(found a long time ago on Twitter)
Almost immediately after the 2024 election, I left Twitter & never went back. I was never very good at Twitter - I didn't really try to post "funny" things, just usually "live tweeted" my radio shows - but what I liked was that so many musical artists I played were on Twitter & I could tell them I was playing their music on the radio. I am guessing many of them are still there? I don't know. I know the vast majority of them never found their way to Bluesky, where I went after I left Twitter - & where I am in no way as engaged as I was on Twitter (which was, to be fair, not all that engaged beyond the "live tweeting" of shows).
As someone who was never "tagged" on Twitter very much, I didn't know that it would send you alerts when you were tagged - so when I "live tweeted" my first KBOO show, the social media person at KBOO complained to Twitter & my account was severely curtailed somehow. I never got the entire details - Twitter didn't tell me, no one at KBOO said anything, it's just that some people told me my Tweets were not going through - so I wrote to whomever to tell them I was real & not spamming - but stopped tagging the radio stations in my "live tweets." Things returned to a semblance of normal.
Though it added a layer of complication to my shows - having to tweet as well as fill out my playlists - I do miss doing that. I'd do it more on Bluesky if the artists were on Bluesky, maybe. Or maybe not. But looking for jellyfish graphics tonight had me discover this old tweet I had saved. & made me think about a time not-so-long ago when I did things I don't do anymore. Which I suspect is many things now & many more things to come the older I get.
