PD Smith

To tweet or not to tweet

24 July 2023 | Twitter | Post a comment

If you want to con­nect oth­er than via Twit­ter, I’m now @p.d.smith_ on Insta­gram and Threads — and I don’t mean the 1984 nuclear war dra­ma.

I’ve been on Twit­ter since 2008 when I jumped ship from MySpace (remem­ber that?!) and although it can be a mas­sive dis­trac­tion, I’ve met some great peo­ple through it and I still find my lists use­ful to find out what’s going on.

For these rea­sons I’m not giv­ing up on Twit­ter quite yet, but my time­line is becom­ing increas­ing­ly noisy and the sig­nal is grow­ing ever more faint.

I’m also annoyed by the plan to put Tweet­deck behind a pay­wall in August. It seems to me that Musk’s Twit­ter is on a road to nowhere. Indeed, soon it won’t even be called Twit­ter! Crazy.

So although I’m still on Twit­ter, I’m also try­ing out Insta­gram and Threads. It’s clear­ly not per­fect and up till now I’ve tried to avoid the Zucker­berg empire. To be hon­est there doesn’t seem to be much hap­pen­ing on Threads, for now at least, but here goes! You’re wel­come to join me…

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