How to Survive the Internet

How to Survive the Internet

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Meet the man who invented the retweet button

And he’s still worried.

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Jamie Bartlett
Feb 14, 2024
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In 2009, Chris Wetherell was working as a software engineer when he was approached by Twitter’s top team.  Back then, Twitter was more like a website where you sent out text messages to a group of friends, telling them what you’re doing. And it looked like this:

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