Twitter has a come along way since it’s inception in March 2006 and official launch in July that same year.
The social network has come so far in term of design features, getting new ones, dropping some, testing others to make the platform better.
They’ve rolled out the ability to natively schedule tweets, added a feature to switch between multiple accounts, testing showing quoted retweets right under the original tweet, announced fleets and lists as swipeable timelines.
With these new features and more coming up, Twitter users resorted to reminiscing and sharing the old features they missed.
people who have also been on twitter for way too long, do you remember when attaching a photo to a tweet meant that literally half of the 140 characters were used up
— lena ❤️🩹 (@electrajpeg) May 16, 2020
I wish they were still eggs, the reasoning behind changing them so so dumb. They changed from eggs to the human face bc people complained that egg accounts were harassing others… like… get rid of the accounts 😭 the eggs aren’t the problem
— lena ❤️🩹 (@electrajpeg) May 17, 2020
Nothing like quote tweeting a friend’s tweet to make it look like they said something stupid
— lena ❤️🩹 (@electrajpeg) May 17, 2020
https://twitter.com/evolparadise/status/1262111683037847552
Changing favorites to likes was one of the only smart decisions twitter has made
— lena ❤️🩹 (@electrajpeg) May 16, 2020
Retweets were like “RT” at the beginning
— shooter mcgavin (@CZanghi) May 17, 2020
Literally horrible I don’t understand how this was allowed
— lena ❤️🩹 (@electrajpeg) May 17, 2020
for tweeting or dming too much! you'll be locked from performing those actions for a certain amount of time. one hour if you're lucky. longer if you aren't.
it was limited to 100 tweets per hour and back then i used Twitter mentions like it was MSN lmaooo
— 琪 (チー) (@tapiocakyoudai) May 18, 2020
EKSKSKSKWKKSKS YEAH Downloading file apps to rename your fucking gifs
— lena ❤️🩹 (@electrajpeg) May 16, 2020
I joined Twitter like 4 or 5 months before they made groupchats, and let me tell you that those first few months were a nightmare if you were on fandom twitter… so many fucking groupchats 😭
— lena ❤️🩹 (@electrajpeg) May 17, 2020
i remember when you had a special number you could text to send tweets, since most people didn’t have smartphones
— rat girl (@ratgirllives) May 17, 2020
https://twitter.com/ceciferraz_/status/1262234942051946496
https://twitter.com/rohochristie/status/1262094292190986240
I remember when you could just completely change the text on a quote retweet because all it did was copy the original tweet and surround it with quotation marks
— K (@_TheKMan_) May 17, 2020
"@dietciigs quote tweets use to look like ""this""" oh man, I remember that!! Lol
— Lukey Luke (@takealukehere) May 17, 2020
Oh my god twitpic
— lena ❤️🩹 (@electrajpeg) May 16, 2020
Remember when you could look at someone else’s mentions just by going to their profile? pic.twitter.com/BfhDIQYU1W
— Kale 🌿 (@kalekaela) May 17, 2020
literally Anything u added to ur tweet meant u could put like . 2 words down 😭
— jj (@riplier) May 16, 2020
YEP Twitter was so useless for sharing content
— lena ❤️🩹 (@electrajpeg) May 16, 2020
https://twitter.com/punksmurf/status/1262138376481837056
Fuck I miss moments so much
— lena ❤️🩹 (@electrajpeg) May 17, 2020
I struggled with using “like” for a while because do I want to click a heart for a super sad tweet? What am I supposed to do with this? The star always felt more neutral and “I see you.”
— Renée fueled by caffeine and her own sarcasm. (@N1tSt4lker) May 18, 2020
I remember the “fail whale” screen that would pop up when Twitter was down
— craig 🥐 (@toujoursyucky) May 17, 2020
I remember the “fail whale” screen that would pop up when Twitter was down
— craig 🥐 (@toujoursyucky) May 17, 2020
God yes!
And composing a perfect tweet but going over the 140 limit by a couple of characters & having to decide which spelling/grammar crime(s) to commit.
Also Follow Fridays – found many twitter friends though that.
— Ian S (@iannlou) May 17, 2020
THIS!
— Carla Solórzano (@Carla_Zano) May 17, 2020
I hate circle pfp so I had to improvise
— ACC ABANDONED (@SECURlTYBREACH) May 18, 2020
I remember when URL compression started happening and it was JOYOUS
— neil from the matrix (@yungfuckwit) May 17, 2020
https://twitter.com/MagneticCrow/status/1262012079713718272
🤯 legit forgot hahaha Thank god for the glow up
— Wreckless Disregard (@WDisregard) May 18, 2020
Switch also has the old character limit.
— Holgast (@Holgast) May 18, 2020
Commenting and then their @ would also take up characters 😭😭
— Lisa (@Tw1nkl3_Star_) May 17, 2020
So THAT’S why I see some people putting a “.” in front of @ mentions… pic.twitter.com/V2nvTmmCoE
— Ace of Dragons #BLM #TransRightsAreHumanRights (@AceofDragons1) May 18, 2020
https://twitter.com/Chideraa_O/status/1262356577245442048
Remember twitpic because twitter didn't do pics?
and RTs weren't links, just like copy/pasting w/ RT in front.
And responses didn't thread at all. https://t.co/B2l1BMXKNN
— Lisa Rowe 🏳️🌈💖💜💙 (@txvoodoo) May 18, 2020
https://twitter.com/uncleminho/status/1262115804935380993
https://twitter.com/gabby_frost/status/1262156924524601345
