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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One thing I'm unsure of, in all of this, is the role of time. Another platform will be less NOW-oriented, but I think that part of what I like is that Twitter (more than blogging) makes it really clear that this tweet is a thought I'm having *at this point in time*
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Malcolm 🌎cean Retweeted Erik Torenberg
If I make a tweetstorm about something, it doesn't have to be the be-all-end-all reference for a topic, it's just "what I thought about this at this time". Lends itself to unpolished writing & thus thinking-together rather than me-telling-you.https://twitter.com/eriktorenberg/status/1082539132964855808 …
Malcolm 🌎cean added,
Erik TorenbergVerified account @eriktorenbergOne interesting evolution is that ppl prefer to see things unpolished rather than perfected Perhaps because it’s more relatable You squint + you can see yourself doing it What caused this change? This trend is only increasing, + may explain why we'll (maybe) record everything2 replies 1 retweet 11 likes -
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Malcolm 🌎cean Retweeted Visakan Veerasamy
Visa has written about forgetting he wrote something—this is the nature of writing! And sometimes rediscovering it is like "wow!"https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/921435618206298112 …
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related: this is gonna be a thing @vidythatte’s twitter for introverts. a notes UI that looks like a messaging UI. opens straight to text box, press send (to your future self), and it goes into your private streamhttps://medium.com/@vdthatte/57df17a3c02c …
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@nosilverv take a look
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Replying to @nosilverv @aaronzlewis and
oh no, I don't have the iphone to check but I thought I might pass it along in case you did
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