Randy Resnick@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoThere Will Never Be Another Twitterrandulo.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up145arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up137arrow-down1external-linkThere Will Never Be Another Twitterrandulo.substack.comRandy Resnick@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square49fedilinkfile-text
Twitter wasn’t just software or visible leadership (for better or worse) but an entire important slice of Internet history.
minus-squareKNova@links.dartboard.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year agoI agree that it had an important place, well timed between the TS9 era phones and smartphones. But on the other hand, good riddance
minus-squareRandy Resnick@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI never used it with SMS (hence 140 characters initially), but I wonder if that actually helped get Twitter into the vibrating pockets of a lot of young people keen on their phones. I haven’t seen that mentioned anywhere?
I agree that it had an important place, well timed between the TS9 era phones and smartphones. But on the other hand, good riddance
I never used it with SMS (hence 140 characters initially), but I wonder if that actually helped get Twitter into the vibrating pockets of a lot of young people keen on their phones. I haven’t seen that mentioned anywhere?