{"id":4896,"date":"2024-12-03T22:26:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T05:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/?p=4896"},"modified":"2024-12-03T22:26:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T05:26:24","slug":"scrappy-abandons-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/03\/scrappy-abandons-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrappy Abandons Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_1083-1.jpeg?ssl=1\" rel=\"lightbox[4896]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"863\" height=\"692\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_1083-1.jpeg?resize=863%2C692&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Scrappy with bluebirds\" class=\"wp-image-4900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_1083-1.jpeg?w=893&amp;ssl=1 893w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_1083-1.jpeg?resize=300%2C241&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_1083-1.jpeg?resize=768%2C616&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_1083-1.jpeg?resize=863%2C692&amp;ssl=1 863w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_1083-1.jpeg?resize=193%2C155&amp;ssl=1 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 863px) 100vw, 863px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost 16 years ago, I created a Twitter account for Scrappyland. It was never that huge a deal\u2014all it did was post automated links to new posts on this site, and only 74 people bothered to follow it. So Elon Musk may not bother to fly into a rage upon hearing this\u2014but given his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2024\/11\/x-white-supremacist-site\/680538\/\">abominable behavior<\/a>, I\u2019ve decided that maintaining even a minor presence on his site is no longer tenable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If for some unaccountable reason you\u2019ll deeply miss this feed, fear not: I\u2019ve reestablished it on the much friendlier social network known as Bluesky. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/scrappyland.com\">follow @scrappyland.com here<\/a>. While you\u2019re at it, you may want to follow my main Bluesky account, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/harrymccracken.com\">@harrymccracken.com<\/a>, as well. Scrappy and I thank you for your support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 16 years ago, I created a Twitter account for Scrappyland. It was never that huge a deal\u2014all it did was post automated links to new posts on this site, and only 74 people bothered to follow it. So Elon Musk may not bother to fly into a rage upon hearing this\u2014but given his abominable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/03\/scrappy-abandons-twitter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scrappy Abandons Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-scrappyland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D9Zl-1gY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4896"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4903,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions\/4903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}