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by 101km 3320 days ago
> "In recent years, talking to twitter employees you get this amnesia over the company's culture and history. People don't know where things came from, they don't know the story of how the came to be. The myth's are complicated and messy. And eventually go so messy the company stopped telling the story of how twitter came to be where it is now all together."

That always happens, the raison d'ĂȘtre gets lost after the initial cohort moves on.

Twitter is just another big corporation now, like any big corp employees will pay lip service to vague corporate values (with a few true believers).

Rolling out a heavily decorated old timer in 1870 will not inspire the troops to fight anew for the glory of the French empire.