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who would have thought it would turn into POTUS chief medium of communication then

In their defence, it's unlikely that the situation would have been much different without Twitter. There are plenty of other ways for narcissists to micro-publish on the Internet.

Yep. Hell, I'm narcissistically micro-publishing right now!

i read this in a Utah Phillips voice: around 2:10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9c1vSIpHA0

You might be being sarcastic, but you’re not wrong. If the POTUS commented on hacker news, they’d hit the media just as surely as any tweet.

I'd argue twitter made POTUS not the other way around

It was another age, back when vowels were unevenly redistributed between startups and the only typefaces were VAG rundschrift and frutiger.

i’d still love a one liner list of all of my friends’ statuses.