My Twitter account was suspended by Twitter last year, with no clear explanation as to why.
- You can't archive any of your tweets, images/videos, followers/following, or comments if suspended
- Your tweets/comments all get removed. It's as if you never existed
- It took 6 months to get reinstated
- I almost lost 15 years of content/network-building if I hadn't been reinstated
This whole experience motiviated me to restart a personal website. With your own website, you:
- Can't have all work/momentum in building a network erased
- Won't ever lose all of your media, comments, or posts
- Aren't limited to text, images, and video. Eg. you can make interactive experiences
- Can customize the website design/behavior in any way you like
If you use Next/Vercel, I highly recommend bootstrapping a personal website using Vercel's blog starter kit and host on Vercel.
The tl;dr, run this:
pnpm create next-app --example \
https://github.com/vercel/examples/tree/main/solutions/blog blog
Focus on content first! Then get to personalizing the design.