I joined Twitter in March, 2007.My first tweet was anything but glorious,“Sitting in Networking class. Not enjoying it.”Ten tweets before receiving my first like.Another fifty before my second.Reading my early tweets, I was confused by this lack of likes.I slowly remembered: likes didn’t exist. Instead there were favorites,bookmarks rather than algorithmic boosts.The absence of replies also felt odd.I was clearly having conversationswith two college classmate (the only people I knew on...
Published on November 19, 2022 06:00