Twitter broadly feels like a place where at least some cohort of its users are people who respond extra-strongly to the rush of learning new things.
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Musing about why the feed of info and the notifications are such strong drivers. And why, when Twitter is good, it's so great.
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Also why there's often such affinity between the people who catch sight of each other's beacons here.
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I think about this a lot, why Twitter has the highest highs of anything online.
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Would you expand on that? What are your thoughts so far?
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I don’t have a strong conclusion, but: liveness, community, and the sense of sharing a thing that’s happening can combine. There aren’t really guardrails either, which is why it can be so bad.
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Facebook or Youtube are very processed compared to Twitter, which is mostly good but cuts off the peaks imo.
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