Tag Archives: twitter

I do miss Twitter, I won’t miss X.

Posted on December 3, 2023 by henry tapper

I’ve been contemplating the likely impact of there not being twitter for a few weeks now. Stuart Macdonald send me a link to BlueSky I’ve been enjoying the experience of using this fresh site and have started distributing invites to … Continue reading →

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Threads – try it on your phone – don’t try it on your desktop!

Posted on July 6, 2023 by henry tapper

Mark Zuckerberg has taken the wraps off Threads, a clone of Twitter designed to lure people turned off by the social network’s changes under owner Elon Musk. This blog contains help in downloading Threads, it also contains a warning, do not … Continue reading →

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Was this really “Match of the Day”? (Simon Carne at his best)

Posted on March 18, 2023 by henry tapper

This is a guest post by my friend     Simon Carne    You can sign up to Simon’s blog- “irregular thoughts” here.  UK’s news agenda was briefly dominated by a contest in which both sides turned in a poor … Continue reading →

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“Twitter – what’s next?”

Posted on December 22, 2022 by henry tapper

I subscribe to Maarten Ectors constructive innovation newsletter which I get every month, you should too! Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44B, fired most employees, made himself (more) unpopular online, polled people if he should step down from managing Twitter … Continue reading →

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Is Musk empowering or subjecting twitter’s peasants?

Posted on November 2, 2022 by henry tapper

“Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit,” Musk said : “Power to the people!” It all sounds altruistic enough till you find that the cost for people to level up … Continue reading →

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The promotion of financial scams on social media

Posted on August 18, 2022 by henry tapper

According to the Transparency Task Force, the only sector of the economy less trusted than the  financial services community is “social media”. And yet many people engage with untrustworthy financial services products (typically offers of crypto-currency or other feasible investments) … Continue reading →

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Getting started on twitter; followers ≠ impact.

Posted on February 20, 2022 by henry tapper

Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600 who reproduces wonderful charts and maps on what he calls “my beloved twitter”, mourns the slow progress of twitter relative Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Tic-Toc. He needn’t! For all its problems , twitter remains the home of the … Continue reading →

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Let’s stop blaming everybody else!

Posted on June 10, 2020 by henry tapper

  Blame the Crossfit CEO, blame Sainsburys, blame Peter Shilton and blame Little Britain. The twitter hits of the day are consistently pointing fingers at others for the state we’re in. Thankfully we aren’t blamin Prince Philip who is 99 … Continue reading →

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The value of geography

Posted on March 10, 2018 by henry tapper

I am not a geographer, I didn’t get the O-level – a little like Hilary Salt, I thought it something that PE teachers taught to fill in their curriculum. Geography has come a long way – when I was at … Continue reading →

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Trial by twitter’s fine by me!

Posted on February 7, 2018 by henry tapper

An IFA withdraws its transfer service complaining it’s the victim of “trial by twitter”. Accountability is something that falls hard on adviser’s shoulders. Because we are in the business of longer term investment, the outcomes of our advice will typically … Continue reading →

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