Welcome everybody. This is the Tech Mem ride home experience for September 8th,

last week we had a really big show. This week is going to be, I think, a little bit

more meandering, but there's just so much to talk about, so much to put into context, and that

is what we are here to do. So Brian you

started off by observing something new about my Twitter profile. I imagine we're

going to get into a bunch of things related to stuff that Twitter has been

doing, specifically they launched communities

today in a limited test and so I think I want to I don't know run some thoughts

about this you know by you but but let's start with your initial observation.

Well let's let's start with your initial observation.

Well let's talk about communities specifically.

Explain it to me in a sense because have you have you haven't been in one yet have you not now I feel like I've sort of there's like these you know garden hedge rows that have

like popped up suddenly in the middle of the Twitter multiverse and I'm walking around it and peeking inside and trying to jump over the hedge to see like what's happening.

But alas it is a limited rollout as so many things on Twitter are. I feel like it's a completely fractional or no fractional

fractured user experience for a lot of people because we're all in different

ABCD EFG tests going on simultaneously but to answer your question no I am not

in one yet but I've seen a few screenshots that relate to that.

Okay so then tweets of some of the stuff that I've discovered also.

Right, so then answer my other question, which is, in a Broadway, what's this now?

What are Twitter communities?

I mean basically.

Yeah.

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