Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Twitter / X

Technologysocial-media

Microblogging platform with two distinct literatures: the founder wars of its first decade and the 2022 Musk takeover.

Books 8Experts 2Recommenders 5People 4

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  1. Hatching TwitterNick Bilton, 2013
  2. Character LimitKate Conger, Ryan Mac, 2024
  3. Extremely HardcoreZoë Schiffer, 2024
Hatching TwitterHatching Twitter
T1 Hatching Twitter
Nick Bilton · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

The story of how Twitter was founded and of the founders who built it.

Recommended by: Alexis Ohanian, Casey Neistat, Ron Conway and 1 other

Elon MuskElon Musk
T1 Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson · 2023
Open LibraryGoodreads

Two years shadowing Musk, across SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink and the buying of Twitter.

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Terrance McArthur

Twitter and Tear GasTwitter and Tear Gas
T2 Twitter and Tear Gas
Zeynep Tufekci · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why the platform mattered politically, and what that cost it.

Character LimitCharacter Limit
T2 Character Limit
Kate Conger, Ryan Mac · 2024
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How Elon Musk's takeover wrecked Twitter.

Breaking Twitter
T3 Breaking Twitter
Ben Mezrich · 2023
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Fast narrative of the takeover and the layoffs.

Battle for the BirdBattle for the Bird
T3 Battle for the Bird
Kurt Wagner · 2024
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Twitter under Jack Dorsey's second spell as chief, through its sale to Elon Musk.

Extremely HardcoreExtremely Hardcore
T3 Extremely Hardcore
Zoë Schiffer · 2024
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Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, told through the employees who lived through it.

Twitter: A Biography
T4 Twitter: A Biography
Jean Burgess, Nancy K. Baym · 2020
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Scholarly account of the product and its user culture.

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