Who knows what's going to happen to Twitter. But if it changes into something unrecognizable or goes kaputt entirely, I do want to honor how important it was to me for a ~10-year window of time, and take a snapshot of the public square as I loved it. To do this, I'm going to do what I do best, which is lurk, like, laugh, and learn, and then share onward the tweets that encapsulated things best:
(ง'̀-'́)ง elno must
https://twitter.com/BudrykZack/status/1588181194117910529?s=20&t=TMmSJX2eWJihE1UfEAY5Mw
https://twitter.com/callmekitto/status/1589407148462964736?s=20&t=TMmSJX2eWJihE1UfEAY5Mw
https://twitter.com/legaladvice_txt/status/1589444686347108353?s=20&t=TMmSJX2eWJihE1UfEAY5Mw
https://twitter.com/Mik3Ferguson/status/1589454064739573760?s=20&t=TMmSJX2eWJihE1UfEAY5Mw
earnestly, what I loved about Twitter, described by people much better at words (& jokes)
https://twitter.com/AshleighWrites/status/1588626926746624001?s=20&t=TMmSJX2eWJihE1UfEAY5Mw
https://twitter.com/_Zeets/status/1590853193604517888?s=20&t=TMmSJX2eWJihE1UfEAY5Mw
https://twitter.com/mattxiv/status/1590829817041416192?s=20&t=TMmSJX2eWJihE1UfEAY5Mw
https://twitter.com/alicegoldfuss/status/1590826847549673472?s=20&t=TMmSJX2eWJihE1UfEAY5Mw
https://twitter.com/vv1lder/status/1590915327868948487?s=20&t=TMmSJX2eWJihE1UfEAY5Mw
https://twitter.com/jdesmondharris/status/1591117525848588289?s=20&t=TMmSJX2eWJihE1UfEAY5Mw
https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1591245088038223872?s=20&t=TMmSJX2eWJihE1UfEAY5Mw
https://twitter.com/NovicSara/status/1591473587927629825?s=20&t=TMmSJX2eWJihE1UfEAY5Mw
But then, where to go??
https://twitter.com/e_alexjung/status/1585823705220915201?s=20&t=TMmSJX2eWJihE1UfEAY5Mw
https://twitter.com/kvanaren/status/1585657177607479296?s=20&t=TMmSJX2eWJihE1UfEAY5Mw
https://twitter.com/punished3liza/status/1585988045551333376?s=20&t=TMmSJX2eWJihE1UfEAY5Mw
https://twitter.com/gabalexa/status/1587665535977676800?s=20&t=TMmSJX2eWJihE1UfEAY5Mw
https://twitter.com/annevclark/status/1588341163341357057?s=20&t=TMmSJX2eWJihE1UfEAY5Mw
https://twitter.com/thebirdmaniac/status/1588387305605107712?s=20&t=TMmSJX2eWJihE1UfEAY5Mw
https://twitter.com/blainecapatch/status/1588932525287960577?s=20&t=TMmSJX2eWJihE1UfEAY5Mw
https://twitter.com/thisdiegolopez/status/1589823635862130689?s=20&t=TMmSJX2eWJihE1UfEAY5Mw
https://twitter.com/ycsm1n/status/1589836372332146688?s=20&t=TMmSJX2eWJihE1UfEAY5Mw
https://twitter.com/alex_abads/status/1590868560754212871?s=20&t=TMmSJX2eWJihE1UfEAY5Mw
a moment
https://twitter.com/LouisPeitzman/status/1589288047824482310?s=20&t=TMmSJX2eWJihE1UfEAY5Mw
https://twitter.com/desusnice/status/1590821970882568193?s=20&t=TMmSJX2eWJihE1UfEAY5Mw
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There's also been some hand-wringing about preservation (which I'm also trying to honor by making this post):
https://twitter.com/RichyCraven/status/1588555585704071168?s=20&t=TMmSJX2eWJihE1UfEAY5Mw
And for that, some resourceful Tweeters have mentioned GoFullPage (built by MrColes and run by yours truly) for screenshotting everything you might want to hold onto:
https://twitter.com/sharonluvisi/status/1590855376769257472?s=20&t=TMmSJX2eWJihE1UfEAY5Mw
I went ahead and screenshotted a big chunk of my likes; here's the extension rendering the screencapture. Pro-tip if you are wanting a way to save things:
all of my likes from October 20-November 11, which created a 136-page PDF 😎😵