I still can’t bring myself to say goodbye.
I didn’t start regularly using Twitter until the end of 2015. I had just started working as a software engineer at Uber, and I noticed that many of my colleagues and most of the biggest names in tech were very active on the platform. It seemed natural, smart, and professional for me to be there, too.
When I joined, I felt like I was already late to the party. The site was filled with people—some genuinely famous, some “Twitter famous”—and it was an established, mature social network. But Twitter also had something that made it feel like it wasn’ta social network.
At first, I used Twitter to keep up with friends and colleagues, the same way I had used all of my other social media profiles. But as I watched the way that others interacted with the site, and the things they posted, I wondered whether I should also use Twitter as a place to share more about the things I was passionate about.I set up a personal website, started blogging on it , and began sharing links to my blog posts on Twitter. I wrote a post about the books that had shaped my life.
When I think about where Twitter is now, and stare at the blue bird app on my phone, waiting for it to turn into that ugly “X,” I can’t help but think back to that moment, when Twitter was a platform on which I could be heard, when it was a place where I could bring my story directly to the people who needed to hear it, the people who had the power to do something about it.I don’t think that my story would have had the same impact if it hadn’t been for Twitter.
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