Genius branding to call tweets "tweets" instead of what they are: "comments."
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Replying to @generativist
You call it genius, I call it some eng was largely recycling a data structure and kept the name because naming is hard
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Replying to @Randy_Au
Wait what was the tweet datastructure?
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Replying to @generativist
Everything's a tweet, it just might have a null parent id
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Replying to @Randy_Au
Oh yea, I mean for the heads though. Like, I think 'status' was probably more inspired by AIM away messages or something, but even they are just properly "comments"
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Replying to @generativist
I guess, but thinking back to that era of tech... I would've called them "posts" in the classical blog sense. I forget of comment was as prominent a thing and don't have proof of it =×
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Replying to @Randy_Au
Me either haha. Me seeing AIM statuses is just as easily a projection that dates me.
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Replying to @generativist
yeah... I distinctly remember a sense of shock that forum/comment-like things went from full on threads (replies could infinitely nest) vs the more modern "there's 1 real parent, you can only nest a 1-2 layers deep" that happened around that time...
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