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Channels with Peter Kafka

Land of the Giants: What We All Got Wrong About Twitter

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week, an episode of the latest season of Land of the Giants: The Twitter Fantasy, hosted by our own Peter Kafka. If you like what you hear, be sure to subscribe! Twitter began life as an accident. In the beginning, even its founders weren’t sure what it was: the internet’s town square, a real-time information source, or the next Facebook, maybe? Twitter's power has always been misunderstood -- by its leaders, by its users, and lately, by the world's richest person.  Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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slash voxpod this is recode media of peter kofka and that's me and today we do not have a guest

1:10.7

on our show instead we have a lot of guests. That's because I'm sharing the first part of something cool that I got to make. It's called the Twitter fantasy. It's a four-part series about Twitter's origins. Its development, its future. This is part of our Land of the Giant series. We've been making these since 2019. I have done one on Netflix and Apple. There's a lot of other good ones as well. It is one of my favorite things I have done in my career, full stop. The idea is to tell you about tech companies and industries that are reshaping the world, but we're not just doing a business history that focuses on CEOs and entrepreneurs. And that's what we're doing with this season. We are definitely talking to and about Twitter's

1:48.0

leaders. There's a lot of that in this first episode. But we're also talking to the users that made the platform and people who can describe Twitter's impact on culture and politics around the world.

1:59.0

And yes, there is going to be some Elon in here, but not too much Elon.

2:03.5

Anyway, if you listen to Recode Media, you may have already listened to this episode.

2:07.3

So my apologies, we will get you fresh stuff next week, I promise.

2:11.6

And if you listen to Recode Media and you haven't listened to this show, I really think you'll like it.

2:22.8

Music haven't listened to this show, I really think you'll like it. Jason Goldman was supposed to be an astrophysicist. Instead, he ended up dropping out

2:27.4

of grad school and working at internet companies. I'd been extremely online before that was even

2:32.1

the thing. I was like a nerd from way back in the early 90s.

2:36.6

Goldman got a job at Google and eventually handed up at a dream gig for a young tech worker in San Francisco.

2:42.9

He was head of product at Twitter.

2:45.6

One problem, though.

2:47.5

Twitter barely worked at all during this time.

2:50.8

If you used Twitter back then, you will remember the fail whale.

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