20-somethings play a valuable ecological role in Twitter communities IMO: Discovering ideas/content for the first time, which older members will view as "classics", and enthusiastically sharing. Used to mess w/ my head ("others probably know this") but now I see it as a positive
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I have a theory: The people that feign surprise ("You JUST learned about X?") are more often other 20-somethings looking to differentiate themselves as more in the know than others their age. Older members tend to either let newbies be or they appreciate a good resurfacing.
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Heh. I feel very subtweeted.
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Replying to @michael_nielsen @noahlt
haha I've had the experience many times now but our exchange on the Feynman essay did trigger the tweet. Despite finding the essay in a list of classics, I still just earnestly posted to Twitter like "look what I just found!" and it seemed like you still appreciated the resurface
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Can I just say that having a freshman dormmate have a conversation with the Mike-of-Mike-&-Ike about Richard Feynman on Twitter is literally a nerd’s dream come true for me?
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Heh. Knock yourself out: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%40michael_nielsen%20%40backus&src=typd …
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Trippy. Thanks for the link!
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