitter was still a vowel-less side project of podcasting firm Odeo. The decade since then has been a riot of hashtags, feuds, breaking news, white and gold black and blue dresses, spoilers, one-liners, furious men's rights activists, political movements, tweetstorms and celebrity bottoms.
What might the next decade hold in store? Here are some confident predictions for the next 10 years of Everyone's Favourite Social App That Isn't Facebook, or WhatsApp, or Facebook Messenger, or Instagram or Snapchat.
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