Watch A Map Of Early Twitter Adoption Explode Across The US [VIDEO]

We’ve heard it before: 2009 was a watershed year for Twitter. Ashton Kutcher raced CNN to a million followers, Oprah signed up, and the Iranian protests used Twitter extensively that year. But how did the US react to this new “micro-blogging” network at the time?

Twitter was around for three years before it became a big deal.

Jack Doresy sent the first tweet in March 2006, and the other co-founders, their family and friends all signed up in those early days and started tweeting.

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