Cofounded and built @CastroPodcasts for nine years. Taking a career break to travel and reevaluate priorities. YOLO! 🦑/2
Vancouver, BC
Joined December 2007
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Oisín Prendiville retweeted
We're excited to finally share an update on our future.
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Who teached you indeed?
ALT Google Translate screenshot showing “quien me enseñó?” in Spanish translated to “who teached me?” in English
Oisín Prendiville retweeted
You thought getting out of vim was hard? Have you tried getting out of the emoji search keyboard?
ALT Emoji search keyboard on iOS typing into Spotlight with the query “heart”
Oisín Prendiville retweeted
This is a tweet of appreciation for @culturedcode Things — a 5 year old _all-new_ app that is still seen as the top reference for great design across platforms.
5 years. Here's some of my favorite UI details:
Oisín Prendiville retweeted
Here’s the text of the email Musk sent to Twitter staff overnight.
Those who don’t commit to being “extremely hardcore” by 5pm ET today must leave the company. ‼️
Story: cnn.com/2022/11/16/tech/elon…
More chance of a head of lettuce taking action against Twitter than Ireland, but as this thread explains, that might not matter
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What an absolute clown show 🤡 so the blue checkmark on tweets from @Twitter now means Twitter paid Twitter $8 and the verification that it’s the actual official account is buried on the profile page
A lot of folks have asked about how you'll be able to distinguish between @TwitterBlue subscribers with blue checkmarks and accounts that are verified as official, which is why we’re introducing the “Official" label to select accounts when we launch.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
After this feature briefly launched on November 9, 2022, Elon Musk announced it was canceled and being rolled back. He then stated that the Twitter Blue checkmark would be the only "verification" badge.
twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…
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Recent events have really put this epic Wordle of mine from June back in mind
ALT Wordle screenschot. First guess SPACE, S & E orange, second guess LOSER, all green.
Oisín Prendiville retweeted
Verification is a public service, it is a good deed performed by companies who contribute very little good to the world in my opinion. We should be making easier clearer paths to verification for everyone, not making it harder. It is their responsibility, not a business model.
Oisín Prendiville retweeted
Years ago, before verified accounts were a thing, back when I was on Eastenders, I was contacted multiple times by parents of children who had been “conversing” with me online. 11-15 year old children that had been talking with a fake me.
I was informed one of these children-
Done with @premiumbusiness, probably never should have had it 🤷
ALT Profile before with blue tick I probably never really needed
ALT Alert in the Twitter app: “Are you sure? Changing your @username will cause you to lose your verified status”
ALT Twitter UI for changing username. This is after I had changed to @prendio2_temp and was immediately changing back to @prendio2
ALT Profile after with no blue tick
Oisín Prendiville retweeted
Abhorrent.
And yet, I’m not surprised at all. When ads become more algorithmic, people find fraudulent ways to cheat and make more money.
The endgame: algorithmic podcast ads, which already degrade the listener experience, get further devalued and the entire industry loses.
NEW: podcast companies are buying millions of listens through auto-playing episodes populated in free mobile games. iHeart, the top podcast publisher on Podtrac, has bought around 6 million unique downloads per month since 2018 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
