Nova Spivack

I wrote a post in response to Costolo stepping down. Since the trendy thing is to post punditry about Twitter, I couldn't help but chime in.

"On Twitter" - http://blog.higg.im/2015/06/12/on-twitter/

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Also, you can make up your own mind about this:

http://www.vox.com/2015/6/11/8761731/twitter-trouble-facebook-twtr

http://lowercasecapital.com/2015/06/03/what-twitter-can-be-2/

https://medium.com/@michaeledwards/re-imaging-twitter-ea4e1139fe12

http://www.novaspivack.com/uncategorized/why-twitters-engagement-has-fallen

https://alexgaynor.net/2014/oct/30/i-hope-twitter-goes-away/

http://blog.higg.im/twitters-self-immolation/

http://john.do/twitter-quit/

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/22/twitters-dilemma/

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/a-eulogy-for-twitter/361339/

http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2015/04/30/twitters-multi-billion-dollar-mistake-happened-five-years-ago/

Ok this nerd-sniped me pretty good, never seen this before and assumed it would be quickly connected to the Ulam spiral mentioned elsewhere in the the thread. That particular rabbit hole kinda bottoms out in polynomial residues and the very mysterious-sounding "Conjecture F" [0].

This parallax primes thing though led to the linked page [1] which has lots of background and other connections, including the most satisfying part, which turned out more geometric [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral#Explanation [1] https://www.novaspivack.com/science/we-have-discovered-a-new-pattern-in-the-prime-numbers-parallax-compression [2] https://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/Arithmetic/PrimesFromTriangle.shtml

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I have decided to make a small list of posts out that talk about Twitter in recent times. Some are more cogent and authoritative than others.

- http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2015/04/30/twitters-multi-billion-dollar-mistake-happened-five-years-ago/

- http://john.do/twitter-quit/

- http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/22/twitters-dilemma

- https://alexgaynor.net/2014/oct/30/i-hope-twitter-goes-away/

- http://www.novaspivack.com/uncategorized/why-twitters-engagement-has-fallen

- http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/a-eulogy-for-twitter/361339/

i must agree about the content. it could be more balanced.

two more articles about the event:

http://www.businessinsider.com/eg8-france

http://www.novaspivack.com/technology/the-e-g8-forum-unveiled

but i share the concerns of mr. spivack in the 2nd link.
At first sight the conference seems a perfectly valid event about the internet at this moment. But Sarkozy is not a person who takes privacy very seriously.