If
you're a social media addict like me you've probably noticed that
Twitter has died on its arse as of late- that Instagram is now a
thousand times more popular and people aren't finding the need to
head back to Twitter. This is a pain in the arse.
As
a blogger, I rely on other people with bigger Twitter accounts to
retweet links to my blog to get page views. Now, though, people have
neglected those twitter accounts, not unlike those that followed
them- my audience. Instagram doesn't have the ease of use that
Twitter has.
Twitter
has always been great for sharing links. Instagram only allows you to
put a link in your bio. Links in photo updates don't work, nor do
they on the story feature. Accounts with more than 10k followers have
access to the 'swipe up' feature that allows links in stories that
will be accessible for only 24 hours, before the story is deleted.
Hence,
I still want to use Twitter but who's going to read my stuff? Who's
going to retweet my links? Not many. Also, I'm assuming I'm following
a massive number of now-inactive accounts. It's time for some
mass-unfollowing.
I've
just logged into Unfollowspy, another website offering some analysis of your Twitter account- the
type of third-party site Twitter are actively working on shutting
down. It allows you to sign in with your Twitter or your Soundcloud,
and can offer info on either of these platforms. On Twitter it allows
you 100 unfollows per day. It doesn't offer as much info as, say,
Statusbrew, which was great for filtering out inactive accounts.
Statusbrew allowed you (it may still do, but it currently charges) to
order your results by who last tweeted the longest ago, hence showing
you all the inactive accounts first. Unfollowspy has no such
function. The site starts to monitor your account the moment you
join, so after a few days I'm still waiting to be notified if anyone
unfollows me. Perhaps I'll get used to it, but it's a poor imitation.
I
read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a graphic novel adaptation of
the Jane Austin 'classic.' I understand there's a zany novel that
came between the original and the graphic novel. Jesus Christ. I've
never read the original, nor would I want to, but no amount of
charming monochrome artwork or undead rotting toffs levered into the
plot can mask the intolerable dullness of the original text. It's
just a load of dated aristocrats trying it on with each other.
The
new slant not just brings a marrying of horror and period, but a load
of plot holes with it; a few 'how-would-they-know-that moments. Not a
favourite.
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