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@dustin Oh yeah, I remember that. But maybe more because the same illustration was on our wall at the Bryant St office.
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@Malarkey I tweeted about it a couple times in those first few days. Some were just curious what I was using it for.
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@dustin Possibly one of these two? Which I think is the stock bird Biz used for a while. I think these are the only two that are anywhere close to your descrip.
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For posterity, here’s a screenshot of Twitter’s home timeline after creating a brand new test account during my first week there in 2009. I went looking for this to recall the name of the Everyone timeline. I have a whole folder of these from an audit I did that week.
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@jw Black Mirror ahead of you.
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@rogie @simplebits I also love the type-work (obviously Dan’s), and how the letters are getting all up in each other’s bizness.
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@benblumenrose @jessicahische @jina I haven’t jumped on the elephant yet. But someone pointed to this as a way of finding some of your friends. fedifinder.glitch.me
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@tapbot_paul I’d probably just size this one down. twitter.com/stop/status/15…
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@jw That 15-20 minutes of pure silence made you forget the album was still playing. Then, suddenly… 🎸
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@sofo 💙
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@ded @Scobleizer @ev There was so much positivity around that launch. Felt like everyone in the company played a part in making it successful. And it was kept so secret, almost everyone in the media was genuinely surprised.
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@thinkingfish What a loss for Twitter. Thank you for everything you did there. 💙
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@mds Proof that tweet reach is not as influential as Twitter always wanted it to be. We’ve experienced this same thing. Makes sense why advertisers put Twitter spend in the “meh” take it or leave it category.
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@DavidKaneda I don’t want mine to share publicly. I want it as a searchable database for *me*. For some reason, I remember tweeting key things, and sometimes want to refer back to what I wrote. I do this several times a year at least.
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@stop @mikeindustries @rklau @airtable @WordPress @benward @couch I still have one of my last archives up, apparently from 2016. stopdesign.com/tweets/
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@mikeindustries @rklau @airtable @WordPress I had this set up too. The old tweet archive export was simple and super easy to parse and repurpose. If I remember right, we have @benward and @couch to credit for it. The recent version I grabbed last week seems to offer even more data, but split into almost 100 js files.
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@stop @rklau @airtable @WordPress I’m not the only one to think about this in the past few days. Surely the tweet archive export is possible to parse and import. Destination just needs to be powerful enough to store and retrieve thousands of records. reddit.com/r/Wordpress/co…
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@rklau @airtable Airtable, maybe? Or also possible (for some of us) import them into an isolated @WordPress install? Talk about ownership, search-ability, and portability. Plus the themes that would emerge to support tweet archives. Just not sure how WP and MYSQL would do with 20k-50k+ entries.
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@bijan That was me last week. Took about 1.5 days to be ready to download. But no idea what that timing might be like now.
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@bigchaz 13M / (50 weeks × 5 days) / 3000 (conservatively) mouths to feed is $17/day/head. No idea if that’s high (on average) or low.
I’m not justifying headcount. But that back of the napkin math shows in reverse how expensive it is to feed a few thousand employees every work day.
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@simplebits And how is learning/using Liquid going for you?
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@tomfinley @Brilliantcrank Super-fave. Must check out some of the links you included here. Thanks for publishing. Roping back in @photomatt to the thread, even though he’s most likely already aware.
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@photomatt @Brilliantcrank Seems like, at a minimum, we still might need nodes that collect, aggregate, and classify (relationally) feeds, similar to web3 validators. Not as a single source of truth, but more to enable scale and handle some of the computational stuff that could then be synced locally?
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@Brilliantcrank This must be something @photomatt has been thinking about for years. And could possibly even provide the infrastructure for such a pseudo-decentralized service?
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@Brilliantcrank If so, we’re gonna need some better tools (than the old RSS readers) to aggregate and keep up. A sort of decentralized Medium, that could be loaded below any blog post (if the author wanted), that recommends the next few things you could read from across thousands of sources.
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@LailaLalami This is where I’m leaning too. Though I think we’re going to need better tools than the old blog lists and RSS readers to keep up with each other.
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There are still so many people I’ve followed and met on Twitter whom I haven’t yet met IRL, but wish I could. That was always the differentiator of Twitter. Facebook was for people you already knew, Twitter was for people you wish you knew. Wondering where we go from here…
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@tapbot_paul Is there anyone left to update the API or keep it on? I’m guessing it never gets updated, and is so low on the priority list that eng just lets it coast for as long as it can.
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@tapbot_paul So the jury is still out on whether the API will differentiate verified status then (assuming the new status gets added).
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Finally asked, and learned that the table sauce I love so much at Thai restaurants is Prik Nam Pla. Not for the tame palate. whenavagabondcooks.com/prik-nam-pla-t…
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@bhaggs @mikeindustries I remember seeing guidelines back in the day that verified accounts couldn’t change their name, or that changing would trigger a re-verification or something like that.
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@tomcoates @mezzoblue @benward @twitter I’m guessing priorities are elsewhere, instead of on un-verifying thousands of legit (and in some cases, high profile) users.
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@bhaggs Yep – we should have been more creative with it and different permutations. Pure egg could have just been kept for new accounts, then switched to something else once the account reached a level of maturity. Or it went rotten if spam detected.
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@bhaggs I miss the egg, its meaning, and the multiple colors it came in.
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@ds I was expecting mine to be removed at some point, since I’m no longer a blue sub. But who knows what they’re prioritizing?
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@sperte It was, sadly, a very intentional choice to use past tense in key spots.
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@stop This thread reposted here, for safe keeping. You know, just in case… stopdesign.com/archive/2022/1…
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@stop Most of all, thanks for being here, for coming back, over and over, and sharing everything about you for all of us to see, learn from, understand more, participate in, and relate to. Thanks for all you contributed. Twitter made it possible. You made it worthwhile.
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@stop Thanks for the build-ups, and the tear-downs. For the wonder-ifs, the how-tos, the fly-overs and the walk-throughs. For the wins and the losses. For the laughs and the tears.
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@stop Thanks for letting us know when someone we loved was no longer here. And when tiny new humans to be loved finally arrived. When new leaders were chosen, and when regimes fell. When a plane landed in the Hudson. When, yes indeed, that was an earthquake.
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@stop Thanks for the introductions, the conversations, the questions, and the answers. For teaching us about brevity, prodding us to be thoughtful, reminding us to be more inclusive, asking us to be generous, encouraging us to be deliberate.
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@stop Thanks for making Twitter what it became, what it has been. For inspiring us. For sharing what you worked on, and where you worked on it. For the peeks behind the curtains. For the mountains and the valleys.
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@stop This thread focuses on the good, the helpful, the curious, and the wondrous. The additive, rather than the subtractive. The reasons we came here to try it out, and the the reasons we stayed.
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@stop Whether you joined this year, or whether you’re OG. It wasn’t all good, and there have been more than enough bad apples trying to spoil the barrel.
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Saying what I want to say, while this thing’s still on, and while there are still people here to say it to…