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When the news broke this week, the Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was stepping down. There was

only one person I wanted to talk to. How long have we been writing about Twitter?

Oh, well, you're really going to start this off with the existential question of how I've

wasted 16 years of my life writing about social networks.

That's journalist Nick Bilton. Nick writes for Vanity Fair now. But back in 2006, he was

working at The New York Times. In a division of the company that researched how new technologies

might affect journalism.

And I had heard about Twitter in 2006 and reached out to the guys who had started at the time

there was no one using it. And the people who responded were Jack Dorsey and Bistone.

We had a brief call and then soon after that I became a reporter and started covering

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