I just updated the twitter category on this blog to be called posse as it is syndicated to twitter & mastodon. I also disabled the twitter cross posting from micro.blog. Micro.blog does a lovely job of cross posting images along with alt tags to mastodon.
A lot of the reactions on my blog come from Twitter thanks to Bridgy. A marvellous service. I really disliked it when Twitter swallowed comments, then Bridgy came to the rescue. Thanks so much for all of Bridgy.
I do use Twitter for school work, just not comfortably I prefer to post to the class blog & syndicate to twitter. The latest twitter crisis reinforces this. I’ve never really liked the idea of Twitter or any other service being the official or main channel of schools (or government services). Schools should not be […]
A tiny thought on the current uk news. It worries me they way politicians use Twitter to post letters of resignation & the like. Trusting Twitter with something so important seems like a mistake. Surly they should post somewhere they control & forward to Twitter #indieweb
Twitter Edits You Twitter is using its embedded javascript to edit other people‘s sites. There seems to be a fix: GitHub – markjaquith/stabletweet. I wonder if someone will make a WordPress plug-in?
Twitter lets me know that I joined Twitter 14 years ago today. My blog let me know that on this day in 2011 I was remembering a post from 2007. These posts about facebook and then google plus (remember that) could apply to twitter and other social media silos. In 2007 I was happy to […]
1. Reading your & other blogs.
2. Resources, Twitter is good for easy short term sharing not for long term discovery.
3. Time
Posting this via my blog, where it belongs and is organised by me in my online memory.
I was joshing about that last night:
https://johnjohnston.info/blog/re-i-have-no-time-to-write-a-blog/
There are a ton of great resources and ideas for teaching zooming past on twitter at the moment. It would be great for some to go to a slower stream or garden.
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