Insightful. A media network is content-first while a social network is connection-first.

It& #39;s a continuum. The limiting case of a media network is a broadcaster: all content, no connection. And the limiting case of a social network is a messaging app: all connection, no content. https://twitter.com/joshelman/status/1289701773871992835">https://twitter.com/joshelman...

This is part of why Twitter can be unfriendly. It& #39;s fundamentally a media network. People are here for the content more than the people. But they don& #39;t necessarily share values beyond the spectacle. Like going to a movie theater where you had to talk to everyone in the theater.

I think you can build real communities from media networks, but it has to be done thoughtfully. The media people are coming to consume probably can& #39;t be really popular content. The more specialist it is, the more the implicit shared values.

Actually, Twitter arguably started as a social network (where folks had implicit shared values) and *then* became a media network (once every prominent person and brand got on).

Growth can make social networks anti-social, if they don& #39;t have subreddits or private groups...