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   Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2024 20:15:33 JST Børge

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   • Richard MacManus

   @ricmac I absolutely do remember RWW like that, and fondly. Thank you!

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     Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2024 20:15:34 JST Richard MacManus

     Someone said the other day that what is now known as “X” is *not* the Twitter most of us knew and loved. I totally agree and in fact, I’m glad it’s called X now, because we can remember Twitter for what it was and not what it became over the past year. I actually have similar feelings about ReadWriteWeb, which as far as I’m concerned ended in October 2012 when I left the site and it was re-branded ReadWrite by the new owners. ReadWrite ≠ RWW, even though they inherited my site’s old content.

     Tim Chambers and Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) repeated this.
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     Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2024 20:15:34 JST Richard MacManus

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     And that’s partly why I’m publishing my RWW memoir now on Cybercultural.com, because I want it to be remembered (if it is at all by others!) as a site that covered Web 2.0 technologies from 2003-2012. That is what RWW was and always will be.

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2024 22:44:39 JST Anil Dash

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     • Richard MacManus

     @andypiper @ricmac it was the most optimistic I had been about the site in a decade, thanks to your team.

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     Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2024 22:44:47 JST Richard MacManus

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     • Amir Shevat

     @andypiper It may’ve been your post earlier this week that I’m thinking of. I interviewed @Amir just before Musk swooped in…ironically about the Twitter Dev platform, which was attempting to make a comeback at the time :( https://thenewstack.io/developers-twitter-wants-your-bots-and-other-read-write-apps/

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     Andy Piper (andypiper@macaw.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2024 22:44:47 JST Andy Piper

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     • Richard MacManus

     @ricmac we were working on it!

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     Andy Piper (andypiper@macaw.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2024 22:44:50 JST Andy Piper

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     • Richard MacManus

     @ricmac the period immediately after the buyout and layoffs was the worst, because the brand and company I loved was being ruined. Now it's X, and I never worked at, or signed up for, that. Different entity. Sad, but a useful distinction that is now borne out in the name.