• The short moment of relative austerity which preceded the GenAI bubble

• Academic networks need to prepare for waves of enshittification

• #FreeOurFeeds – help secure the future of social media

• Why did the Bluesky migration succeed where the Mastodon migration failed?

• Interview with Science Magazine about academic Bluesky

• How much time does Elon Musk spend tweeting each day?

• Elon Musk’s social media addiction

• Elon Musk has not finished building his cultural machine

• Interview in the Observer about the growth of Bluesky and the decline of Twitter

• We are building a ship in a bottle, sitting on Elon Musk’s desk to entertain him when he’s bored and to help him make money

• Goodbye Twitter 👋

• A concise explanation of why you should leave Twitter/X

• Why hasn’t Twitter/X died yet?

• The privilege of escaping from the Twittering Machine

• Did ‘unconnected content’ ruin social media? The TikTokification of every social platform

• What Elon Musk’s membership scheme has done to social status on Twitter

• Is Musk trying to use Twitter’s failure to position himself politically?

• From social media to generative media: the confusing landscape of post-pandemic research communication

• Interview with Research Professional about the future of academic Twitter

• I have fairly rapidly argued myself out of enthusiasm for Bluesky

• Could Bluesky be the replacement for Academic Twitter? 

• The evolution of the prompt in Twitter’s compose tweet bios

• Void left by decline of academic Twitter ‘will be hard to fill’

• Interview with Times Higher Education about the viability of Threads for academics

• It’s time for academics to let go of Twitter

• Reddit’s API changes and the new business model of social media

• How blogging is different from tweeting

• Who is paying for Twitter blue?

• It is time for academics to let go of Twitter

• Social media has changed – Will academics catch up?

• Saying goodbye to Twitter

• The death of participatory media

• Is there any future for academic Twitter?

• Universities need to take responsibility for communications infrastructure

• What would a ‘social crash’ within higher education mean for the discovery function within the knowledge system

• Requiem for a Tweet – Is there a future for the academic social capital held on the platform?

• Should I rejoin Twitter?

• 14 tips for academics who are worried about Musk’s Twitter but don’t want to leave entirely

• Imagining a decentralised social media

• The latent utopia of Twitter

• The Co-Production of Platforms by Users: A Case Study of Higher Education

• What is a platform?

• Platform-based elicitation methods in qualitative research

• Twitter and the structure of polarisation

• To what extent is political Twitter pointless?

• Election 2019 and journalism

• The attention sinks which stop us dreaming

• Our tributes to the power the machine has over us

• Twitter and the internal conversation

• What does it mean to take Twitter seriously?

• Academics like the idea of Twitter in the classroom but what do students think?

• What images do universities use on Twitter and Instagram?

• Why quote tweeting as a form of reply is creepy

• CfP: Twitter: Global Perspectives, Uses and Criticisms

• Looking back through your Twitter history

• A quick guide to managing organisational social media accounts

• The meaning of @realdonaldtrump

• Why it’s fine to ‘broadcast’ on Twitter

• Social media and populism 

• The growth of the Twinterns

• Using social media to ‘inhabit the attentiveness of another writer’

• is Twitter making the Internet local again?

• digital micro-politics and digital macro-politics 

• who’s more popular on twitter? the UK’s top research universities or academic blogs and viral feeds?

• the coming copyright wars on twitter

• #TwitterGate: the ethics of live tweeting

• How to live tweet effectively at academic conferences

• Stewart Lee on Twitter

• Using social media to improve the student experience: creating a departmental back channel for undergraduates

• Resonance and subjectivity on twitter

• “I have no idea what to tweet about!”

• How not to use twitter as an academic

• Bourdieusian Hipsters Explain Foucauldian Memes

• Help: different approaches to managing departmental twitter feeds

• The Twitter ‘favourite’ button explained by @death_stairs

• A Eulogy for Twitter

• Academic scribes, their writing and their unsociability

• Richard Dawkins, Twitter and the dangers of thinking aloud

• The future of twitter in two images

• Are Twitter now selling followers themselves?

• The sociology of the quiet zone: norms and public transport

• 3 tips for managing institutional, project and group twitter feeds in #HigherEd

• Universities aren’t going to be successful in using social media for recruitment if everything goes through the communications office

• Digital Sociologist #1: @ProfSteveFuller from @SocioWarwick

• Why the ethics of researching Twitter and Discussion Forum users are so different…

• “Should I be conscious of the language I use on Twitter?”

• Nine resources for academics getting started with Twitter

• “Why do you find Twitter useful as an academic?”