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The intended purpose was so innocent and naive.
by travbrack 7y ago
The intended purpose was so innocent and naive.
- radkapital 7y agowho would have thought it would turn into POTUS chief medium of communication then
- sjwright 6y agoIn their defence, it's unlikely that the situation would have been much different without Twitter. There are plenty of other ways for narcissists to micro-publish on the Internet.
- Cyberdog 6y agoYep. Hell, I'm narcissistically micro-publishing right now!
- hprotagonist 6y agoi read this in a Utah Phillips voice: around 2:10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9c1vSIpHA0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9c1vSIpHA0
- sjwright 6y agoYou might be being sarcastic, but you’re not wrong. If the POTUS commented on hacker news, they’d hit the media just as surely as any tweet.
- slim 6y agoI'd argue twitter made POTUS not the other way around
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- sneak 6y agoi’d still love a one liner list of all of my friends’ statuses.
- madaxe_again 6y agoIt was another age, back when vowels were unevenly redistributed between startups and the only typefaces were VAG rundschrift and frutiger.