Tag Archives: social network
Are you Being Squeezed by Social Media?
Facebook has made several radical changes to support its drive to increase revenue. Twitter is on the same path. But have they tipped the balance and found your breaking point yet? Dangerous Minds has written a lengthy and eloquent complaint about how Facebook is deliberately “broken” so that your posts are held hostage unless you […]
Do you understand by country censorship on Twitter; does it change anything for you?
Aha! Just wondering what would happen, if I posted my comments on Twitter like this, embedded in an image. If my message was in contravention of some complaint that would cause my tweet to be censored under normal circumstances (if it was a text tweet). Would my image be censored; would it buy me some […]
WordPress Devs Love Twitter But..
even they ”moved to WordPress”, in a corporate example of my personal micro-blogging evolution. This explains how, in 2009, the theme I am using – P2 - changed Automattic. I’ve decided to call what I am doing here – posting status updates to Twitter and FaceBook from a WordPress blog home page as my base – as live-tweeting. It […]
You Know Twitter?
Do you like being able to post random thoughts, snippets of information, important news you want to share, converse with people in short bursts? It has attracted over 160 million user accounts, which have generated more than 30 billion pieces of content, although not each one has an actual living person behind it. Reflect on those numbers, and that growth curve. You soon realise that nobody can really know everything there is to know, or see everything there is to see on Twitter. It’s like trying to see the whole of the country from your window. But what do you know about Twitter?
One Flew The Twitter Nest
Not an exhaustive list of complaints, but these are a few of the reasons I decided to change the way I use social media, by changing my base from Twitter to WordPress. My blog is indexed by search engines. My tweets are not. In fact, on some external applications that require a Twitter name to […]