Can I be sad about Twitter for a moment.

I want to be sad about Twitter for just a little bit. I decided last year that I was done with Facebook. So I said goodbye. I think I have been on Facebook just a little longer than Twitter (it was about 15 years for Twitter). I had good connections with some friends but leaving seemed like the right thing to do though. I wasn't a fan of the service, and the ads and comment sections for others' posts were getting me frustrated. So I quit.

But I have always had an appreciation of Twitter. It was a really great place to connect with educators, I would get a few retweets or comments on posts to favourite authors - this was exciting. My posts were never good - I am not savvy enough to navigate the Twitter landscape. But I learned lots, and I made some good connections.

Mr. Musk decided to buy. I had already switched to Mastodon, but still held on to my Twitter account and would check it. Mostly for educational stuff, but some things were present that I had not found yet on Mastodon. Now my favourite Twitter app, Tweetbot, is broken - along with all other Third-party apps. So I'm done and grumpy, and a little sad. Musk is returning people to the platform that do not deserve attention, and breaking access for apps without warning or reasoning. I'm not okay with that, and I'm just a little sad that something that has been quite meaningful in my career and life, is now being treated so badly, so purposefully badly, that it is no fun. The rich kid has broken all the toys and stomped on home.

Oh, and now I have to be on Facebook again, because the group communications for our community theatre group are run through it. Double sad.