Has Twitter transformed the PhD experience? - timeshighereducation.com, 12.03.2016
As the social media platform celebrates its 10th anniversary, Jack Grove examines how it has changed doctoral study.
Just a few weeks after Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey sent the platform’s first tweet in March 2006, the social media network gained its first PhD student.
Indiana University computer science student Andrew Keep (@andykeep), now a software engineer at Cisco, is listed among the first 100 people to have signed up to the fledgling site, which now has 320 million monthly users.