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Saying goodbye to Twitter

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Today on the flagship podcast of good tweets:

03:40 - The Verge’s William Poor goes on a vintage tech odyssey in the hopes of future-proofing his family’s heirloom Mac Classic.

28:35 - David Pierce, Alex Cranz, and Nilay Patel discuss why they spent so much time on Twitter for so many years.

  • The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge
  • How Twitter broke the news
  • Extremely softcore: the old Twitter was an idealist’s workplace and a naive business
  • The great tweet archive
  • Twitter was a harassment machine  
  • It’s time for the Excel World Championships!


    • 1:05:40 - David answers a question from the Vergecast Hotline about organizing your digital photos.


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