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The demise of social media
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The demise of social media

For a royalty watcher or journalist, social media, especially Twitter – nowadays X – were a source of information for many years. It was the place where you could find daily royal news from around the world, often even only a few minutes after something was announced. Nowadays, that’s a lot less and that’s actually […]

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I am finally on … Threads © Pixabay
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I am finally on … Threads

With Twitter slowly dying (I refuse calling the platform X), because of a lot of decisions by Elon Musk, I am among the many people, that try to find another way of keeping in touch with royalty watchers and fellow journalists. Mastodon didn’t really work for me, BlueSky is a bit better and I found […]

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The changing world of royalty – criticism
Bits & Pieces, Miscellaneous

The changing world of royalty – criticism

There are far more former monarchies than reigning monarchies in the world left. In the years to come only more monarchies will disappear and become a republic. Nowadays there is a lot of criticism on the work ethics, the finances, the private holidays and a lot of other subjects. You have to be seen to […]

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Royal thoughts of the week (1) © Hudsoncrafted / Pixabay
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Royal thoughts of the week (1)

The way magazines and newspapers report about royal families online, especially in the United Kingdom, gets more and more irritating. Royalty seems to be a kind of theme everybody has an opinion about, yet it isn’t exactly easy to actually understand royal families and monarchies. One has the royal correspondents, royal journalists, royal photographers and […]

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The new British social media community guidelines
Internet, Media & Co

The new British social media community guidelines

Although it shouldn’t be necessary, the British royal court on 4 March 2019 introduced what they call “Social Media Community Guidelines“. As lots of us royalty watchers have noticed over the years, the Internet has changed. I recently wrote a bit about that subject. A group of people – not only teenagers but also lots […]

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The Royals and Social Media
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The Royals and Social Media

Like so many people I use the social media. I’ve got my Twitter feed open almost all day, as that is the place to be to follow people and get the royal news faster than anywhere else. Facebook is more for the personal contacts. I have a private account and an open one for my […]

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