Twittotage

I left Twitter in 2022. With every day that has passed since then, that decision has proven to be correct.

(I���m honestly shocked that some people I know still have active Twitter accounts. At this point there is no justification for giving your support to a place that���s literally run by a nazi.)

I also used to have some Twitter bots. There were Twitter accounts for my blog and for my links. A simple If-This-Then-That recipe would poll my RSS feeds and then post an update whenever there was a new item.

I had something something similar going for The Session. Its Twitter bot has been replaced with automated accounts on Mastodon and Bluesky (I couldn���t use IFTTT directly to post to Bluesky from RSS, but I was able to set up Buffer to do the job).

I figured The Session���s Twitter account would probably just stop working at some point, but it seems like it���s still going.

Hah! I spoke too soon. I just decided to check that URL and nothing is loading. Now, that may just be a temporary glitch because Alan Musk has decided to switch off a server or something. Or it might be that the account has been cancelled because of how I modified its output.

I’ve altered the IFTTT recipe so that whenever there���s a new item in an RSS feed, the update is posted to Twitter along with a message like ���Please use Bluesky or Mastodon instead of Twitter��� or ���Please stop using Twitter/X���, or ���Get off Twitter���please. It���s a cesspit��� or ���If you���re still on Twitter, you���re supporting a fascist.���

That���s a start but I need to think about how I can get the bot to do as much damage as possible before it���s destroyed.