Listen now | Part of what made Twitter so interesting is the diversity of argument and the townhall nature of it being the first place things show up in the feed. I’m not sure any other company or social platform could attract the same amount of hyperactive content creation users geared at news and coverage of the moment. People are arguing and I’m sure papers will soon be arriving to describe the end of social media. This weekend I’m going to spend a bit of time reading a book by Robert Putnam of “Bowling Alone” fame called “The Upswing”.
Read the Walter Isaacson book. It was good but not his best work. I believe Twitter was circling the drain for a few years prior to the Musk acquisition. I gave up on it perhaps 3-6 months prior to the acquisition. I think Reddit has always been more substantial anyhow. Even today, for all its warts, decentralized moderation is a TRUE INNOVATION and likely prevents implosion. It never became a place with influencers pushing their branded cosmetics ala Instagram & Twitter. Twitter eventually became commodified like news coverage. Shocking and titillating was what was suctioning and causing it to circle the drain. Just my opinion. Our prior President was purpose-built for the type of foolishness of instantaneous virality. The more ridiculous and shocking the better. To align this sort of speaking without thinking as "the new way" was always a stretch for me.
Read the Walter Isaacson book. It was good but not his best work. I believe Twitter was circling the drain for a few years prior to the Musk acquisition. I gave up on it perhaps 3-6 months prior to the acquisition. I think Reddit has always been more substantial anyhow. Even today, for all its warts, decentralized moderation is a TRUE INNOVATION and likely prevents implosion. It never became a place with influencers pushing their branded cosmetics ala Instagram & Twitter. Twitter eventually became commodified like news coverage. Shocking and titillating was what was suctioning and causing it to circle the drain. Just my opinion. Our prior President was purpose-built for the type of foolishness of instantaneous virality. The more ridiculous and shocking the better. To align this sort of speaking without thinking as "the new way" was always a stretch for me.