Remember that this was back in the day when Twitter had a failry large number of users, but anyone that wasn't on it just shrugged and said stuff like "I don't

Remember that this was back in the day when Twitter had a failry large number of users, but anyone that wasn't on it just shrugged and said stuff like "I don't want to know what people eat for breakfast". It wasn't obvious at all that Twitter would become something of a news platform. PG sort of made something up talking about protocols. But it was probably because of that protocol that Twitter, and news feeds in general took off. So I think PG was not too far off on that one.