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You seem to think "micro" refers to the audience, not the content. Assuming the historical context at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging https://en.wik

• dgellow 5mo ago
  No what I’m describing is the experience of microblogging when it was a thing. You were sharing short status updates and thoughts mostly for your friends and niche of interests. Which is why people didn’t have much problems sharing personal things, your expectations regarding who will read your posts were mostly around people you know IRL or online. That of course changed a lot once it became about engagement and monetizing an audience. I would watch a movie, think of something about it, share it, and the expectations wasn’t „I want the world to know what my thoughts on movie X are“. It was „I think friend Y will like that, will be fun to discuss when I see them next time“. But yes there is some sort of overlap with how people were using Facebook and others. I personally think the retweet feature is one of the worst thing ever invented in the social media space exactly because it goes against the audience expectations of the author