Sometimes you just have to laugh. The world just becomes more ridiculous every day. When Elon Musk took Twitter over, many of my mates left. They decided that the new ultra libertarian ethos was not for them. It has seemed that all moderation has gone out of the window. Overt racism, Islamophobia and Misogyny is fine. I have thought several times about abandoning the platform. Before the Musk era, most of my tweets would get hundreds, if not thousands of views, now most get a couple of dozen. I rarely post, however I have taken the view that some readers of The Barnet Eye and some of my mates are still on it, so I persisted. I used to actively promote the platform, I did a feature every Sunday called "The tweets of the week in the London Borough of Barnet", which was a round up of the best tweets from local tweeters. I uncovered many gems and made a few friends as a result. It ended in October 2023, not because of any ideological fall out. It was simply because there was not enough interesting posts from local tweeters to make it worthwhile. The local tweeters had voted with their feet. Finding ten posts a week that were worth highlighting was almost impossible.
Whereas I wasted half a year looking at Twitter pre Musk, now I rarely check it out, except when researching blogs or checking news stories. A cursory glance in the morning and a visit to post when I write a blog. There are still a couple of interesting posters, who I do try and keep up with, but it used to be dozens. In short, it is no longer something I have any real interest in, but while there are a few people on who are worth supporting, I would have stayed. However it seems Elon Musk had other ideas. Yesterday, I received this message from X.COM
It seems I am not an 'authentic poster', whatever that means. After 15 years on the platform, I have been deemed 'an imposter'. It states that I had been reported. I was bemused. Why? The only reasonable conclusion as to why this should come now, out of the blue, was as a result of the Guest blog I posted on
Monday about the Edgware Redevelopment. I genuinely cannot think of, or see a reason why anything else would upset anyone enough to report my account, let alone make up a truly ridiculous complaint. However, there is a lot of money to be made by property developers from such schemes. They have paid media consultants, who are savvy with the art of drive by shootings on X.com of pesky bloggers. Now of course, it could be a disaffected ex girlfriend from 50 years ago, someone who hates my band or someone who disliked Country Joe McDonald (the things I've posted recently). There is a local convicted paedophile with a long standing grudge against me, after his activities were exposed, who may well have stuck his oar in. That would not surprise me either. I don't know. They don't give you any clues.
Do I care? Not really. It has sort of made a decision for me. However, if my suspicions are true, then it is something that needs dealing with. I have appealed. Any vaguely sentient being would see that my account is not a Bot and is authentic.
Anyway, if you are a Twitter friend and have had a look at the blog as I've not posted, here is the reason why.
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