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Twitter as a company is culturally oriented around NOW. Product reflects this. The Twitter users who search their own and others timelines for building webs of threads are hacking the platform to build a collaborative Memex (memory extension) Eventually those users will migrate
When they do, Twitter will still be useful for reach (inviting in new collaborators), but real magic -- conversation, shaping of ontologies, extending and refining of ideas -- will happen elsewhere. cc @ultimape @GRITCULT @visakanv @Malcolm_Ocean @KevinSimler @vgr @context_ing
@Conaw @ultimape @GRITCULT @visakanv @KevinSimler @vgr @context_ing One thing I'm unsure of, in all of this, is the role of time. Another platform will be less NOW-oriented, but I think that part of what I like is that Twitter (more than blogging) makes it really clear that this tweet is a thought I'm having *at this point in time*
@Conaw @ultimape @GRITCULT @visakanv @KevinSimler @vgr @context_ing If I make a tweetstorm about something, it doesn't have to be the be-all-end-all reference for a topic, it's just "what I thought about this at this time". Lends itself to unpolished writing & thus thinking-together rather than me-telling-you. https://t.co/TwxowGPWz4
@Malcolm_Ocean @Conaw @GRITCULT @visakanv @KevinSimler @vgr @context_ing :)https://t.co/HFg6vRn2gI
@Conaw @ultimape @GRITCULT @visakanv @KevinSimler @vgr @context_ing Visa has written about forgetting he wrote somethingβthis is the nature of writing! And sometimes rediscovering it is like "wow!" https://t.co/IxD2LnddQx
@Conaw @ultimape @GRITCULT @visakanv @KevinSimler @vgr @context_ing And sometimes rediscovering it is like π€¦. Like reading your old OKC answers and being like "I used to be a ______ist??" Someone (can't find source) was suggesting no edit button (edit is doom) but an ability to renounce an old tweet, which makes a lot of sense to me!
@Conaw @ultimape @GRITCULT @visakanv @KevinSimler @vgr @context_ing Edit is doom because it means tweets lose their temporality, and makes it easier to become perfectionistic. But having renounce gives an option instead of deleteβsupporting the idea that it's okay to learn and the past isn't shameful. Would require cultural differences too ofc!
@Conaw @ultimape @GRITCULT @visakanv @KevinSimler @vgr @context_ing (To be clear, "renounce" is prrrrooobably the wrong name for this feature π And probably it would make sense to have an option to point any viewers of that tweet at a new one that clarifies.)
@Malcolm_Ocean @Conaw @GRITCULT @visakanv @KevinSimler @vgr @context_ing I'm fond of the way that https://t.co/f0HNrDvJGo frames it. https://t.co/qEolD0qyOy
@ultimape @Conaw @GRITCULT @visakanv @KevinSimler @vgr @context_ing Yes, I like this. Maybe building on the wabi-sabi metaphor... instead of "renounce tweet", could say "repair tweet". That has its own issues but it's a neat idea.
@Conaw @GRITCULT @visakanv @Malcolm_Ocean @KevinSimler @vgr @context_ing https://t.co/UgYjXeOUeY
A great feature of the memex, and the fact that so many who use it go meta in discussing how they use Twitter, is that you can stumble upon the origin stories of the threading superheros Here's @visakanv uncovering hidden powers in 2016 https://t.co/Hj0M7pTnBM
@Conaw @visakanv And when it started to become legible.https://t.co/SMFeLXEKqp
@Conaw @visakanv and an idea fully formed.https://t.co/8FkqbVfl90
@ryan_nayr_ @webdevMason I write on many different mediums and over time my twitter style has infected my other mediums, I now blog and Facebook like Iβm tweeting. Iβll now be able to find *this* tweet by searching βinfectedβ. Itβs actually modified the way I think to be search-friendly
This is how Twitter as a social memex should work. @Malcolm_Ocean gracefully pointing to contradictions in @fortelabs own tweets Friends helping friends explore thoughtspace. Problem (maybe) is none of those tweets now link back to new aggregation.
There are a great many UIs that would make it much easier to explore, extend and remix ideas than the linear UI of Twitter threads https://t.co/DRsdf7OO1d
@Conaw @GRITCULT @visakanv @Malcolm_Ocean @KevinSimler @vgr @context_ing if I had enough to pay for @nsreed's living situation, this is what I would be building. https://t.co/5NO22wzDUp
@Conaw https://t.co/bLyr9OzT1e