New policy. Until now, I've had two follow rules. One, someone had to follow me first. Two, they had to talk to me. No other qualifiers. This changes now. Now I am going to employ - until they suspend me - a 100% follow back rule to the best of my ability. A little everyday...
File this image in the Twitter Lies folder. I'm a numbers guy. So there I was happily following back my followers, thinking I'd get up to 400, per the stated policy. Uh huh. I counted my clicks: 61 follows, and then got the message "you can't follow any more." Damned liars.
Okay, maybe I'm to twitchy with my Twitter judgement hair trigger. They do offer this, which I'll try this afternoon or evening...
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This is being composed as a gab, with up to 3,000 characters. But I'm also composing it with a Twitter Thread in mind as well. And the screenshots will be posted at CloutHub, also. Let's dive in!
2) Allow me to express my new mission in the most personal of terms. I live in a massively Democrat area. Our local Republican Party doesn't even answer its telephone. Our area should NOT be so completely Democrat, as the majority of our people are Republicans.
3) What I conclude from this is that we, here, just like the rest of America have long since been abandoned by the Republican Party. The Grand Old Party is no longer grand. It is decrepit, corrupt and needs to die. We need a new party.
Here's what I'm going to do, starting today. I am going to explore the Help offerings at each of the platforms I'm learning. I'll post today's video below, and then comment just a tiny bit.
2) Here's the video I just watched:
3) I repeat - I've stated this in previous analysis - that this is NOT the way I learn. Well, it's not my preferred mode of learning. That means, I have to learn how to learn this way. I have to shout, now: I HATE VIDEO INSTRUCTION. I want textual instruction. Please.
2) This post - which I have now pinned to the group feed - has generated some very fine responses. You'll at least what to read what our little group is saying on point.
3) Now let's talk about the platform itself. I don't remember, shame on me!, if it was a week, or two weeks ago, or so, that I joined CloutHub. Maybe I can check, be right back...
Don't lose hope. Take action. The best number I've heard on our Election 2020 vote was 80 million. If it were evenly distributed, that would be 1.6 million per state.
2) Here is what I'm doing. I've commenced learning the ins and outs of CloutHub. There are many other platforms I will explore, too. Telegram, What's App, and even Facebook Messenger to name merely three. I'm reengaging my political conversations at Facebook, too.
3) Another project underway is the collection and archiving of all the content I've posted here at Twitter. Most of that is already accomplished and will soon be posted at websites designed for purpose. Once that's finished, Twitter holds almost no power over me.
"Sharp's key theme is that power is not monolithic; that is, it does not derive from some intrinsic quality of those who are in power. For Sharp, political power, the power of any state – regardless of its particular structural organization –
"ultimately derives from the subjects of the state. His fundamental belief is that any power structure relies upon the subjects' obedience to the orders of the ruler(s). If subjects do not obey, rulers have no power."
I'll share some very important data here, right now below, that resulted from the great @JosephJFlynn1's work, yesterday. And I'll guide you to some other connected work as well.
2) Since the great purge, in spite of still having 19,000 followers, down from 31,300, my tweets' reach has plummeted, far more than by the 1/3 of followers lost. Roughly, my tweets reach about 1/10th of the people they were reaching prior to the purge.
3) Take yesterday's small story about various social media platforms, that feature @JosephJFlynn1. Before he retweeted it, it had reached about 1,500 impressions. When I last checked, it was over 22,000 impressions. That is SOLELY due to Joe's retweet and comment.