{"id":15257,"date":"2012-10-08T15:26:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T22:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/?p=15257"},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:25","slug":"on-joining-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2012\/10\/on-joining-twitter","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Joining Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over five years and exactly 10,000 tweets ago, when I first tiptoed into the lonely textfield that was Twitter&#8217;s &#8220;What Are You Doing?&#8221; box, I typed the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Current thoughts: This could get extremely noisy.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Davidson (@mikeindustries) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikeindustries\/status\/1254413\" data-datetime=\"2006-12-17T02:47:53+00:00\">December 17, 2006<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was a reaction to many things, good and bad. The ease of publishing messages. The prevalence of insignificant breakfast trivia in the public feed. The lack of any filtering controls. The growing number of my friends becoming instantly addicted to it.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Twitter has gone from quirky little internet CB radio to exploding social upstart to what I now consider one of the most important information platforms in the world. At its best, Twitter is an international treasure.<\/p>\n<p>As both a user and an information designer, I&#8217;ve grown to love Twitter more each year, and so it is with great excitement that I&#8217;m happy to announce I have agreed to move down to San Francisco and Join The Flock\u2122 in the newly created position of Vice President, Design.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t be more thrilled to help lead an already world-class team of designers working alongside all of the other great people in the company to make Twitter a positive force in as many people&#8217;s lives as possible.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t speak too much about strategy yet, especially considering I don&#8217;t even start until the end of the month, but I will just say this:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always viewed Twitter as a personal information agent, and I think as we work to make it both smarter and more responsive to what people want from it, it has the potential to be the most useful connected service in the world.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to be able to post more thoughts in the coming months, but it&#8217;s probably wise to wait until I&#8217;m at least on the payroll before saying something that might get me fired.<\/p>\n<p>On a personal note, I will say that <a href=\"\/blog\/archive\/2012\/10\/on-leaving-newsvine-nbc-and-seattle\">I&#8217;m heartbroken about leaving both NBC\/Newsvine and Seattle<\/a>. NBCNews (and MSNBC.com before it) has been an outstanding parent since they acquired my company five years ago, and Seattle is the only city in the United States I like more than San Francisco. This was literally the only position at the only company in the only city in the world that could have gotten me to leave.<\/p>\n<p>And so with that, I look forward to improving your experience on Twitter starting October 29th. If you&#8217;re a news organization, a designer, a technologist, a sports fan, an early Twitter user, or just someone who wants to see Twitter be as good as it can be, you&#8217;ve got a friend on the inside.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/inline\/twitter-bird-blue-on-white.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"303\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over five years and exactly 10,000 tweets ago, when I first tiptoed into the lonely textfield that was Twitter&#8217;s &#8220;What Are You Doing?&#8221; box, I typed the following: Current thoughts: This could get extremely noisy. &mdash; Mike Davidson (@mikeindustries) December 17, 2006 It was a reaction to many things, good and bad. The ease of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,36,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-design","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}