Lynne Baer

And before the tools making it possible to find your tweeps elsewhere get blocked here.

@postscapes @JAdP It was so powerful; people efficiently sharing links, w context, often w highly precise + completist metadata tagging. I called it my backup brain, but w the network of subject matter experts and enthusiasts on it, it went well beyond. I’d migrate for a modernized version!

@lynnebaer @JAdP Ah, brought me back with the del.icio.us reference... It really was a precursor to Twitter if you used it right

The past few weeks of Twitter upheaval have been fascinating to watch. From a consumer perspective, this rushed emigration is quite familiar to me: fleeing LiveJournal, Tumblr, del.icio.us. For many industries, it’s their first time.

So where *do* companies go now? 2023 is obviously going to be a year of trying a million things to see what sticks; see where or if these communication networks can reconvene. But where your organization’s audience will land remains TBD; until then, you have to be everywhere.

Yet here we are. Corporations trusting in Musk’s obvious capitalist best interests to not kill off the advertising cash cow feeding it got a rude surprise, and most companies cannot pivot their communication strategies that fast.

I wish @librarycongress had figured out how to archive all of Twitter. @LibnOfCongress should nab the legislative branch. @USNatArchives should archive all of the executive branch. If they haven’t done it, hope @brewster_kahle can crawl the .gov records for @internetarchive

Oh dear, what could go wrong? >_> twitter.com/mpchlets/statu…

I've long struggled with computational social science as a field, deeply discomforted by what can and can't be learned by people's performances on social media. @angelaxiaowu nails this tension with this new essay (+ paper w/ Harsh Taneja): points.datasociety.net/how-not-to-kno…

@hyounpark @sixapart @LiveJournal All I want is "show me all posts from everyone I signed up to see, in reverse chronological order; let me group for convenience; no GDMF N*zis." LJ was good at the first 75% of that and better at the last 25 than any modern social media platform.

It's been all about the visual engagement for awhile now! Everything is images, moving ones if you're really hip, voiceovers a strong bonus. twitter.com/hyounpark/stat…

Back in February we released burnoutindex.org, a free, anonymous, science-based way to measure burnout risk. We didn't expect +100K responses, we didn't expect COVID-19. Now, more than ever, the future of work starts by raising awareness on the things that truly matter.

As someone who just got off a Webex where I was not muted yet nobody could hear me, THIS. twitter.com/wiredferret/st…

@hyounpark Chairs that levitate, drone-style. (In reality, Musk will end up simply re-inventing the chair, if this ends up more like his attempt to reinvent mass transit.)