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Adam O'Kane 💭
@adamokane 5 years, 7 months ago 1529 views

📱 Over the past 2-3 years, I screenshotted a ton of random tweets about social/product that made me think

Here they are, in chronological order, w highlights from @nikitabier, @BrianNorgard, @rsg, @Mazzeo, @prestonattebery, + many more

(sry for weird twtr cropping + threading)

literally have a folder of dozens of my fav screenshotted tweets on consumer social product stuff...and @nikitabier is well represented
— Adam O'Kane \U0001f4ad (@adamokane) February 13, 2021

h/t @Mazzeo

h/t @BrianNorgard

h/t @jmj

h/t @ianbroyles

h/t @matthieurouif

h/t @BrianNorgard

h/t @nikitabier

h/t @_DanielSinclair

h/t @schlaf

h/t @naval

h/t @TurnerNovak

h/t @nikitabier

h/t @BrianNorgard

h/t @nikitabier

h/t @juliey4

h/t @BrianNorgard

h/t @BrianNorgard & @nikitabier

h/t @JeffChang30

h/t @danielrakh

h/t @neilvoss

h/t @scottbelsky

h/t @dtrinh

h/t @rsg

h/t @nikitabier

h/t @jamesbeshara

h/t @jmj

h/t @eugenewei

h/t @basche42

h/t @hamburger

h/t @genmon

h/t @HipCityReg

h/t @BrianNorgard

h/t @gregisenberg

h/t Paari

h/t @rsg

h/t @libovness

h/t @ibringtraffic

h/t @startuployalist

h/t @juliey4

h/t @gregisenberg

h/t @jmj

h/t @BrianNorgard

h/t Paari

h/t @nikitabier

h/t @rohit_jindal29

h/t @blakeir

h/t @nikitabier

h/t @benrbn/@nikitabier

h/t @nikitabier

h/t @2irl4u

h/t @simonsarris/@kylebrussell

h/t @nikitabier

h/t @prestonattebery

h/t @WillManidis

h/t @prestonattebery

h/t @garrytan

h/t @nikitabier

h/t @TurnerNovak

h/t @spinubzilla

h/t @jacksondahl

...and that's it! Have a bunch of screenshots from articles re. social/product, may post another time

Takeaways from this: I should pay @nikitabier and the rest of you for your tweets. Can't believe this website is free!

also: hopefully this is obvious, but this isn't a comprehensive list of everything that's resonated with me on here...the word "random" in the intro tweet was intentional. Plenty of stuff others have said that I think about all the time

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