Tag Archives: WordPress
Posterous is closing down
Having been bought by Twitter a year ago, this was always on the cards; posterous.com is closing down and my lissping blog will no longer be accessible as of 30 April 2013. Old links will just die.. no redirects, nothing. I noticed today that the posterous site has developed technical problems which prevent me from editing […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]