It is Friday and Fridays are for fun. Last week was my 15 year anniversary on Twitter. I almost missed it.
2007 seems like such a long time ago. I still use Twitter but differently now. I don’t share as much and I lurk more. Twitter is a news source and often where I see local and national news first. Twitter helped me meet people that I wouldn’t know otherwise, including people that I don’t want to meet.
When Realtors started joining Twitter they would tweet about homes for sale because back in the late 00’s they were very hard to sell. There were tweeting houses too which was just plain weird.
There are people who use Twitter to constantly promote their products and services with “auto tweets” but I don’t follow any of them anymore. I remember when we had a president who tweeted he was entertaining but distracting and scary too.
I have made a lot of typos on Twitter over the years and would rather delete a tweet than edit one. It will be interesting to see how Twitter changes if an edit button is added.
There is one little Twitter trick that I learned and want to share and that is to mute annoying people rather than blocking them. Once someone is muted I no longer see their tweets. They don’t know that they have been muted. There isn’t anything bullies and trolls hate worse than being ignored.
I don’t keep track of how many followers I have but just checked and I have 8100. I seem to recall hitting 10K at some point but I think that was before Twitter did a purge and got rid of some of the Twitter bots and malicious misinformation accounts.
