The EFF is quitting X
“Last year, our 1,500 posts earned roughly 13 million impressions for the entire year. To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years […]
Tag: twitter
Twitter now blocks visitors from viewing tweets, profiles unless they’re logged in: No longer usable then for blogging publicly
Twitter has now begun locking visitors out of the platform unless they’re logged into their account. Visiting any Twitter page other than the homepage without being signed in will automatically forward users to a page […]
Disaster alert accounts are preparing for a world after Twitter, due to the API limitations imposed
For years, Twitter has been a go-to for agencies that need to warn people during a rapidly changing crisis. The National Weather Service uses it to share hurricane and tornado alerts. Firefighting agencies tweet updates […]
Converting Your Twitter Archive to Markdown, and t.co links to original URL
Once your archive is on your machine, you will have a browsable HTML archive of your tweets, direct messages, and moments including media like images, videos, and GIFs. This is nice, but it also has […]
Why I think my posts on Mastodon consistently get more favourites and reshares than on Twitter
Once again we see a flood of new accounts being created on Mastodon and PixelFed, and similar ‘alternatives’ to Twitter and Instagram. And once again admins need to remind new users not to flock to […]
Twitter’s Bluesky publishes a plan for a more hybrid federated network with P2P characteristics
The interesting part of this, and probably why they did not just go for adopting ActivityPub or SSB (some of these people are actually involved) is because they are trying to also address some shortcomings […]