This week more people are moving from Twitter to Threads. The X owner has decided to make more horrible poorly considered posts on his social media platform.

Consequently, there are a bunch more people migrating to other social media platforms, like Threads. They come bemoaning the drop off in followers and the joy of starting anew on a different platform. (I’m not going to show any examples, because I respect their choices.)

I left twitter when it was still twitter.

The current twitter exodus has me thinking. What would it take you to leave your social media home? I guess a reasonable list of reasons to stay.

• Employment/ Job Opportunities. Twitter has been the most successful platform for your business/job. Twitter is the most quoted social media platform. They might need to have a certain amount of engagement required for their career. I get this reason. A few of my posts had some legs and I made some money from it. But just because it worked in the past, doesn’t mean that you will get profitable outcomes. In fact, if you broaden your social media presence, it’s more likely to go viral. Venture outside of your comfort zone. 🙂
• It isn’t that bad. Twitter has had all sorts of problems from the start. Porn Bots, Spoof accounts, Keanu Reeves has a whole army of pretendees that they use to scam other users. (Keanu Reeves doesn’t need your money, fyi.) One could easily justify that most problems are exaggerated. Just because you don’t see the problems, doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
• My audiences is here. It’s hard to let go of a bullhorn that has a willing audience. Really hard. But did you know the vast majority of people aren’t actually reading anything you write. In fact, some of them might be fake accounts. I had about 500 twitter accounts follow me from 2009 onward. I never saw a tweet from them after 2011. They were inactive zombie accounts. You can see this on a larger scale when Twitter used to clear out the paid twitter accounts. Celebs would loose many of their followers.
• Sunk Cost. You have invested so much time and money into your twitter account. That is true, if you have a large following you probably did invest time and money into your twitter account. You probably have graphics software, invested in a proofreading software, and perhaps have paid social media experts. Those same skills can be moved to a new social media account.
• I enjoy arguing with other social media accounts. Well, you are arguing with another account, it doesn’t mean that you are talking to a real person. It could be a scammer, an employee, or someone trying to platform their own opinions. That’s why so many ‘reply guys’ have been blocked. Why respond and give them a larger audience?

Feel free to comment on reason people want to continue on being on a social media platform when it doesn’t promote your own goals. (Yes, I know just about all of them have problems.)

How many days will we need it this year? How many days will we need it next year? It makes you think about the planet’s future and what will happen 50 years from now.

If you were going to move to Mars, this is what awaits you. Bleak landscape. Maybe some robots roving the planet. Not enough air to breathe.

It would take quite a bit to make this a liveable landscape. Maybe a first step would be getting a liveable inside space that would provide sustainable food, water, air and shelter. Safety would also be a bonus.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/can-plants-grow-with-mars-soil

So if you need convert Mars soil to a growable soil, there is a ton that you need to do. One of the main barriers is perchlorates would need to be removed. They don’t play well with human biology. However, they can be used in rocket propellants and in oxygen production. There remains quite a bit of work on how use the chemical on Mars. It’s contaminated soil and water in the US and has not been helpful.

Trees look happier when they are trimmed.