by Wayne Hastings | Dec 22, 2022 | Business, Content Management, Google, Instagram, Social, Technology, Twitter
I wish these new social media apps popping up trying to pull eyeballs from Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook would embrace one thing: you must have an API that’s supported by the social media management platforms like HootSuite, Buffer, and Sendible. I’d be...
by Wayne Hastings | Nov 1, 2022 | Business, Social, Twitter
Twitter has 396,500,000 users worldwide. https://thesocialshepherd.com/blog/twitter-statistics In the second quarter of 2022, Twitter generated total advertising revenues of approximately one billion U.S. dollars, down from 1.1 billion U.S. dollars in the previous...
by Wayne Hastings | Nov 1, 2022 | Business, Content Management, FaceBook, Instagram, Politics, Social, Twitter
In the early days of social media, one of the promises was the democratization of the media. The problem is, the democratization of the media assumes everyone is acting in good faith and doing the work of vetting sources. What we got was the democratization of the...
by Wayne Hastings | Apr 1, 2022 | Life, Random
As of April 11, I’ll be located in Phoenix, AZ! After living in LA for about 15 years, it is time to try something new. Several factors contributed to the decision to relocate, but the main reason is the high cost of living here. I’ll miss the friends I...
by Wayne Hastings | Oct 1, 2021 | Business, Hosting, Security, Technology
If you get this bill in the mail from “United States Domain Authority”, tear it up and throw it away. It may look official, but I guarantee you it is not. They are attempting to dupe people into renewing a domain name registration through them instead of...