Tag Archives: Twitter

I offer a specious left-field take on why Elon Musk renamed Twitter “X” after spending 43 billion dollars to purchase the platform.

I question whether Elon Musk can re-brand X into a platform for reading articles when it still carries Twitter’s distinct brand and legacy.

To hide items and make chatty NPCs or to make “hidden items” glow and one-line robot NPCs.

When even the family of the Colombo consigliere cannot log off.

Substack’s view that its Notes platform is not a Twitter clone misses the forest through the trees.

Making the case for a feed reader + read-it-later solution as an online reading alternative to social media and services like Google and Apple News.

On the strengths and limitations of current Fediverse networks and the future of decentralized social media.

A satirical article by The Babylon Bee about Elon Musk’s Twitter saga inspires a piece on Twitter, content curation, and (of course) RSS/Atom feeds.

I take a look at the Mastodon Twitter Crossposter, a tool for syndicating posts.

But are you promising to leave Europe?

〜A diplomatic dust-up leads to the disclosure of a hitherto unknown rule〜

I take a look at Haruki Murakami’s explanation of why he does not use social media (bad content) and explain why I agree and think that the medium is the problem.