@chm @bastianallgeier My son made me join in 2009 and...

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@chm @bastianallgeier My son made me join in 2009 and I didn’t understand it at all. The first time I realized how useful it could be when in 2011 I could read news about the earthquake and the tsunami in Fukushima.

Like 8 Nov 2022 at 16:25 | Wall-to-wall | Open on sueden.social

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Bastian Allgeier

@ursulathoese @chm such a good point. Twitter only got really useful for a huge audience when the network effect was strong enough.

8 Nov 2022 at 16:27 | Open on mastodon.social

Lunimess

@bastianallgeier @ursulathoese
There was a downside to all that growth too though. Before June 2009 no major news networks were really doing anything on Twitter. The first time a major news network aired coverage of actual tweets, was the day that Neda Agha-Soltan was murdered during the Green Movement in Tehran and CNN aired the video of her murder. Everything changed after that and journos and others tweeting on the ground in Tehran were killed because of coverage of their tweets.

9 Nov 2022 at 5:15 | Open on toot.community