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Media outlets and Black Lives Matter tweets

6 months ago 4 min read African-Americans Black Lives Matter Media social media Twitter

The past week has seen numerous protests nationwide sparked by Minneapolis police officers killing George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man. This round of Black Lives Matter protests have, in spite of the coronavirus

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My social network usage (Spring 2020)

9 months ago 3 min read Facebook Instagram LinkedIn Mastodon Pinterest Pixelfed social media Tech Twitter

Here’s my annual look at my current social network usage. Facebook I shuttered the blog’s Facebook page in late 2018, and not reopened it since. At this point, Facebook

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Twitter to stop carrying political ads

a year ago 2 min read Facebook social media Tech Twitter

Twitter’s not been in the news as much as Facebook has lately. That’s despite Twitter having its own long list of problems. There’s its problems with trolls;

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My Twitter basic usage tips

a year ago 3 min read social media Tech TweetDeck Twitter

I notice that I’ve written a lot about Facebook over the past few years, but not as much about Twitter. It might be from Facebook’s massive popularity even in

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The presence of popular political leaders on Twitter

a year ago 3 min read Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Barack Obama Dan Crenshaw Democrats Donald Trump Facebook politics Republicans social media Tech Twitter

Many people are concerned about their social media followings, and this also extends to politicians. Famously (or infamously), there’s Donald Trump’s Twitter presence. However, most other politicians have also

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My thoughts on Mastodon and Pixelfed, open source social networks

a year ago 4 min read Facebook Instagram Mastodon Pixelfed social media Tech Twitter

Update (7/4/20): I’ve shuttered my Mastodon and Pixelfed pages out of a lack of use, so I’ve deleted the links to those. Over the past week, I&

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My social network usage (Spring 2019)

2 years ago 3 min read Facebook Google Plus Instagram LinkedIn Pinterest social media Tech Twitter

It’s been about a year since I last wrote a dedicated post about my social network usage. Thus, I thought it was time for another update. Facebook Photo by PhotoMIX-Company (Pixabay

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Twitter's 2018 year in review

2 years ago 4 min read 2018 Barack Obama Donald Trump social media Tech Twitter year in review

2018 for Twitter went about as well as it did for 2017. It still has a lot of the same problems: a lower user count versus Facebook (well, it’s a “

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Blog status update (September 2018): Social network changes

2 years ago 3 min read blog Diverse Tech Geek email Facebook Google Plus Instagram RSS social media Tech Twitter

It’s time for another of my periodic updates on what’s going on with this blog. While Diverse Tech Geek is doing fine, its social media presence is going through

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Twitter can support an open platform without tolerating the "alt-right"

2 years ago 3 min read free speech hate speech InfoWars social media Tech Twitter

About a year ago, I wrote about how the tech industry’s handling both hate speech and free speech issues. Since then, the past year’s seen more hate speech issues

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