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Seeking alternative compression. Hopefully wrong on average. Shameless. Started @getcognito and @bloom

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Joined August 2012

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    1. John Backus‏ @backus May 21

      Product desire paths: • Every Twitter feature (@ reply, hashtag, RT) starting as conventions users made up. • Limewire users searching “divx avi” to browse available videos • iPhone App Store with thousands of free flashlight apps

      2 replies 8 retweets 35 likes
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    2. John Backus‏ @backus May 21

      John Backus Retweeted Eric Rice

      First “ReTweet”https://twitter.com/ericrice/status/31669791 …

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      Eric Rice @ericrice
      ReTweet: jmalthus @spin Yes! Web2.0 is about social media, and guess what people like to be social about? Themselves. Social Narcissism
      1 reply 2 retweets 9 likes
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      John Backus‏ @backus May 21

      John Backus Retweeted Robert Andersen

      First reply?https://twitter.com/rsa/status/55281 …

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      Robert AndersenVerified account @rsa
      @ buzz - you broke your thumb and youre still twittering? that's some serious devotion
      3:48 PM - 21 May 2018
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      • Aaron Brown Smerity Jason George ⚡️Andrew So⚡️
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        2. John Backus‏ @backus May 21

          John Backus Retweeted 🅲🅷🆁🅸🆂 🅼🅴🆂🆂🅸🅽🅰︎

          First hashtag?https://twitter.com/chrismessina/status/223115412 …

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          🅲🅷🆁🅸🆂 🅼🅴🆂🆂🅸🅽🅰︎Verified account @chrismessina
          how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]?
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        3. John Backus‏ @backus May 21

          John Backus Retweeted John Backus

          Context for Limewire example. Literally the top search was for browsing movies.https://twitter.com/backus/status/998412254616825857 …

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          John Backus @backus
          2002 study analyzing 15 million Gnutella (Limewire) searches: 1. Top 20 searches are very 2002 2. Users search by only extension (like "divx avi") and used that to browse for content 3. People were more interested in video than audio! In 2002! pic.twitter.com/QDS2aoCiqs
          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
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        4. John Backus‏ @backus May 21

          John Backus Retweeted Alain Meier

          Emojis are another great example of product desire pathshttps://twitter.com/alain/status/994038870969794560 …

          John Backus added,

          Alain Meier @alain
          Remember that emoji started as an optional Japanese keyboard in iOS settings only to be made default due to frequent activation. If you have product market fit, your product will drag itself out of the depths of UX hell to succeed
          0 replies 3 retweets 12 likes
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