added by Ian Vanagas and · updated 2y ago
The lost thread
- Twitter’s only conclusion can be abandonment: an overdue MySpace-ification. I am totally confident about this prediction, but that’s an easy confidence, because in the long run, we’re all MySpace-ified. The only question, then, is how many more possibilities will go unexplored? How much more time will be wasted?
from The lost thread by Robin Sloan
Ian Vanagas added 2y ago
- As a writer, looking for evidence of readership and engagement on Twitter makes you into the drunk looking for your lost keys under the street light.
from The lost thread by Robin Sloan
Ian Vanagas added 2y ago
- The amount that Twitter omits is breathtaking; more than any other social platform, it is indifferent to huge swaths of human experience and endeavor. I invite you to imagine this omitted content as a vast, bustling city. Scratching at your timeline, you are huddled in a single small tavern with the journalists, the nihilists, and the chaotic&... See more
from The lost thread by Robin Sloan
Ian Vanagas added 2y ago