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January 4, 2026 · 2 min read

Shifting from LinkedIn to X for posting images

Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager

This year, I’m starting to shift away from LinkedIn and more over to X, especially for posting my images.

You can find me over there at:
x.com ↗
[ https :// x . com / 88888888Tom ]

@88888888Tom
(8 number 8s)

I adore the reader comments and banter in the comments here on LinkedIn, especially with regular readers.

But the algorithms constantly being mysteriously tweaked by Microsoft (which owns LinkedIn) has gone so far downhill, that I just don’t feel like tolerating all of the restrictions and throttling which are totally outside of my control.

Also, LinkedIn Help, I’m tired of being cyberstalked daily by obvious bots / scammers / phishers, who I have repeatedly blocked dozens of times, yet LinkedIn *actively* still allows these exact same malicious bots / phishers to follow me again dozens of times. Sometimes following me again 30 minutes after I reported and blocked them.

I keep reporting and blocking the exact same fraudulent malicious bots / phishing accounts, and LinkedIn continuously allows these exact same malicious bots to start following me again and again and again, sometimes several times in one day.

So until LinkedIn / Microsoft can actually change their corporate IT settings for LinkedIn users, and make obvious malicious bot accounts which I have endlessly blocked *stay blocked*, then I just don’t really want to play here.

Image below: Quantum Bunny Rabbit and Time Travelling Duck starting a new journey on a different path.

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  1. Tom Kirkman

    Thanks Thomas W Schenck.
    The last straw for me here was LinkedIn actively allowing (encouraging?) crowds of obviously malicious bots to keep following me, repeatedly, day after day, week after week, no matter how many times I report them and block them.

    Seems to be a *feature* and not a bug here on LinkedIn.

    Over on X, if you block someone, they are 100% blocked, permanently.

  2. Tom Kirkmanreplying to Gerry Deagnon

    totally true 🤣
    Usually I just block accounts like those chess pigeons.
    When I am no longer allowed to block the chess pigeons which cause havoc, then I kinda lose interest in playing chess at that location.

  3. Tom Kirkman

    P.S. the LinkedIn stats seem to be just totally invented numbers, with no basis in reality.

    Side by side below of 2 screencaps of my stats last year, taken 1 week apart.
    14 million down to 5 million. Reduced by 9 million.

    And I downloaded the Excel spreadsheets, which have the daily numbers on an annual basis.
    A comparison of the Excel spreadsheets shows the daily numbers keep getting reduced in the Excel spreadsheets, *after the fact*.

    Notice the numbers on the biggest spike were reduced; from 231k down to 115k.
    Just totally invented numbers by Microsoft / LinkedIn.

  4. Tom Kirkman

    < sigh > screencap right now. Exact same bot which I have repeatedly blocked before, is currently following me again, twice at the same time.
    < facepalm >

  5. Tom Kirkmanreplying to Thomas W Schenck

    oh and also, can you message me your X @user name (if you don't want to post it here) so I can be sure to follow you back.

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