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The Robustness of Twitter
- CM30 3y agoTwitter's basically a case study in how much you can screw up a business, platform or other aspect of society without people giving up on it. Every controversy, every bad change, every issue... they all lead to people saying "this is what will kill Twitter", yet somehow never do. I guess humanity is just that resistant to change...
- Nextgrid 3y agoKeep in ming that a significant part of the naysaying around Twitter was from "engineers" watching a bloated engineering playground being dismantled and fearing that this will set an example that would eventually lead to their playground's dismantlement.
- ZeroGravitas 3y ago> It is much less about “some academic or pundit giving you a steady stream of their thoughts.” I can't tell if he's being ironic. He is a pundit and academic, with a blog, and a Twitter account, right? edit: I felt this amazing blog comment was worth sharing, it's a real rollercoaster ride in one paragraph: > P.S. I find it ironic that the man simultaneously responsible for the Ukrainian states surviving the start of the war and who figured out that offensive warfare wouldn't work a month into the war, Elon Musk, was pilloried for trying to stop Zelensky from sending the flower of Ukrainian youth to die this summer. Is this the news you learn from Twitter in real-time? You won't get any academics saying that Elon Musk single-handedly saved "the Ukraine states" (which is a weird phrasing?).