My selfish take on Twitter: the Discourse could stand to care a lot less, on the margin, about “free speech” and “bias in the algorithm” and a lot more about discovering all the amazing ways a public water cooler could be improved for more joy, more discovery, more connection etc
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The design space is so unexplored! Just as an intuition pump: the most meaningful IRL relationships I've made in the last few years started on Twitter. AFAICT that's an accidental consequence of its primitives. What might you create if you took this seriously as a job-to-be-done?
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Twitter radically improved the quality of the creative and intellectual conversations in my life—not online, but in person. I have more and better ideas! I feel a much greater sense of belonging! It's amazing. What happens if you pivot Twitter along this axis?
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Thanks for sharing! Can you expand how in person conversations have been influenced by Twitter?
Also how much do you curate your home timeline?
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It lets me meet people I wouldn't have met otherwise; we can jump straight to meaningful conversation based on the context and modeling we've already shared in Twitter interactions; to some extent Twitter supplies extra ambient shared context.
I don't use mutes or blocks or filters or anything like that. I use the algorithmic timeline and try to only follow people whose thinking I want in my head.
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