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Success for Micro.blog

2017-02-02, 20:12 2017-02-02, 20:12 blogging / twitterLeave a comment

Manton Reece’s Kickstarter campaign for Micro.blog, which I wrote about before, was successful. In fact very successful. He made his stretch goal, which means he’ll be able to employ a part-time Community Manager for the service, which should help with the kind of abuse that we’ve seen on Twitter over …

Independent Microblogging

2017-01-07, 19:27 2017-01-07, 19:27 bloggingLeave a comment

Twitter is great in many ways, but it’s far from problem-free. (Thought experiment: if Twitter hadn’t existed, would Trump have got elected?) The abuse and lack of tools to combat it are of course the major ones. Lindy West’s Guardian article on leaving Twitter is only the latest such. But …