{"id":26195,"date":"2022-10-28T09:30:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T16:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=26195"},"modified":"2022-10-28T09:30:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T16:30:06","slug":"if-twitter-falls-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/10\/28\/if-twitter-falls-over\/","title":{"rendered":"If Twitter Falls Over&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1415,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/djwudi&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/djwudi&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:695,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/netnewswire.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260228104026\\\/https:\\\/\\\/netnewswire.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 11:15:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 21:47:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-17 08:23:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 16:22:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 04:05:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 05:20:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 10:59:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 10:59:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1436,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/mastodon.social\\\/@djwudi&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1437,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/cohost.org\\\/djwudi&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250107045955\\\/https:\\\/\\\/cohost.org\\\/djwudi&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-02 14:45:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 05:20:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 05:20:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>A friend on Facebook asked:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Leave Twitter or stay*?<br \/>\n  If you&#8217;re leaving, where are you going?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My response:<\/p>\n<p>For myself, I&#8217;ll likely keep <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/djwudi\">my account<\/a> active (deleting an account doesn&#8217;t remove it from being followed, and means that username is up for grabs, which means a bad actor\/spammer could grab it and start showing up in the feeds of anyone who was still following that username), but I may start scaling back my usage (even more than I already have). There are still a lot of people on there that I value following, but if the ratio starts to change, so it goes.<\/p>\n<p>My personal preference (at least in an ideal world) is for my own personal website. I own it, I can put what I want on it, and I&#8217;ve had a blog running there for more than 20 years now. How frequently I post to it varies depending on how much I&#8217;m sucked into Facebook or Twitter at any given time, but I&#8217;ve never let it totally die off, and maybe this will (once again) be impetus to start babbling there again.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the down side to personal blogs is that for &#8220;most people&#8221;, they&#8217;re not as visible &#8212; you have to either go to them, or have some form of <a href=\"https:\/\/netnewswire.com\/\">RSS newsreader<\/a> set up, which isn&#8217;t difficult, but if you don&#8217;t know about that as an option, it doesn&#8217;t do any good &#8212; because they&#8217;re not being algorithmically pushed into people&#8217;s faces, so you get fewer readers. And without &#8220;like&#8221; buttons or similar functionality (which I&#8217;ve not bothered to figure out how to do on mine), if the readers you do have don&#8217;t comment, then you don&#8217;t have the gratification of feedback. I&#8217;m well aware that this is one of the things that keeps sucking me back to Facebook: I can post the same thing here and on my blog, and I have no idea if anyone ever sees my blog, but here I&#8217;ll get reactions and comments.<\/p>\n<p>I also have accounts on both <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@djwudi\">Mastodon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cohost.org\/djwudi\">Cohost<\/a>, and will every so often check back in to see what&#8217;s going on there. As always, if more people I know use those more often, I&#8217;m more likely to participate more often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For myself, I&#8217;ll likely keep my account active, but I may start scaling back my usage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2038],"tags":[241],"class_list":["post-26195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}