One day, we didn't know what to do with it, and the next day some of us can't live without it.
Five years after its launch, Twitter has revolutionized communication,
but as Poppy Harlow reports, there were plenty of people who never thought it would make it this far.
Remember when you first heard about Twitter?
Did you think it was just crazy? Some comedians did.
Have you hooked yourself up to the Twitter thing? It's, it's, it's stupid. It's just crap. I'll tell ya...
Tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet.
Yeah, let's tweet these twatters, tweeting their twinks! Twitter!
But then came Ashton Kutcher.
If I beat CNN to a million followers, I will literally go and ding dong ditch Ted Turner's house.
You think you can take on an entire network?
Do you know how big we are? Do you know what CNN is? CNN will bury you.
Let's just say we didn't win, and the queen of media got hooked, proving the power of celebrity.
Look at who has the most followers on Twitter.
You got Gaga. You got Bieber. You got Britney. And then you have Barack Obama.
I think that says a whole lot.
President Obama was with the Russian president,
and he actually called Twitter "Twitters" pulling a President Bush moment.
During his visit to Silicon Valley this week, he visited the headquarters of Twitters.
Well, Twitter is now five years old,
and this is where it made its public debut, here at music and media festival South by Southwest.
What did you think when you first heard of Twitter?
That it sounded ridiculous.
I thought nobody is gonna publicly announcing [announce] like short messages about irrelevant stuff, and now everybody's doing it.
When the plane went down in the Hudson, the first actual picture came from a Twitter user who was at a ferry nearby.
So, all the media, you know, they were all posting this picture that came straight from Twitter.
And then history was marked in 140 characters.
Messages coming from Twitter not only from inside Iran but from outside.
Revolutions were born and dictators overthrown.
Demonstrations that began over Facebook and Twitter taking on a life of their own.
That connection to people halfway around the world, you're paying attention to that now in a way that you wouldn't have done before.
Now they have over 200 million users.
People are tweeting. People get it.
The big question is kind of how do you turn those tweets into a profit?
We're not profitable right now. We've got plenty of time to take this model and grow it.
There were recent reports that it's between eight and 10 billion.
But, I mean let's be honest, like they haven't really even hashed out a business plan.
People will try to replicate, recreate.
There is only one Twitter.
It will not die the way MySpace went. Twitter will live on forever!