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My opinion, only slightly tongue-in-cheek, is that Twitter changing its prompt, in 2009, from the ‘small’ “What are you doing?” to the ‘big’ “What’s happening?”
by jrmg 3y ago
My opinion, only slightly tongue-in-cheek, is that Twitter changing its prompt, in 2009, from the ‘small’ “What are you doing?” to the ‘big’ “What’s happening?” sowed the seeds of its change from the authentic and personal thing it was, to the katamari of sound and fury it is now.
- swagempire 3y agoActually this comment is totally underrated :)
- rchaud 3y agoI think the Iranian protests in 2009 against election results kicked that off. Twitter at the time was the only way to relay information to the wider world as the government had disabled phone service. Before that Twitter was relatively obscure. Global media coverage happened almost exclusively through people's tweets and photos. https://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/14/iran.protests.twitter/ https://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/14/iran.protests.twi...