xkeeper

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dragon warrior iii for the game boy color describes me as "stubborn", and i'm tempted to agree with that assessment


co-owner tcrf.net. i run an old forum, jul.
i've been around the internet since '01.
i generally feel like the internet
peaked somewhere around '07.


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18+: @xkeeper-TI


plural / some kind of digital therian thing.
still discovering myself.
all of this is new to me.


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daily-knowledge
@daily-knowledge

daily knowledge: in the days when twitter was still young, twitter's official logo was a bubbly blue wordmark spelling out the name of the service. however, the image of a blue bird was adopted by the community as a way to represent the service prior to the company ever designing a bird logo officially. this idea was solidified by twitterrific, a 3rd party mobile client for twitter developed by the iconfactory. it came out early in the site's lifespan and quickly gained notoriety as being the defacto twitter client prior to twitter ever shipping one themselves. ollie the twitterrific bird


lagomorphosis
@lagomorphosis
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MisutaaAsriel
@MisutaaAsriel

Fun Fact

Not only did Twitter not have an official client originally, but the client in use today can be traced back to another popular client, Tweetie, which Twitter bought and rebranded. Twitter never technically shipped a client at all when the Twitter app was released.

In fact, if you ever find a way at poking around at the iOS bundle, or view its info manifest via the Mac app, it still calls itself com.atebits.Tweetie2. Due to how iOS apps work, you can't rename an app's bundle identifier whilst maintaining the same listing, so to this day the Twitter app is internally labeled Tweetie 2 on Apple devices.


kda
@kda

Remember when TweetDeck had Facebook support?


xkeeper
@xkeeper

twitter itself, in the days before things like rts were a thing and the iphone was a relatively new novelty, actually dedicated space on its sidebar to promoting third-party clients, among other interesting integrations


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That was the golden age of Twitter — third party apps offered unique ways to view timeline and use the service. Whether it be assigning private nicknames to your follows (Twidere), having the timeline in a dense spreadsheet-style view (Tween), or giving your follows color-coded labels to make their tweets stand out more (Twicca).

Plus some of those third-party clients offered accessibility options that official clients didn’t and still don’t have.