1/ Imagine you had your entire twitter history. As in, all the data necessary to replicate the entire feed at any point as well as replay all interactions. More than that — imagine you had everyone else’s data too. I can’t imagine a more fun way to probe social path-dependency.
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Hrm. Did I miss it? I’ll look first thing!
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Like the joke is that people 20 years from now will think strong-to-weak forms of “none of this happened” but of course they won’t — there’s a lot of latent state that isn’t going to be transferable without actually walking this winding ass line.
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Well, and it's literally impossible to recapture! How do you scrape each user's experience? Do you do a clean room recreation of the Timeline, like the old IBM clones had to do? What does that market open up?
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