Jake in the desertJun 12, 2023

My blog post on Twitter is up! I wanted to briefly talk about Twitter's history, using and leaving Twitter, and to talk about the fediverse some too.

The life and death of Twitter: https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2023/06/12/the-life-and-death-of-twitter

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The life and death of Twitter

What we now know as Twitter started in 2005 as ‘twttr’. In 2010, I first signed up for Twitter and started using it. Back then, it was much different than it is now– so different …

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Word of Mouth Dec 16, 2022

Since there's been another big influx of #Qwitters I'll say it again...

Follow liberally it will enrich your timelines!

Your Home timeline is a great place to find accounts to follow. If you see a post boosted, click on the boosted user's avatar. You might not be following them!

Here it's more about who you follow than who follows you. You'll have a better experience by following lots of people

Show threadJoseph E. Edwards VIIINov 13, 2022
@megmac @martin_hamilton Oh I agree with all of that. It was a breeze to sign up, IMO, but I'm still seeing plenty of complaints from #Qwitters that it's "confusing". On the one hand, that seems kinda pathetic to me, if that's all it takes to confuse that person. On the other hand, as a software engineer, I know for a fact that users will drink from the wrong side of the cup, and spill coffee on themselves. Because users are people, and lots of people are idiots.