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My Final Tweet

I loved Twitter. It was the only social media app I truly enjoyed, and I tweeted often. From 2008 when I joined until Elon Musk bought the company, I wasn't only engaged but I was attending Twitter Canada events and I even befrieded the Director of Communications. A lot of
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Bluesky!

When Elon Musk bought Twitter, I started looking for another place to happen. I continued to tweet, even when the app was re-branded X, but I tried several other social media apps looking for my plan B. I tried Threads and didn't like it at all. I tried Mastodon and
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The Day Twitter Died

Twitter was the only social media app I actually enjoyed. When it was bought by a megalomaniac billionaire, I was concerned, but I was willing to put up with all the noise so long as it functioned properly. Today, it stopped functioning properly. I keep getting an alert that I've
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My Post-Twitter Plan

Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter five months ago, users have been bracing for the social media site's demise. Twitter is dying, apparently. I have no idea what the future of Twitter entails, all I know is that of this writing I'm still active on the site and I'm
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Twitter Is On Fire 🔥

Typically, when I use the 🔥 emoji, it's a good thing. Hebsy was pure 🔥 today. Stu Stone's movie is 🔥. Felix Auger-Aliassime is on 🔥. 🔥 is good. Usually. Twitter is on 🔥, and it's not good. It's no secret to anyone who has been paying attention to my ramblings here over the past decade,
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The Joke's On Me

Yesterday, I stumbled upon an observation I thought was accurate. It seems the Jokers in the various iterations of Batman tend to depict their era's drug of choice. I shared this image in the tweet below. This is accurate. All the Jokers depict their era's drug of choice. pic.twitter.
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Whose Tweet Is it, Anyway?

Following the Royal's extra innings win over the A's last night, Toronto Sun columnist Steve Simmons tweeted at Blue Jays all-star Jose Bautista. Usually, such rhetorical tweets don't get a reply from the athlete mentioned. This time, Joey Bats responded. Good for Bautista, right? I was one of over 1900
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The Power of Now

Young people born into the internet age will never fully appreciate how crazy instant and borderless it all is. At 3:48pm, I received an email from a Caterina who found me after Googling for Arnold Lanni's email address. Arnold Lanni, who I first wrote about here, is a former
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Andy Gray's @si_vault Toronto Picture Dump

Andy Gray from Sports Illustrated is tweeting Toronto-centric pictures this afternoon. I'm a Toronto-centric kind of guy who loves sports (and gets Sports Illustrated every week), so I'm collecting them all here along with Andy's accompanying tweets and some commentary from yours truly. AG: Jack Morris, Dave Stewart, Todd Stottlemyre
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10,000 Tweets

I first joined Twitter in 2008 as a social experiment.  Would people use Twitter as an RSS alternative? In early 2009, I started complementing the twitterfeed tweets with actual status update tweets.  Now three years later, I see I've hit 10,000 tweets.  That milestone is as good a reason
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Blue Jays on Twitter

There are nearly 300 verified Major League Baseball Twitter accounts. If you're looking for members of our Toronto Blue Jays to follow on Twitter, here are all Blue Jays on Twitter. J.P. Arencibia @jparencibia9 Brett Cecil @Cec0208 Brett Lawrie @blawrie13 Jesse Litsch @JesseLitsch Ricky Romero @RickyRo24 Travis Snider @Lunchboxhero45
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