I spent a great week on the beach with family, so early August saw Twitter radio silence from me. That said, I had plenty to tweet and retweet later in the month!
It was a busy month for plugins I write, interesting social media trends, and, of course, some funnies. I’m trying grouping tweets a bit more thematically this month rather than just in order of posting on my timeline.
Enjoy!
If you still get your MTs confused with your RTs, check out the first fake follow post for the Twitter jargon. All the tweets are ones I sent or “retweeted” to the masses.
I had a plugin featured on a popular WordPress blog and put out a plugin update!
How to Feature a Page in WordPress http://t.co/C3PEwhV9yM via @wpbeginner
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) August 8, 2014
If you missed it on Friday, #AdvancedCustomFields Repeater Collapser 1.4.0 is out with ACF5 PRO support! http://t.co/newpfw33R9
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) August 18, 2014
The “!” is a negation and “++” is an incrementer. Get it!?!
A prgrmr started to cuss
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As she lay there in bed
Looping round in her head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++— Randi Lee Harper (@randileeharper) August 8, 2014
#freelancelife
Maintaining forward momentum on a project is one of the best services you can offer clients. #freelancelife
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) August 14, 2014
Freelancers are just job creators who got stuck at 1. #freelancelife
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) August 20, 2014
I hadn’t noticed this handy new Gmail feature until I saw this.
New Post: Why Gmail's New Unsubscribe Feature, and Unsubscribers in General, Are a Good Thing http://t.co/4YKc5TvCqC
— Kivi Leroux Miller (@kivilm) August 15, 2014
Even though that kind of thing is in vogue, I’m not misusing literally here.
A shark literally biting the internet: http://t.co/VLTo2RLd7w Apparently this is actually a problem: http://t.co/O6lQmaVfVR
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) August 15, 2014
Making content (or anything) ‘accessible’ does not mean ‘make it for disabled people’. It means make it for everyone, regardless.
— Mark Boulton (@markboulton) August 18, 2014
Just for the record, social media trends are not the most important lesson to take from Ferguson.
Twitter vs. Facebook as a news source: Ferguson shows the downsides of an algorithmic filter http://t.co/NEqMYLI8Zy via @gigaom
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) August 19, 2014
Amiright?
Request to all bloggers: I'd rather read about the 3 best tools than 37 mediocre ones. First is helpful, second looks like clickbait.
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) August 19, 2014
Two auto-play-is-bad tweets!
Dear every site, everywhere — autoplaying videos is bad. Stop it.
— Shauna Gordon (@gordondev) August 19, 2014
Wow. The panning on @Bing today really threw my stomach for a loop. I'm a motion lightweight but still. Reminder #967498 not to autoplay
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) August 28, 2014
I love Dilbert.
“@chrisod: Estimating web design projects in a nutshell http://t.co/gQqZjUm9Y0”
Done this. Yesireee…
— Julie Kuehl (@JulieKuehl) August 22, 2014
And the social media trend for the month of August 2014 is? *drum roll*
Ice bucket challenge. Pro: http://t.co/bo5POKZGV2 Con: http://t.co/r9czzs9smt
I lean toward the critiques but it's not cut and dry. (harhar)— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) August 20, 2014
I think it'll be a good month before it's below 10k tweets/day, but the #icebucketchallenge is over. pic.twitter.com/tZn6nPF30r
— Chris Tuttle (@ChrisTuttle) August 28, 2014