On Twitter

Update, June 1, 2026: I have not been active on Twitter (now called X) for a long time. Accounts that have not posted in the X era, including mine, may display with their past posts hidden. My Follow page has the best ways to follow me now.

I am on Twitter as stkrause.

There you will find pointers to new blog postings plus smaller bits (interesting quotes, links, and the like) that won’t otherwise get to this blog’s main content.

Previously I had not done the Twitter thing because I felt it (and, for that matter, Facebook) represented a preliminary phase of social media more akin to AOL/CompuServe/Prodigy than the open, standards-based Web. I was fine waiting out that phase.

However, Twitter has achieved something interesting. For some people, it has become a replacement for RSS feeds. Where once they used Bloglines or Google Reader to keep up with their favorite blogs, they are now following, and sometimes interacting with, their favorites via Twitter.

I suppose it’s an honor that such people have cared enough to complain that I wasn’t on Twitter. Meanwhile, it doesn’t look like an open alternative is poised to sweep the world soon. So I’ve decided to go with the tweetstreaming flow.