Daniel and Manton talk about everything Twitter. Elon Musk officially taking over the company, Manton’s 10-year anniversary of not posting to twitter.com/manton, Twitter’s open source Bluesky initiate and the AT Protocol, social media network effects, and how Twitter may or may not change in the coming months.
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Links:
- Core Intuition 60 – Episode from 2012 when Manton quit Twitter.
- Manton’s last @manton tweet – Highlighting tweets remembering Steve Jobs.
- Manton’s extra @mantonsblog account – Cross-posting blog posts.
- Elon Musk book – Biography by Ashlee Vance.
- Kanye West buying Parler – The Verge coverage of the acquisition and related news.
- Dear Twitter Advertisers – Elon Musk letter about why he acquired Twitter.
- Dear Elon Musk – Manton’s blog post.
- TikTok – Another popular social network.
- Bluesky – Initiative started while Jack Dorsey was CEO of Twitter.
- AT Protocol – Federated API to come out of Bluesky.
- Wikipedia about Bluesky – More details and history.
