It is amazing the degree to which some people will engage in confirmation bias and believe absolute nonsense, even as the facts show the opposite is true. Over the past few months, we’ve gone throu…

Well, it happened. We knew it was coming. A prick pulled the plug. And what bothers me most about it is how Space Karen did it. My mom passed away just before Christmas. Her decline was something everyone in the family saw coming and we prepared for her demise. It still hurts like hell, but […]

Thoughts on Twitter, Mastodon, and owning your data

Aulia Masna of Macworld Indonesia interviews Loren Brichter, the creator of Tweetie for Mac and iPhone.

Twitter has a new CEO. And he'd like to see your code, please

Read to the end for a good meme about British politics

When WhatsApp was sold to Facebook in 2014, it had almost half a billion monthly users, but a team of just 50 people running everything. Compare this to Twitter, which today has a staff of 7,500 to manage half the number of users. Yet Musk is the crazy one here for suggesting that maybe Twitter could operate with a mere TWO THOUSAND em...

Twitter is rolling out the ability to edit tweets to Blue subscribers in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

The turmoil associated with Elon Musk’s bid to purchase the company was a breaking point.

Twitter’s product leaders have their work cut out for them.

Twitter wants public safety information to remain visible.

Last week, one of my colleagues informed me that the word “tweet” was now included in the Oxford English Dictionary (see “Quiet announcement” at the end of the page.) The noun and verb tweet (in the social-networking sense) has just been added to the OED. This breaks at least one OED rule, namely that a […]