What I've Learned So Far

Remember a little while back, when I wrote this?

Needed: an app for matchmaking.

Well, someone went and built it, and it runs off of Facebook. It’s called Thread.

Looks kinda cool.

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I’ve been lax. For the past couple of months, all of my blogging, both here and elsewhere, has been spotty. Lots of good things — e.g. a spate of interesting projects at work — have been happening to keep me away from writing as much, but in any event I haven’t been putting out the words that you so deeply crave that I normally would over the last little while.

But now . . . I can feel the pressure . . . [cue the cellos!] . . . building.

Expect more posts, is what I’m saying.

It will neatly contain the tempest that broke across Twitter over the past hour or two.

What happened: Everybody’s “Following” and “Follower” counts were reset to zero. These numbers show how many Twitter accounts you follow and how many follow you, i.e. they prove that you exist on Twitter because without them life would mean nothing.

Reactions:

• “Oh, the noes!”
• “What does it MEAN?”
• “This is so Zen. I mean, it’s like, we’re speaking into the void? And no one’s there? So we become more aware of our own thoughts and how they evolve in our minds? And are made to think about how much of our minds are truly our own, versus how much we shape our consciousness in reaction to each other? And . . .”
• . . .

But then, in the fullness of time, order was restored to the Universe when the Great Numbers retook their rightful places in every Twitter profile.

(It was a teeny bug, explained here.)

Ah, the silliness . . .

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