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"Social media sites have made information consumption a very linear process...Content that's more than a week old is fossilized under the endless dump of new posts, links, pictures. On social media, time is the main ordering principle" -@aaronzlewis
"I’ve noticed that the threading impulse is beginning to expand beyond Twitter. It’s popping up in more and more corners of the web." -@aaronzlewisExamples:1. @ribbonfarm 2. @EpsilonTheory 3. @AREdotNA https://t.co/3JG3rBTBkP
"We make sense of things by relating them to other things...As Joshua Foer wrote, 'Memory is like a spiderweb that catches information'" - @aaronzlewis https://t.co/dv8xAdRSnF
Source: @aaronzlewis's "Spreading of Threading" 😍https://t.co/tgx7huZoc6
What if Twitter trained the algo to categorize similar tweets together? If you like a tweet, your TL can source older related tweets. Your timeline would be optimized to show you content most relevant to your current interests & state of mind, regardless of when they were posted
What if Twitter added a visual, topical way of exploring tweets, that ignores chronology altogether? Like a mindmap, but with UX we can't yet imagine.Twitter could do for associative thinking and conversing technology what Apple did for phone technology
(I tried making a lo-fi Twitter mindmap. I had to do it manually, so I only included some of my Tweets, but I may update it later)https://t.co/gypxsy7OAB
@Prigoose @aaronzlewis Me on twitter dot com: https://t.co/V7t7aBemcp
