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What are your thoughts about today’s show? We’d love to hear from you!
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Will update this post as I listen.
Paris is a real trooper. Her nose is bright red this episode! It’s starting to feel a lot like Christmas.
I love Paris’ Twitter(X). I use a locked account, so I can’t really interact with her but I retweet a lot of her stuff. I loved her big saw post. I don’t really have any intention of moving to a different social media site if / when X/Twitter dies. I feel like it’ll be better for my mental health to be off that kinda stuff.
I’m fortunate that X doesn’t show me content/accounts I’ve blocked such as Musk or Trump or Biden. I still don’t care for all the people grand standing about leaving the platform yet they still post there. They post because of they’re creators, they’re still getting engagement on their content. That matters. Celebs don’t post there, but their marketing professional publishes on their behalf to promote be it once a month or a quarter. Taylor Swift and Tom Segura are examples. Two different creators/celebs with different core values.
Sports teams are still there. Many brands are still there. Why? Probably because the X platform has some value in getting eyeballs on their content.
Ok I’m done rambling about this. 
I love TWiG
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I still use X because of friends
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I browse X because it’s still a good resource for me to find articles to read. But I don’t use the platform much besides that. Though Bluesky is becoming another place for me to find things interesting.
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I still use X because of local government councillors, local police, emergency services, rail and bus operators, flood services, weather, water, gas & electricity services, historians, artists, news services, and similar services in other countries so I know what friends there are having to cope with. It’s the one place they’re all present.
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This right here. Says it all
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I have purged my tweets and likes from X, but still maintain my account. Most of my main interaction has moved to BlueSky and, to a lesser extent, mastodon.
I dislike that people are pruning their content from X. More so when prominent accounts do it. It only punishes the average users. X still has that data archived and have already used it for training (presumably)
(I “get it”. It’s more to make a statement. But it still bothers me a little bit. )
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Average people have been relegated to second class status for a long time. People with blue check marks get far more power over who they engage with, and they tend to engage with others who are equally prominent. The average people typically get the privilege of watching and liking tweets, but real interaction is less common (of course, individual experiences will differ).
Frankly - while Twitter was never the wonder place people seem to think it was, it has really devolved under current management. Current events on the platform only accelerated my decision.
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Sure. But what bothers me too is when average people purge their tweets. It’s not just big profiles. It’s my friends’ purging (but keeping their handle) their private accounts. Sometimes I like to look back on what my friend’s have been through. Or look at their media tab to see the good times & whatnot.
But I also would never tell someone what to do; so I mostly just deal with it internally.
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As I see it, social media is about interaction in the moment. It’s like the physical flyers that come in a newspaper… the advertisement for a sale is of very limited value after the sale over. After the fact, it’s probably mostly just unwanted noise. This means, to me, if you write/produce something of consequence, you should host it with permanence, somewhere where important things stick around, and then simply promote it on socials.
it’s interesting you say that. i actually really like physical stuff like that too. like i have flyers from the local transit union from 2018. most people would’ve long forgotten that kinda stuff, very much “had to be there” and it was all cleaned up when the fight was over. but i still have the physical flyers. i actually also asked a friendly bus drivers to hook me up with some of it too.
maybe that’s irrelevant. but i feel like you hit on something very real when you mentioned physical flyers. and maybe it’s a similar feeling for me with tweets
I follow a lot of cybersecurity people. I often search back on links they posted to threats reports or articles. I remember who posted the article and roughly what it was about, but not which site they linked to or the exact title…
It is the same for quotes. I’ll remember one of the people I follow said something and go looking for it, only to find I was “wrong”, because the post doesn’t exist. It is incredibly annoying, did I imagine it or did someone just delete their post?
You’re using Google wrong 