What Happens When Twitter Goes Dark?
Posted at 21:37 on 9 Jul 2019 by Paul Kennedy
Tags: Alex Reynolds, Paul Kennedy
As you may have noticed, Twitter recently updated their TOS, with the clear intention of giving themselves the authority with which to permanently remove all accounts promoting adult content and services, just like Tumblr and Instagram did. If you follow Alex or me on Twitter, ( https://twitter.com/PA_Kennedy or https://twitter.com/Spankingland ) for updates on what's happening with us or this website, once they kick us off, you will no longer be able to do so, we will simply disappear.
The loss of Twitter will be a major blow to websites like ours, as its the main tool we use to promote ourselves to you, our customers and potential customers. The drastic effect this could have on our sales and thefore our business, is all too clear. There is however, an emerging alternative to Twitter, its called Mastodon.
For details of what Mastodon is, how it works and why IT CANNOT BE CENSORED, see this excellent article by our friends at Restrained Elegance: "5 Minutes To Save Your Twitter Following" Mastodon is growing fast and will likely explode once Twitter kills off adult content. If you get onto it now, even if you don't use it right away, you will know for sure where you can find us in future. This is what you do:
MASTODON MADE SIMPLE(ish!)
First you will need to sign up to an Instance, just like you originally signed up to Twitter. There are many to choose from, but if you follow us, this is the one for you: kinkyelephant.com Sign up with a Username, Email and Password. Its free!
(NOTE: When you log in, you use your email address, NOT your username/handle like you do with Twitter!)
Once you're signed up and logged in, you can find us either by searching for Northern Spanking, or you will find us in the Profile Directory. Our handle is @northernspanking@kinkyelephant.com Alternatively, just search for #spanking and that will find not just us but our peers that have signed up also. Kinky Elephant is the Mastodon Instance set up and run by Restrained Elegance with some involvement from us, so you know you are among friends!
To help your own Twitter followers find you, post a link to your handle, the format of which looks like this: kinkyelephant.com/@northernspanking
On a desktop, the interface looks very like Tweetdeck, unfortunately, and does take some getting used to, but so did Twitter when you first used it, so DON'T GIVE UP!
There's only one mobile app at present for iOS and Android. They are Amaroq and Tusky respectively. Both are free.
Once you've downloaded the app and signed up, your login for Amaroq will look like this: @northernspanking@kinkyelephant.com, after which you will be prompted for your email and password, which you gave during signup.
And that's it!
Whether you use Mastodon right away or not, you will know where to find us when Twitter shuts us down. At that point, in the absence of anything better, we expect Mastodon to explode in popularity. So get on there now and get yourself a sweet handle with no numbers, underscores or strange characters.
We are currently cross-posting all promotional tweets on Mastodon. I am happy to answer questions, if I can, or find the answer for you if I can't, regardless of whether you are a member or not, that's how strongly I feel about this. Email me here: paul@northernspanking.com