Twitter is great
jasonleow • 8 Mar 2025 •
I know I’ve got my moments of wanting to rage quit Twitter/X. Many times, in fact.
But I think I never could bring myself to do it all this while, because despite all the negatives, the positives really shine when they do. On balance, I’d say it’s a net positive for me.
Because without Twitter, I would have never discovered:
- Indie hacking as a lifestyle alternative over startups
- Digital nomads, and how they use low cost locations as arbitrage
- Small bets for resilience and diversity, over a leap of faith
- Found freelance remote work to feed my family
- AI, Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT
- Made my career transition to frontend dev
- Building in public
- Learn about marketing, SEO
- That a solopreneur path to more than $10k/month is possible
- Vibe coding
- Game dev
- Health hacks
- Sleep hacks
- And many more things earlier on that I had forgotten
It gave me words and resonance to describe things that I was already doing.
It got me on these world-changing trends so early.
It made me more curious, more open, more hungry.
It’s so bleeding edge sometimes it hurts, but in a good way.
It made me money, friends, and exposure to lots and lots of cool ideas.
It made me imagine new possibilities, new futures.
It changed me. For the better.
The worse bits, I can manage and mitigate.
But net net, it was a positive.
Thank you, Twitter.
Comments
I feel the same way. I definitely gained a lot fro it (made friends, met with Chris Guillebeau, who ended up mentioning me in one of his books, learned a lot, etc)
@therealbrandonwilson Oh not really. Just force of habit. I still prefer the old name.
@haideralmosawi It’s so underrated, yet mainstream says it’s toxic.
Did you deliberately choose to call it Twitter as an homage to the pre-Musk version?