Is it just me or has the effectiveness of twitter as a signal boost for links gone down in the last few years, relative to its effectiveness as a conversation space? I'm glad I turned my attention to email lists just in time...
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it's easy to forget now, but twitter was (relatively) HUGE for link-sharing around 2009-2014. Even now if I search "-from:visakanv Visakan Veerasamy", tonnes of the tweets are from lots and lots of links to old blogposts, Quora posts, Hacker News posts, etc
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All platforms have deprioritized links; FB outright hides posts containing them. Nobody wants you to leave their page.
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