50c59 - 2y
Was twitter an “echo chamber” when it first started?
Vic @Vic - 2y
When I joined Twitter is was generally dead and it's growth was from advertisers using as another platform to broadcast but not yet engage. I had written it off and only went back to Twitter after I got into Bitcoin many years later after it was established
Testing using this template... “Hello #Nostr, I am Vic and I love all things Bitcoin, even the parts people commonly despise like Ordinal Inscriptions, Counterparty and OP_RETURN. I also like model trains, Dungeons & Dragons (particularly Faerun and the Forgotten Realms) and trying to learn languages like Spanish, German and Russian from time to time. Hope to meet new people into the same things. Please follow and I’ll follow back.” Is this a hard thing for some people to do? #[1]
So it wasn’t people who were using it, but corporations. I think time and patience will show that it doesn’t really matter which group dominates a protocol in the early stages, as long as that group is open and respectful.
That was my impression but others may have had a different experience. Most people I interacted with in the early Twitter days were entrenched in the likes of Facebook and Reddit. The 140 character limit Twitter started with was in part bound to SMS protocol. It made it challenging to convey thoughts when the world was still very used to visual clues of behavioral patterns for context. This predated proper emojis, so old school methods were used. ;) :P --/--\-@ <3. In some ways, the short limit forced people to think more about what they were saying. It was more 'work' to use Twitter than other types and it wasn't really clear how Twitter fit. Facebook was very local social (family, school, church) and Reddit was well on its way to supplanting many traditional web forums. Corporates and Governments were attracted to the API to gleen info about message reach, whether it be advertising campaigns, or association building.
Thank you for your insight. It’s interesting how much the context of the situation affects the development. We are in much different times, so it becomes more and more difficult to glean any understanding or guidance from the development of other protocols/platforms from the past.
