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370: ‘Fine Hypertext Products’, With Jason Kottke

The Talk Show With John Gruber

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What's the Scale of Twitter?

When Twitter debuted and spun out of audio, it was tiny. It wasn't like you're interacting with the Twitter developer connection board today. Most of what I used to link to in the early days,. or what I was happier linking to was other people's blog posts. But now we have a multi-billion dollar public corporation that doesn't send dozens of people who weren't blogging to become popular bloggers. The Pied Piper song of tweeting is crystal clear: "It's so easy"

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