Twitter as a company is culturally oriented around NOW. Product reflects this. The Twitter users who search their own and others timelines for building webs of threads are hacking the platform to build a collaborative Memex (memory extension) Eventually those users will migrate
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When they do, Twitter will still be useful for reach (inviting in new collaborators), but real magic -- conversation, shaping of ontologies, extending and refining of ideas -- will happen elsewhere. cc
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Conor White-Sullivan Retweeted Visakan Veerasamy
A great feature of the memex, and the fact that so many who use it go meta in discussing how they use Twitter, is that you can stumble upon the origin stories of the threading superheros Here's
@visakanv uncovering hidden powers in 2016https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/718826228610805762?s=19 …Conor White-Sullivan added,
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This is great @Conaw
Will there be a space on Roam for art? I am doing an infinite canvas myself instead
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