One of Sean Allen’s many pieces of excellent advice was to follow a few Swift/iOS dev people on Twitter. I took that advice, and it is now a source of joy to flick through every couple of days and get a feel for what’s happening, and to discover new things. It’s how I learned iOS Dev Weekly existed, and discovered Meng To, and put faces/ideas to Swift and iOS people that’s I’d heard mentioned or interviewed in podcasts such as Erica Sadun and Sarun W.
Whether it’s illusory or not, it does feel like a community, and a pleasant one. I imagine there are thousands of little corners of Twitter like this, where people feel a sense of belonging based on some shared interest or ideas. No sane person would argue that Twitter has been 100% beneficial to the world, but it has enabled groups like iOS Dev Twitter to form and thrive, and it would be sad to lose that.
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