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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🤔 What comes after the social feed?

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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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The Boneyard Principle: Why the Next Big Thing Will Emerge From a Failed Idea

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Complexity in Social Networks

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A thread about social graphs and how web3 brings a paradigm shift in how social networks will be built in the future: 🧵

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TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants

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And You Will Know Us by the Company We Keep

Eugene Wei eugenewei.com

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Status Traps: Learning from Web2 Social Networks - a16z crypto

Andreessen Horowitz (AZ)a16zcrypto.com

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Tiktok, Emergent Creativity, The Limits of Social Graphs, and whatever else Eugene talked about (E1)

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