Nearly every useful feature of Twitter started first in userspace before being formalized in the platform.
- Nearly every useful feature of Twitter started first in userspace before being formalized in the platform.
- Hashtags.
- @ mentions.
- Retweets.
From other episodes
- A Twitter post: Don't trust your agents.2026-03-23
- This week's Wild West roundup is a doozy:2026-03-09
- In the 90's it was hard to imagine a world of infinite content.2026-03-09
- Fabian Stelzer on Twitter:2026-02-02
- The meta-game can shift rapidly even from small changes.2025-12-22
- Instead of trying to make outcomes that are unbiased, make local processes that lead to emergently balanced results.2025-12-08
- Bits and Bobs is my own personal anti-Twitter.2025-12-01
- Garry Tan on Twitter:2025-07-07