Tag: Stephen King

  • Partial List Of Famous People Unhappy About Their Forced Blue Checks

    Partial List Of Famous People Unhappy About Their Forced Blue Checks

    Earlier today I published the article BuzzFeed News And Twitter Blues. I mention a list of Famous Twitter users who received a blue check from Elon Musk and publicly denounced it. Here’s a longer list, with citations of Tweets. These are in no order, and the links are to the Internet Archive or Archive.is with…

  • BuzzFeed News And Twitter Blues

    BuzzFeed News And Twitter Blues

    To greatly paraphrase Tolstoy, you can explain anything to a complete ding dong if they know nothing about the topic, but you’ll fail to explain it to the greatest minds if they start with any preconceptions. Cognitive bias is powerful. People will pay more for a worse product if they think the brand is better.…

  • Stephen King’s Happiness Is A Twitter Success Metric

    Stephen King’s Happiness Is A Twitter Success Metric

    As a writer, Stephen King is famous, prolific, and respected. He’s published over 70 novels, novellas, and non-fiction books. Whatever brain chemicals Stephen King gets from using Twitter is all he receives from his free work to add value to the platform. Since King has perhaps the fewest reasons to use Twitter of any famous…