{"id":1903,"date":"2024-11-14T21:18:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T21:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exponentialdecay.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2024-11-14T21:24:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T21:24:57","slug":"what-i-will-miss-about-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exponentialdecay.co.uk\/blog\/what-i-will-miss-about-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"What I will miss about Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People seem to be moving. You&#8217;ll find me on <a href=\"https:\/\/digipres.club\/deck\/@beet_keeper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mastodon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/b33tk33p3r.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BlueSky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As I happened to be looking through some 2015 archives today, I made notes of the things I will miss.<\/p>\n<pre><code>twitter walls<\/code> <code>twitter sentiment analysis<\/code> <code>twitter graphs<\/code> <code>twitter bots<\/code> <code>twitter history and its use for activism<\/code> <code>twitter history and its use for emergent trends<\/code> <code>twitter knowledge base and advance search<\/code> <code>twitter serendipity<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>The history books will be pretty unbelievable when they come to write about it. It may never come back, but it did exist. 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You&#8217;ll find me on Mastodon and BlueSky. 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