Too Many Choices

A lot of authors are leaving twitter. I still like it, but the truth is, it’s not what it used to be. I had a LIST of people I followed. Now, I don’t. Twitter stops me at a few. And I hate it. Sometimes, the analytics work. Sometimes, they don’t. And Elon Musk keeps changing his mind about what you can and can’t do. He’s a man who must like rules. I thought about paying $8 a month to use Twitter, but I couldn’t even figure out what I did and didn’t get from it. Because he keeps changing what I read. And now Twitter doesn’t connect to WordPress, so that’s a pain. It used to be so good. Not so much these days.

My friend asked me to join him on mastodon. And I tried. I signed up. I have an account. But I can’t find anybody. Not even Carl. Mastodon has lots of different servers, and it sounded like they all worked together. But I never did find Carl.

I’m not a huge fan of Facebook. I’m not sure who gets what I post and who doesn’t. I tried to do a few ads, but I never get it right. It doesn’t cost me a lot of money, but it’s a waste of time. I haven’t had luck with ads anywhere, not on Amazon or Facebook. I place a bid and nothing happens. I’ve bid high. I’ve bid low. Nothing.

My critique partner asked me about authors on TikTok. I signed up today, but I’m not sure it’s the right thing for me. I scrolled through it, and nothing really grabbed me. Lots of pictures with captions. I really wish Twitter was still Twitter. I loved it.

HH says the next best thing will be Threads, the Facebook version of Twitter. I haven’t tried that yet. It’s silly, but I keep hoping Twitter will get its act together and be as good as it used to be. But a lot of people have left it. And I don’t think they’ll come back. So, what’s next? I have no idea.

I’ve never done a newsletter and I don’t subscribe to any. It takes time to read everything good out there. More time than I have. Do any of you follow and love newsletters? What do you like about them? What doesn’t work for you? Or is everyone as overwhelmed as I am by everything that’s available.

I’m still posting on Twitter, in the hopes it gets back to what it used to be. But I’m not sure that’s going to happen. For the moment, though, I’m too confused by how many things are out there to change.