Things were going great; I guess I should've known...
The Beginning Of The End
We'd been running The Syndicate, a social audio podcast on Twitter, for almost two years. We had everyone from Dr. McCullough who disproved dark matter to the former Chief Data Engineer for the NSA on the show, and the audience was now starting to grow. My account had 2,500 followers; not much, but enough to be dangerous as a Headhunter hunting for top talent in Tech during the AI gold rush.
I'd been writing the imprecise Theory of Everything using Twitter as a decentralized forum for peer review, free from the limitations of the institution.
On the other hand, Joseph had just committed $250.00 for us to start the Hackathon. Dan paid for the no-code app hosting, and that was that. Hackathon started.
A few days later, my account was suspended without warning. No reason given. Just suspended. Everything got deleted.
And that's how it all got started. I started a new account, and started building again.