Nearly four years ago, I wrote How To Fix Twitter, suggesting that Twitter needed to make verification available for everyone for a nominal fee, then enable users to toggle “Verified” notifications to fix most of the interaction. In an extremely chaotic way, we’ve watched this play out and as it turns out Twitter remains just…
Over the last 15 years, my affinity for social networks have come and gone, but Twitter has remained largely constant and for the most part, beneficial. That said, Twitter has some serious wounds that they have yet to address after all of this time. Twitter does have a tendency to get toxic in its discourse…
May 9, 2005: Early Monday morning I ventured onto Xanga to be one of the cool kids and start my own blog. While I wrote the majority of my inaugural post on May 8, it hit the interwebs on at 22 minutes past midnight on the 9th. Today I am ten years and (only) 770…
Yesterday turned out to be a pretty busy day for us. In addition go going out to breakfast and running errands, we were also treated to a date night (dinner and a movie). Ultimately we went to over a half-dozen places, and for each one I neglected to check into Foursquare. I started using check-in…
Twitter turned eight years old yesterday and offered folks the opportunity to go down memory lane and see their first Tweet. Over 7 years later, mine is pretty terrible: Is doing his laundry and getting ready for a busy workweek! — Jeromey Balderrama (@jeromey) January 8, 2007 I first heard about Twitter through the Boagworld…