Welcome everybody to the Tech Mem Ride Home Experience for Thursday, August 25th, 2022.

Two days ago it was the hashtag's 15th anniversary, so I got to do, I don't know, I don't want to call it a victory

a lot because that sounds self congratulatory. But it was an interesting moment to stop and reflect on, I suppose, my contribution to social media and to this hellscape of a platform, which also is wonderful and lovely and connects us to amazing people.

It was also, I guess an interesting moment just to think about how Twitter has both evolved, devolved, stayed the same, and continues to remain this somewhat, I don't know, soap-boporific platform where people come together and they do stuff.

One of the things that I actually wanted to, I guess, call out now since we are of course recording on Twitter spaces is,

what was a new announcement as of today.

It's been previewed for some time, but that is the move for Twitter to, I guess, embrace

podcasting, which is essentially what we're doing here.

We are using the live platform, of course course to share kind of in real time to bring

guests on and to facilitate a different type of like an I don't know like studio

experience but Twitter's move into, I think is just so interesting again, sort of thinking back, you know, 15, 16 years to where it all get started, which of course was as Odo, and Odo was one of the first social podcasting platforms.

So it's like we've come full circle and I don't know exactly where it's going to go, but I

thought that was sort of an interesting moment to sort of just consider in the annals of social media history.

You know, we discussed you bringing your O.G crew on to talk about the anniversary. We can still do that.

Yeah, I want to do it. You know, so many of them have I think gone to the wind in a sense or just sort of like dispersed.

However, I was actually thinking about this.

There's sort of on the one hand,

the compression of time element

where the things that took place over the course know Twitter's history kind of happened actually over a

Longer and larger sequence than a lot of people think so for example

It took a very long time for Twitter to get search and And I think a lot of people kind of

misremember searches being part of you know Twitter from the beginning because

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