What We All Got Wrong About Twitter

Land of the Giants

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Society & Culture, Business

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

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. Hosted by Peter Kafka (@pkafka) Be the first to hear next week's episode by following Land of the Giants on your favorite podcast app Follow @voxdotcom for more coverage of X/Twitter and Big Tech Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:54.2	Jason Goldman was supposed to be an astrophysicist.
0:57.3	Instead he ended up dropping out a grad school and working at internet companies.
1:01.4	I'd been extremely online before that was even the thing.
1:04.1	I was like a nerd from way back in the early 90s.
1:07.7	Goldman got a job at Google and eventually handed up at a dream gig for a young tech worker
1:12.6	in San Francisco.
1:14.2	He was head of product at Twitter.
1:17.2	One problem though.
1:18.7	Twitter barely worked at all during this time.
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