The Dawn of Twitter and the Age of Awareness
The Dawn of Twitter and the Age of Awareness
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
September 25, 20187m 6s
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Show Notes
When it came into being in 2006, Twitter seemed perplexing. Publishing teensy, 140-character updates? Whatever was that good for? Twitter seemed like a ghastly mashup of the preening narcissism and nanosecond attention spans that defined the worst trends in digital culture. Tim Ferriss, writer of productivity books, called it “pointless email on steroids.” Who cares what you had for lunch? But critics misunderstood it. What Twitter truly portended wasn’t small, it was huge.
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