# Status Anxiety as a Service - Noahpinion

<https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/status-anxiety-as-a-service>

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## What Jamie wrote

This breakdown of Twitters features and function is very interesting. 

> I continue to believe that Twitter, alone among all social networks created thus far, represents something truly new under the sun. Facebook and LinkedIn more-or-less preserve the networks of personal friendship, hobby interest, and professional networking that exist offline. Instagram maintains the celebrity-fan dynamic, with influencers dominating their pages at an Olympian remove. But on Twitter, anyone can talk directly to anyone at any time, and, short of blocking them, the person they’re talking to can’t stop you from talking to them.

Smith goes into some detail on the dynamics created in this very unique structure that Twitter has. It makes you think. 

> We should probably think long and hard about whether it’s a good idea to have our public discourse dominated and directed by a platform with that basic dynamic.

Indeed.

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