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Twitter – Remember when your API’s were open, you were better then

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So Twitter now that you are one of the social media platforms in the rarified space of the Facebook variety you have begun to cut access to elements of your API that other services like Tumblr used. I guess you are not really a social network when it comes to developers. What gives, it was …

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Twitter Blackout OVER YAY

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So twitter was down for an hour or so and my ability to randomly communicate was down for a bit (Nooooo, kidding). It is so hard to believe that it has been around for just a few years and for me it has replaced texting and is in some ways the only way I communicate with some people. It is one of the social media pillars that is second only to Facebook and YouTube and I have come to rely on it a lot just to connect with people and find out what is going on.

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New Twitter Makeover for Larry (I didn’t know the bird even had a name)

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I know twitter changed Larry aka the twitter bird. They changed the orientation and the branding guidelines. They made him more upright and gave him a hair (I mean vector) cut. It is nice and all but being a more nuanced change, does anyone really care. Twitter is my go to social network and the video showing off the slight modifications to the iconic bird has lots of hits but whatever.

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