My wife (@elisewho) and I (@stiles) had a silly social media moment yesterday when I replied to one of her tweets — despite the fact that she was sitting in an adjacent room of our Seoul apartment.

USC professor Robert Hernandez (a.k.a. @webjournalist) captured it:  

https://twitter.com/webjournalist/status/962925129628987393

The exchange, which we both "liked", got me thinking (resenting?) about why she is killing me in Twitter followers — even though we've been using the service for nearly a decade.

It's not even close, according to snapshots captured by The Wayback Machine (which didn't start tracking me until I'd been on Twitter for years):

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