Would be cool to visually be able to see the origins of a topic/keyword. Would make it easier to find interesting accounts with smaller reach. For example, this BRS post was QT’d from “Interesting Videos” and went on to fetch 2.5m impressions. It was probably posted even earlier by someone else but probably never with the BRS detail. At least from what you can see from the search results. Anyways, having the ability to see the first time a topic was mentioned would be ideal. Furthermore, an indicator that reveals if one of your follows/followers has posted about something before would be great for discovery too. As it stands now, @x sort of buries content and constantly builds on top of itself. So unless you use bookmarks or someone retweets a post, old posts become increasingly isolated. Like stars growing further apart from one another, and causing a universe to undergo “heat death”. This concept is especially important considering @elonmusk’s plan to pay people for impressions and how he wants to discourage poaching. As for me it’s more a matter of not being lumped with meta ideas and having the ability to show that I’ve discussed a topic prior to it going “viral”. Maybe @ehikian can implement this into @x’s design.
