367: ‘Slow-Moving Hurricane’, With Craig Hockenberry

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

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3.6 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 171 minutes

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Summary

Craig Hockenberry returns to the show to talk about the demise of third-party Twitter clients, the overall Twitter shitshow, touchscreens on the Mac, and the perils of autocorrect when you have a clever username.

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0:00.0	Well Craig, how's your weekend?
0:03.2	Oh, pretty uneventful.
0:08.6	Hey, how about if I started up, Elon Musk?
0:11.2	There you go.
0:13.1	You know, I know a lot of people, to me, a surprising number of people I'm
0:17.1	mastered on do not want to use the word Twitter even, and they call it the birds.
0:21.4	Yeah.
0:22.1	Yes.
0:22.4	That's the similar.
0:23.6	I don't get.
0:24.3	I'm a little looser on that.
0:25.7	Yeah.
0:25.9	I don't get that.
0:26.7	It's, but, but again, one of the weird things, not weird.
0:29.8	I think good things about me growing older is I have way more, I think I've always sort
0:36.7	of been a, I tried to be from my youth onward, a live and let live type person.
0:42.8	And I've, I hopefully only grown more open-minded.
0:46.4	And so something like that, I think 15, 20 years ago, I'd have really rolled my
0:50.2	eyes at calling it the bird site.
0:52.4	And now I just, I don't pass judgment on it.
0:54.2	You, you don't want to use the word Twitter.
0:55.7	You don't have to use the word Twitter.
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