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> O’Reilly said if he did not get his account back it would be “personally, quite annoying but professionally quite depressing” as Twitter was his route into hi
by Veuxdo 3y ago
> O’Reilly said if he did not get his account back it would be “personally, quite annoying but professionally quite depressing” as Twitter was his route into his current profession as a journalist and author. He used it as a “shop front” in ways, he said.
I do feel bad for everyone who was using Twitter professionally like this. That said, everyone is now on notice that they can't be dependent on a single platform (or even two or three) regardless of how well it is going. Here today, gone tomorrow.
- ijustlovemath 3y agoI hope that the outcome of all of this is that regular working professionals start asking for, and advocating, open source products and community led protocols, and for all the major networks to interoperate. The tech pessimist in me says that won't happen, in some ways due to how openness kicked off this whole AI arms races (commoncrawl is the source of OpenAIs dataset, which got most of its corpus in the early days from Reddit), and now people are locking down their platforms to secure their own data fiefdoms to feed their AIs.
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