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> Twitter's main innovation was discarding symmetry? This is a common statement that benefits from explicit context: Twitter's innovation specifically was impo
by aamar 16y ago
> Twitter's main innovation was discarding symmetry?
This is a common statement that benefits from explicit context: Twitter's innovation specifically was importing the "asymmetric follow" into a social network, a graph in which nodes represent individual people and in which relations are generally public.
- dwine 16y agoWhat was the social network with public relations between people that failed because the "follow" was symmetric?
- huangm 16y agoSymmetric follow doesn't have to fail for asymmetric follow to succeed. Twitter's innovation allowed them to create and serve new use-cases. That's all
- mgdiaz 16y agoI agree. It was about building the structure of a social network around the "asymmetric follow," and doing it in a way that facilitated the curated transitivity that Chris talks about.