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@Mappletons
Many worlds theory of twitter: There's another corner of tweetspace, unconnected from ours, where people are talking about the web as topography, personal wikis, learning in public, & platform interoperability. They use completely different buzzwords and metaphors. Plausible?
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6:50 PM · Jun 11, 2021Twitter Web App
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Conan Troutman
@KyleStratis
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@Mappletons
A lot of the consumer/personal level convo around this is rediscovering (and in some cases unknowingly improving) work previously done in places like biotech/pharma. If it's not on Twitter, then it's happening at conferences
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Ben Scofield
@bscofield
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@Mappletons
I think timing is an important consideration here -- communities can spin up and address the same topic while staying distinct for a while, but my intuition is that over time they'll eventually stumble across the others and eventually (usually) merge.
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@johnnulls
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@Mappletons
if the tweets are in english, i feel like its plausible but unlikely. i think the more likely reason for independent connected components would be simply that the discussions are wholly occurring in different languages. twitter does a poor job of interop bw tweets of diff langs
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@johnnulls
but i feel like there’s a lot to mine from the approach of non-western cultures to knowledge storing with digital means. are there different data structures involved? to what degree are paradigms shared?
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@ChrisAldrich
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Define “ours“. Tweetspace is only Twitter? Perhaps not all of those at once… The education space definitely. Many are still in the “old” blogosphere. They use phrases/hashtags like Domain of One’s Own, #DoOO, #pln, #EdTech, #EthicalEdTech, etc.
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A great question to be sure. Define "ours". "Tweetspace" is only Twitter? Perhaps not all of those at once... The education space definitely. Many are still in the "old" blogosphere. They use...
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