• Gnubyte@lemdit.com
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    1 year ago

    Howdy neighbor. Well let’s not be disengious right: That’s not what the headline suggests.which is why I’m commenting.

    And what you’re suggesting isn’t even accurate. Jack D, founder of twitter talked on a 60 minute segment saying the original inspiration came from cop radios talking about where they were and what they were doing. He then much later worked at a blog sort of company called Odeo and that’s where he passed around the idea.

    Most importantly this article tries to push a narrative that Jacks coworkers at Odeo were anarchists and that had great influence on twitter. At best they were users of the platform.

    https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/jack-dorsey-on-his-childhood-inspiration-for-twitter/

    Origin of twitter https://penningtoncreative.com/the-origins-of-twitter/

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      1 year ago

      TXTMob clearly pre-dates any “idea” Jack D. might have had himself and the early Twitter was obviously modelled after that. I don’t know how old you are, but I clearly remember how tied-in the early Twitter was with SMS… it was basically their whole shtick.

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        1 year ago

        I’ll concede. Sure. Maybe I personally don’t like the idea of tying in anarchists to twitter. I still think its something of a stretch though.