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The AFR’s top Tweeter signed up to Threads. Here’s what happened
The Australian Financial Review’s most prolific Tweeter is starting from scratch in Meta’s Threads ... but is it worth the effort?
Mark Di StefanoColumnistBefore he died, veteran journalist Mark Colvin told me why he loved Twitter so much. “It’s like you’ve been let in on all the conversations of all the smart people you would have never had the chance to meet,” Colvin said around 2015, cradling a beer. He was right.
Early Twitter, circa 2009-2016, was like you had snuck into a backroom. Annabel Crabb and George Megalogenis were talking to normal people about politics. Comedian Wil Anderson was there.
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