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title: "Social Pricing"
url: https://perrotta.dev/2013/12/social-pricing/
last_updated: 2026-03-29
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Excellent article regarding online prices. If you are a heavy Steam or Amazon
user, for example, it may be interesting.

[http://www.dodgycoder.net/2012/12/pricing-hacks-of-online-retailers.html](http://www.dodgycoder.net/2012/12/pricing-hacks-of-online-retailers.html)

First things first:

- I won't (don't) use **Twitter** anymore (it became popular, so it became a
  floodish place;

- I can't use **identi.ca** because it is gone;

- I won't use **diaspora** because I didn't find it *that* much attractive;

- and I don't like **Tumblr** for some reason I'll still have to figure out why.

And, you know, this "microblogging" thing is so common nowadays. What are my
remaining options? **Wordpress**! Sure! From now on I intend to use this blog
as a microblogging service too. Actually I got this idea from [Allan
McRae](http://allanmcrae.com/2013/06/leaving-identi-ca/) (an Arch Linux
Developer).

Unfortunately my current Wordpress theme (which I love) doesn't have a *status*
template. So I'll use a *status* category, plus add the `[status]` indicator to
all of my post titles under this category.

What you should expect from **status:**

- Usually they I'll have one (and only one) **link**, sometimes accompanied
  with a little **comment** from me;

- They'll be **short** (twitter like, I guess)!

This will be the largest status, because it is the first one (explicitly).
Besides, if you reached here through Facebook or Google+, you should know that
from now on I'll try to post (relatively to me) more important / useful / "non
flood" links here. This means that if I post a link **directly** on Facebook or
Google+, *probably* (but not always) it won't be *that* much important (for
example, it may be a funny YouTube video, or a comic from xkcd).

By the way, the rule of language usually will be: links in English will have
comments in English and links in Portuguese will have comments in Portuguese.
KISS.