Sure, you could read about the history of Twitter in long-form blog posts, but that seems to go against the spirit of the micro-messaging service. So instead, here’s a picture created by InfoShotsManolith
that puts some key moments of the service’s history in visual form.
This spans from the advent of UNIX “Talk” in the 1980s (an early
real-time text update system), all the way to the Twipocalypse. for the blog
But also an earlier draft of the image concept: