Twitter is the platform that led us into the mobile Internet age. It broke our habit of visiting individual news homepages first thing in the morning, and established behaviors built around real-time news consumption and production. It normalized mobile publishing power. It changed our expectations about how we congregate around shared events. Twitter has done for social publishing what AOL did for email. But nobody has AOL accounts anymore.

— Adrienne LaFrance and Robinson Meyer, “A Eulogy for Twitter The beloved social publishing platform enters its twilight,” The Atlantic, April 30, 2014.
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