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The Free Twitter API Ends and The Twitter Silo Begins

Feb 3, 2023

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Reading Time: 3 minutesSocial networks and social networks are based on people connecting with other people. Twitter is a glorified chatroom masquerading as a microblogging platform. As twitter shifts from being free, to being paying, it is losing it’s appeal. Fifteen years ago there was plenty of discussion about Social Media silos and the social…

Twitter’s Not For Me

Jan 21, 2023

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in social conscience, social media, Social Media Deontology, social networking, Swiss walks

Reading Time: 2 minutesTwitter has a new For You page inspired by TikTok’s For you page according to Quartz. Many years ago we had Seesmic, a video chat community where people could share video messages 24 hours a day. We even experimented with recording videos and sharing them by phone when this was still novel.…

A Short Twitter Detox

Jan 19, 2023

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in social media, social networking, twitter

Reading Time: 2 minutesI took a short twitter detox for two days. For two days I didn’t look at tweets, replies and more. For two days if I wanted to rant I couldn’t. For two days I couldn’t see replies. For two days I couldn’t read people complain. It is good to take a break…

Taking a Twitter Break

Jan 17, 2023

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in social media, Social Media Deontology, social media living room, social networking

Reading Time: 2 minutesFor the first time since I took a Twitter break in 2007 I am taking another in 2023. The first time I took a twitter break I deleted my account but got asked to talk about Twitter for the RTS (TSR) back then so I went to my secondary account and started…

Mastodon, Social Media and Addiction

Dec 16, 2022

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in social media, Social Media Deontology, social media living room

Reading Time: 2 minutesI’d like to discuss Mastodon, Social Media and addiction. Specifically I would like to discuss how I do not want to invest my time in a social network where people are already discussing social media s if it is an addiction. We have seen that this has a negative impact on social…

Limited Bandwidth and Twitter

Dec 7, 2022

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in social conscience, Social Media Deontology, social networking

Reading Time: 2 minutesLet’s take a step back from today, and let’s remember the 2006 tech landscape. In 2006 we had Symbian phones, GPRS, text messages. We used the world wide web whilst sitting at computers usually via wifi. We would tweet until the moment we left home, and then we had to rely on…

MicroBlogging and I

Dec 6, 2022

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in social media, social networking, twitter

Reading Time: 2 minutesSince 2006 I have thought of Twitter, Jaiku, Mastodon and Plurk as conversation channels, rather than microblogging. I go to these places and use them as chatroooms rather than microblogs. If I want to blog I have my full scale blog. This website, to keep me entertained. I bring this up because…

Taking a Break From Twitter

Dec 5, 2022

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richard

in social media, social networking, twitter

Reading Time: 2 minutesI have used Twitter almost every single day since I created my first account in 2006. During this time I have met a lot of people, gone to a lot of events, learned a lot and been part of communities. The decision to take a break is not an easy one to…

Mastodon has Eight Million Accounts Today

Dec 3, 2022

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in social media, social media living room, social networking

Reading Time: 2 minutesMastodon has reached eight million accounts today. That’s close to the population of Switzerland and two million less than London. Mastodon is growing because it was ready to scale up at the right time. As Musk and Twitter shift towards the Right, and as Musk perpetuates conspiracy theories, on a daily basis,…

The Day of Snow Poles and Mastodon

Dec 1, 2022

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richard

in social media, Social Media Deontology

Reading Time: 2 minutesToday during the walk I saw an orange van moving by the side of the road slowly. It was stopping regularly. I crossed the road and looked towards it. I saw an open door and a person placing traffic snow poles into the bollards at the side of the road. Winter is…

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