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TikTok changes the game – by adding purely text posts (who needs Twitter, anyway?)

July 25, 2023 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

In a ballsy move that’s just completely changed the game, the almighty TikTok has just updated its features to include plain text options for its users – in addition to photos and videos. By introducing text posts as an option in its ‘camera’ page, and giving users an option reminiscent of Instagram’s stories, you can […]

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Glyn Moody interview: Is Twitter rigged against tabletop creators?

December 13, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

For almost 30 years, Glyn Moody has been writing on copyright, digital rights, and the Internet.

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Geek Native and #SelfPromoteSaturday

June 7, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Creators can add their work to #SelfPromoteSaturday threads, like and retweet it. We can all retweet them. As a result, we discover what projects are underway, who is taking commissions and what talent is out there.

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Game designer Eric M Lang suspended from Twitter

July 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

He used an app to block thousands of followers of a “scumbag serial harasser”.

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The GamesFest RPG convention descends into far-right bigotry on Twitter

October 1, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 5 Comments

Twitter has begun deleting some of the most extreme posts from GamesFest, a UK RPG convention.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: haunted west, twitter

D&D quoting English museum gets sassy with Elon Musk in sheep picture row

April 18, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

At first, the D&D quoting museum expressed surprise. And then they retaliated.

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Dozens of female 5e game designers answer the call

August 19, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Female Mechanic

A sign of a good and healthy community is not just its diversity but that people are willing to step forward and identify themselves. On Twitter, the very respected game designer Kenneth Hite recognised that he couldn’t name any female freelancers comfortable with tackling 5e mechanical design. All he did was ask people to tag […]

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DM dad discovers his daughters are D&D pros in this viral tweet

January 8, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

James Breakwell, aka @XplodingUnicorn, has over 1 million followers on Twitter and is the author of the hugely popular Only Dead on the Inside: A Parent’s Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse. He has four daughters under the age of seven and this weekend he played D&D with them. I played Dungeons and Dragons with […]

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4 reasons to follow Geek Native on Twitter

February 13, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native is active on a number of social channels. If you’re not interested skip to the bottom to enjoy some stunning art from freelancer artist Maxime B that’s surfaced by CGHub.com when you search for Twitter. Twitter is the fastest blog to social network connection there is with a tweet going out within 15 […]

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Making the most of #TwitterFiction Festival 2014: Twitter talks storytelling

January 15, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

You know Twitter. Even if you’re not on the platform; you’ll have writing and gamer friends on it. This blog has an account at @GeekNative and its used to share writing and connect with readers. You might not know that this year Twitter is running a #TwitterFiction Festival. You’ve until February 5th to submit your […]

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