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Twitter was the first platform to get celebs posting on the daily so they had something new and exciting on their hands. TikTok then said, what if we turn normal people into celebrities?

TikTok would not exist without Twitter and I think Twitter could not have been TikTok. The two cater to different audiences. The elitism of Twitter is what kept the celebs posting there.




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