I blocked Elon recently, which turned my "For You" feed into something pretty interesting after killing the Musk/MAGA stench. Try it. I'll stick around a little longer.
Isn't Twitter how we met? Back when I signed up in 2008 to prove my then-supervisor at my PR gig wrong about using Twitter as a publicity tool? I succeeded at that task, and that agency went on to claim social media as an area of expertise. I'm sure that supervisor doesn't even remember me now.
I don't know that I can quit the bird app, either - sure, I often feel as if I am yelling into one of the pneumatic tubes of the internet, but I agree that it's a great source for breaking news and finding out what celebrity or influencer has run off the rails.
My biggest problem (of many) with Musk is that he overpaid for Twitter. Sure, he starts with lots of frat boy bluster, but soon enough he will be doing whatever he can to lure advertisers back. Actually, that's already started. Twitter will revert to it's old self but worse, with lots more ads and/or monetary streams. And it will do backflips to keep those big corporate advertisers happy. All the while, Mastodon (or something like it) will grow, improve and throw Twitter into MySpace/AOL/Yahoo retirement home. Of course by that time you and I will be too old to care (i.e. dead?) , but getting rid of corporate gatekeepers is really the only solution IMHO.
I blocked Elon recently, which turned my "For You" feed into something pretty interesting after killing the Musk/MAGA stench. Try it. I'll stick around a little longer.
Isn't Twitter how we met? Back when I signed up in 2008 to prove my then-supervisor at my PR gig wrong about using Twitter as a publicity tool? I succeeded at that task, and that agency went on to claim social media as an area of expertise. I'm sure that supervisor doesn't even remember me now.
I don't know that I can quit the bird app, either - sure, I often feel as if I am yelling into one of the pneumatic tubes of the internet, but I agree that it's a great source for breaking news and finding out what celebrity or influencer has run off the rails.
My biggest problem (of many) with Musk is that he overpaid for Twitter. Sure, he starts with lots of frat boy bluster, but soon enough he will be doing whatever he can to lure advertisers back. Actually, that's already started. Twitter will revert to it's old self but worse, with lots more ads and/or monetary streams. And it will do backflips to keep those big corporate advertisers happy. All the while, Mastodon (or something like it) will grow, improve and throw Twitter into MySpace/AOL/Yahoo retirement home. Of course by that time you and I will be too old to care (i.e. dead?) , but getting rid of corporate gatekeepers is really the only solution IMHO.