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#Twitterpated: Crushing On Twitter for a Decade

Hannah Pierangelo March 25, 2016 • 7:00 pm

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My favorite social media platform turned ten years old this week. If I could bake a bird-shaped cake to celebrate, I would. But let’s face it, my Twitter birthday cake would just be a circle with a giant hashtag in blue frosting. Regardless, it’s still pretty cool to see how far social media has come in a decade! I distinctly remember thinking Twitter would only ever amount to a Dear Diary-style word vomit where people would feel the need to narrate every moment of their day. Instead, that’s Facebook now (plus a slew of branded advertisements, random event invites, and links to articles/Buzzfeed videos). Twitter has actually done pretty well in the last ten years. It’s been an excellent resource for journalists and live reporting, and a great venue for conversation with trending topics and hashtags. It’s still my favorite place to go to figure out what’s going on in the world (and how I find new music to check out!).

So while there isn’t a bird-shaped cake, or even a hashtag in blue frosting (I was kidding), I still want to take a second to celebrate a decade of Twitter. And what better way than with a bunch of the best tweets to ever grace my timeline? Here are some of my favorite moments over the years:

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Ellen Degeneres, my hero, posted her Oscars selfie in 2014 to Twitter, and it’s still the most retweeted image in history–3,343,035 retweets.

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Following the highly anticipated release of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, a parody account popped up on Twitter called Emo Kylo Ren. It is now my favorite account on Twitter. IT NEVER GETS OLD.

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I remember the exact moment I learned that Blink 182 had reunited. It was 2009, I was backstage at my high school play where I played a maid or something and my friend called me. This was before I had Twitter, so I didn’t get to see this life-changing tweet until later. But it still counts.

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Another reunion that literally rocked my world: Pete Wentz announced the return of Fall Out Boy with a simple “We missed you” and a brand new song.

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Annnnd some more Fall Out Boy, because they were voted Artist of the Year at the inaugural Alternative Press Awards in 2014.

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State Champs opened for the chart-topping pop-punk boy band 5 Seconds of Summer, so that’s pretty awesome.

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Linkin Park surprised everyone with a set at Vans Warped Tour ‘14 on Twitter.

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August Burns Red were honored with a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance last year! They may not have won the award, but they certainly won our hearts.

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Twitter celebrated the awesome engagement of some of our favorite people, Hayley Williams and Chad Gilbert in January. It was pretty cute.

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This only scratches the surface of cool things that happened, I know. But just think of all the cool things yet to come. Cheers to you, Twitter! Here’s to ten more years.
#HappyBirthday #Decade

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