Just a short post for you today because I’m feeling sentimental, and all the product thinking from yesterday makes me want to reevaluate how much time I should spend rehashing product decisions for a company which no longer employs me. With that in mind, let’s reminisce a bit about one of the big reasons I always wanted to be a Tweep: #LoveWhereYouWork.
If you’re reading this (and thank you for that), then you probably know that Tweeps around the world have used this hashtag for years as a shorthand for the affection we have for the platform, people, and places we worked. But it’s more than a slogan. The hashtag developed organically, based in love, admiration, and gratitude.
Whenever I had guests visit the office, I always made sure to stop by the fifth floor so that I could share this story with each and every guest. And although in my almost five years working for Twitter, I only ever visited two other offices, I made sure to visit their #LoveWhereYouWork installations before I left.
Our facilities team, which we called REW, made sure that while each office was unique and built to be part of the neighborhood fabrics in every city we were in, every office had consistent touches to make sure we could honor and represent what Lucy’s hashtag really meant. This idea, and the fact that we lived it every day, made me not just proud to work for Twitter, but lucky enough to work at Twitter as well. It’s one of those memories that, no matter what current ownership does to the product, will always be a part of what I loved about my time there.
Loud Love
06 November 2022
Sign language.
Just a short post for you today because I’m feeling sentimental, and all the product thinking from yesterday makes me want to reevaluate how much time I should spend rehashing product decisions for a company which no longer employs me. With that in mind, let’s reminisce a bit about one of the big reasons I always wanted to be a Tweep: #LoveWhereYouWork.
If you’re reading this (and thank you for that), then you probably know that Tweeps around the world have used this hashtag for years as a shorthand for the affection we have for the platform, people, and places we worked. But it’s more than a slogan. The hashtag developed organically, based in love, admiration, and gratitude.
Whenever I had guests visit the office, I always made sure to stop by the fifth floor so that I could share this story with each and every guest. And although in my almost five years working for Twitter, I only ever visited two other offices, I made sure to visit their #LoveWhereYouWork installations before I left.
Our facilities team, which we called REW, made sure that while each office was unique and built to be part of the neighborhood fabrics in every city we were in, every office had consistent touches to make sure we could honor and represent what Lucy’s hashtag really meant. This idea, and the fact that we lived it every day, made me not just proud to work for Twitter, but lucky enough to work at Twitter as well. It’s one of those memories that, no matter what current ownership does to the product, will always be a part of what I loved about my time there.
See you tomorrow?