X Hits the Spot

I'm attempting to reignite the passion I once found on Twitter, now on X. Back in 2018, I faced a shadow ban for expressing skepticism about clean energy, which, unbeknownst to me at the time, severely limited my visibility. This type of ban makes your tweets invisible to your followers, essentially silencing your voice without you knowing.

However, the real challenge isn't just the invisibility. It's the aftermath—when the algorithm interprets the lack of engagement as disinterest, making it increasingly difficult to reach an audience. Despite having over 480 engaged and high-quality followers in the oil & gas sector, my activity and reach took a significant hit. Now, with 309 still-valuable followers, the vibrancy and interaction I once enjoyed have dwindled. Despite my efforts, regaining my former algorithmic favor seems an uphill battle.

With Elon Musk at the helm, Twitter has transformed. It's now a platform ripe for lively discussions and open exchanges, offering a valuable opportunity for meaningful dialogue. My persistence started to pay off in January 2024, when I welcomed my first non-spam follower since the ban—a small yet hopeful sign of reconnection.

I'm eager to broaden the conversation and engage with a wider audience. If you're interested in the intricacies of oil & gas ERP systems or the broader energy sector, I invite you to join the dialogue. Let's revitalize the discussion together at https://www.twitter.com/piobiz

Our Communications Network

Wikipedia states that Metcalfes law relates to telecommunication networks and states that its “value is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2).” Now that was how the law was written at the time that Robert Metcalfe wrote it in the early 1970’s. As the inventor of Ethernet and founder of 3Com Robert Metcalfe was focused on telecommunications at the time. If you follow his writings and thinking at this time, his definition of a network would include anything that involves people connected through the Internet. Therefore the value of the People, Ideas & Objects user community will be more valuable the more members of the user community join our network. First we need a network.

What our network will need to do will be for people to join in and participate in the conversations that are taking place here at People, Ideas & Objects. A place where people can communicate with one another with direct messages and find one another. A place where people can keep up with what is going on in the community around People, Ideas & Objects. FaceBook is used by everyone for their personal social networks. To add this community to FaceBook would be adding a component that is inconsistent with the makeup of what the users use FaceBook for. Twitter on the other hand is something that is used more by business related networks and less as social networks. In most cases people within our community will have not used Twitter before and therefore will have an expressed purpose to use it that will not interfere with anything else that they are doing. So we have chosen Twitter to be the network that we use to enable the communications and development of the user community of People, Ideas & Objects.

People wishing to join the network need to follow me @piobiz its that simple. From there you can see who else follows @piobiz and who we follow. You will also see the tweets that are sent out from myself and any of those that are sent out from people within the network who include @piobiz within the text of the tweet itself. You can put some information in your profile including an url to a website of yours for further information. There is a mechanism for which you can send private messages between members of the community. Other advantages of using Twitter include that it is deployable immediately and its cost is nothing. It will be here that we can begin to build the community that generates the momentum to move the industry.

As we start off the numbers may be small but we need to start somewhere. We will build this brick by brick, and stick by stick over the term of the remaining time in our ten year plan. That is how we will see this become real. That is how the opportunities for everyone will materialize. Our goal for 2014 is to get the word out. And that is how we can change the oil and gas industry into the dynamic, innovative, proactive and profitable industry that we need it to be.

The Preliminary Specification provides the oil and gas producer with the most profitable means of oil and gas operations. People, Ideas & Objects Revenue Model specifies the means in which investors can participate in these user defined software developments. Users are welcome to join me here. Together we can begin to meet the future demands for energy. And don’t forget to join our network on Twitter @piobiz