Twitter Fail

I knew that Twitter was planning to increase the character limit for tweets from 140 to 280 but I thought it was yet to be rolled out to the majority of users. It came as some surprise to learn that it had been rolled out in early November of 2017. I regularly use the Twitter app on OS X for tweeting from my three Twitter accounts and had not noticed any change.

This is Twitter version 4.3.2 and so I naturally thought I'd forgotten to update. A check at the App store however, revealed that I had the latest version but it hadn't been updated since March 2017. What a joke! Anyway, I've now deleted the app and will open three separate browsers for my three separate accounts: Chrome for @SeanReeves, Safari for @BabaParvardigar and Firefox for @voodooguru1949. I could use Tweetdeck to handle the multiple accounts but I noticed that it hasn't been updated in quite a while so I'm not going to take the risk. I'll stick to browsers as much as possible now and eschew OS X apps.

UPDATE: I did finally download Tweetdeck in February of 2018 and have registered all three accounts. It seems to be working fine at the moment.

Overview and Blog Reboot

Over a month since my last post to this blog but my excuse is that I was exceedingly busy toward the end of the school year with little time to comment on technological or educational matters. Of course that's all changed now. I have the freedom to explore whatever catches my fancy. Despite being busy, I've remained active microblogging via Twitter and that is interesting in itself. There is something daunting about a full-blown blog post when you're under work-imposed pressure. You tend to procrastinate about it whereas you don't think twice about firing off 140 characters. I guess traditional blog posts, mine at least, tend to be overblown and needlessly wordy. Tweets on the other hand are immediate, spontaneous and necessarily pithy.

I don't intend to stop blogging however, and the key question in this current post is what technological matters should I explore in the abundant free time that I have available to me. Of immediate concern to me are netbooks and e-book readers because I will probably purchase both of these items in the near future. I've learnt from my mistake with the BenQ P50 PDA to avoid impulse buying and any electronic purchases that I now make must to be more considered. I've already carried out research on both topics but haven't reached any firm decisions. That's what I need to do over the next week before I head off to Singapore where I may well end up purchasing one or both of these two products.