Pages Tagged “Microblogging”
Tech Tips
- Finding Fediverse Feeds How to find the RSS/Atom feeds for Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Misskey, and other Fediverse platforms.
Blog Posts
- Long-Form Twitter: WHY OH WHY?
Twitter is suited for short statements and back-and-forth conversation. It’s terrible for anything long-form.
- Thread 1/
Twitter threads are a pain to read, especially when they aren’t well-crafted. But what they lack in readability, they make up in reach.
- Why am I still blogging? (And why about this stuff?)
This blog has been around 15 years. Social media has mostly moved on, to silos like Facebook and Twitter. People don’t follow random personal blogs. Topic-focused sites are what people actually read, and even that mainly following links from silos. Meanwhile there are so many major things going on that make the things I post […]
- Mobile Apps and Spotty Connections
Mobile connectivity varies a lot, even in an area with dense cellular coverage. Apps really shouldn’t rely on the connection to be perfect.
- The Culture of *Now*
Are you sharing something about a current event online? It had better be really current, because the internet has a very short attention span.
- Is *Now* Better?
We can instantly post photos, video or words for the world to see, from anywhere, anytime. But should we? Immediacy can be useful, but is it always better?
- Why Link Length Matters
Twitter writes that link length shouldn’t matter, but the zillions of URL shortening services out there show that, for now, it does. But why? There are two main reasons to shorten* a link: There’s a technical limit, such as SMS message length or email line width. You expect people to manually enter the URL. Right […]
- Short Copy
How to Write Copy for Short Attention Spans reminds me of advice from usability guru Jakob Nielsen
- 5 Things I’ve Learned About Twitter
For the longest time, I figured Twitter was little more than a social toy. But after signing up two months ago, I’ve completely changed my view. Here are five lessons I’ve picked up. 1. There are many ways to use it. Twitter asks the question, “What are you doing?” Some people answer that, and post […]