Identity Beyond Usernames

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In 2006, Robert Andersen sent the first tweet that @mentioned another user, and an internet convention was born. In a world without smartphones, Twitter's primary interface was SMS. There were no threads, no @username autocomplete. If a user said something and you wanted to reply, your only option was to compose a new text to 40404, manually...