In 2008, nobody thought it was notable or strange that my handle was @mrdonut
What’s different about Twitter now vs then? (Let’s generously say “then” is 2008)
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“Star.. sand robots?”
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Omg, that will now be how I pronounce your handle in my head forever!
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It used to be more about ambient awareness of what your friends were up to. Now it’s a lot more like competitive headline writing
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One factor in that: the unfurl standards
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At-signs, hashtags, RTs as built-in features Search. They acquired a company to do this Verified accounts Inline images (i seem to recall this didn’t work as late as 2010). Now they have intelligent cropping too
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friendly group chat with friends and friends of friends vs entirety of human civilization crumbling before your eyes.
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I’m curious when did the “viral era” begin, some tweets really taking off? That seems relatively recent, but maybe just for me. (I didn’t use Twitter in 2008.)
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Well, back when RT and QTing were more manual, I think that definitely limited virality
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Weapon ized weapon ized weapon ized
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Threading. Inline images. All the "x favorited y" spam in the timeline. Mentions from people you didn't follow used to be invisible until you went looking for them.
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i mainly tweeted using the SMS interface ;-)
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Us snow flakes where happily floating down before now we are trying to avoid a scorching desert dust storm
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I kinda miss twitpic?
the twitpic link on my 2009's tweet cant be opened tho :(Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Rampant censorship
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