I follow this bot on Twitter. Very enlightening. It posts a profile of a US voter every hour taken from the 2016 Harvard Cooperative Congressional Election Study.
Tweeten
I guess I haven't really needed to find a new macOS Twitter client lately, but upon updating my home computers to High Sierra (finally), I found that the Tweetdeck macOS app doesn't really play nice with it. There's still the Tweetdeck web interface, but that lives in a browser and the way I use my browser on my computers, I can't really have Twitter hidden and buried underneath all my other tabs.
So I went in search of a new alternative. I almost paid for Tweetbot for Mac, and then at the last moment, I discovered Tweeten. Tweeten is based off of Tweetdeck which explains the familiar layout and most of the keyboard shortcuts are the same. There are a few improvements in Tweeten, like layout, account handling, and DM handling, and overall I think it's a solid FREE alternative to the official Twitter app. Tweetdeck users will feel right at home.
Will Twitter wither?
Nick Bilton wrote an interesting piece in Vanity Fair about the seemingly disastrous state in which Twitter currently resides in the tech bubble. Every time I read one of these articles about how Twitter is hemorrhaging money at every turn, it still always surprises me because I often think of Twitter as the most useful social media entity. And yet, it hasn't found a way to make money. I guess I don't quite get it.
The 282 People, Places, and Things Donald Trump has insulted on Twitter
My God, is the inauguration really this month? How quickly time passes. But also how everything sort of stays the same. For example, Donald Trump using Twitter like his diary. Back in October 2016, The New York Times compiled this complete list of 282 people, places, and things that Trump has insulted on Twitter. Each insult is directly linked to a Tweet of his (if it's deleted, you can look for it on his Twitter archive).
Just remember, for the next 4 years, Trump isn't tweeting for you. He's tweeting for himself.
Trump Twitter Archive
The Trump Twitter Archive seems like a useful archiving tool especially since it looks like Trump has no intention to willfully follow the Presidential Records Act.
Donald Trump doesn't tweet for you, he tweets for himself
No surprise here, but as always Nerdwriter puts it into more eloquent words: Donald Trump is just like us, tweeting the most stupid comments onto Twitter which automatically makes it news. But what he's doing isn't new, it's just new for the office of the President.
With all this news of Twitter being in dire financial circumstances, I wonder what he'll do if Twitter shuts down during the next 4 years.