It just occurred to me how different the narrative around Twitter was in 2009 (citizen journalism, the Arab Spring) compared to 2016 (fake news, echo chambers, the attention economy, etc).
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Replying to @tommycollison
Corresponds reasonably well to “How useful do you rate Twitter to your professional prospects?”
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Replying to @patio11 @tommycollison
Twitter went from something which relative organizational underdogs could use to build personal followings and leverage them for career wins to a constant tournament you have to participate in where victory is you live another day and defeat is you never work in your field again.
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Replying to @patio11 @tommycollison
(I don’t think that is descriptively accurate, but I think that if I were e.g. a young reporter at the New York Times or aspiring young fiction writer, I would rate that as descriptively accurate.)
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And so *of course* one feels like tech is a massive conspiracy to rebalance power at the expense of tiny, vulnerable social outcasts like New York Times reporters. That is their lived experience of tech every day and the through line to every convo with peers about it.
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