Future Tense Newsletter: There's Something Useful Buried in the Shipwreck of Twitter

Future Tense Newsletter: There’s Something Useful Buried in the Shipwreck of Twitter Josh Edelson/Getty Images I didn’t start regularly using Twitter until the end of 2015. I had just started working as a software engineer at Uber, and I noticed that many of my colleagues and most of the biggest names in tech were very active on the platform. It seemed natural, smart, and (weirdly) professional for me to be there, too. When I joined, I felt like I was already late to the party. The site was filled with people—some genuinely famous, some “Twitter famous”—and it was an established, mature social network. But Twitter also had something that made it feel like it wasn’t just a social network. It wasn’t for keeping up with your friends or updating your family members or being bombarded with photos of people from your hometown who you hadn’t seen in 15 years; no, it was a true platform, a place where, for better or for worse, if you had something important, or good, or funny, or horrible to say, you could speak and have a decent chance of being listened to. At first, I used Twitter to keep up with friends and colleagues
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