Tag: twitter
The Feed is the Product: Why We Stay in Walled "Gardens", and Why We Might Finally Leave for the Open Social Web
We have known this for years. We have known that the major platforms are bad for our attention, our sleep, our politics, our children, and our sense of reality. And yet here we are, still scrolling. This essay is an attempt to answer two questions: why is leaving so hard, and what does it look like when it finally becomes possible? Let's take the platforms one at a time, because each one has found its own distinctive way to be terrible. Meta is the empire that learned nothing. In 2018, we learne...
Opal
Convert microblog posts from Twitter, Mastodon, Threads, and Nostr to AT Protocol Bluesky posts.
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My Slow Retreat from Twitter
A brief reflection on the platform and how I plan to continue with it...
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.
So Long, and Thanks for the Job
Twitter hat sich verändert und das leider nicht zum Guten! Hier ein paar Schlagzeilen: Elon Musk Is Turning Twitter Into a Haven for Nazis Elon Musk says he’s letting Donald Trump back on Twitter Twitter's sacking of content moderators raises concerns Elon Musk won’t stop tweeting his way into trouble Ich habe, um ehrlich zu...
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.
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.
Antisemitic tweets soared on Twitter after Musk took over, study finds
““We’re seeing a sustained volume of antisemitic hate speech on the platform following the takeover,” said Jacob Davey, who leads research and policy on the far-right and hate movements at ISD.” #Twitter [Link]
Twitter insiders: We can't protect users from trolling under Musk
“Current and former employees of the company tell BBC Panorama that features intended to protect Twitter users from trolling and harassment are proving difficult to maintain, amid what they describe as a chaotic working environment in which Mr Musk is shadowed by bodyguards at all times. I've spoken to dozens, with several going on the record for the first time.” #Twitter [Link]
Short-form blogging
The rise of short-form content on personal blogs, and an extra thought tacked onto the end.
Farewell, Twitter
I'm no longer on Twitter (for obvious reasons) and I share a lot of sentiment about it with Simon Collison.
Twitter and the Perils of Obedience
Reflections on the current state of Twitter, and its similarity to the shocking results of a 1961 experiment by Yale Researcher Stanley Milgram.
Twitter and the Perils of Obedience
Reflections on the current state of Twitter, and its similarity to the shocking results of a 1961 experiment by Yale Researcher Stanley Milgram.
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 AT Protocol
Vor zwei Jahren wollte Twitter in das „Dezentrale Netzwerke“-Business einsteigen und gründete eigens dafür das Projekt Bluesky. In den folgenden zwei Jahren wurde viel evaluiert und diskutiert, was wohl die beste Lösung für Twitter sei und wir alle fieberten mit ob es nun ActivityPub oder doch Matrix werden würde...
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.
Replacements for social media
Social media sucks. Yeah that's right Twitter, I'm talking to you.
Censorship
Discussions of censorship are reaching a local maximum on Twitter, despite the fact that censorship doesn't really mean anything.
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.
First Explorations of Twitter Verification API
Tracing the network calls behind Twitter's relaunched verification eligibility check, revealing the internal API the new self-service flow relies on.
You Should Diversify Your Social Media Presence
Last week was insane, hasn't it? Between Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp going down and Twitch's source code getting leaked online, it's a good reminder that all of the content that we create could be gone in an instant. If that happens, what then? The Facebook one kind of shook me a little bit personally. I have so much...
Automatically Finding A Short Twitter Username
Use a Python script to query the Twitter username availability API and automatically scan for short, unclaimed Twitter handles.
IndieFollow
Letzte Woche war WordCamp Europe. Mit weit über 8000 Teilnehmern war es das bisher größte online WordCamp! Bei der Größe ist es klar, dass man auch eine ganze Menge neuer und interessanter Leute trifft. Also schnell auf Twitter und allen folgen! Ich war auf dem größten online Event, von dem wohl am meisten verbreiteten Indie/OpenSource...
Building Your Own Twitter Analytics
Build a small Twitter analytics pipeline with Python and Jupyter, ingesting tweet data through the API to run custom analysis without heavyweight infrastructure.
Online Nazis Have Figured Out How To Game Twitter
The newest weapon in the arsenal of internet nazis is mass-brigading Twitter reports, and it’s working
A suspensão da Rosie no Twitter mostra como as regras para bots ainda precisam ser lapidadas
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.