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Is there an archive of Paul Graham's tweets somewhere? I was hoping to get around to reading all of them at some point, but now I might never get that chance.
by domador 4y ago
Is there an archive of Paul Graham's tweets somewhere? I was hoping to get around to reading all of them at some point, but now I might never get that chance.
pg's current Twitter ban and my desire to read pg's full tweet archive reflect two things I despise about common design practices for contemporary social media sites:
1) When a user's account is banned, all their content is made unavailable, even if the rest of their content didn't run afoul of the site's policies. (In other words, user-provided content bans are almost universally draconian.)
2) A user's content can only be accessed linearly. I'd be more likely to have read the full set of pg's tweets by now if I didn't have to always start from the most recent tweet and start scrolling backwards. We've regressed to the time when data storage was primarily tape-based... except that now I, the user, am the human, manually-operated (and frustrated) tape drive. (Sites do tend to provide text-based search but that doesn't fix the full-content-access problem, since I'd have to know the keywords for every bit of content that I'd want to find.)
- roland35 4y agoEh you'll probably be fine without his Twitter history. A lot of his takes (such as the recent one on Marxism and the one on editors) were basic and laughable.