What are your favorite websites?
According to my Jetpack app, I have already answered this prompt. Nonetheless, I’ll revise my previous answer and do it again.
As of today, my favorite site to visit is Twitter. It’s a very engaging site where there’s a lot of thoughts encapsulated in those 280 characters (if you do not have the premium version, like me). It is interesting to see what others are thinking and react to news in real time. Other social media sites have that capability, but they are not necessarily text-based.
When I first joined the site 15 years ago, my friends were there and it was another forum to interact with them. Back then, each tweet was limited to 140 characters. The novelty of the application made users capture and distill their thoughts concisely, which was something that I could appreciate and digest.
Unfortunately dating back to several years, I had stopped going on Twitter. It became boring to me. The friends that I would interact with left the Twitterverse and/or I just stopped being in contact with them. Then the 2020 election happened.
I was looking for voices similar to mine to help me refine (and in some cases, validate) my line of thinking. There was a lot going on at the time, most notably the lockdowns. The chance to interact and fellowship with other people in person was severely curtailed. However, Twitter provided a lifeline (somewhat). It gave a channel for connection. That was when I became more engaged on that social media network.
I discovered those voices that were similar to mine and gave me a lifeline. It also helped me to stay in touch with the latest news. I regularly check my Twitter account even to this day and is quite the favorite of mine.
The next challenge for me and Twitter is how I can effectively monetize my presence on there. There should be no excuse for me now to take advantage of the potential opportunities that Twitter provides. There might be an audience for voices like mine.
Who knows?
The next time this daily prompt comes around, I hope to have a better answer and clearer writing style for you, the reader.
Cheers.
PS: Here’s my previous answer.
