This article was published on October 26, 2012

Flashback: Watch as CBS News fails to understand Twitter in 2007


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A person looks at tweets sent on the “defensePigeons” Twitter account of the self-employed entrepreneurs (auto-entrepreneurs) protest front page on the Facebook website, on October 4, 2012 in Tours, western France. Entrepreneurs and self-employed entrepreneurs organisations denounced the day before the lack of information and dialogue regarding an increase in employees’ social security contributions presented […]

Image Credits Credit: ALAIN JOCARD

Only five years ago, Myspace was king and a young network by the name of Twitter was only just starting to emerge. Called “the latest cyber drug of choice” by CBS 5 News back in 2007, this classic news report shown below is sure to usher in an intoxicating wave of nostalgia.

Here it is, as recently resurfaced by Cheezburger and Bianca Bosker:

Image credit: ALAIN JOCARD / Getty Images

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