First they took away my favourite app (Tweetbot), next week they’ll prevent me from syndicating notes from my own site using a free API.
This new direction for Twitter makes me very sad. twitter.com…
I’ve added Mastodon syndication to my website’s backend, which means this post should appear on my website (barryfrost.com), my Twitter account (@barryf) and my Mastodon account (@barryf). #indieweb
Because of the alarming events unfolding at Twitter, like many I’ve been exploring Mastodon. I’m optimistic. You can find me at mastodon.social… or my own #indieweb website barryfrost.com.
As seems obligatory today, this note tests whether I can post tweets with over 140 characters, now that Twitter supports up to 280. I’m posting this to my site first (naturally) and hopefully the Ruby @gem and Twitter’s API won’t bork when it’s syndicated 🤞
In September 2006 I posted one of the first ever tweets about Arsenal Football Club, lamenting my team’s fondness for always trying to walk it in after watching a frustrating draw with Middlesborough at The Emirates. barryf.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com…
Every now and again someone rediscovers it and I get a barrage of retweets and replies, some polite, others from goading fans of other teams seeing the activity and incorrectly assuming I’m talking about the current team.
So reluctantly I’ve...
Twitter adds RT-with-quote functionality via progressive enhancement: it uses a link to the original tweet. https://twitter.com/twitter/status/585225218093932544