Neither did Skype or Dodgeball (which was bought by Google in 2005, shut down only to resurface temporarily as Google Latitude then Foursquare in 2009) both of which have gone onto enormous mass-market successes but have bothchanged the way we relate with our world.
"We saw that when the decoder rat committed an error, the encoder basically changedboth its brain function and behaviour to make it easier for its partner to get it right, " he said.
So, in honor of its 7th birthday, we look at both the upside and the downside of Twitter use through seven people whose lives were changed by the site.