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During my first year of college, I had a writing class. The professor made us join this new micro-blog platform. I tweeted a few times, which were part of some of the assignments. I thought the idea of <140 characters to be interesting. Paying for that sounds hilarious.
I’ll just leave this here, from The New Yorker, titled “L.P.D.: Libertarian Police Department”
they ruined Twitter the moment they added images, and then it got worse with videos, the 2018 algorithm switch, and long tweets.
when your app is an everything app it's a nothing app
Such a perfect way to describe it!