I first joined Twitter fourteen years ago. And the main thing I use Twitter for is to vainly scream into the void hoping people will find out that I exist, and check out some of my books. (Here’s my Amazon page, if you’re curious.) To be perfectly honest, that hasn’t worked all that well. Over the years I’ve tried to expand my presence on other sites, but none of them seemed as easy to use as Twitter. Probably about a year ago, I decided to put more work into Twitter to have better/more content and to expand my follower base. Since then I’ve put a lot of work into making my twittering better.
So of course, now
is when it seems Twitter is going into a death spiral. A lot of people are talking of leaving and
looking for greener pastures. Should I
join them? But where? Facebook?
And be at the mercy of some other creepy billionaire with questionable
morals? Instagram? I’m better with words than pictures, plus it
seems like 95% of the people who follow me there are half-naked women trying to
get me to check out their OnlyFans accounts.
Mastodon? I’ve had an account for
a while, but haven’t really done much there and don’t really have any
followers. Plus, I think I read that
they don’t like you selling stuff there so my constant cry of “Buy my book”
probably wouldn’t go over well. Tribel? I just started an account, so don’t have any
followers, and it does seem like it is heavily politics centered, which isn’t
really my thing.
Right now, Twitter
remains my primary social network, something that has taken me years to get
to. I can’t just jump to another
one. My hope is that sooner, rather than
later, Musk will realize he’s in over his head and hire someone better suited
to run the site. I don’t have much hope
for that, since I think he’ll try forty-seven increasingly odd ideas to fix a
problem instead of just admitting he was wrong about something and undo a
previous “fix.”
So I’m staying,
hoping things get better. Admittedly, I’m
someone the assholes, haters, trolls, etc., have ignored because I’m not
interesting enough to harass. Or maybe since
I’ve spent the last few years unfollowing/muting assholes I’m in a little
pocket Twitter of decent people. Who
knows how long that will last.
Anyway, if you’re
at all interested on finding me on the various networks, here’s my current
list:
My personal Twitter, oneoveralpha
My writing Twitter, amanfewwords
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