Twitter

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Ubiquitious river-of-short-message service

Co-founded by JackDorsey and EvanWilliams

It's a new smaller scale of OnGranularity (PlentyOfRoomAtTheBottom / BangTheRocksTogether)

BruceSterling wonders whether Twitter really has a business model : https://twitter.com/bruces/status/1592773332247928834

2022 : ElonMuskBuyingTwitterShare

Has triggered some LeavingTwitter, and now, November, seems to be some real momentum towards Mastodon

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Back in the days of innocence people thought it had no spam or trolls : http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/nearly-a-million-users-and-no-spam-or-trolls

Not sure worth worrying about this now, because clearly it does.

Interesting that there's a lot of ideographic experimentation going on there : eg. @name when you want to address people, #tags about subjects

https://www.nelsonstar.com/news/nelsons-blaine-cook-helped-build-twitter-and-he-has-a-few-ideas-on-what-should-come-next/

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