Uploading trivia

For reasons now lost in the mists of time, I started uploading daily trivia. First I used what’s now called a burner phone to what was then called Twitter, although not realising at the time that social media is a two-way street. Then with my first iPhone, I discovered that multiple tweets could be scheduled, and more importantly that the snippets could appear here on CabbieBlog. Over time the posting services that I used have each fallen by the wayside or have imposed cost restrictions on the number of postings: Twuffer, Twittimer, TweetLater which morphed into SocialOomph. I then went to Buffer which allows, using a free account, 10 postings at a time. But now X doesn’t allow API keys from these third-party sources unless a large premium is paid. Now I’ve had to turn to Google Calendar to bring you the ‘Daily London Trivia’, tediously uploading the data, and using WordPress’ Upcoming Events widget. Now this new widget developed for their Gutenberg platform sometimes gives ‘No upcoming events’ instead of today’s trivia, their Happiness Engineers (an oxymoron) are trying to find a solution.

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