What ten years on Twitter taught me about communities

After exactly a decade on Twitter, Mumbrella’s Tim Burrowes looks back on ten years with his favourite social network

Tim Burrowes

September 10, 2018 8:35

Today marks the tenth anniversary of the day I joined Twitter, exploding onto social media with the riveting insight “sending the mag to press”.

sending the mag to press

— Tim Burrowes (@mumbrella) September 10, 2008

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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1 COMMENTS

Alison Michalk 12 Sep 18

Glad to see you’ve drunk the community kool-aid Tim 😉 As you know I’ve been championing online communities for nearly a decade and still see them as a single biggest asset an organisation can own. Forums in particular remain the largest repository of human knowledge and their potential for peer-support and knowledge-sharing is incredible. Much like you I built a community (Aus CMs/Swarm) and a business at the same time.

In terms of resources there are a lot of great books on community management and fundamental community building principles. https://bit.ly/1nJIVVi

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