"What are you favorite profile features, famous or not?" SL Twitter

March 28, 2023 8:56 PM

Brandy Zadrony asks Journalism Twitter, and gets some great story links in reply.

This would make a slamming PDF Compilation.

posted by wowenthusiast (6 comments total)

Apologies if this is mentioned in the thread, as I am Twitter sober I've not RTFA, but John Jeremiah Sullivan's The Final Comeback of Axl Rose is one of my favourites - I re-read it every few years.
posted by Gin and Broadband at 3:15 AM on March 29, 2023 [2 favorites]

Wright Thompson’s “Why You Should Care About Cricket”, a profile of Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, posted on the blue in 2011 is still one of my favorite pieces
posted by Jon_Evil at 4:19 AM on March 29, 2023

Apologies if this is mentioned in the thread,

I didn't see it but that piece is so great, and makes a good companion to the Mary Gaitskill exploration of Axl-lust listed in there.
posted by johngoren at 4:31 AM on March 29, 2023

I've read several of the articles in the replies and they were all truly great.

Related: Kevin Kelly's old Best Magazine Articles Ever.
posted by neuron at 9:02 AM on March 29, 2023 [1 favorite]

Mine is the ability to see a history of likes and bookmarks.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 4:49 PM on March 29, 2023

From the evidence, the well known are not an endangered species: another argument for my Celebrity Sunset Law -- paging Elon Musk to the high diving tower...
posted by y2karl at 5:32 PM on March 29, 2023