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
when celebs would apologize using twit longer
— ЯOYA (@evolparadise) May 17, 2020
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
— Cheriots of Fire (@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
— チーちゃん✨qi! (@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
remember when you could put like a background picture in your account like this? i miss it so much! rip my one direction background pic.twitter.com/MWYtoNqHyn
— ceci (@ceciferraz_) May 18, 2020
People say a picture is worth a thousand words.
Apparently the more correct exchange rate is a picture is worth 70 characters.
— Ronda Christie (@rohochristie) May 17, 2020
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
— Kevin Jerome (@_KevinJerome_) May 17, 2020
"@dietciigs quote tweets use to look like ""this""" oh man, I remember that!! Lol
— Lucas (He/They) (@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 🌿 Essential 🔬 (@kalekaela) May 17, 2020
literally Anything u added to ur tweet meant u could put like . 2 words down 😭
— jj 💖 (@lesbellie) May 16, 2020
YEP Twitter was so useless for sharing content
— lena ⚢ (@electrajpeg) May 16, 2020
…remember when you didn’t!
— Punksmurf (@punksmurf) May 17, 2020
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 Doiron (@N1tSt4lker) May 18, 2020
I remember the “fail whale” screen that would pop up when Twitter was down
— ccccccccccc (@EWWWYUCKY) May 17, 2020
I remember the “fail whale” screen that would pop up when Twitter was down
— ccccccccccc (@EWWWYUCKY) 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
— Styx ♡ (@SECURlTYBREACH) May 18, 2020
I remember when URL compression started happening and it was JOYOUS
— succubussy (@yungfuckwit) May 17, 2020
Remember when there were a bunch of custom URL-shortening websites, and some of them were real shady and just kicked back links to dl malware every now and again
— Leaf Grabenstetter (they/them) (@MagneticCrow) May 17, 2020
🤯 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 😭😭
— ¡nsfr!¹²⁷ᴸᶦˢᵃ (@Tw1nkl3_Star_) May 17, 2020
So THAT’S why I see some people putting a “.” in front of @ mentions… pic.twitter.com/V2nvTmmCoE
— Flowers of Dragons (@AceofDragons1) May 18, 2020
😂😂😂 quoting tweets then was the absolute ghetto https://t.co/yK3oRund5f
— Saul Goodman (@Chideraa_O) May 18, 2020
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
also remember when twitter page looked like this https://t.co/UUloT7iRXd pic.twitter.com/jm1ktmp2GD
— 𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐥 ☾･:*:･ﾟ (@uncleminho) May 17, 2020
remember when twitter just refused to tell us the exact number of RTs/likes if it was over 50 https://t.co/eFv7CvUhM8
— gabby frost (@gabby_frost) May 17, 2020
