OMG THIS

My ability to get folx, who’d normally dismiss me as just another “angry Black woman”, to start paying attention to the harm they’re inflicted at scale is 100% the result of how this platform used to work

I’ve been on others for years and they don’t come close

@KimCrayton1 Before that happened was a confluence of smartphone handsets reaching mainstream, and an app that focused on text limits within the size of a handheld screen.

I think Twitter got popular just because it trained users to write a single thought within the size of a phone screen.