Hard to believe that it’s only the seventh birthday of the popular social media platform Twitter.
In seven years, Twitter has changed how political campaigns are run, made ordinary people into nigh-celebrities and spread cat photos like the plague.
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So what was life like before everyone could microblog about their lives and political happenings?
Don’t worry. There’s a hashtag for that.