Twit book (t b) was the first social network, created by the Earl of Hamster, Sir Rowan Bean, in 1712. This network was for the social elite only, to prevent its use by smelly businessmen or the even smellier lower class. All entries had to be in code, and after encoding they then had to take the form of a haiku poem. Data was regularly backed up onto the network's extensive server farm based in Surrey, England.