Matthew Thomas

Matthew Thomas

Mastodon @mpt@mastodon.nz
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Followers
292
Account age
3 yrs

Known for

Twelve years ago today, I was on Tinder (yep) and stumbled on a bug in the app. I’m married now, deleted my account long ago, but for the past 12 years I’ve been waiting to post this screenshot.67 views Twelve years ago today, I was on Tinder (yep) and stumbled on a bug in the app. I’m married now, deleted my account long ago, but for the past 12 years I’ve been waiting to post this screenshot. I love Google’s “Material Symbols” Save icon, because the most charitable explanation is that it was drawn by someone who’s too young to have ever seen a floppy disk in real life. https://fonts.google.com/icons?icon.query=save24 views I love Google’s “Material Symbols” Save icon, because the most charitable explanation is that it was drawn by someone who’s too young to have ever seen a floppy disk in real life. https://fonts.google.com/icons?icon.query=save Calm down, Apple Music, “Bridge over troubled water” is just a song.19 views Calm down, Apple Music, “Bridge over troubled water” is just a song. I could just make fun of this, but instead, a design tip: When asking a question, detect situations where the question has become irrelevant, and un-ask it. #ux17 views I could just make fun of this, but instead, a design tip: When asking a question, detect situations where the question has become irrelevant, and un-ask it. #ux

📊 Post engagement

14
Avg engagement / post
4.8%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Twelve years ago today, I was on Tinder (yep) and stumbled on a · 67 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.09 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly images
Recent: 0 text · 12 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.5×
Follows 194 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Twelve years ago today, I was on Tinder (yep) and stumbled on a bug in the app. I’m married now, deleted my account long ago, but for the past 12 years I’ve been waiting to post this screenshot. ★ 67
Calm down, Apple Music, “Bridge over troubled water” is just a song. ★ 19 Seventy years ago yesterday, the term “artificial intelligence” was coined in a research grant application. “The study is to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in p… ★ 8 In 1997 Microsoft Word introduced the Ctrl K combo for inserting a hyperlink. Since then it’s become ubiquitous: other Microsoft apps, iWork, LibreOffice, WordPress, Atlassian apps, MediaWiki… But in the past couple of years, Slack and Fig… ★ 4 One delightful detail, in this vision of humane social media, is that it introduces the word “mitherbox” to mean “phone notification”. https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/113838462085835742 I just opened a book entitled “Fivefold symmetry”, and if I had zero interest in fivefold symmetry, but someone paid me a million dollars to write a book about it, I guess I would have started it pretty much like this ★ 4 I suddenly remembered yesterday that there was a weird few months, in late 2020 and early 2021, when Clubhouse was the next big thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clubhouse_(app) For me its lasting effect has been to lower my credulity w… ★ 2 I’m really curious what this dropdown menu looks like where a lawyer making the wrong choice can permanently divorce a couple by mistake. https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/firm-pledges-full-support-to-lawyer-over-online-divorce-mistake/511… ★ 3 Don’t click on links. Find out more at this link. ★ 3 I love Google’s “Material Symbols” Save icon, because the most charitable explanation is that it was drawn by someone who’s too young to have ever seen a floppy disk in real life. https://fonts.google.com/icons?icon.query=save ★ 24 I could just make fun of this, but instead, a design tip: When asking a question, detect situations where the question has become irrelevant, and un-ask it. #ux ★ 17 What is the collective noun for a group of mastodons? #TermsOfVenery ★ 5

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
mastodon.nz
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 14 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

80/100 Excellent
  • Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Strong engagement (~4.8% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
97%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
High

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Husband, father, Kiwi, software designer, meliorist. Senior product designer at Phocas, formerly senior UX designer at Canonical.

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Calm down, Apple Music, “Bridge over troubled water” is just a song. Seventy years ago yesterday, the term “artificial intelligence” was coined in a research grant application. “The study is to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made Twelve years ago today, I was on Tinder (yep) and stumbled on a bug in the app. I’m married now, deleted my account long ago, but for the past 12 years I’ve been waiting to post this screenshot. In 1997 Microsoft Word introduced the Ctrl K combo for inserting a hyperlink. Since then it’s become ubiquitous: other Microsoft apps, iWork, LibreOffice, WordPress, Atlassian apps, MediaWiki… But in the past couple of years, Slack and Figma have switched to Ctrl V / ⌘V. Anyone know why? (@mwichary? One delightful detail, in this vision of humane social media, is that it introduces the word “mitherbox” to mean “phone notification”. https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/113838462085835742 I just opened a book entitled “Fivefold symmetry”, and if I had zero interest in fivefold symmetry, but someone paid me a million dollars to write a book about it, I guess I would have started it pretty much like this I suddenly remembered yesterday that there was a weird few months, in late 2020 and early 2021, when Clubhouse was the next big thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clubhouse_(app) For me its lasting effect has been to lower my credulity when reading about product strategy. That a gap or parallel ex I’m really curious what this dropdown menu looks like where a lawyer making the wrong choice can permanently divorce a couple by mistake. https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/firm-pledges-full-support-to-lawyer-over-online-divorce-mistake/5119365.article Gov.UK has lots of screenshots of the service th

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