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soren_dahl on Aug 7, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Why did Twitter succeed?

So, maybe we can say one of the reasons that Twitter succeeded was that marketing was taken out of the hands of CompuServe marketers and their like and put the hands of bloggers and such?

ehsanul on Aug 7, 2010 [–]

NYT, Oprah and various celebrities did play a significant role in marketing Twitter in their later stages of high growth.

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