{"id":9756,"date":"2026-07-15T15:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T14:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=9756"},"modified":"2026-07-15T17:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:07:19","slug":"how-twitter-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2026\/07\/15\/how-twitter-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"How Twitter Changed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I recall the earlier days of Twitter with some nostalgia. Now I am reluctant to use it (for multiple reasons).  Should I return to proactive use?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-bluesky-social wp-block-embed-bluesky-social\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:lwmiyyhcs43mpjjuqppu4cfq\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mqo6zhckcc2j\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreieemm2355qatgj233krjme3rrsbg3fqrl3wmng2lnx2usjfqvp42q\"><p lang=\"en\">&#39;Once mighty Twitter is now a mess of hate speech, bots and porn&#39;\u270d\ufe0f @natashadevon.bsky.social for LBC Opinion<\/p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:lwmiyyhcs43mpjjuqppu4cfq?ref_src=embed\">LBC (@lbc.co.uk)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:lwmiyyhcs43mpjjuqppu4cfq\/post\/3mqo6zhckcc2j?ref_src=embed\">2026-07-15T07:26:44.086Z<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recall the earlier days of Twitter with some nostalgia. Now I am reluctant to use it (for multiple reasons). Should I return to proactive use?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[383,576],"tags":[78,384,577],"class_list":["post-9756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twitter","category-x","tag-social-media","tag-twitter","tag-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9757,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756\/revisions\/9757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}