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My Final Tweet

By Toronto Mike • Thursday, March 13th, 2025 • 0 Comments

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!

By Toronto Mike • Tuesday, November 26th, 2024 • 0 Comments

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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Where I'm At With Social Media Apps

By Toronto Mike • Sunday, March 24th, 2024 • 0 Comments

Where I'm At With Social Media Apps

It's been a spell since I wrote about my desire to find a Twitter alternative. This will be a stream of consciousness mind dump of where I'm at with it all. I've been trying to use use Threads, now that I can post from my laptop, but it's just not

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Threads, Bluesky, Twitter et al

By Toronto Mike • Friday, July 7th, 2023 • 0 Comments

Threads, Bluesky, Twitter et al

The other day I went off on Twitter because it literally stopped functioning for me. For two days I couldn't see tweets because of some rate limit I hit. I was so ticked off, I moved the not-so-secret Twitter DM group to Whatsapp. Ever since Elon fired an FOTM HOFer

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The Day Twitter Died

By Toronto Mike • Saturday, July 1st, 2023 • 0 Comments

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

By Toronto Mike • Wednesday, March 29th, 2023 • 0 Comments

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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Cam Gordon Was Musked: Fired as Twitter's Director of Communications After 7.5 Years

By Toronto Mike • Saturday, November 5th, 2022 • 0 Comments

Cam Gordon Was Musked: Fired as Twitter's Director of Communications After 7.5 Years

Cam Gordon has Tweeted that after 7.5 years as the Director of Communications for the Canadian office, he's been fired as part of Elon Musk's global culling of Twitter staff. This past week, my 7.5 years leading communications for @TwitterCanada came to an end. A trillion thanks to

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Twitter Is On Fire 🔥

By Toronto Mike • Friday, November 4th, 2022 • 0 Comments

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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Mike Ranks the Social Media Networks

By Toronto Mike • Thursday, June 25th, 2020 • 0 Comments

I never had a MySpace page. I helped Custom run his in the early 2000s, but I never had an interest in creating one of my own. I preferred spending my energies here. I resisted creating a Facebook account until the summer of 2007 when my running group started planning

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My Visit to Twitter Canada HQ

By Toronto Mike • Friday, December 14th, 2018 • 0 Comments

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I Finally Inspired a Twitter Moment

By Toronto Mike • Wednesday, September 5th, 2018 • 0 Comments

When Cam Gordon was on Toronto Mike'd to kick out the jams, he gave me an old BiWay bag he'd discovered in storage. I Tweeted a picture that would go on to inspire a Twitter Moment. Here's my Tweet: This Biway bag was given to me by @cam_gordon. It's

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Toronto Duck Tweet Now My Most Popular Tweet Ever

By Toronto Mike • Saturday, July 1st, 2017 • 0 Comments

Did we learn nothing from the Trojan War? pic.twitter.com/xrlA5cy30n— Toronto Mike (@torontomike) June 30, 2017I actually prefer this pic of the Toronto Duck I took from a little west of HTO Park

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The Joke's On Me

By Toronto Mike • Saturday, August 8th, 2015 • 0 Comments

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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One Little Tweet Can Make a Big Difference

By Toronto Mike • Thursday, July 16th, 2015 • 0 Comments

Last Sunday, while walking in the neighbourhood of New Toronto, I came across a sign. Flowers were stolen from a children's garden at Second Street Junior Middle School. I took this photo of the sign. I also sent out this tweet. Sign for flowers thief in New Toronto pic.twitter.

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Our Twitter in 1985

By Toronto Mike • Sunday, March 15th, 2015 • 0 Comments

Shared by @retrontario with a comparison first tweeted by @scroll, channel 10 was our Twitter in the mid-80s. Here's a snippet from July 10, 1985.

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Whose Tweet Is it, Anyway?

By Toronto Mike • Wednesday, October 1st, 2014 • 0 Comments

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

By Toronto Mike • Monday, September 22nd, 2014 • 0 Comments

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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Merging Social Media Accounts

By Toronto Mike • Sunday, August 3rd, 2014 • 0 Comments

Over the past year we’ve seen the rebranding of several Toronto staples, namely the LCBO and the Beer Store. While the logos have only been affected so far, branding changes may spill over into their online profiles at some point. So if they want to rebrand their social media

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Norm MacDonald on The Summit Series

By Toronto Mike • Tuesday, September 25th, 2012 • 0 Comments

The 40th anniversary of "The Goal" is mere days away, and Norm MacDonald has tweeted his memories of the 1972 Summit Series. It's an amazing read. Speaking of, it was said in 1972 that Canada was the best in two things: Hockey and Wheat.The Soviets always won The Gold

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Andy Gray's @si_vault Toronto Picture Dump

By Toronto Mike • Wednesday, June 6th, 2012 • 0 Comments

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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The Leafs Official Twitter Feed and What It Could Learn From the Kings

By Toronto Mike • Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 • 0 Comments

The Maple Leafs' official Twitter feed isn't bad. It's informative and engaged, and it says "cheers" a lot. It practically has a personality... But then there's the Los Angeles Kings' official Twitter feed. Now it has personality, and even likes to trash talk. Here's their infamous taunting of Canucks fans

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10,000 Tweets

By Toronto Mike • Saturday, April 7th, 2012 • 0 Comments

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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Twitter Client Usage - How Do You Tweet?

By Toronto Mike • Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 • 0 Comments

According to a Sysomos survey, Twitter users only send 58% of their overall Tweets using the company’s own proprietary Twitter applications and website. If my math is right, that means 42% of us use non-official Twitter apps. I'm in that 42%. I happily use Seesmic. I have one simple

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Blue Jays on Twitter

By Toronto Mike • Tuesday, March 8th, 2011 • 0 Comments

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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Kypreos on TSN: Tweet of the Year Candidate

By Toronto Mike • Saturday, February 26th, 2011 • 0 Comments

I was sitting in a Tim Hortons when the PPP guys started tweeting about Nick Kypreos' tweet. I'm sure in time we'll simply refer to it as "The Tweet". Kypreos tweeted about Bryan McCabe going to the Rangers, and TSN's Darren Dreger quickly followed that by tweeting no deal was

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