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atebits: An Amazing Ride

I’m happy to say that as of today Twitter is the proud owner of Tweetie—and I’m joining their mobile team and starting work on turning Tweetie.app into Twitter.app, for iPhone and iPad.

Wow. Congrats to Loren. Tweetie is definitely the best Twitter client (on both Mac and iPhone), and now Twitter owns it… can only imagine it getting even better.

(via maniacalrage)

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You cannot copyright a Tweet

Zeldman - (via stephencaver)

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I’ve (lamely) made the point in casual conversation that Twitter seems to kill, well, some degree of casual conversation (so that we end up having meta conversations about our lack of casual conversations), or, at the very least, obviates some of the need for small talk. I don’t think that this is an inherently bad thing, as someone who, frankly, sucks at small talk, but I do think our connectedness is accelerating much more quickly than our macro, societal ability to deal with it. What do you say to someone you meet at a party whom you also follow on Twitter — you already know the answer to the standard “what’s up” after all.
Mr. Ray on the potential dissonance that Twitter can create. (via brilliantcrank)

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