Why Do I Use @Buffer Publishing to Feed my Blog-Posts to Twitter? Probably a Different Reason than YOU Should! #Buffer #Buffering
I started writing blogs like this 'way back in the Naughts- or Teens of the 21st Century.' Though The Internet had been 'invented' decades before, it was just becoming popular as a way of "publishing" (or–more-accurately–'publication').
The difference between 'publishing' & 'publication'? To me; 'publishing' is "the printing of your writing into paper-reports, brochures, magazines, newspapers and/or books," while 'publication' is "any way of making your writing 'public' (INCLUDING the print-media, yes; but also the digital- and cable/video-media)."
I didn't differentiate too much between 'publishing' & 'publication' at first—mostly because they both used 'the one main thing I sought from them'—Approval (when I 'submitted' my writing, often it had to be "approved" before it went public).
I'm sure many blog-sites still do that–each one having editors who approve of each of their writers' posts before the posts are approved
But many (if not 'most') blog-publication sites have a more-or-less automatic approval-process—which is good, as there are probably hundreds-of-thousands of posts being written every hour ... far too many for the few-thousand blogsite-administrators to approve manually; but it leaves me without the main thing I wanted when I imagined I'd 'grow up to be a writer' ... the 'approval' (or the 'good grade') that comes from the one in charge of publishing.
I guess I wasn't concerned about that—not so much as I was about 'getting my writing out to as many readers as possible.' How to do that? Twitter, of course! And eventually, I learned about Feeds—the way every website/blog has 'a feed,' and Google had a program that you could use to automatically post your blog-links to your Twitter-page.
They've discontinued the Social Network function of that service (you can see I'm still using their 'Email-notifier' service above), so I felt I needed to find another service that would feed my blog-posts to Twitter.
After a short search, I found Buffer Publishing.
Now ... Why don't I just 'put "my blog-posts" (i.e. "the posts' titles & URLs") directly on Twitter?' I suppose it's like 'people who still start their letters with the words "Dear {NAME},"': you could say 'they're doing it to make readers think the letter is "approved by the higher-ups who delivered it,"' but it's mostly just 'force of habit.'
'The word that the publisher uses for their name' (below-hyperlinked to the reason why you should use Buffer Publishing) is built on an even-deeper source ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which the our lexicon stands ...
The word “Buffer” (if not the Agent-Noun, "one who |Polishes by |Buffing") is built on “a Blow, |Slap, |Punch” (the |Dull Sound made when something is |Struck, something that |Absorbs the Blow, |Apparatus for |Deadening the |Concussion between a Moving Body & that against which it |Strikes, to Lessen the Impact of (Buffering?)).
Huh? I thought 'buffering' was "waiting for the 'large content' (video usually, or audio or large text-file) to start playing!"
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Well, that's not too far wrong! You recall that 'a word that often accompanies the "buffering"-sign' says "LOADING." What that means (I can't think why I thought it meant anything else) is 'that the programming is being "loaded" into a file on your device, whither your device will read & play the programming once it finishes "loading."'
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I appreciate your comment, and I'll probably approve it & publish it soon (give me about a week before you try to post it again when it doesn't publish immediately ... thanks)