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Vibing out the real party

techPirate
3 min readApr 11, 2024

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this is a skill set ive had for a while. there is always a secret party of shit disturbers in the party room. and no one really knows who they r. and the code is- u cant tell. we can meet and take the piss on each other but in public we have wierd solidarity. its the nudge nudge wink wink crowd.

and no one seems to pick up on this party. i love this shit. especially right now. because technically the party is on TWITTER inside X. and clearly no one understands social media anymore at all, so please indulge me in my classroom.

social media like like about 20 years old now. the original versions of technology evolve. as their customers do. so tech bros who built twitter never built it to monetize it. cheap money, adoption high they were flush. but lets get technical and boring for a sec.

what is twitter? originally its 140 characters- only. if ur a professional and u can only communicate in 140 characters then u can only communicate to like minded ppl. its a ticketing system for nerds. only tech bros spoke the lingo. obviously so it takes off in the valley.

but twitter grew into many different ecosystems. there used to be academic twitter, very vibrant interesting- bizzare- but it was dominated with women. and i guess twitter decided that had to be killed- why?

it used to have one of the most effective social activism groups online. also killed. why?

now if u want to monetize the platform, what im seeing is specific user cases emerging. so a…

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