Jamie Todd Rubin

Writer, Coder, Avid Reader

Est. 2005 • 20th Year 🎉

Tag: twitter

  • Twitter Meltdown, Mastodon, and the End of Social Media (for Me)?

    13 Nov 2022 » 7 min read

    I Sometime in 1993 or early 1994 I had this great idea for a science fiction story: what if television suddenly went away? All of the devices across the globe suddenly stopped working for no explainable reason. No one could figure it out. What would it do to society? According to my battered copy of…

  • 20 favorite Twitter follows in 2014

    29 Dec 2014 » 1 min read about social networking

    [I]t is clear by looking at my Twitter profile that I don’t follow a whole lot of accounts. But every now and then, I’ll find something on Twitter that stands out from the crowd. Here are 20 of the Twitter accounts I enjoyed in 2014, and I would certainly recommend them if your tastes align…

  • Charting Twitter Follower Counts Over Time

    04 Dec 2014 » 2 min read about social networking

    [T]here was a time, two or three years ago, when I paid close attention to Twitter statistics, and in particular, that ever important Number of Followers. It’s a number so in vogue that I’ve seen in mentioned in half a dozen TV shows. Somewhere along the way, I pretty much stopped paying attention. The last…

  • My IFTTT Twitter RSS-to-Evernote Recipe is Finally Failing: 2 Workarounds

    02 Jun 2013 » 2 min read about Evernote, Technology & Gadgets

    [L]ast year, Twitter changed its API so that IFTTT could not longer use it as a trigger. Previous to that, I had an IFTTT recipe that sent all of my tweets to Evernote. I came up with a workaround that used Twitter’s RSS feed to send all of my Tweets to Evernote. That worked for…

  • The Twitter twipping point

    28 Jun 2011 » 1 min read about social networking

    I noted today on my Twitter feed that I have reached what I call (in Elmer Fudd-like tones) a Twitter twipping-point; that is: the point at which your number of followers exceeds the number of people you follow. As of a little while ago, I followed 198 people and had 199 followers. I’m not really…

  • Facebook/Twitter integration FAIL: a quick fix?

    13 Mar 2011 » 1 min read about social networking

    Yesterday my integration between Twitter and Facebook broke once again. This morning, rather than go through the elaborate steps I worked out last time, the IT guy in me rebelled and decided to experiment. Here’s a simply fix that I tried (in intuition) and in this case, it worked for me: Go to Facebook Go…

  • Upgrade to WordPress 3.1 and Feedburner

    24 Feb 2011 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta

    Last night, I upgraded the site to the production release of WordPress 3.1 and there are some definite visible improvements. One of the most convenient is the improved ability at linking within the site. I haven’t fully investigated all of the other goodies packed into this release, but I must say that since I switched…

  • Twitter-to-Facebook integration FAIL

    15 Feb 2011 » 1 min read about social networking

    Over the last few days, a lot of people have been experiencing a major FAIL relaying tweets from Twitter to Facebook. I experienced this annoying failure as well, and here are the steps I took to fix it two days ago: From Facebook Go to Apps -> Twitter Disconnect the app (click the “Want to…

  • Twitter!

    21 Aug 2008 » 1 min read

    I’ve now got a twitter account. All you Digital Natives out there know what I’m talking about. For everyone else, I wouldn’t worry too much about it.