Tag: twitter
Opal
Convert microblog posts from Twitter, Mastodon, Threads, and Nostr to AT Protocol Bluesky posts.
The Network Serves Us
Thoughts on the sudden surge of success Bluesky has seen this week—without a network-dampening algorithm in sight.
Stressing The Protocol
I’m trying to import as many of my old tweets as I can to Bluesky. Which is fun, because I have a lot of them.
Post-Post
The demise of Post, one of the social networks that emerged from the 2022 Twitter exodus, shows how users have come to understand that vibes aren’t everything with social media.
Recapturing Real Time
A decade ago, real-time social news coverage was a machine that simply worked. With our recent social media disarray, it feels broken. Can it be fixed?
Ruminating On Replies
The “reply guy,” the internet-native take on Florida Man, has started to cause problems in the fediverse, and it comes down to ideology.
Let The Internet Be Grimy
Meta’s take on mimicking Twitter feels like it was built for brand safety first, and you don’t get fulfilling internet experiences when you build for brand safety first.
A Twitter Eulogy
This weekend I deleted my Twitter account. Which is a small thing, yes, but it’s 16 years of interactions, and 13,000 followers, and it wasn’t an easy decision. Not the least because, in those 16 years, I made real and important friends through Twitter. The platform meant a lot to me. So as my little commemoration, and moment of self-indulgence, I’m reprinting below a very short essay I wrote—originally as a Tweet thread—ages ago when one of those friends, who meant an awful lot to me, died unexpectedly. Five years later, I still miss him, and I hope this essay can give a sense of what it is Elon Musk has destroyed, and why social media, as many problems as it has, still matters—and still brings value.
The Next Chapter
Online culture sure feels like it’s in a transition phase, doesn’t it? In an attempt to understand what we learned this week, let’s compare it to some prior internet-era shifts.
Rejection, In Four Parts
How rejection shapes the way we think, for good and bad—and if we let it, we take important lessons from it. (Tylenol helps in this process, we hear.)
The Social Circle
The completed purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk reflects a symbolic victory for those who saw its power as a tool of influence, rather than for communication.
The Central Question
What is the difference between centralization and decentralization, and what should you know? I was asked this question recently; here’s my attempt to answer.
On Memedom
Analyzing the impact of a tweet of mine that went so viral that it nearly broke my phone. Something about sad pepperoni brings out all the retweets.