added by Jonathan Simcoe and · updated 6y ago
One Person’s History of Twitter, From Beginning to End
- Or take Twitter. As a medium, Twitter nudges its users toward ideas that can survive without context, that can travel legibly in under 280 characters. It encourages a constant awareness of what everyone else is discussing. It makes the measure of conversational success not just how others react and respond but how much response there is. It, too, i... See more
from I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message by Ezra Klein
Twitter was for talking to everyone —which is perhaps one of the reasons journalists have flocked to it.
from The Age of Social Media Is Ending by Ian Bogost
- But on Twitter, if you tweet something out and one lone person out there— it moves them, it changes them, it changes their world— that’s not going to register. What that’s going to look like is your tweet got one lonely like and you’re going to feel like a failure. And one of the interesting things about this experience is the process of quantifica... See more
from A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life by New York Times
Leo Guinan added