podcast 2020  [Jack Dorsey on Twitter's Mistakes- The Daily](https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736?i=1000487397342)


is Twitter an aggregator or a platform?

- [The weakness of Twitter, in contrast, is its unwieldy reliance on humans, to build their own feeds, to find a new network, to broadcast to potentially no one what they think.](https://stratechery.com/2016/why-twitter-must-be-saved/) The payoff, though, is the capability of spreading information more widely and more quickly than has ever before been possible; the societal benefit is an externality that needs to be preserved.

[a good video with the history of Twitter](https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/08/twitter-stock-rises-more-than-8percent-on-potential-subscription-platform.html) at the end of the article
july 2020 - **Twitter stock jumps on potential subscription platform**

- [The World That Twitter Made](https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-world-that-twitter-made.html)

> Bloggers and forum moderators had full control over their own sites, and did not shy from banning and censoring people they believed were poisoning the conversation. Each community had its norms, and people were happy to shun those who did not follow them

[Status is clearly scarce, and in a gift culture like the free software community - or on Finance Twitter](https://danco.substack.com/p/homesteading-the-twittersphere?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMjA3OTgxNywicG9zdF9pZCI6ODc5NTExLCJfIjoiWkpHQUciLCJpYXQiOjE1OTgyODA3NjIsImV4cCI6MTU5ODI4NDM2MiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTg2MjMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.wnC-wBXDazgUFsNzfobTdup4SRoGde6rOVAiorG2P4w) - the way you earn status is by putting in real effort, and then giving away the fruits of that effort... by Alex Danco

**Vicki Boykis** [Jack and I prove that humans are not web scale](https://vicki.substack.com/p/jack-and-i-prove-that-humans-are)
Of course, in a Twitter thread





- [The platform’s recommendation engine appears to favour inflammatory tweets](https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/08/01/twitters-algorithm-does-not-seem-to-silence-conservatives)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-retweeted_tweets



[Dark Psychology of Social Networks](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/4700/dark%2Bpsychology%2Bof%2Bsocial%2Bnetworks.pdf) Story by Jonathan Haidt and Tobias Rose-Stockwell
Why it feels like everything is going haywire

## [Tweet Sentiment Visualization](https://www.csc2.ncsu.edu/faculty/healey/tweet_viz/tweet_app/)

collective effort visualization versus individual status-as-a-service (Twitter Analytics)
[Twitter BI Integrations](https://panoply.io/integrations/twitter/analytics/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=kw_partner-integrations-uk_free-trial&utm_term=twitter%20analytics&gclid=CjwKCAjwyo36BRAXEiwA24CwGavGctA1tqTP-HI07ZoUniNROBBbKY66gpj3-BGA253qaHYNMaRvZBoC0okQAvD_BwE)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_analytics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_data_analysis