It's a new little micro-site I've set up to support the distribution of my daily posts.
It's based on Ghost, a fantastic newsletter publishing platform. And even if you don't join, come over and have a look since it's a pretty cool design!
A downright outstanding reading list with all sorts of angles and takes on the rewilding movement. I knew rewilding was a thing, but didn't know that was the name for it. Check out and follow the mag here - @rewildingmag
Sometimes, briefly, I miss my days as an influencer online. That was never my plan, but as you know, the former Twitter used Algorithms. The more engagement you made, the higher your presence became. My followers have always been higher than the amount I follow. The more I follow, the less I see, caught up in a fast moving stream of (mostly garbage) ReTweets. #ENGAGEMENT is not Boosting or Liking, it's responding, dialogue, comments, and conversation. #Influencer#Klout#Twitter#Gifts#Thread
Everyone knows I have #ADHD, right? And that I am a Critical Thinker? I like to try new things:
While others were Retweeting every post (and getting blocked for flooding my timeline) I was spending twenty minutes, squeezing a carefully curated post into 140 characters (old Twitter)
My screen name was consistent across the internet on every platform @NovaScotiaRasta but that with RT used 19 characters of 140. YIKES! Shortened it to @NSRasta #KLOUT#trends#SM#Thread#CriticalThinking#Analysis
And in the early morning hours each day, I'd observe and study the big guys, the top news source, the top Social Media presenter, and also learn how to spot fakes, bots, and find where the Russian Troll Bots were using phrases and #spam across Twitter, in the good old days, when you could report that, and it disappeared instantly.
Now, and before, it became a toxic dump of Porn, Crypto & Misinformation. I did my best, but that's not enough #bots#FakeAccounts#KLOUT#trends#SM#Analysis
About those #PERKS : I'll speak a moment about #Neutrogena ™️ Skin Care products. Aren't they great? But, expensive. I'm retired, my pension even dropped a few years back. I struggle like you do. I don't BUY the products this expensive. But we got BOXES of every product, hundreds of dollars each month in the Mail. https://www.neutrogena.ca/
They cannot ASK you to discuss them: they hope you will, because you are an #Influencer
My wife loved these, yearly supply of everything #KLOUT#trends#SM
My wife got a year's supply of #Shick Lady Shavers and products. Her legs feel so soft <sigh> And her skin so soft and fragrant, thanks to Neutrogena.
I got all those, just having fun, and using Twitter properly, long before Nazis took over. https://schick.ca/collections/womens-razors-trimmers
Every other day, I was surprised to find my mailbox stuffed with free products. Not those mini-sample bottles, the FULL MONTY
Next, I went to Instagram to build a bit of presence. #PERKS#Neutrogena#Influencer#KLOUT#trends#SM
One Thing I disliked about large accounts: the lack of engagement. Sure, people ReTweeted, Reshared & discussed my tweets, but they also spammed me, or tried to get me to talk, simply to boost their influence level. #Photographers would @ Tag me daily, hoping I would RT their photos. There was no ENGAGEMENT, they were spamming me.
When I dropped that account entirely, they still @ mention me blindly. They don't even know (or care) the account is gone?
NOT real FOLLOWERS #Influencer#trends
I always attracted LOCAL and REMOTE #News sources. Local Journalists noticed I spent hours a day scraping the internet for news stories, such as during the unfortunate days or the Earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand. Being a remote event, in a different time zone, I was better at this than most. I wake at 4am, 8am in the UK, it's now 8am here, but 1am tomorrow in Christchurch right now.
They were being destroyed, no news from them, but I have sources