Social Graph Design

Social Graph Design

The medium is the message. This page is about how the decisions we make about social graph and network design impact behavior.

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If Twitter had to start over without its graph, on the other hand, it would be dead (which speaks to why Twitter clones like BlueSky which are just Twitter minus the graph and with the same clunky onboarding process seem destined for failure). The new For You feed gives us a partial taste of what that might look like, and it's not pretty.

Eugene Wei • How to Blow Up a Timeline

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And You Will Know Us by the Company We Keep

Eugene Wei eugenewei.com

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🤔 What comes after the social feed?

New Public newpublic.substack.com

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Status Traps: Learning from Web2 Social Networks - a16z crypto

Sriram Krishnan a16zcrypto.com

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The End of Social Media

Michael Mignano mignano.medium.com

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sam lessin • Tweet

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Roadmap: Curating the internet

Alexandra Sukin bvp.com

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How to Blow Up a Timeline

Eugene Wei eugenewei.com

a must read on how Twitter lost its vitality

Complexity in Social Networks

Matthew Hartman medium.com

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