How 50 Cent Put Us Onto Twitter Early | The Rise of Blogging & Social Platforms

19 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube clip (single speaker) recalling early social-media adoption: SPEAKER A credits 50 Cent with drawing attention to Twitter among artists, emphasizes Twitter as where conversations and bloggers congregated, and gives approximate adoption timelines (Twitter ~2008–2009; Instagram ~2011). The tone is informal and anecdotal.

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Super early on Twitter, 50 Cent was talking about Twitter. That's how I ended up learning about Twitter. And then when I got on, I was like telling all the artists, like, yo, y' all gotta get on Twitter. This is where the conversations be at. People be talking about shit. The bloggers are here. This is right when the blog and era were getting ready. Wow. You saw that I was on Twitter before I was on Instagram and all that shit. Cause I didn't really get on Instagram until 2011. Wow. And I think Twitter was like, 2008, 2009.