May 29th, 2019
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★ Redesigning Twitter
- Notes from May 29th, 2019 convo with Priya & GWS about future of Twitter
- M: one thing is the PKM/Zettelkasten thing, which @Conaw maybe will build
- and then there's something more like Chat Client for twitter
- G: iMapping
- P: not PKM but Hive Mind KM
- M: hard to put the first dot before connecting dots
- G: thesis poster - "you need a prompt"
- stories - tracing paths through nodes, open threads in a story
- P: yeah, (associative) network
- also part of what makes twitter powerful is the "you need a prompt" thing
- M: the birds they sing, at the break of day... start again, I heard them say
- twitter has a natural "start again" function in the form of the nowness of each tweet
- and you can put a half-formed thought in and people might build on it or poke you to do more with it... so it gets tended to
- ((surface area
- M: I think I want to call my scratchpad account "raw"...?
- "snippets"
- "workings"
- P: GKeep, Evernote, Twitter, Notion... texts...
- I lose things that way
- [ recording-as-notetaking started @ 21:56 ]
- M: btw, you both want to make a self-sustaining software business
- tipping points for twitter shift
- M: my meta-stuff re TwitterReplacement
- P: also Visa & Anna went to SF at the same time, reified InterIntellect
- sense of room for the online relationships to be offline too, which makes them more real even if they're not actually offline
- M: Marco Polo - can't stop the video from being sent when it's being recorded
- different kind of nowness
- "it's one of the only asynchronous things I'm aware of that you can't edit"
- P: well, livestream, but yeah
- (so MP is like a 1-on-1 livestream)
- (oh also nexusevents.io kinda has a thing like that)
- G: for writing... I've found it very useful to use tools like The Most Dangerous Writing App
- M: spreeder-like thing but for writing (just shows current line)
- G: MDWA has a mode where it hides what you've already written, but still destroys things if you stop
- @ 22:12
- G: question around structure of these mediums...
- where do I start as someone who opens up twitter?
- P: almost feel like gradual on-ramp is by-design
- finding your way in through a node on the network
- twitter surfaces related stuff for you... things you never expected
- but yeah, could use better profile, and not just have the nowness there
- M: people linking things together
- P: yeah, and I now see if eg someone replies to one of your tweets from a year ago
- P: and search for a book title from people I follow
- and then there's novel stuff
- M: ooh! #idea what if I could put in certain interests (eg McGilchrist) and then if I follow someone, it would
- P: or auto-sourcing conversations between a new follow and some old follows
- M: can search for that...
- M: twitter notifications & search is like email inbox from pre-gmail conversation threading D:
- G: now I'm like "how is email different from twitter?"
- P: biggest one...
- gdocs - only one layer of threading
- email - you can do multiple layers, but you lose context
- M: email has a mandatory "to" field
- P: well and the character limit
- M: if you go to this page, it looks kind of like a tweetstorm unrolled
- page numbers (instead of 1/)
- P: trying to run an experiment soon... taking longer form things and turning them into essentially tweet threads
- OnMoloch account
- M: #idea better ability to embed on twitter a tiny piece of an article
- maybe what they're doing with Highly?!?
- P: limitations of search & also limitations of tables of contents
- G: another potential option...
- ability to identify two tweets as the same thought
- (( M: ability to revise a tweet without deleting the old one))
- [ different versions of alts / private accts / scratchpads etc ]
- @ 22:55ish [ people whose private alts are more interesting than their public accts ]
- P: I think I've had some success getting people to be more authentic
- #todo make tweetstorm about how I avoid distractions on Twitter
- userstyles
- tweetonly
- hide notification count
- block promoted tweets
- Focus Twitter Permalink
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