Kontroversial Keith

Tag: twitter

  • Why I’m Slowly Moving Away from Social Media

    When social media sites like Friendster, Myspace, Facebook, etc. came out, I was ecstatic. As a web developer, I was excited to see a new incarnation of technological possibilities that could help my career. Over time, these platforms devolved from technology solutions and communication platforms to ad-centric spam hosts and spyware for marketing people. Worse…

  • Why Instagram Might Be the Best Social Media Platform Around

    Social media is almost like a perverse version of The Force from Star Wars in that it, “It’s an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together.” Unfortunately, it’s so pervasive and intrusive that it’s become supremely annoying and an opportunity for marketers to continue…

  • How to Have A Clean Twitter Feed

    I know a lot of people who dislike Twitter; the interface is a little wonky, the feed becomes unbearably difficult to follow and tons of useless ads. Also, the endless retweets of subjects and people that probably disgusts you flood your feed with even more junk. How can you clean this up? How can you…

  • Twitter Authentication/Connect Useless?

    I had to do a project using both Facebook and Twitter authentication for single sign-on. While Facebook had some traction, I found that Twitter was barely in use. Perhaps, less than 0.03% of the users used that feature. After reading some forums early on, I learned that many companies opt not to use Twitter for…

  • Facebook’s Long Term Fate

    When Facebook started making the rounds and opened themselves up to the public, I was unable to jump on the boat due to some technical issues with cookies. At the time, I was researching all the main social networks in attempting to build my own. With the failure, I pretty much ignored Facebook for a…

  • Twitter: Where It’s Real Value is Derived

    Today, Twitter made its debut on the NYSE. Critics point to a lack in revenue or profit in the young company. But many of these people in my estimation lack any insight into the real tech market and why Twitter is such a power house not just as a tech company but in terms of…

  • Combining Livestreaming/Twitch and Social Media

    I’ve written several articles on the high level ideas of becoming a Twitch broadcaster and getting into the world of livestreaming for gaming. One thing that I’ve noticed though is that there’s quite a few people who livestream but don’t really understand many of the social media tools out there. They might use systems like…