18 Feb 2024
what if Twitter is Road Runner?
Remember the famous 9 Rules For Drawing Road Runner Cartoons, by Chuck Jones, that made the rounds a while ago?
It seems like there is a very similar set of rules for Twitter.
- Twitter users cannot harm Twitter management, can only tweet
- The only forces that can harm Twitter management are the failures of its own schemes
- Twitter management could stop at any time, but chooses not to
- No new dialogue (all the Twitter business model ideas were already tweeted some time during SXSW 2006)
- Twitter users cannot leave Twitter
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