Happy Paths
Happy Paths, a series from CommandBar, explores the human process behind some of the most well-known software of the internet era.
Displaying all 2 Episode of Happy Paths with the tag “twitter”.
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Twitter Spaces with Maya Gold Patterson
June 28th, 2023 | Season 1 | 27 mins 47 secs
audio, maya gold patterson, social audio, spaces, twitter, twitter spaces
Twitter wasn't the first company to get traction with a social audio product, but it quickly became a leader in the space, in no small part thanks to the work of Maya Gold Patterson, who was the Lead Product Designer for Twitter Spaces through its launch and early growth.
In this episode, James talks with Maya about her experience helping build Twitter Spaces, how to learn from competitors' launches, how companies with large reach can still ship experiments thoughtfully, and how specific design decisions the Twitter Spaces team made took advantage of the Twitter platform to grow beyond other social audio apps.
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The Hashtag with Chris Messina
June 21st, 2023 | Season 1 | 24 mins 33 secs
chris messina, hashtag, twitter
What do TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook have in common? It's the hashtag: invented by a man of the internet, Chris Messina. Throughout his career, Chris has worked on movements online and offline that have helped define social media and social technology broadly. If you've used Firefox, attended a BarCamp event, or even checked in at a co-working space, then you're more than familiar with Chris' widespread impact.
James sat down with Chris to learn more about the hashtag and to see how a simple feature proposed via a tweet evolved social media basically everywhere on the internet.