Agreed. Most media outlets often embed tweets in their news stories. Live news feeds + tweets just go hand in hand. Not to mention the POTUS constantly making the news via twitter.
Much of human activity is moving out of the physical world and into the virtual world today, in the same way that it moved out of nature and into buildings thousands of years ago (but much faster this time).
Those who are down-voting the above comment should think about being more sensitive to the possibility that the author has spent the last few months in a coma.
I decided to read this article while anticipating that it was nothing but narcissistic fluff. I was not disappointed. This post's only redeeming quality is that it is short.
I almost wished we lived in an alternate universe where the gist of the announcement was something like, "I'm coming back to twitter, and will work to make the platform decentralized and open sourced...like gnu social, mastodon, etc." Oh well.
I was wondering what Biz was up to; really dont understand the negativity here. This is probably a morale boost internally; Biz always struck me as the most passionate user-centric one of the founders. He brings a philosophy of horesing around and trying new shit without taking everything so bloody seriously.
I don't know the guy; but his interviews and writing don't paint a negative picture for me; don't get all the hate
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[ 6.1 ms ] story [ 87.9 ms ] thread> Twitter has woven itself into the fabric of our global society.
Regardless of how long it actually has to live, I can't really argue with that.
Much of human activity is moving out of the physical world and into the virtual world today, in the same way that it moved out of nature and into buildings thousands of years ago (but much faster this time).
The whole notion of a virtual / reality divide is a farce
It clearly isn't when so many think otherwise. Otherwise, you wouldn't need to call it "virtual reality", you could just simply call it "reality"
Many virtual environments try to incorporate familiar elements too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation#cite_...
And it all started from "people talking about what they ate for lunch".
Either way: so what? Twitter has huge endemic problems that someone who built the trash fire that was Jelly can fix.
He's going to be working at Twitter. Ok check, that's news.
Doing... what exactly?
Someone please wake me up when Kevin Rose decides to take a dump and someone else writes about it.
I wish he would have elaborated further on how he plans on doing this, given how fragile Twitter seems to be.
The writers for HBO's 'Silicon Valley' must have the easiest job in the world.
I don't know the guy; but his interviews and writing don't paint a negative picture for me; don't get all the hate