I think this is basically right. Twitter then: a weird forum on no topic in particular where you couldn’t say much but was nonetheless fascinating. Twitter now: you are a publication, tweets are simultaneously the headline and the article, and replies are letters to the editor.https://twitter.com/flipzagging/status/969470160506531840 …
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Replying to @starsandrobots
If that's true, then I write a lot of letters to the editor, but not many articles (79% replies, 8% new tweets). Which, given my attitude toward letters to the editor, seems unlikely.
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Replying to @michael_nielsen
Or perhaps you may be fortunately somehow still able to use this website according to norms of Twitter Then.
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Replying to @starsandrobots
I didn't really use it much in 2008, so I'm not sure!
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