My last tweet
I turned back into a lurker on July 23, 2023, the day that Memlon Fuchs* announced that Twitter would now be rebranded as “X”.
My last tweet, posted that day, included no words, simply a GIF of George Bluth (Jeffrey Tambor) from Arrested Development removing his glasses and burying his face in his hands.
If the data is to be believed, I tweeted 6,244 times over the course of 17 years.
At my peak there were 400+ humans following my feed. Nowhere near influencer numbers, but not nothing.
I would tweet about the boy, and technology, and bad typography.** It was a time in which it felt playful to crack silly jokes and to YELL IN ALL CAPS about the tiny vexations of daily living.
It was a million years ago. Or maybe just a decade.
I still have work to do deciding how I plan to use Bluesky (or Mastodon or Threads). But finishing this job was tonight’s one thing.
*Still workshopping this one.
**Still proud of myself for “Reinhdd Nѥbuhr”