{"id":4083,"date":"2014-05-12T22:03:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T22:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=4083"},"modified":"2014-05-12T22:03:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T22:03:18","slug":"linked-a-love-letter-to-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/05\/12\/linked-a-love-letter-to-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;A love letter to Twitter&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8549,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/stopdesign.com\\\/archive\\\/2014\\\/05\\\/09\\\/a-love-letter-to-twitter.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20230402092902\\\/https:\\\/\\\/stopdesign.com\\\/archive\\\/2014\\\/05\\\/09\\\/a-love-letter-to-twitter.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-05 04:29:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-18 00:15:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-17 04:01:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-26 02:50:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-29 17:36:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-03 21:09:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-26 23:29:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-04 03:29:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-15 08:05:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-19 05:50:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-22 12:06:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-27 15:54:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-05 08:36:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 17:03:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-16 16:45:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 22:15:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 03:29:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 03:29:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stopdesign.com\/archive\/2014\/05\/09\/a-love-letter-to-twitter.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Doug Bowman on Leaving Twitter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Small moments on Twitter are fascinating, because they reveal tiny bits about the people who share them, and in aggregate, reveal entire patterns of human behavior and emotion. Whether it\u2019s the mundane update about what someone had for breakfast, or that they\u2019re late for school, or that they had toilet paper stuck to their shoe for an hour before a friend pointed it out\u2026 Those small moments are real, humanizing, and pings to the world that a person is alive, is functioning, and is a normal human being.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>I love how people can gain a new voice with Twitter. It has given me a louder and farther-reaching voice than I ever thought possible. And while I can only physically be in one place at one time, I love how Twitter distributes my awareness of what\u2019s going on nearby or far away. At any moment, I can instantly know what\u2019s going on in the next room, in the next town, or in a country halfway around the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Even though I\u2019m no longer a user of Twitter, these two statements are perfect. Like so many other micro-celebrities now and then, we were real people just like everyone else and while our accomplishments day-to-day as people were small, the distribution of the mundane turned us into a real-life Truman show. It\u2019s easy for me to talk about how I did that with books and blog posts and how-to guides on getting followers and retweets but, at the end of the day, it was the posts about the mundane with a commitment to transparency that brought me 4K followers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many of us used Twitter to change our world. While a tweet about my breakfast isn\u2019t big news, the capturing and sharing of my day with thousands of people did have an affect.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doug Bowman on Leaving Twitter: Small moments on Twitter are fascinating, because they reveal tiny bits about the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-13R","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6580,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/linked-redesigning-waxy-2016-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":4083,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Redesigning Waxy, 2016 edition&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"January 25, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via Waxy: But there a few reasons why I\u2019m sad about the decline of independent blogging, and why I think they\u2019re still worth fighting for. Ultimately, it comes down to two things: ownership and control. This was a fantastic read. I am trying to strike a balance on this blog.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5523,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/03\/01\/linked-is-it-too-late-to-go-back-to-the-twitter-that-might-have-been\/","url_meta":{"origin":4083,"position":1},"title":"LInked: &#8220;Is It Too Late to Go Back to the Twitter That Might Have Been?&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"March 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Fortune: In a nutshell, Twitter could have been a little like email, or the SMS messaging system. And it probably could have become a little like what Slack is now\u2014the messaging service that has brought social communication to hundreds of major corporations and could be worth almost $3 billion\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4240,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/09\/05\/linked-community-services\/","url_meta":{"origin":4083,"position":2},"title":"Linked: Community Services","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"September 5, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"via Waffle & Brent Simmons: Eventually, communities moved from BBSes and newsgroups to forums, email, chats and instant messaging. But at some point, it became \u201csocial media\u201d, and forms of media turned into products. And this isn\u2019t just Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, it goes as far back as del.icio.us, Flickr\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6743,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/03\/24\/linked-twitter-explores-subscription-based-option-for-first-time\/","url_meta":{"origin":4083,"position":3},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Twitter explores subscription-based option for first time&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"March 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via Reuters & Macrumors: Twitter is looking at providing a professional experience for people on TweetDeck that would pack in advance tools and features not found anywhere else on the service. The premium package would cost $19.99 per month, be accessible on both desktop and mobile, and include the following\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4727,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/06\/26\/linked-what-twitter-can-be\/","url_meta":{"origin":4083,"position":4},"title":"Linked: &#8220;What Twitter Can Be&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"June 26, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"via Lower Case Capital: I can\u2019t find a single element that is worth quoting as the article itself is so great. It\u2019s like everything I wished Twitter could have been all in one post. Twitter has failed its early adopters which is common as a company matures but it has\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2113,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/03\/29\/the-value-of-twitter\/","url_meta":{"origin":4083,"position":5},"title":"\u2605 &#8220;The Value of Twitter&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"March 29, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"via Shawnblanc: My lengthier response is that it\u2019s hard to imagine Twitter ever expected to grow as fast as it has or become large as it is now. 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