A Million Different Twitters

Land of the Giants

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Society & Culture, Business

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Twitter was created by its users, who invented features like the retweet and hashtag. These features helped create vibrant communities like Black Twitter and Comedy Twitter, but eventually, some groups exploited Twitter’s virality in order to intimidate and harass others online. In this episode: how Twitter became the best and worst place on the internet. EDITOR'S NOTE: This episode contains descriptions of sexual harassment and of graphic threats of violence. This section begins 9 minutes after the midroll break and lasts for about 5 minutes, or approximately 35:30 through 41:20. This episode hosted by Peter Kafka (@pkafka) and Lauren Goode (@laurengoode) Be the first to hear next week's episode by following Land of the Giants on your favorite podcast app Follow @voxdotcom for more coverage of X/Twitter and Big Tech Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:51.0	Hey, a quick heads up.
0:52.2	The second half of this episode contains descriptions of sexual harassment and
0:56.2	graphic threats of violence.
0:58.6	Exact time codes will be in the show notes.
1:05.6	One of my friends was the first female engineer at Twitter, and point of fact, and she reached
1:10.4	out to me one day, and she said, hey, Dell, we're starting to see occasional spam on Twitter.
1:17.6	And when I think about bad things on the internet, I think about you.
1:22.2	Dell Harvey was Twitter's 25th employee.
1:25.2	In 2008, she started as the head of Twitter's newly created spam and abuse team.
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