1/ I'm reflecting on this tweetstorm I wrote a couple days ago and noticing that while I still stand by the content that's in there (and many people resonate with it) it was incomplete: It gave only one sentence to why I'm excited about the thing!
Why the Twitter Intellectual Internet excites me: co-creation and intertwinglement
15 tweets · May 2019 · 103 likes · 3 retweets · read on Twitter
2/ So I'm intentionally writing a second thread about I.I. 👁👁 Too late to do "create before you critique" because I already critiqued, but never too late to create! twitter.com/cosimia_/statu…
3/ I made a conscious decision in 2017 to get back on Twitter, inspired by a sense I had that if I tweaked my online behavior slightly, I could build all sorts of relationships with amazing people! And that has worked 🥰 (and we're just getting started)
4/ Give your self-reflection a little twist and beautiful things can emerge! (playing with this app, Fraksyl, and noticing how tiny changes were amplified into beautiful patterns, was actually part of the inspiration for my decision to get back on Twitter)
5/ Since I'd had a twitter account through a half-dozen different life phases, this meant a lot of unfollowing (like 700). (The app manageflitter.com is helpful for this)
6/ What Anna's post about @whatstheii made clear to me is that this isn't just me! I had already had a vague sense that a lot of the people I followed were following each other, but now a much larger sense of context around that.
7/ The "this isn't just me" doesn't just mean "I'm not alone". It also means "I can't take credit for how beautiful my corner of twitter is" Obviously—I don't write all of the tweets. Less obviously—my curation is part of a context of other people also curating.
8/ The quality of my conversations with people on twitter is affected by their mood, which is affected by who else they're talking with on twitter, and how.
9/ This intertwinglement is both obviously true, and remarkably easy to ignore.
10/ I wrote a whole tweetstorm about this concept just now so I could share it in this tweetstorm about the I.I. thing:
11/ It's a fractal! I love how the structure of twitter inspires me to write this stuff up and pull it all together! I've barely blogged in a year but this context naturally makes me prolific!
12/ So what I'm most excited about regarding the I.I. is the co-creation that is happening. Which is currently including the co-creation of relationships, identity, community. I'm looking forward to participating in that in whatever forms emerge for it—URL & IRL.
13/ @Conaw remarked that this new culture on twitter feels like "a new app, and max 10,000 people are using it." I asked:
14/ My sense is that the overlap between those 10k people and the I.I. isn't total but is large—might be the perfect critical mass for this #TwitterReplacement concept I keep talking about.
15/ It's not making sense for me to work on that full-time right now but I would love to play a strategy/design role to a #TwitterReplacement project that I resonate with. I've got a year's worth of notes on how I might approach it!