I think there was this emergence of AI Twitter in that year or maybe the year before. It was mostly the young researchers who were adopting social media that were active.
Gene Kogan, Tom White & Gene Kogan on the Birth of GAN Art
My kids were born in the same year as Twitter, and they've only known increasing enshittification. You know, they've only known the internet to get worse and worse.
Golan Levin, 2000s Tooling Era: Casey Reas, Golan Levin, Christiane Paul