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Is X Back? Who Cares. Social Media Monoliths Are Passé.

https://tedium.co/2026/10/12/x-social-media-monoliths-critique/?utm_source=Tedium&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Tedium_10_12_2026
But I think this discussion also opens up another, related question: Do we need to live in a world where every network is the biggest thing ever? Can you have a thriving community without your primary platform being a zeitgeist machine? Gruber’s framing on the issue seems to suggest that Twitter circa 2009 is the ideal. But what if that moment has genuinely passed? The Threads algorithm that Gruber points to specifically goes out of its way to discourage the very kinds of interactions that a 2009 Twitter once allowed. The fediverse’s server-oriented setup favors interactions in smaller communities even if, in practice, people still tend to favor the larger ones.
#fediverse #mastodon #social #twitter #x
archive.org #38806

The Last Days Of Social Media

https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/
Social media as we know it is dying, but we’re not condemned to its ruins. We are capable of building better — smaller, slower, more intentional, more accountable — spaces for digital interaction, spaces where the metrics that matter aren’t engagement and growth but understanding and connection, where algorithms serve the community rather than strip-mining it.
#bluesky #facebook #fediverse #social #socialmedia #twitter
archive.org #37747

God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-favor-by-destroying-twitter/
How will these smaller groups of happier people be monetized? This is a tough question for the billionaires. Happy people, the kind who eat sandwiches together, are boring. They don’t buy much. Their smartphones are six versions behind and have badly cracked screens. They fix bicycles, then they talk about fixing bicycles, then they show their friend, who just came over for no reason, how they fixed their bicycle, and their friend says, “Wow, good job,” and they make tea. That doesn’t seem like enough to build a town square on.
#mastodon #social #twitter
archive.org #37457

down in the posting mines / poking at ghosts

https://youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/down-in-the-posting-mines-poking
Crucially, though, what defines a member of the posting middle class is their love of the game. They don’t post because they’re trying to sell a product, or solely to advance their career. They don’t post to advertise themselves or their company. They post because they must. There’s something fundamentally wrong with them and the worms in their brain makes them spend entire days posting away on the computer.
#bluesky #bsky #social #socialmedia #twitter
archive.org #29827

Is Bluesky the New Twitter? - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/11/bluesky-bubble-twitter-replacement/680679/
I still hope that social media itself will fade away. In the meantime, though, hundreds of millions of people have become accustomed to this way of interacting with friends and strangers, noshing on news, performing identities, picking fights, and accruing cultural capital or longing to do so. These unhealthy habits will be hard to shake. And so we can’t help but try to keep them going, for however long we can.
#bluesky #bsky #social #twitter
archive.org #29874

The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet

https://www.404media.co/the-great-migration-to-bluesky-gives-me-hope-for-the-future-of-the-internet/
But I do know that the energy on Bluesky is exciting, that the app and website are very usable, and that, as a journalist, I appreciate a platform that does not and says it will not punish links in any algorithm and which mostly operates in reverse chronological order. I think that the “Starter Packs” that let you follow tons of people at once according to your interests have made the onboarding process really easy. What’s happening on Bluesky right now feels organic and it feels real in a way no other Twitter replacement has felt so far, and it feels better than X.com has been ever since Elon Musk took over. If the masses are going to move off Twitter, we can do much better than Threads. And we could do much worse than Bluesky.
#bluesky #bsky #mastodon #social #twitter
archive.org #29876

Maybe Bluesky has “won” | anderegg.ca

https://anderegg.ca/2024/11/15/maybe-bluesky-has-won
All this to say: the Bluesky team seems like they’re earnestly working toward a decentralized platform, but they have a lot of work ahead of them. Years of effort, in my estimation. In the meantime, Bluesky is slightly more decentralized than, say, Facebook — but not by much. Yes, you can host your own data. Yes, you can scrape all of the content on the network. But you can’t do anything with it unless you’re attached to the Bluesky service. I believe this will change with time, but it will be prohibitively expensive and we’re not there yet.
#atproto #bluesky #bsky #mastodon #social #twitter
archive.org #29878

The Trouble With Twitter – jeffmueller.net

https://jeffmueller.net/2017/10/18/the-trouble-with-twitter/
We need an alternative to Twitter. I don’t know what that looks like, but I have a feeling it’ll involve tight control of micro-communities where users have the ability to ban people for bad behavior. Whatever it is, I hope it surfaces soon and gets enough traction to pull my friends (and some third-party app developers) away from Twitter for good.
#imported:pinboard #microblogging #social #twitter
archive.org #31340

The Trouble With Twitter – jeffmueller.net

https://jeffmueller.net/2017/10/18/the-trouble-with-twitter
We need an alternative to Twitter. I don’t know what that looks like, but I have a feeling it’ll involve tight control of micro-communities where users have the ability to ban people for bad behavior. Whatever it is, I hope it surfaces soon and gets enough traction to pull my friends (and some third-party app developers) away from Twitter for good.
#microblogging #social #twitter
archive.org #27426

I Hope Twitter Goes Away - The Blagoblag

https://alexgaynor.net/2014/oct/30/i-hope-twitter-goes-away/
It's for all these reasons that I hope Twitter genuinely ceases to be. I want a product that enables me to build and participate in communities, that encourages discussions and expressing meaningful ideas. Not one that systemically encourages harassment, abuse, and shouting as loud as you can, and which on its best day, is a glorified link aggregator. And not a very good one.
#community #imported:pinboard #social #twitter #web
archive.org #31741

I Hope Twitter Goes Away - The Blagoblag

https://alexgaynor.net/2014/oct/30/i-hope-twitter-goes-away
It's for all these reasons that I hope Twitter genuinely ceases to be. I want a product that enables me to build and participate in communities, that encourages discussions and expressing meaningful ideas. Not one that systemically encourages harassment, abuse, and shouting as loud as you can, and which on its best day, is a glorified link aggregator. And not a very good one.
#community #social #twitter #web
archive.org #25287

What Twitter could have been

http://daltoncaldwell.com/what-twitter-could-have-been
As I understand, a hugely divisive internal debate occurred among Twitter employees around this time. One camp wanted to build the entire business around their realtime API. In this scenario, Twitter would have turned into something like a realtime cloud API company. The other camp looked at Google’s advertising model for inspiration, and decided that building their own version of AdWords would be the right way to go.
#advertising #api #business #design #imported:pinboard #twitter
archive.org #25145

enoughalready » San Francisco Is Eating Itself

http://alexcastle.net/2014/01/17/san-francisco-is-eating-itself/#comment-432
It’s just such a bummer to see a place that I remember as openminded, laid back, creative, nonjudgmental erupting with all this anger, everyone pointing fingers, blaming people that really aren’t to blame. Come on, guys. You’re better than this.
#apple #california #facebook #google #imported:pinboard #sanfrancisco #tech #to:fb #twitter
archive.org #32031

Origin of the @reply – Digging through twitter’s history | Anarchogeek

http://anarchogeek.com/2012/07/09/origin-of-the-reply-digging-through-twitters-history/
Twitter’s been around for over 6 years now, and it’s most of it’s early history has been forgotten. The amazing thing about twitter as a platform and community is that it’s evolution has come through it’s use. Through use, people together evolve new ways of communicating. The #hashtag, the retweet, the @reply, follow friday, trending topics, real time twitter search, explaining twitter trends, cc-ing users, etc… These were all creations of the user base, people tried out ideas and build them. Twitter the company later adopted the conventions of it’s community and formalized the tools. This letting the community of users create, and then adopting the practices is critical to how Twitter’s grown to be such an amazing platform. It’s also why new efforts to deliver a ‘consistent experience‘ are a terrible idea and if they succeed will kill twitter’s future innovation.
#apis #history #imported:pinboard #social #to:fb #twitter #webdev
archive.org #32736

Origin of the @reply – Digging through twitter’s history | Anarchogeek

http://anarchogeek.com/2012/07/09/origin-of-the-reply-digging-through-twitters-history
Twitter’s been around for over 6 years now, and it’s most of it’s early history has been forgotten. The amazing thing about twitter as a platform and community is that it’s evolution has come through it’s use. Through use, people together evolve new ways of communicating. The #hashtag, the retweet, the @reply, follow friday, trending topics, real time twitter search, explaining twitter trends, cc-ing users, etc… These were all creations of the user base, people tried out ideas and build them. Twitter the company later adopted the conventions of it’s community and formalized the tools. This letting the community of users create, and then adopting the practices is critical to how Twitter’s grown to be such an amazing platform. It’s also why new efforts to deliver a ‘consistent experience‘ are a terrible idea and if they succeed will kill twitter’s future innovation.
#apis #history #social #to:fb #twitter #webdev
archive.org #22296

Scripting News: Twitter is a Corporate API

http://scripting.com/stories/2012/07/07/twitterIsACorporateApi.html
Conclusion -- corporate APIs are good for the corporations that own them, and pretty much bad for everyone else. I would be reluctant to develop on any corporate API unless I was prepared to have my work completely deleted or obviated or usurped by the platform vendor. You really don't have any power. However it's pretty much impossible to avoid them. But try to. And don't be a crybaby when you get hurt. permalink
#apis #imported:pinboard #twitter #webdev
archive.org #22277

Of parser-fetishists and semi-colons | Christian Heilmann

http://christianheilmann.com/2012/04/16/of-parser-fetishists-and-semi-colons/
I think it is a sign that as developers we are either terribly bored or we are out of ideas when we start to go down to bickering about violating accepted ways of development. We should concentrate on building amazing tools and experiences for users out there rather than smugly trying to undo conventions we’ve been following for years now. The web standards movement was not about enforcing arbitrary code syntax on poor developers who now have to type a few keys more. It is about making code predictable, extensible and easy to explain to newcomers. Confusing these matters doesn’t help the cause of making a new generation of developers embrace the web as a platform. Don’t be that guy.
#amen #code #coding #imported:pinboard #javascript #standards #to:fb #twitter #webdev
archive.org #32942

Of parser-fetishists and semi-colons | Christian Heilmann

http://christianheilmann.com/2012/04/16/of-parser-fetishists-and-semi-colons
I think it is a sign that as developers we are either terribly bored or we are out of ideas when we start to go down to bickering about violating accepted ways of development. We should concentrate on building amazing tools and experiences for users out there rather than smugly trying to undo conventions we’ve been following for years now. The web standards movement was not about enforcing arbitrary code syntax on poor developers who now have to type a few keys more. It is about making code predictable, extensible and easy to explain to newcomers. Confusing these matters doesn’t help the cause of making a new generation of developers embrace the web as a platform. Don’t be that guy.
#amen #code #coding #javascript #standards #to:fb #twitter #webdev
archive.org #21514

A tweet filtering proxy with Node.JS: Part 1 | Guillermo Rauch's Devthought

http://www.devthought.com/2012/01/24/filtering-tweets-for-your-favorite-client-with-node-js/
The technique I’m going to describe consists in setting up a proxy to the Twitter API that lives in our computer, powered by Node.JS, that filters back responses based on arbitrary rules we setup. Not only does this give us the flexibility of using JavaScript, but it also means it will work with any Twitter client that leverages the API transparently. Yes, this includes the Twitter website!
#apis #imported:pinboard #nodejs #twitter
archive.org #33224

A tweet filtering proxy with Node.JS: Part 1 | Guillermo Rauch's Devthought

http://www.devthought.com/2012/01/24/filtering-tweets-for-your-favorite-client-with-node-js
The technique I’m going to describe consists in setting up a proxy to the Twitter API that lives in our computer, powered by Node.JS, that filters back responses based on arbitrary rules we setup. Not only does this give us the flexibility of using JavaScript, but it also means it will work with any Twitter client that leverages the API transparently. Yes, this includes the Twitter website!
#apis #nodejs #twitter
archive.org #20783

SE Podcast #27 – Dave Winer - Blog – Stack Exchange

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/11/se-podcast-27-dave-winer
Right now, Dave’s working on a “magnificent symphony of software” – it’s the communication system he wants to use. It involves a minimal blogging tool with only RSS output (plus a dongle that will push the RSS to twitter, etc), a “River of News” aggregator, and an overarching tool for creating content that can be picked apart and included on other platforms.
#davewiner #news #podcasts #rss #social #tech #twitter
archive.org #19840

Twitter, the conversation-enabler? Actually, most news orgs use the service as a glorified RSS feed » Nieman Journalism Lab

http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/11/twitter-the-conversation-enabler-actually-most-news-orgs-use-the-service-as-a-glorified-rss-feed
A new Pew study finds news outlets using Twitter almost exclusively for one-way distribution — of their own content. And this is why I only follow live human beings on Twitter, for the most part. That, and funny bots.
#community #media #rss #social #socialmedia #twitter
archive.org #19800

A Guide to the Occupy Wall Street API, Or Why the Nerdiest Way to Think About OWS Is So Useful - Technology - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/print/2011/11/a-guide-to-the-occupy-wall-street-api-or-why-the-nerdiest-way-to-think-about-ows-is-so-useful/248562
This idea crystallized for me yesterday when Jonathan Glick, a long-time digital journalist, tweeted, "I think #OWS was working better as an API than a destination site anyway." If you get the idea, go ahead and skip ahead to the documentation below. If you don't get, let me explain why it might be the most useful way of thinking about #Occupy.
#apis #internet #ows #twitter
archive.org #19789

How the Hashtag Became a Campaign Battleground - Nancy Scola - Politics - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/11/how-the-hashtag-became-a-campaign-battleground/247488
"It's all geek culture," says Lotan, "and it's amazing how Twitter has brought it to the masses so that everyone and their mother is using it. It's about letting people dive into conversations they wouldn't have seen otherwise. Twitter is one massive conversation, and those conventions let you dive into ideas, into funny inside jokes."
#hashtags #social #twitter
archive.org #19301

A browsable, searchable archive of tweets | stopdesign

http://stopdesign.com/archive/2010/03/02/browsable-searchable-archive-of-tweets.html
"In the past, I’ve wanted to browse or search through my own tweets. Viewing my Twitter profile is one way to do that. But if I want to browse back through history, it’s a chore to go back very far. And forget about searching through my own tweets on Twitter since Twitter Search currently only goes back about a seven days."
#archiving #social #tutorial #twitter #webdev
archive.org #13592

Packrati.us = Twitter + Delicious

http://packrati.us
This is what I wish Delicious had done with Twitter. pinboard.in has this built-in, by the way. "This site provides a simple bookmarking service. We follow your twitter feed, and whenever one of your tweets contains URLs, we add them to your delicious.com bookmarks. Optionally, bookmark URLs in @replies to you. We'll even add a delicious tag identifying the sender if you like."
#bookmarking #delicious #services #twitter
archive.org #12968

Is a Perfect Storm Forming For Distributed Social Networking?

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_a_perfect_storm_forming_for_distributed_social_networking.php
"Maybe it's better to host your own. That's the thinking coming from a growing number of early technology adopters as service after service goes down, sells out or otherwise frustrates the users who have published their content online only to see the tools they use become broken or less desirable. "
#facebook #facefeed #friendface #friendfeed #networking #social #socialsoftware #system:host=www.readwriteweb.com #twitter
archive.org #12496

joshua's blog: on url shorteners

http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners.html
"So there are clear benefits for both the service (low cost of entry, potentially easy profit) and the linker (the quick rush of popularity). But URL shorteners are bad for the rest of us.I feel that shorteners are bad for the ecosystem as a whole. But what can be done to improve the situation?"
#delicious #links #twitter #urls #web #webdev
archive.org #12107

No RT

http://gordonbrander.com/no-rt
"RT is an outmoded and misguided way to dish out your hi-5's. It seemed cool at one time, but now we know it's noisy and doesn't add value. Let's create a better Twitter. Whether you are a reformed re-tweeter *points to self*, have always hated it or are somewhere in-between, join us to keep RT's from clogging up the intertubes. There is no shame here. Only hugs."
#retweets #socialmedia #twitter
archive.org #12055

Pistachio - HOME

http://pistachioconsulting.com
"Pistachio Consulting delivers microsharing and social media strategies to improve both your company’s operations and customer engagement. We provide the insight and know-how into the latest tools and technologies that are applicable to your business and your message, along with soup-to-nuts program development and advisement. Drop us a line and let us help you ratchet up your business."
#consulting #metablogging #microblogging #twitter #ublogging
archive.org #11372