Ep 246: A Funeral For Twitter

10 Things To Tell You

Laura Tremaine

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.7 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

I joined twitter in 2009 and for 15 years - until this very month - it has been my favorite social media platform. The one place where I am only a consumer and not a creator. The place where I met my earliest online friends. The place where I made most of my best online memories following breaking news, political, scandal, and pop culture. And the only other person I know who has been obsessed with twitter for as long as I have been? None other than friend and podcaster Jamie Golden. Jamie and I have shared many obsessions over the years - and I write about her in The Life Council as the Fellow Obsessive friend - but our love of twitter has always been our biggest shared passion. And despite saying numerous times over the years that we'd never leave, we both decided in the last few weeks to depart our formerly favorite space. And thus, a funeral for twitter. In this conversation, Jamie and I talk about our earliest days on twitter, why we loved it so much, our favorite moments, a few of our regrets, and, of course, why we're leaving. You don't have to care about twitter to enjoy this passionate conversation between friends. My hope for this episode is that you'll get a little glimpse into some social media history and that you'll see yourself in a discussion about how being online has changed us. Follow Jamie Golden on IG Follow Jamie Golden on Bluesky Listen to Jamie Golden on her podcasts The Popcast with Knox and Jamie and Faith Adjacent Follow Laura Tremaine on BlueSky FULL SHOW NOTES HERE MENTIONED in this episode: Black Twitter: A People’s History (hulu docuseries) Extremely Online by Taylor Lorenz So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson JAMIE's past episodes of 10 Things To Tell You: Ep. 14: Skincare and Makeup Favorites with Jamie Golden Ep. 51: Masterminds: How to create and structure a business peer group (with guests Jamie Golden, Bri McKoy, and Kendra Adachi) Ep. 105: Needles, Lasers, and Fillers in Your Face (Jamie Holden RETURNS!) Ep. 164: Are we friends or not? (A Secret Tapes Mastermind Conversation with Jamie Golden, Bri McKoy, and Kendra Adachi) Ep. 192: OBSESSED: Skincare & Makeup Favorites (with Jamie Golden) SUBSCRIBE to 10 Things To Tell You so you never miss an episode! CLICK HERE for episode show notes FOLLOW @10ThingsToTellYou on Instagram FOLLOW @10ThingsToTellYou on Facebook JOIN the 10 Things To Tell You Connection Group SIGN UP for episode emails, links, and show notes JOIN the Secret Stuff Patreon BUY THE BOOK: Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First. by Laura Tremaine BUY THE BOOK: The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs by Laura Tremaine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I saw that Dr. Pepper now sells more than Pepsi.
0:02.6	Who drinks Pepsi?
0:04.0	My dad. Only my dad. He's keeping Pepsi afloat.
0:07.1	Pepsi is the worst. And you know, they've done these, like, major corporate partnerships with
0:12.5	like either airports, football stadiums, whatever. When we're at any place where it's like
0:17.7	concessions, it's always Pepsi. And I'm annoyed because nobody actually drinks Pepsi.
0:22.4	Nobody wants it.
0:23.2	They settle.
0:24.1	If they weren't doing those deals, they would not sell drinks.
0:28.1	I don't think.
0:28.6	No, they would go under.
0:29.6	Everybody knows that.
0:30.6	Anyway.
0:32.0	Anywho.
0:34.3	We would have tweeted that back and forth.
0:36.1	And it would have been a great tweet thread.
0:49.7	Welcome to the 10 Things to Tell You podcast. I'm Laura Tremaine.
1:16.5	I always have at least 10 things to tell you. And you have 10 things to tell. This is a show where we believe that sharing yourself will make you less lonely. I joined Twitter in 2009. And from that time until just this month, it has been my favorite social media platform. 15 years of devotion to that place. I know a lot of people don't get it.
1:26.1	I know that Twitter, now called X, we'll get to that part.
1:29.8	It has a reputation for being the most toxic cesspool of social media.
1:35.6	Most of my friends and my writer, podcaster colleagues, they long ago abandoned it for the more civil platforms.
1:46.2	Generally speaking, more civil platforms like Facebook or Instagram, even TikTok. But Twitter has always had my heart because it is just a
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