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Watch: The 328 million users strong and 11 years long journey of Twitter, in numbers

Started as a micro-blogging website on this day in 2006, Twitter has become a broadcast medium, a spark-plug for revolutions, a vortex of cat gifs and more.

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Jul 15, 2017 · 05:30 pm
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