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  • Revisiting Simon Collison’s Farewell to Twitter

    Last night I revisited Simon Collison’s post from early December 2022 Farewell, Twitter. I had read it shortly after he published it and while I agreed with what he wrote, it didn’t hit me as hard as it did last night. Simon claims that “others have articulated the situation better”, however, last night I realized…

  • Like like – The pro way to browse Twitter

    Like like: A tool for wandering through Twitter. A pro tip that I often recommend for any social media platform is to browse through your followers likes. It is, in my opinion, one of the very best ways to find some of the best content. For instance: This tool, linked above, called Like like by…

  • A short Twitter wish list

    OK, so Elon bought Twitter (subject to regulatory approval, of course). We can’t change what we can’t control. While I do not think it a great idea to have Elon be the sole owner of Twitter, is it any worse than Jack Dorsey or Ev Williams or anyone else for that matter? I suppose time…

  • Twitter’s project Bluesky seems stuck in the mud

    Yesterday I randomly wondered what the status of Twitter’s Bluesky project was – a project that promises to create a protocol for federating the microblogging platform in the same way that SMTP/IMAP does for email. So I poked around. The Twitter account seems all but dormant. So then I logged into their Discord guild (Discord…

  • Ryan Barrett switched to Twitter Lists

    Ryan Barrett: A few days ago, I unfollowed everyone on Twitter, added them all to a list, and I now read that list instead. It’s shockingly better. Only their own tweets and retweets, in order. No ads, no “liked by,” no “people you may know,” no engagement hacking crap. It’s glorious. I do not believe…

  • Richard Bernabe on Twitter

    Richard Bernabe, in an otherwise good interview on his photography, says this about Twitter: I like Twitter, even if it does represent both the best and worst the Internet has to offer. If you’re there to argue politics with other humans, it most certainly is a dystopian hellscape that will make your life a dark,…

  • Twitter Lists are having a moment

    Twitter recently released an updated UI that allows you to “pin” Lists you’ve created to your Home timeline view. This makes it possible to swipe between each List quickly. It is a nice feature – especially for those with only a few lists or for those just starting out with them*. Since this update was…

  • My interpretations of announcements by Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter

    Apple pre-announcing something: “We’re excited to get this in customer’s hands late next year”. My interpretation: “We never pre-announce things. Why are we doing this? We’re terrible at it. In fact, we make fun of other companies for doing it! Steve Jobs would never allow this! (mostly) We must be doing this because some group…

  • Twitter isn’t going anywhere

    Stephen Hackett, at 512 Pixels: Regardless of all of that, I think it’s clear the leadership at Twitter has no idea what they are doing, and I think the network’s time is ticking away faster than ever. Not to be contrarian but I disagree. Update January 24, 2019: I must have misread Hackett’s post. I…

  • Twitter fixes their timeline

    YES!!!!!! The Verge: Twitter has made a surprise change to how it shows tweets to its users, following a viral thread earlier today that discussed ways to reverse the platform’s algorithmic timeline. Now, when you uncheck the settings box reading “Show the best tweets first,” Twitter will completely revert your timeline to a non-algorithmic, reverse-chronological…

  • Leo Laporte leaves Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook

    Leo Laporte: Yesterday I deactivated my Twitter account and kicked Tumblr to the curb. A couple of weeks ago I did the same with Instagram. A month or so before that I killed Facebook. And I survived. No, thrived! I had deleted my Twitter account in the past and lived. And while I haven’t deleted…

  • Real Twitter

    Over the weekend Andy Baio tweeted a URL to a search result that shows Twitter the way it used to be: This magical link shows your Twitter timeline in true chronological order—without retweets, liked tweets, or any algorithm nonsense. (On mobile? Click “Latest.”) Enjoy! Erin Sparling owned realtwitter.com and pointed it to that URL now.

  • Repost: Jonnie Hallman on Twitter re: spreadsheets

    👉 Jonnie Hallman: I’m certain 90% of web apps could be replaced by spreadsheets.

  • Threads now officially supported on Twitter

    Sasank Reddy, on the Twitter blog: Now, hundreds of thousands of threads are Tweeted every day! But this method of Tweeting, while effective and popular, can be tricky for some to create and it’s often tough to read or discover all the Tweets in a thread. That’s why we’re thrilled to share that we’re making…

  • Twitter’s new character UI

    Josh Wilburne, Designer at Twitter: With this in mind, we designed a system that defines two types of written languages, dense and non-dense, and expands the character limit for non-dense languages. By grouping languages this way, we can give people writing in non-dense languages like English and Spanish the same space to express themselves as…

  • Repost: Daman Rangoola on Twitter

    👉 Daman Rangoola: Random iOS 11 bug: type 1+2+3 quickly in the stock calculator app, see what happens. Bet it won’t say “6”.

  • Mike Monteiro on Twitter

    Mike Monteiro on Medium on Twitter: Twitter today is a cesspool of hate. A plague of frogs. Ten years ago, a group of white dudes baked the DNA of the platform without thought to harassment or abuse. They built the platform with the best of intentions. I still believe this. But they were ignorant to…

  • Twitterrific for Mac

    Iconfactory: The Twitter app for people who actually use Twitter. Now all-new for macOS. Imagine if Twitter cared as much about their desktop and mobile apps (and the people who used them) as Iconfactory does.

  • Jason Snell on Twitterrific for Mac

    Jason Snell: I started using Twitter because of Twitterrific for Mac. When the Iconfactory first released the app, I signed up for a Twitter account and started chatting with my friends. That was ten years ago. Ditto. I actually started using Twitter via SMS in 2006 then saw it bloom at SXSW in 2007 but…

  • Twitter is solving the wrong problem, again

    Twitter: We want every person around the world to easily express themselves on Twitter, so we’re doing something new: we’re going to try out a longer limit, 280 characters, in languages impacted by cramming (which is all except Japanese, Chinese, and Korean). Twitter’s largest issue* is gaining and retaining active users. The platform hasn’t meaningfully…

  • Repost: Ike on Twitter re: the iPhone X notch

    👉 Ike: So here’s a nice wallpaper for your iPhone X, OWNING the notch. (be sure to follow the link) /via Mike Rundle on Twitter.

  • Repost: Conan O’Brien on Twitter

    👉 Conan O’Brien: When in Tel-Aviv… (be sure to follow the link)

  • Repost: Mike Rundle on Twitter re: the iPhone X notch

    👉 Mike Rundle: In landscape the notch literally chops out part of the video. Can’t believe they didn’t indent it a little bit.

  • Repost: Mike Rundle on Twitter

    👉 Mike Rundle: The new top-end iPhone will have a notch. New top-end Android phones (V30, S8) do not. Hard for Apple to spin that.

  • David Nield: \”RSS still beats Facebook and Twitter\”

    David Nield on Gizmodo: Whether you’ve never heard of it before or you’ve abandoned it for pastures new, here’s why you should be using RSS for your news instead of social media. I’ve used RSS since it was released and feed readers began to appear and I don’t see a future of the web without…

  • David Nield: \”RSS still beats Facebook and Twitter\”

    David Nield on Gizmodo: Whether you’ve never heard of it before or you’ve abandoned it for pastures new, here’s why you should be using RSS for your news instead of social media. I’ve used RSS since it was released and feed readers began to appear and I don’t see a future of the web without…

  • David Nield: \”RSS still beats Facebook and Twitter\”

    David Nield on Gizmodo: Whether you’ve never heard of it before or you’ve abandoned it for pastures new, here’s why you should be using RSS for your news instead of social media. I’ve used RSS since it was released and feed readers began to appear and I don’t see a future of the web without…

  • David Nield: \”RSS still beats Facebook and Twitter\”

    David Nield on Gizmodo: Whether you’ve never heard of it before or you’ve abandoned it for pastures new, here’s why you should be using RSS for your news instead of social media. I’ve used RSS since it was released and feed readers began to appear and I don’t see a future of the web without…

  • David Nield: \”RSS still beats Facebook and Twitter\”

    David Nield on Gizmodo: Whether you’ve never heard of it before or you’ve abandoned it for pastures new, here’s why you should be using RSS for your news instead of social media. I’ve used RSS since it was released and feed readers began to appear and I don’t see a future of the web without…

  • David Nield: \”RSS still beats Facebook and Twitter\”

    David Nield on Gizmodo: Whether you’ve never heard of it before or you’ve abandoned it for pastures new, here’s why you should be using RSS for your news instead of social media. I’ve used RSS since it was released and feed readers began to appear and I don’t see a future of the web without…

  • David Nield: \”RSS still beats Facebook and Twitter\”

    David Nield on Gizmodo: Whether you’ve never heard of it before or you’ve abandoned it for pastures new, here’s why you should be using RSS for your news instead of social media. I’ve used RSS since it was released and feed readers began to appear and I don’t see a future of the web without…

  • Repost: Dan Kimbrough on Twitter

    ☞ Dan Kimbrough: Cool new step counter, created here in #nepa. http://cdevroe.com/summit

  • Repost: Phil Schiller on Twitter

    ☞ Phil Schiller: Celebrating #HyperCard (I created some insane stacks in the day…) http://blog.archive.org/2017/08/11/hypercard-on-the-archive-celebrating-30-years-of-hypercard/

  • Following Twitter accounts via RSS

    I haven’t missed Twitter that much since deleting my account. The first week or two I missed Moments – but once that subsided I realized that Moments are generally a waste of time. Realtime reporting of most newsworthy events result in ill-informed, unsubstantiated tweets. I’m at a point now where I’d much prefer to get…

  • JSON Feed to Twitter using PHP

    In 2009 I scrawled together a simple PHP script that tweeted links based on an RSS feed. I then updated it to support OAuth and open sourced it on GitHub. I haven’t really touched it since (though I get about 3 emails a month about it). Just a small update here and there. This morning,…

  • Avoid being great at Twitter

    Seth Godin: You can be good at Twitter in about five minutes a day. Spending ten minutes doesn’t make you twice as good… in fact, there’s probably little measurable improvement. To be great at Twitter might take five hours of daily effort. At over 48,000 tweets I do not need any more Twitter practice. Lately…

  • Manton Reece on Twitter at 10 years

    Manton Reece, like me, recently passed his 10 year anniversary on Twitter. I like this point he makes about how to see Twitter going forward: It used to be impossible to imagine that Twitter could fail. And today, it’s still unlikely to vanish or even change much overnight. But the web will be better if…

  • E15: Bots, Windows 10 Surface Book review, Twitter Head of Product

    Last weekend Danny and I sat down and discussed our current experience with bots, the progress I’ve made on my still forthcoming Windows 10 and Surface Book review and also Twitter’s new Head of Product hire. http://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e15.mp3 Links: MKBHD on YouTube Review of Google Home Download MP3

  • The Twitter grabbag

    When I signed up to Twitter over 10 years ago the site was remarkably simple and easy to use. Back then using Twitter on mobile meant crafting SMS messages using particular syntaxes like "follow username" or "d username message". It was a fantastically simple experience with huge implications on how we all communicate. Today, there…

  • E8: Tesla, Twitter, Blogging

    Extra special, and most likely reoccurring, guest Danny Nicolas (@djloche) and I have a conversation about Tesla, Twitter, Blogging and a bunch of other things. http://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e8.mp3 Download MP3

  • Twitter’s problem

    I already quoted Gary this morning but I might as well do it again. In Daily Vee #29 (go right to the moment here) he said: I know that 8 years ago if I said “follow my friend Joel, he’s awesome” 2,000 people would do that when I had 7,000 followers and now 37 will do…

  • IFTTT is taking almost an hour to publish my posts to Twitter and Facebook. I’m looking forward to leaving it behind soon.

    IFTTT is taking almost an hour to publish my posts to Twitter and Facebook. I’m looking forward to leaving it behind soon.

  • Twitter for iOS’s web view butchers the layout of my site…

    Twitter for iOS’s web view butchers the layout of my site. Sorry to all of those seeing it that way. I’ll work on a fix if I can figure out why it is happening.

  • Decided to turn off the IFTTT recipe for sending my photos to Twitter and Facebook.

    Decided to turn off the IFTTT recipe for sending my photos to Twitter and Facebook.

  • Twitter’s Save Button

    Chris Sacca’s infamous blog post on What Twitter Can Be ranged from topics about its apps, the platform itself, and what Wall Street thinks of the company. There are several bits I plan to write about but today I’m focusing on his idea of a “Twitter Save Button”. So much of the time, Twitter moves too…

  • Blanton tries Twitter blogging

    Justin Blanton decides to muddy the waters on the definition of the word blogging even more by using textshots on Twitter to “blog”: With the advent of “textshots”—screenshots of text linked within tweets (and viewed inline on many Twitter clients)—I’ve decided to try something new with Twitter: “blogging”. Blanton is a blogging veteran so we’ll allow…

  • Revoking application access on Flickr, Facebook, Twitter

    I am going all-in on Flickr. However, I haven’t logged into Flickr in, oh, forever? If you’re in the same boat you may want to check out which applications you’ve given access to read/write to your Flickr account. You can do so right here. Also, I recommend doing the same for Twitter here and Facebook…

  • Designing Twitter Video

    My boy Stammy wrote a really nice, in-depth blog post on how he and his team at Twitter designed the new Twitter Video feature. Absolutely a must-read: It irks me when designers talk about making specs and handing them over to engineering. The process of “making specs“ implies that there is no conversation with your…

  • Twitter is not a replacement for blogs

    Marco Arment: Too much of my writing in the last few years has gone exclusively into Twitter. I need to find a better balance. And… By knocking down a few walls and moving some furniture around, blogging is preparing for a comeback, and we’ll all be better off for it. Related: this, this, and this.…

  • Finding friends on Twitter

    Today I used Twitter’s Find Friends feature that connects to Gmail to get a list of your contacts and subsequently searches Twitter for them. I have just over 2,550 contacts in my address book. Many are duplicates, due to how Gmail handles adding these addresses to your contact list. But, a cursory glance at the…