I first signed up for Twitter in 2007, and I went through a couple of periods of high activity on it: 2010–2011 (when I had lots of friends also using Twitter) and 2015–2021ish (when I was mostly following political content and passively liking/RTing). What I ended up noticing is that Twitter was addictive (the intermittent rewards of “good tweets”!) and mostly a net drain on my mental health (so much drama and outrage). These days I severely ration the Twitter accounts I check and I’m much happier for it.
Posts
- : 🖥 So Elon Musk Bought Twitter: Just before I went to bed last night, the news broke that notoriously obnoxious billionaire Elon Musk had clinched a …
- : 🖥 Micro post: For the past few days, I’ve been taking a break from Twitter. In recent weeks it had been irritating me more than …
- : 🖥 The Online Firehose: FYI: This post is a rewritten and expanded version of this post that I published on Dreamwidth (external link) …
Links
- : 🖥 Link: “4 Twitter features Mastodon is better for not having” by Scott Feeney
- : 📰 Link: “Welcome to hell, Elon”
- : 🖥 Link: “Twitter considers letting you limit tweets to ‘trusted friends’”
- : 🇵🇸 Link: “Twitter Said It Restricted Palestinian Writer's Account by Accident”
Interactions
Jessica Smith is a socialist and a feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.