While the “sky” is Blue(r), X users are fewer.

« 24 November 2024 | 17:59 | Daily Musings, Social Networking | No Comments »

Greetings all, I hope this post finds you well. ICYMI, in social media news, over the last few weeks, Bluesky has gained a massive amount of users migrating (or as I like to call it “skygrating”) from X (nee Twitter) as a result of Elon Musk’s November 15 2024 new terms of service. I personally […]



Twitter and the (bitter)sweet 16!

« 21 November 2022 | 7:24 | Social Networking | 3 Comments »

Greetings all. I hope you’re well. Today (actually tonight at 11:43:36 pm) will mark the 16th birthday of being a Twitter user. My very first tweet is below: I’ve seen the the evolution of Twitter since pretty much the very beginning, as the platform was just seven months old when I joined. Back then it […]



Exploring Mastodon

« 17 November 2022 | 6:00 | Daily Musings, Social Networking, Technology | 5 Comments »

Greetings, I hope this post finds you well. This is the post for Day 4 of the #30DayBlogChallenge that Soulcruzer, Darrenkeith, and I have accepted. For those of you unaware, Mastodon is free and open-source software for running self-hosted social networking services. It has microblogging features similar to the Twitter service, which are offered by a large number of independently run nodes, known as instances, […]



Early morning musings: Twitter

« 8 October 2022 | 10:49 | Daily Musings, Technology | No Comments »

It’s Saturday morning. My alarm woke me up to a sunny day and I remembered that have zero tasks or events on my plate for today. I purposely laid in bed for an hour checking for my usual tech tidbits in my Twitter feed. Being a user for 16 years (an early adapter to, and […]



The Doomsday being presented as Elon Musk’s Twitter

« 7 May 2022 | 21:20 | Daily Musings, Social Networking, Technology | 12 Comments »

I joined Twitter in November 2006, upon being told about it by a friend I knew from the days of AOL Instant Messenger, iMusic, Yahoo Instant Messenger, and Blackplanet, Lis. Shortly afterwards, I began to connect with other early adapters like Ray, Kenya, Brian, EJ, Will, Terri, and Todd aka The Big La. “In the […]



Ten Tips To Better Tweeting

« 9 April 2010 | 11:46 | Daily Musings, Social Networking | 4 Comments »

Greetings readers. Hope this post finds you in good spirits. I thought I’d take a moment to do a post about my favorite social media/networking site of all time, Twitter. November 21, 2010 will mark my fifth anniversary of tweeting, so I can safely say I am an early adopter and have seen the evolution […]