On Its 7th Birthday Is Twitter Still the Free-Speech-Party?

"Since then the social media company has been an important communication tool in everything from the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street, to its use as a megaphone for celebrities. Over the years, its relationship to its free speech principles has changed."

From Trivial To Global Town Hall

"When it was founded, Twitter seemed rather trivial. I visited the company's tiny San Francisco offices in 2007 and spoke with co-founder Biz Stone. He told me about his first tweet."

"'I was at home ripping up old carpet and sweating,' he recalled. 'It was terrible. It was gross.'"

"Then Stone's phone buzzed in his pocket and he saw a tweet: 'Evan Williams is wine tasting in Napa.'"