Twitter is a fast and hugely lazy way to write blog articles but it works well for that purpose because the results are collected every so often and then published as a blog article.
Micro-blogging is sending out a Tweet but few fully-developed thoughts will compress to 140 characters. Twitter is useful for those which will and there is a world-wide audience, all of whom have equal access to each other. Twitter is still a closed social network but it doesn't have machine guns in the towers like the others and it's much more wide-open because you can present any damn thing you like on there without provincial Zuckerbergian, et al, censorship.
You know social networks, that's when you have thousands of friends and don't know any of them.
Penetration of Facebook with Twitter is somewhat functional as maybe sixty percent of the Tweets go through. Penetration of Google+ is zero from Twitter and that's yet another mindless pissing contest.
The primary mindless pissing contest is between Zuckerberg and Google+ for YouTube videos. Zuckerberg claims Facebook is a good platform for video but it's rubbish as no-one except some of your artificial friends will see it unless you pay him to promote it. Never, never let your art get trapped in the middle of that stupid game. YouTube is free and open to the world and Facebook absolutely is not.
It doesn't matter if it's one billion or ten billion Facebook users because there's zero chance they will see your messages. It pretends to be an open system but it isn't even close, not even internally.
We know Zuckerberg is deep into this pissing contest but we don't know the individuals who are waving their wimpy wobbly wieners back at him. It's all stupid and nothing more than a cash grab so we won't play.
So ... Tweets go out to Twitter and wherever they like. I run my Twitticisms routine to collect the most recent twenty or so. The output of that is posted to the blog and that makes an article for me. In that way, the Tweets are available to all platforms and there's nothing Zuckerberg nor anyone else can do about it. If I want a mindless provincial clerk, I'll hire a KimDavis drone.
My friend was asking about blogs and the above is specifically why I continue to use them. The combination above is the widest possible penetration I know. There are multiple other social networks and all are closed in the same way as Facebook but I don't consider them significant.
I'm not interested in Instagram as selfie monkeys don't become interesting because they have nothing better to do nor anything more eloquent to say than posting selfies. Same with Tumblr, et al, as those I don't consider significant, just more of the same. In those cases, they can find me and it doesn't matter if they do or they don't.
The main point of a blog is permanence and you can see from the long-term greatest hits some of the articles people read are from years ago and people still come back to read them.
The first is not a Facebook slam as many of you know the truth of the transience of anything on that platform. Anything you post has a moment to gain someone else's attention ... and then it's gone forever. The second is a Facebook slam as it's almost impossible to find anything you have posted previously.
Therefore, blog. It's primitive but eminently functional for my purpose and presumably for anyone who wants to do more than simply chat.
Micro-blogging is sending out a Tweet but few fully-developed thoughts will compress to 140 characters. Twitter is useful for those which will and there is a world-wide audience, all of whom have equal access to each other. Twitter is still a closed social network but it doesn't have machine guns in the towers like the others and it's much more wide-open because you can present any damn thing you like on there without provincial Zuckerbergian, et al, censorship.
You know social networks, that's when you have thousands of friends and don't know any of them.
Penetration of Facebook with Twitter is somewhat functional as maybe sixty percent of the Tweets go through. Penetration of Google+ is zero from Twitter and that's yet another mindless pissing contest.
The primary mindless pissing contest is between Zuckerberg and Google+ for YouTube videos. Zuckerberg claims Facebook is a good platform for video but it's rubbish as no-one except some of your artificial friends will see it unless you pay him to promote it. Never, never let your art get trapped in the middle of that stupid game. YouTube is free and open to the world and Facebook absolutely is not.
It doesn't matter if it's one billion or ten billion Facebook users because there's zero chance they will see your messages. It pretends to be an open system but it isn't even close, not even internally.
We know Zuckerberg is deep into this pissing contest but we don't know the individuals who are waving their wimpy wobbly wieners back at him. It's all stupid and nothing more than a cash grab so we won't play.
So ... Tweets go out to Twitter and wherever they like. I run my Twitticisms routine to collect the most recent twenty or so. The output of that is posted to the blog and that makes an article for me. In that way, the Tweets are available to all platforms and there's nothing Zuckerberg nor anyone else can do about it. If I want a mindless provincial clerk, I'll hire a KimDavis drone.
My friend was asking about blogs and the above is specifically why I continue to use them. The combination above is the widest possible penetration I know. There are multiple other social networks and all are closed in the same way as Facebook but I don't consider them significant.
I'm not interested in Instagram as selfie monkeys don't become interesting because they have nothing better to do nor anything more eloquent to say than posting selfies. Same with Tumblr, et al, as those I don't consider significant, just more of the same. In those cases, they can find me and it doesn't matter if they do or they don't.
The main point of a blog is permanence and you can see from the long-term greatest hits some of the articles people read are from years ago and people still come back to read them.
The first is not a Facebook slam as many of you know the truth of the transience of anything on that platform. Anything you post has a moment to gain someone else's attention ... and then it's gone forever. The second is a Facebook slam as it's almost impossible to find anything you have posted previously.
Therefore, blog. It's primitive but eminently functional for my purpose and presumably for anyone who wants to do more than simply chat.
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