July 17, 2023 • #
I miss Eugene Wei’s epic tech analyses. His latest serves as a sort of eulogy for Twitter. He’s of the opinion that “peak Twitter” is in the rear view, and the platform seems to be on a continuous decline over the past year, for the reasons I’m sure you suspect even if you don’t agree.
He makes some interesting points on the failings of Elon and the directional changes in culture and resourcing. While the product was obviously stagnant and incredibly slow at innovation, there have been some, let’s say questionable major changes in the...
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December 28, 2020 • #
As little as Twitter has moved as a product in the last several years, the amount of time I spend on it clearly demonstrates that there’s gold there that no other product can replace.
If you curate your following list well, the quality level of the interactions you can have and people you can meet are incredible. I haven’t found another social network as good at finding interesting ideas.
A limiting aspect of Twitter is how biased toward “now” it is. It’s inherently an ordered timeline. Algorithmic recommendations surface some recent things, but not from...
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February 1, 2020 • #
Bessemer maintains this page of companies they passed investing on. I like the idea of publicly acknowledging your big misses or errors as an organizational accountability tool. Some big names here like eBay, Airbnb, Google, and FedEx.
Almost a year ago I shared a link to the first version of Downlink. The main feature added here is you can create your own custom views by putting a bounding box around your area of interest. Then...
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May 7, 2019 • #
Like many in the Twitterverse, I love the platform. It provides my main interface to following what’s happening, along with staying connected to interests both personal and professional.
Jumping off something James wrote yesterday, I’ve felt similar about Twitter’s utility the last year or so. It feels like I’m experiencing some sort of content creep — probably a function of an increasing number of accounts I follow and the neighboring universe of likes and retweets from that expanding footprint, which generates a massive amount of noise in the algorithmic feed.
I don’t spend a ton of...
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