Notices by Ian Betteridge (ianbetteridge@mastodon.me.uk)

Worth noting: while Wordpress is removing the ability to post links to Twitter from Wordpress.com automatically, it is planning to add the ability to automatically post to Mastodon.

https://mashable.com/article/wordpress-drops-twitter-jetpack-social-sharing

@oblomov Yep!

No.

This is actually important requirement for brands to get on board with Mastodon – you need secure multi-user access to an account when managing brands.

https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/110236711267603606

The hilarious thing is that even this won’t push some of the writers involved away from #Twitter.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/6/23673043/twitter-substack-embeds-bots-tools-api

Every large brand audience development lead is currently working on a spreadsheet telling them the value of the traffic generated by #Twitter and finding it’s less than $1000 a month, while every brand legal team is creating a template letter to send to Twitter demanding takedown of accounts impersonating their trade marks. Once more, #Musk doesn’t have a clue.

https://mobile.twitter.com/verified/status/1639029459557679104

For an idea of the scale - or rather lack of scale – of traffic you get from #Twitter, well, read this tweet. He’s not joking about the “five hits”.

https://twitter.com/colliderfrosty/status/1639046591725314048?s=20

Sad to say it, but this is true for *every* category of application I have come across. Good quality Android apps tend to be OK, but few. In the same category, you will always find more and better apps on iOS. Task managers is a great example, too. Android has... erm... Todoist, I guess. iOS has Todoist and Things and Omnifocus and half a dozen other really great options.

https://daringfireball.net/2023/01/meanwhile_over_in_androidtown

#Twitter can actually close now, because this is the greatest post anyone ever made there.

I usually agree with Florian but this is daft. The idea that a feature which makes ad trackers request permission first on apps is just good for Apple and that phone networks should be allowed to form a cartel to let them violate privacy with no consent is just stupid.

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/01/to-counter-apples-devious-att-money-and.html

Reasons journalists shouldn't be on #Twitter, part 2322:

“Please give Bari full access to everything at Twitter,” #Musk wrote to a subordinate in a Signal message viewed by The Washington Post. “No limits at all.”

https://twitter.com/faizsays/status/1606668352805638144

@mario It can be done! I think you need to do it via the web interface and I’m not in front of a computer but I’ll have a look later

@mario Same, but I used “RT @“ because that was less all-pervading.

Pro-tip for anyone getting annoyed or angry about the QT debate: set a 24 hour filter on “QT” and “RT”. You can use filters to mute-out most topics, if you find you’re getting angry/stressed about it. Filters will catch most of it and give you a bit of a time out. And there is nothing wrong with that. #mastodontips

@danhugo @stavvers Part of the problem with journalism (and I have been one for nearly 28 years, gulp) is that it can be a huge, constant ego massage. Very few people are unsusceptible to that. The moment that you start thinking "don't they know who I am?" and thinking the world revolves around you you really need to take a long break from it.

@mario OK that totally beats my story :)

Nearly caught myself posting about how when I was a kid in this weather you needed to take a kettle of boiled water to the toilet to get rid of the ice because WE HAD AN OUTDOOR LOO and then remembered it makes me sound like something from the stone age.

And then I posted it anyway.