Introducing tweets — they’re like blog posts, but short

We had our third kid about a month ago (lovely, lovely, very exciting), and not long after that, I started to realize something: Writing an article — even a short one — about every racing news story that interests me is kind of a lot of work for a man in my position.

(The position of not getting paid to write them and having three kids, that is.)

Of course, caring about racing news as much as I do, and having the trained killer instincts of a Web 2.0-era shovel-blogger, I couldn’t not write those articles. That would be Incomplete! So what I did was, I queued them to write later, which I did doggedly do over the past month, but I still quickly wound up consistently about 50 posts and two weeks behind the times. This became emotionally burdensome, which is of course the exact opposite of what Turning Fortune is supposed to be.

Then it hit me: I hadn’t actually stopped watching racing. I hadn’t even stopped posting about racing. I was just doing it on Bluesky, an act as immediate and natural as breathing to me, and frankly one where many full Blog Post™ versions of my racing takes originate. Furthermore, I consider that account to be for racing news, and while it could stand to have a little more discipline, that seems manageable. Posting less isn’t that hard. So I had the idea: Why don’t I slurp social-media-shaped posts into the Turning Fortune News section?

I’ll call them tweets. Like the sound a bird makes. Get it?

You won’t be required to care what service these tweets are from (which I’ve made it possible to change without disrupting anything). You won’t have to use any dumb apps yourself if you don’t already. You’ll just be able to get Turning Fortune news tweets — tweeted from whatever app we’re using for tweeting at any given point in history — right here on Turning Fortune.

Tweets won’t appear in the RSS feed or the @turningfortune.com Bluesky feed like blog posts do. They’ll appear in the feeds of the accounts who tweeted them, which you will be able to easily get to from the website if that’s where you find them (as long as those accounts are still online). But a visitor to turningfortune.com will see tweets integrated into the flow of News posts, and they’ll show up alongside blog posts in search. Thus, even if I haven’t Blogged™ about something, you, dear visitor, will be able to achieve the clear objective of coming here, which is to catch up on the latest motor racing news.

Tweets start now!