Roy Choi

Everyone had to gather around the one device, you know, and watch the Ed Sullivan show, you know, like that's kind of how it was with the iPhone at that time.

And then.

There was no idea, understanding of mobile social media in terms of we were still heavily entrenched in the MySpace era.

So everything in chat rooms, you know, so we still had to go home and plug in and like pull up the chair, dial up.

Yeah, you had a computer room.

Yeah, there was a computer room.

We had to wiggle into our seat.

We had a special table.

Special table, yes.

And you knew you were committed for an hour, so you had to kind of like sink in and like everything else had to be taken care of and you were there, you know, right?

The idea of it just being like fluid was just being introduced.

So Twitter was around for a few months, but it...

People couldn't connect the dots of why the hell do I need it?

You have people like, who are we communicating to?

Who are we communicating to?

Why?

All that.

Yeah.

And then the economy crashed with the real estate crisis and people were really, really scared.

It was a very sensitive time in America.