Twitter felt like a bit like a big ol’ living phone book. The people that I met and wanted to stay in touch with, Twitter was an easy way to know I could stay connected. Less noise and fuss than FB.
Some fav moments involving Twitter (that I can remember):
The annual Reading of the Tweets at the @happycog holiday party. Staff would take turns reading specific curated tweets and everyone would have to guess the author.
Those peak halcyon days of Twitter for me were very much linked to the web design community and working at Happy Cog. So many great folks I met; clients and coworkers and awesome peeps at conferences. It exploded this introvert’s worldview.
Another memory: I joined Twitter not long after my first kid was born. I would Tweet out his first words as they came out of his mouth. A modern redo on the whole baby book thing that Gen X had growing up.
Wondering if this is what it was like when they shut down the last of the phone party lines? Looking back, Twitter kinda felt like the digital maturation of that concept.