Oh my. Twitter is actually dying. I never thought I'd see that. But
the Muskrat, Musty Moldy Musk, Elon Man-Baby, is actively trying to kill
it.
I've been on Twitter since May of 2011, roughly eleven years,
and I found it a good way to connect with other writers of all sorts of
genres, political strategists, or that guy who posts foxes on the hour,
every hour. It was a way to post about my books, new, old, upcoming in a
quick and easy format. Would a lot of people see it? Maybe, but the
idea was it potentially could be seen by a lot of people.
I could
also follow celebrities if I so chose and they'd never know I was there,
but it was a fun way to be connected without it costing either of us
anything.
But now...
The Muskrat wants to put everything
behind a paywall because he made a really bad business decision
(something he's known for) and he's not making money. People are
leaving, he says he'll only show the feed of verified check marks, but
he's removing the legacy checkmarks (those who were truly verified
before he took over). So the only ones who have the check marks are
those who have paid, but haven't been vetted. Good plan. /sarcasm
The
thing is, the whole reason Twitter was valuable was because of us
peons, the ones who came to set up a social media network, make friends,
read news, and by default, see the advertising the big companies put
out there. We are the products of Twitter, and the whole reason
companies advertise there, and Twitter makes money. By making us pay to
be there or hiding our tweets unless we pay him to tweet, he'll drive
away the products and then the advertisers.
Yup the first thing was Muskrat buying it and then firing everyone. Then losing all their products (users). Well done, idiot.
A link to the article where the Muskrat is suddenly getting this though not getting it: Musk Kills Twitter
The
big realization for those of us who are small creators of art, music,
books, and such is it might just die and there won't be a reason to be
there. But we don't want to lose our followers, friends, and colleagues.
We LOVED our communities on Twitter, #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction,
#OpenSim #SecondLife are just a few that we've lost at other social
networks.
I'm not going to pay to be a product at Twitter. It's
not worth it to me. So the Nookettes decided it would be a good time to
tell everyone where else they could find us. So over the next week, the Nookettes will be posting links to places where you can find us that are not Twitter just in case the place implodes and the Muskrat hides our tweets.
So here's the schedule and this is like a Writer Lift. We all post the featured locations of where we can be found (our direct link to those sites) on those days and follow those who post. That way we can get our followers to find us when Twitter disintegrates.
Schedule of Tweets on Twitter:
Friday, November 11 2022: Blogs around the interwebs - Blogger, Discus, Wordpress etc
Saturday, November 12 2022: Alternate 'Twitter' like Mastodon, Countersocial, etc.
Sunday, November 13 2022: Visually centered social media like Instagram, Pinterest, DeviantArt etc.
Monday, November 14 2022: Video focused social media like YouTube, TikTok, etc.
Tuesday, November 15 2022: Discord, Reddit, Patreon, Radish
Wednesday, November 16 2022: Old faithfuls like Tumblr, Linkedin, etc.
Thursday, November 17 2022: Still working but for how long like Facebook, MeWe, Ello, etc.
Remember, post the places where you can be found and follow the ones of people you know. The idea is to make sure we can still get in contact with each other as things develop or disintegrate on Twitter.
Honestly, you won't go wrong with just following blogs because they've survived the Prudifying of Tumblr, the Dismantling of Google+, and the Algorithm Throttling of Facebook. They'll survive the Great Twitter Migration, too. Yes, those places were great because you didn't have to look hard for anyone. But if you've known people for a while, you know their blogs and you can still find them, even when the big social media sites take a nosedive.
So follow us at Twitter for now to get the scoop on where we'll be when the site crashes, and happy creating!
https://twitter.com/SiobhanMuir
https://twitter.com/nara_malone
https://twitter.com/DorenaBree
