Twitter, every mention
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every year 2021 anyone Benedict Evans 166Toni Cowan-Brown 12
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Twitter comes up
What we know about web 3 so far
- ▶ 20:40 Benedict Evans This is a joke I made the other day on, on Twitter that, you know, where three people say we need direct democracy and all the users need to vote according to their own incentives.
How to think about tech
- ▶ 5:02 Benedict Evans Um, I immediately understand, you know, Chinese popular culture, because I read something about it once, and I'm on Twitter, like, and so you have to kind of go against that.
Creativity and Optimism
- ▶ 49:28 Benedict Evans Yeah, I'll just say Mark, we can just all tweet it, we can all tweet it independently now, like Mark Andreessen, you can make your second fortune, sell an NFT of the Netscape throbber. 2 times in the scene
Tech in china, from inside and outside
- ▶ 8:09 Toni Cowan-Brown You said something at some point, Lillian, that I found was fascinating, and I think it was actually in that Twitter thread,
Trying to understand Ad Tech
- ▶ 27:43 Benedict Evans It's sort of classic, you know, Jack Dorsey at Twitter, like saying the thing that sounds simple until you ask, well, what do you mean?
Who's in the office? Notes on a year of remote work.
- ▶ 12:49 Benedict Evans I think the other interesting thing is the panel point, because, you know, it's a meta observation about Clubhouse is, one of the reasons it reminds me of Twitter 2 times in the scene
Shopify and digital transformation
- ▶ 1:05 Benedict Evans So my Twitter feed is like, 90% people in tech looking at this and going, this is insane.
- ▶ 34:34 Benedict Evans You know, this is sort of, you know, again, I mean, you know, there's a sort of the small crew of idiots on Twitter who are venture capitalists all trying to flip things quickly.
Clubhouse and the endless cycle of social apps
- ▶ 13:29 Toni Cowan-Brown And it was the thing in the early days of, of Twitter that I loved is you are faced with people you wouldn't normally be able to have a conversation with. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:25 Benedict Evans That probably has translated into a Twitter audience. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:31 Toni Cowan-Brown And I was thinking about this the other day, of just like, where does Clubhouse sit when you look at the social media platforms and networks, you've got, you know, you've got your chat, um, you've got your chat ones, the likes of WhatsApp,…
Telling stories with charts
- ▶ 8:18 Benedict Evans It's the same with, I mean, I saw in my Twitter flow this morning, um, Twitch did, I think the number was two trillion hours of video last year.
Why do we care about games?
- ▶ 25:17 Benedict Evans I think Clubhouse is interesting because it sort of blends podcasts and early Twitter and accessibility and spontaneity.
The history of doom-scrolling
- ▶ 4:17 Benedict Evans Is I feel like Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter between them sort of killed mainstream blogging.
- ▶ 7:39 Benedict Evans As opposed to Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, where you have a, both a tool and a network.
- ▶ 37:35 Benedict Evans Um, Fred Wilson writes something every day at the other end of the spectrum and isn't that active on Twitter, but he's always been said something interesting or intriguing on, on, on his website. 5 times in the scene