my name is meredith clark. i'm an associate professor in journalism and communication studies at northeastern university in boston. all right, ladies. i had to look to see when you all joined twitter, victoria june 2012. thank you for your service, meredith. oh, my goodness, 2000. and 9 extraordinary, you've been there for a long time. gillian, you're virtually an o g u joy. in february of 2008, i'm going to take some around viewers, back to the very beginning with a little timeline that takes us back to 2060, remember that 1st treat the i short show d. well, in 2006 to the launch as a micro blogging site. and then in the past 60 years, they have been now an audience of 200, a 40000000 active users around the world. average number of tweets in any one day, 500000000 tweets st in a day. gillian, you're almost an o g. tell us what you know tis that's been different since say the end of october, you getting a sense of something different or is it just anxiety? i, you know, i think i'll be honest and say a lot of i