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The inspiration for Twitter? AOL's AIM

TNW Twitter • Joel Falconer • May 18, 2011

Twitter started out life as an AIM hack that Jack Dorsey added to his pager, Wired reports. Dorsey had been quite involved in the world of instant messaging, and had…

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