i think one of the big elements of twitter's success that will never be recreated (so long as the intention is to recreate 2.0-era social media) is indeed the sense that "anyone and everyone can hop on there and make themselves visible" and it had such stupid effects on day-to-day life. i just remembered years ago making a joke about sedevacantist catholics and one of them who termsearched pulled me up and tried arguing with me and it was like we had done an experiment that gave cabbages the power of speech and their main objective was now to talk endlessly about how important it is to be a cabbage
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one time I made an offhand comment on Ken Williams based on an article that'd recently gone up and Ken Williams immediately came into my mentions to argue about it
like my guy do you not have better things to do with your time, like Being Obscenely Rich
the truest post about twitter was that tweet that was like "twitter is like yelling into an endless pit and sometimes it freaks you out when the pit yells back"
i liked how you could just hit [semi]famous people up, like when i slid into martha quinn's DMs to ask her about playing a brady to win a trivia contest, as opposed to going through their managers/handlers, like when i tried to ask kim gordon about a sticker sonic youth put out featuring a young david geffen [to win a trivia contest] and her management didn't get back to me for 3 days.
Termsearching was the wildest thing on Twitter. But only in bad ways.
It's not just that we gave cabbages the power of speech, we also gave them the ability to hear whenever anyone anywhere says the word "cabbage."
"I like pancakes" and a cabbage is tapping on your window, asking why you hate them so much