Tag: Twitter
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Overton Out
This article first appeared in Village magazine, May/June 2023 edition As journalists drift back to Twitter after the initial wave of enthusiasm for Mastodon, accepting diktats from Elon Musk in return for his audience, the federated networks exemplified by Mastodon deserve a second look. Twitter changed, not gradually then suddenly as Hemingway had it, but…
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Do Not Feed The Bots
An edited version of this article first appeared in Village magazine, November 2017 edition One in four twitter followers of Philip Boucher Hayes are fake accounts, the RTÉ broadcaster announced on his twitter feed recently. Around the end of August, Boucher-Hayes had noticed an uptick in new followers on Twitter, which he had monitored since.…
