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A THREADHELPER 🧵FROM @nosilverv & @ExGenesis TH right now is a humble intervention on the Twitter experience.At a human level, it saves you search time and surprises you with relevant tweetsAt a system level, it redirects the flow of attention to IRRIGATE THE PAST.🧵1/17
The immediate benefit is that it works as a SERENDIPITY ENGINE that also saves you a bunch of time every time in search. Searching bookmarks is insane, they tend to be your highest quality subset of tweets. Showing random tweets when idle helps you find forgotten gems.🧵2/17
In general, seeing your old tweets pop up feels like collaborating with past versions of yourself.https://t.co/I6VphvBuIY🧵3/17
Twitter's focus on the present makes it so that attention flow is biased towards the now. The ground is tilted. https://t.co/dEiY4CD7Il🧵4/17
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
Your body of work should be a living system but water is drying up nearly as soon as it's posted.https://t.co/SJuOptQAlC🧵5/17
ThreadHelper works as a pump that redirects the flow of attention from the present to irrigate the past. You'll take better care of your garden, and others will pass by it more often. 🧵6/17 https://t.co/BaFZ6MmIjH
The duration of your content's life is extended, it becomes viable to spend more effort on posts because we no longer expect them to be ephemeral as we get frictionless access to past insights.https://t.co/gPi3PB5qi9🧵7/17
The race is on to assemble the best possible articulations of ideas in ways that are not just funny or clever, but deeply resonant in ways that make other people want to revisit and reuse them repeatedly broke: viral tweet woke: tweet that’s referenced & reused in many threads
As you do this, so will others. From a fertile ecosystem, desire paths emerge around the threads most traveled. Around those paths, "mindcities", scenes, new forks pop up.https://t.co/oPWqMzAhgz🧵8/17 https://t.co/hEUgODcBgp
Now that more of us are playing the threading game: As we compete+collaborate effectively articulate things we all care about, And weave each other’s thoughts into our respective webs, The desire paths will assemble a mindcity paved with the best individual thoughts
You'll be able to open full threads on the sidebar, with a tab interface that lets you shift click a tweet or QT to fork and see its thread. Also, you'll get a bird's eye view of threads you have open and how they intersect on a graph.(mockup)https://t.co/4UPAp2xtyN🧵10/17 https://t.co/gP5X3hkENX
Less of a neat workspace, more a chaos-powered dashboard. Harness Twitter's dopamine mill and channel it into a massively collaborative ecosystem. Illegible wilderness becomes navigable-but-in-flux paths and structures.https://t.co/IhV6JUr8kN🧵11/17
Twitter is the fucking coolest note-taking app. It’s like Evernote with a slot machine attached. Sometimes you get incredible feedback or a response that gives you 10x more value than you expected, and sometimes you get people discussing your genitalia! So exciting https://t.co/GzFu6ErvXH
Like Roam, but multiplayer-first.https://t.co/KnL2DOtln0🧵12/17
@ExGenesis @nosilverv @whimful @andrestaltz https://t.co/3GdI3Xych1 Is a rabbit hole if rabbit holes, intergalactic internet.