Category: Probstism

Looks like San Bernardino County is trying to beat Puerto Rico to Number 51!

Major Southern California county considers seceding from state

Isn’t it wonderful that no one company controls the internet and can control speech? Isn’t it wonderful that there are protocols and formats like RSS? We don’t need Twitter. It had great potential, and I was an early adopter, but it is time for it to go away.

Musk suspends journalists from Twitter, claims ‘assassination’ danger

If you’re still on Twitter, it is probably time to go. The platform will quickly become unpleasant, unproductive, and unusable under its new owner and his minions.

Twitter dissolves Trust and Safety Council

And when Twitter is just a bigger, less weird Tumblr, something tells me the advertisers will not be knocking down the door.

Twitter to Increase Tweet Character Limit to 4,000, Elon Musk Says

I left Twitter today.

Let’s be clear right up front. This is not at all in the same category as investigating a former administration for inciting an insurrection and other crimes.

House GOP pushes forward with Hunter Biden probe despite thin majority | PBS NewsHour

I hear Justin Fields is having another good game for my Chicago Bears. It’s a real shame that most of the country cannot see it because of outdated and unnecessary blackout restrictions. It is time for all sports leagues to rethink their delivery options to their customers!

Serious questions for business owners . . . Do you stay on Twitter? Do you put banners on the top of your website and promotional emails so the public knows your true Twitter handle(s)? By what percentage do you increase your legal department’s budget?

It has dawned on me that all of the businesses that kept their email lists and newsletters alive through our social media experiment are the ones that will still be able to communicate with customers in the post-social media world.

I really feel for the product team(s) at Twitter. With the owner changing terms of service at least once a day, they must be insanely busy doing the one thing product people hate most: documentation.