A Twit At Last
Sep. 22nd, 2021 08:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerI’ve alluded to before about “reading online feeds without being subscribed to the service they’re fed from,” and I suppose I have to admit to one of those services being Twitter. In the past little while, though, it’s been getting harder to look at “tweets and their responses” without running into demands to sign up. I did go over a number of years from “everything on the service feels ephemeral, and anyway I’m not good at ‘witty telegraphese’” (given the lengthy sentences I piece together here, merely hoping they’re not “run-on”) to “it’s a concentrator of awfulness; everyone I’ve really tried looking at there seems to agree.” One certain condition about that did change earlier this year, but I was still leery about signing up. In the end, though, I might have just decided to take a chance. Somebody signed up on Twitter over a decade ago taking the account name I use here (and left one single tweet in that account), but it did turn out the one-letter-longer account name I had to settle for on Tumblr was still available on Twitter as well: ![[twitter.com profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico)
krjpalmer.
For the moment I’ve set no interests and followed no accounts, and I’m still looking at individual accounts that have caught my eye just the way I used to, although perhaps the experience is just a little smoother now. I know I could “like” things or even respond to them, although I can suppose “accounts that follow nobody” are considered suspicious. I did try linking to a post here, and was left thinking “it could very well be Dreamwidth is too high-class to have a ‘preview box’ show up.” Of course, if I figured everything out in a day it might be all too easy.
For the moment I’ve set no interests and followed no accounts, and I’m still looking at individual accounts that have caught my eye just the way I used to, although perhaps the experience is just a little smoother now. I know I could “like” things or even respond to them, although I can suppose “accounts that follow nobody” are considered suspicious. I did try linking to a post here, and was left thinking “it could very well be Dreamwidth is too high-class to have a ‘preview box’ show up.” Of course, if I figured everything out in a day it might be all too easy.
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Date: 2021-09-23 12:32 am (UTC)(I'm there as "DEWLineO". I meant to take "DEWLineOttawa", but it cut me off at the eighth glyph!)
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Date: 2021-09-23 01:23 am (UTC)