{"product_id":"lost-signals","title":"Lost Signals","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwitter is (or was, depending on when you read this) an online social network that launched on July 15, 2006. The initial concept was to provide a way for users to keep their friends and fans updated on what they were doing by sending a text message to a specific number after registering theirs with the service; the contents of the message would then appear on the Twitter website. Posts were restricted to 140 characters at first due to the limitations of text messaging at the time, a constraint that was novel enough that the siteÕs popularity skyrocketed within the first year of its creation and only continued to grow, both in terms of user base and functionality.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eDespite the fact that there were over 1.3 billion registered accounts as of December 2022, statistics show that less than 20% of them were actively using them. What happened to the people who created and abandoned all those accounts? What were their last messages to the world?\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eLost Signals started as a blog project that ran from September 2014 to June 2017 and documented those final words of Twitter accounts that had long since gone dormant, usually after posting only a few times. This book is a memorial to the fallen and forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kent Sheely","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44931385491617,"sku":"9781387369560","price":31.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/gmd2mj-front-shortedge-384_4231dd35-a6a2-409d-aaee-f3af47d555dc.jpg?v=1748322260","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/lost-signals","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}