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I wrote about Twitter, the private equity model, my sense of Twitter's likely trajectory, what it does that other platforms are bad at... and also plugged my own shit v21.io/blog/notes-on-twitterLook on archive.org
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i guess maybe i should've trailed this with something more inspiring, like "how i plan to fix social media once and for all" (i am not going to fix social media once and for all, but hopefully i am helping a little)Permalink Look on archive.org
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some thoughts on stuff that has happened since writing this: - i hadn't really thought about how personally exposed Elon Musk would be to various governments around the world leaning on Twitter, or how much Twitter had pushed back against themPermalink Look on archive.org
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also i wrote that before all of the "print all your source code"/trying to claim people were fired with cause/pushing people out before Tuesday's bonus date etc stuff quite came out. the talent drain is real.Permalink Look on archive.org
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and now... that bit about how Twitter is kind of dependent on the minority of users that write the tweets that people read? the whole "pay to stay verified" bit seems like it's designed to push those people away.Permalink Look on archive.org
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also, like, Elon Musk sure does like to get personally entangled in every stupid problem that comes Twitter's way. seems like a tiring way to live, but maybe that's just me.Permalink Look on archive.org