Saying goodbye to Twitter

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Today on the flagship podcast of good tweets: 03:40 - The Verge’s William Poor goes on a vintage tech odyssey in the hopes of future-proofing his family’s heirloom Mac Classic. 28:35 - David Pierce, Alex Cranz, and Nilay Patel discuss why they spent so much time on Twitter for so many years. The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge How Twitter broke the news Extremely softcore: the old Twitter was an idealist’s workplace and a naive business The great tweet archive Twitter was a harassment machine It’s time for the Excel World Championships! 1:05:40 - David answers a question from the Vergecast Hotline about organizing your digital photos. Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Burge Cast, the flagship podcast of Good Tweets.
0:06.0	I'm a friend David Pierce and I am currently standing on the casino floor of the
0:10.0	MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas. I've been here for the last few days,
0:13.7	not for the national rodeo finals,
0:15.9	which was this weekend,
0:16.9	or for the NBA in-season tournament,
0:18.9	which was this weekend,
0:20.0	or for the Raiders game, which was this weekend,
0:22.1	but for easily the biggest event of all,
0:24.4	the Microsoft Excel World Championships.
0:27.3	That's a real thing, and it was awesome.
0:29.8	Basically, the idea is a bunch of the world's best
0:31.9	spreadsheets get together and they spend a bunch of the world's best spreadsheets
0:32.6	get together and they spend a couple of days
0:34.8	teaching each other how to use Excel,
0:36.3	learning some of the app's coolest new features,
0:38.9	and then they compete.
0:40.2	They get these incredibly complicated puzzles and they spend hours and
0:44.0	hours trying to figure out the best, fastest, most elaborate, most efficient way to
0:49.9	solve these puzzles. The competition was actually in the HyperX e-sports arena at the Luxor
0:55.3	Casino. It was a big deal. This is the biggest one of these they've ever done. And I have to say, it was
0:59.3	pretty dramatic, or at least as dramatic as it can be when a bunch of people are sitting on stage
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