Like most people my age, I’m not very tech savvy.  As an example:  I don’t understand what Elon Musk meant when he said that any employee who can write  code should come to his office.   I asked my grandson what it means to  “write code.”  He calmly replied, “It means you can write software programs.” I didn’t pursue the topic any further.  I’ve been on Twitter for about a decade and outwardly, nothing  has changed.  However, my blog posts on the new Twitter are  getting many  more traffic referrals in the past few weeks.  I haven’t the faintest idea why.   All I know is that  Twitterdum and Twitterdee are different. They’re not the same now.

Why in the world would an octogenarian be on Twitter ?  I daresay, there are few of us on this particular social media site. It all started when I published my first novel, Take the Money; Romantic Suspense in Costa Rica.  After finishing that Herculean task, and seeing the finished product for sale on Amazon, someone said  that I should be marketing it on Twitter.  Somehow, I figured out how to open  a Twitter account.  I had no idea what I was doing.  In fact, I ended up with two Twitter accounts.   I still don’t know how to  delete the old one, but someone up there in Twitter heaven knows the difference, and links my blog posts  to the right  one.

If you think it takes a knowledge of computer science to write a blog, think again.  I poked around on the internet and finally found what they call a host server, or something.  Once again, in my ignorance, I set up two different blogs on Word Press, but only use the one.  I don’t have the technical knowledge of how to delete the old one and this has caused some major problems with analytics.  To make matters worse, I decided to move my  blog to a different host server.,   Scratching your head?  I can’t explain any of it.  However, I do have a statistical plug in that tells me thousands of people all over the world are reading my blog every day.  So I just keep writing away.

Back to Twitter.  For several years, I used it only for promoting my novel.   And then I started this blog, which took on a life of it’s own.  For awhile, I thought I’d ask some publisher if they were interested in printing a book of my most popular posts.  But a literary agent told me no one publishes something that’s already been over the internet.   However,  I’m not trying to monetize it– just connecting with family and friends while expressing my opinion on various subjects before I leave this world.

I try  to look at both sides when talking politics, empathizing  with  Republicans and Democrats alike.  But somewhere along the way , I must have written something that Twitter didn’t like.  They didn’t kick me off, but obviously, they weren’t promoting my blog, because I only got 1 or 2 referrals a month from them.  Now I’m getting about 30 or 40  a day.  What has happened at Twitter?  I don’t know, but I like it.  Twitterdum and  Twitterdee aren’t the same..  They’re distinctly different now.