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Greg Munt
6d
I'm all-in on bringing fart jokes to LinkedIn. It will at least annoy the right people.
How many of the IRL friends were recent though? When I looked at my Twitter connections the people that became friends IRL were all pre-2012 or so. Once Twitter became a broadcast medium it lost its magic.
If you had done this two year ago, it might have actually ment something.
Elon is pretty inspiring though too - electric cars, internet in remote places and during recent NC hurricane disaster, neuralink which has already helped paraplegics, etc I hope he does tackle government efficiency too - lots of wasteful spending by government influences inflation, etc
Congratulations on your newfound freedom from deadly grade toxicity 😊
I feel this. Though clearly at much lower levels of engagement and business need. But, still really miss those early days of Twitter, and the online community of #DCTH (Design Chat Twitter Hours, or something like that!). Had an international group of peeps that would all sign in for an hour late Thursday afternoons. Open water cooler for first 5 or so minutes, then moderator would post week’s topic and we’d all chime in. Lots of WordPress designer/developers back then. Such lovely, helpful, and FUNNY folks! I cleared my calendar EVERY Thursday so as not to miss the chat. RIP Twitter. I’m going to try Bluesky next. Will look for you there. Gave up Facebook years ago, just keep account open to check in for deaths and births and such. Lost interest in Instagram when it morphed out of a pure photo sharing app.
Brian Durkin
1d
I had used twitter so much to learn and grow when starting my career and then helped others learn and grow as I would share from the great designers who would post. ...then twitter turned into a place where people politically fight, bots and hackers run the twitterscape, and I stopped learning anything useful so I stopped sharing. This all started when people started using it for the political manipulation of the massess in 2015/2016.
"[I] owe pretty much all of my professional success to Twitter." I feel you on this. The years I was most active over there was when I gained a bunch of connections, people to go to for advice, and people to cheer for as I watched their work unfold in public. It felt more like a conversation with folks there than it did on other "look at me" platforms.
Suzanne Shea
3d
I just left Twitter myself. Although I didn't have a big following there I just couldn't take it anymore.
Developer Comms
6dit's crazy and so sad.