Tag: twitter

Podcast 125: What would a GOOD social media algorithm look like?

January 10, 2023
Podcast 122: Let Twitter go — build something weird instead!

What if we reclaimed the energy we’ve been wasting on Twiiter and spent it on creating something weird and amazing elsewhere?

December 20, 2022
Podcast 121: Could you use AI to “harvest” new followers on social media? Should you?

December 18, 2022
Podcast 119: Twitter censored my Mastodon link!

Twitter flagged my Mastodon link as “sensitive content.”

December 13, 2022
Careful Tech 115: Automating my escape from Instagram

November 23, 2022
Twitter bankruptcy: skipping unread tweets

Although it’s painful for a Twitter “completionist”, Twitter bankruptcy is good for the soul.

October 9, 2017
A long sentence vs. a short paragraph: on Twitter’s character limit change

It’s the most significant change to the service since its debut over a decade ago. It’s the difference between a quip and a quote, between a thought and an idea, between an objection and an argument.

September 27, 2017
“Twitter Isn’t Raising the Character Limit. It’s Becoming a Walled Garden.”

10,000 characters is approximately 2,000 words—longer than the vast majority of blog posts. So why not just drop the character limit entirely?

January 6, 2016
Drowning in Twitter debt

I abandoned RSS because I couldn’t keep up. Now I’ve fallen behind on Twitter, too.

December 2, 2015
Online contests: stop selling your followers.

Would you sell your friends’ phone numbers to a telemarketer? Or exchange their home addresses for cash?

April 15, 2015