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@Kantrowitz @BigTechnology Alex you are such a goofball, and I love to see it. Congratulations man! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DaveLeeFT: It’s 6:30am in San Jose. First in the press line for Elizabeth Holmes’ sentencing: John Carreyrou. — PolitiTweet.org

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To Wendy’s point here, we sourced almost all of our writers and artists and eventually editors (like @karenkho!) via Twitter. The overwhelming majority were people we never had met in person, or at all. It really was powered by Twitter. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @wendymac: In 2007, I joined twitter on the advice of @crystale and @sacca. This was back when I was working in non-profit advertising a… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kateconger: Musk just asked all software engineers to come to an in person meeting today. Beforehand, they’re supposed to email him scr… — PolitiTweet.org

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"instead of landing with the big bang Meta hoped for, Galactica has died with a whimper after three days of intense criticism" Fantastic story from @strwbilly https://t.co/b0flqKy9Ue — PolitiTweet.org

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Firing up twitter today after all those eulogies last night feels a little like waking up on January 1 2000, turning on the lights, and being like…. “Well fuck what am I going to do with all these beans?” — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @lollyrots: This wasn't just a hell site, it was a hell home — PolitiTweet.org

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Anyway thinking about all that stuff breaks my heart. Twitter has been so much and could have been so much more. But damn it was pretty great. — PolitiTweet.org

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Meanwhile there were real questions about stability - I was there in large part to see if they would be able to keep the site running - sorta like tonight — PolitiTweet.org

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In more foreshadowing: It was also weird that night because in the weeks before the election @Ev had replaced @jack as CEO and there was still a lot of awkwardness around that in the room. Some things never change. — PolitiTweet.org

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And like… Trump clearly put Twitter to far more effective use than Obama ever did. And people should have seen that kind of populist use case coming even as they were celebrating Obama’s populist use of Twitter — PolitiTweet.org

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The election that night always felt to me like Twitter’s *real* coming out party. Sure, SXSW had already put it on the map. But that was basically San Francisco nerds impressing New York nerds in Texas. This was different — PolitiTweet.org

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(I don’t know what I’m doing here but…. Real names be proof; hi Mike) https://t.co/UkO5szmwiT) — PolitiTweet.org

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But Twitter HQ was just *on*, there was a commonly held belief in the room that it had helped make Obama happen. That this new thing and new way of direct communications had been proved out in the election. — PolitiTweet.org

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In terms of election night events in SF, it was probably like number 247 out of 250. There were so many Obama things happening and that was also when Prop 8 was on the ballot which was a massive focus in SF. Meanwhile Twitter was still pretty tiny — PolitiTweet.org

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It was both a low-profile party (people were mostly sitting on a big couch) and also just totally electric. There were no political people there at all - not a one. Just a bunch of nerds who were all stoked that the next president used their weird status update thing. — PolitiTweet.org

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I had been hanging around there for weeks because I was writing a feature for Wired on Twitter - it woulda been the first magazine feature on the company. — PolitiTweet.org

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If I have an earnest Twitter memory it is watching the 2008 election returns at Twitter HQ where there were probably fewer than 100 people all of whom were completely, openly in the tank for Obama — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @rk: Fifteen years(!) and two days after its original launch, I am re-launching https://t.co/G6VlHJEKgw Blog post with more context: ht… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @tomcoates: I joined Twitter sixteen years ago yesterday! I am user number 12,514. I actually interviewed at Odeo with Jack and Ev befor… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @edzitron: We are acting like twitter is going to die, when in reality it’s more like it’s going to go into surgery and we’re not sure i… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @cwarzel: what's been amazing about the space that @katienotopoulos and @broderick have been doing (besides the peak of like 21k listene… — PolitiTweet.org

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@peterme @Larakate Okay that was a quality burn — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @juliacarriew: For better or worse, Twitter is essential communication infrastructure for hundreds of millions of people. It’s verificat… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @juliacarriew: Twitter has always been the most democratic platform, allowing for marginalized groups to communicate with the powerful w… — PolitiTweet.org

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Honestly surprised Elon has not stomped into the chat with big dad busting up the kegger vibes at this point — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Scaachi: look at aaaaaall these people with stockholm syndrome — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Larakate: This space has pretty much everyone who has ever been good on here in it. It’s wild. https://t.co/1Ep4hH4WzX — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MikeIsaac: hey i thought things were bad but it’s worse than you think — PolitiTweet.org