amazing how few Bush-era liberal blogs remained relevant or even readable. scene felt like a big deal at the time & only lasted like 4 years
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Replying to @atbobb
twitter's just a platform, it'll stick around. whether anyone is still paying attention to politics here is a different question
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Replying to @Trillburne
There's too much social capital bound up in Twitter at this point for it to really "go anywhere," I think.
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Replying to @mtracey @Trillburne
People were writing "demise of Twitter" pieces five years ago.
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Replying to @mtracey
people forget it's come to be a useful tool for corporate communications & PR- they wouldn't just give that up
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Replying to @Trillburne
It's also now inextricably enmeshed with every major mainstream media platform and producers spend all day on it
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Replying to @mtracey
I think they'll eventually create a 2-tiered system- 1 for media types, celebrities & corporations, 1 for the plebes
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Replying to @Trillburne
yeah but it's already been stratified like that for some time, blue checkmark came about in what, 2010 or 2011?
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Replying to @mtracey
yeah, but not much practical difference in your experience. not yet, anyway
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A hustler in Queens once told me he "knew a guy who knew a guy" who could get me a blue checkmark
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