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1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2018 08:14:28 EST lnxw48a1
   @zatnosk @clacke In Twitter's early days, users did have long and meaningful conversations. Because the "firehose" was available to everyone, random people could join in. This was before the spammers and the marketers and all the political drama, and long before Twitter started trying to make money.
   
   There were similar microblogging sites that were even better for conversations, including Jaiku, Pownce, and Identi.ca.
   
   Twitter's main issue (from the standpoint of having meaningful conversations) is that it is too large. Too many people using a single organization's centralized site means that organization becomes too powerful relative to its userbase.
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2018 08:28:18 EST lnxw48a1

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      @zatnosk @clacke And now I see that I am viewing a fragment of a larger conversation. I will drop out here.
   2. tekk (tekk@social.tekk.in)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2018 09:30:07 EST tekk

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      @lnxw48a1 it's worth noting that Twitter's never made money. At the moment they lose a third of their cash on hand every year
      1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2018 09:36:26 EST lnxw48a1

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         @tekk That's true. But in the early days, their plan seemed to be grow large enough to get bought out. They had no revenue and no plan to get any revenue.