> In the world of Almost Famous, Instagram would be the social network for the Stillwaters, the Russell Hammonds, the Penny Lanes. Beautiful people, cool people

> In the world of Almost Famous, Instagram would be the social network for the Stillwaters, the Russell Hammonds, the Penny Lanes. Beautiful people, cool people. Twitter was for the uncool, the geeks, the wonks, the wits, the misfits. Dichotomies like this are becoming trite in my opinion, even more so because this representation of "cool/not cool" doesn't ring true to my experience on either platform. Who/what falls in line with either category is largely subjective to the subcultures on the platform itself, among other things¹. > Twitter was the closest we’ve come to bottling oral culture in written form. This is nice. 1. With the exception of Tumblr, in my experience at least, Tumblr seemed (entertainingly) hostile to the kind of people who probably went on to launch glowing Instagram personas.