Get rid of references to Twitter and tweets

200906210232-good-bye-norway-hello-london.rst

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Good bye Norway, Hello London
    :Tags: blog, php, travel, work
 
 Today, at the longest day of the year at the `summer solstice`_ , I am
-making a bit change to my life. If you're following me on `twitter`_ you probably already
+making a bit change to my life. If you're following me on twitter you probably already
 know what I'm up to. For everybody else, I am going to say good bye to
 Skien in Norway, and move to London (the one in England, and not the one
 in Ontario). Norway has been my home for the past five years, and I've
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ there!
 
 
 .. _`summer solstice`: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solstice
-.. _`twitter`: http://twitter.com/derickr
 .. _`our`: http://ez.no
 .. _`Skien`: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skien
 .. _`eZ Components`: http://ezcomponents.org

201004271427-php-mapping.rst

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ consumption under a brand called OpenData_. The data is licenced_ under a
 "Creative Commons Attribute"-like license. One of the data sets they provide is
 `Code-Point Open`_ and provides a dataset "that contains postcode units, each
 of which have a precise geographical location". I've always been a bit of a
-map-geek, and have always geotagged my pictures_ and some of my tweets_. So I
+map-geek, and have always geotagged my pictures_ and some of my tweets. So I
 was wondering what cool thing I could do with this newly released data.  I
 decided to map all the postcodes onto the UK map where more postcodes for a
 specific place would create a "lighter" colour. Each postcode has on average
@@ -131,7 +131,6 @@ necessary calculations in a `PHP extension`_ to speed up the calculations
 .. _licenced: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/licence/docs/licence.pdf
 .. _`Code-Point Open`: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/code-point-open/
 .. _pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/derickrethans/map
-.. _tweets: http://twitter.com/derickr
 .. _OpenStreetMap: http://www.openstreetmap.org/
 .. _`National Grid`: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_national_grid_reference_system#Grid_letters
 __ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:National_Grid_for_Great_Britain_with_central_meridian.gif

201309060914-introduction-to-document-databases.rst

@@ -199,8 +199,8 @@ downloading, please make sure that MongoDB runs by running on the command line
 ``mongo test``. This opens up a shell like interface for the *test* database.
 If that works, then you can issue commands in JavaScript syntax such as::
 
-	db.persons.insert( { 'name': 'Derick Rethans', 'twitter': 'derickr' } );
-	db.persons.find( { 'twitter': 'derickr' } );
+	db.persons.insert( { 'name': 'Derick Rethans', 'mastodon': '@derickr@phpc.social' } );
+	db.persons.find( { 'mastodon': '@derickr@phpc.social' } );
 
 In order to use MongoDB from PHP, you also need to install the `PHP driver for
 MongoDB`_. In most situations you should be able to do so by running::
@@ -216,8 +216,8 @@ Analogous to the previous example on the shell in PHP we would do::
 	$db = $m->test;
 	$col = $db->persons;
 
-	$col->insert( array( 'name' => 'Derick Rethans', 'twitter' => 'derickr' ) );
-	foreach ( $col->find( array( 'twitter' => 'derickr' ) ) as $record )
+	$col->insert( array( 'name' => 'Derick Rethans', 'mastodon' => '@derickr@phpc.social' ) );
+	foreach ( $col->find( array( 'mastodon' => '@derickr@phpc.social' ) ) as $record )
 	{
 		var_dump( $record );
 	}

201311190932-managing-schema-changes.rst

@@ -62,13 +62,13 @@ details and we also want to hash the passwords. The new schema will look like:
 
 **Contacts**
 
-====== ======= =============
-userid method  value
-====== ======= =============
-1      phone   +447551569555
-1      twitter derickr
-2      twitter rasmus
-====== ======= =============
+====== ======== ====================
+userid method   value
+====== ======== ====================
+1      phone    +447551569555
+1      mastodon @derickr@phpc.social
+2      mastodon @rasmus@phpc.social
+====== ======== ====================
 
 To make this transition, you could run the following SQL statements:
 
@@ -212,8 +212,8 @@ Let's have a look at how this might look at in the collection::
         lastname: "Lerdorf",
         contacts [
             {
-                method: 'twitter',
-                value: 'rasmus',
+                method: 'mastodon',
+                value: '@rasmus@phpc.social',
             }
         ]
     }

201705251119-mongodb-hhvm.rst

@@ -39,9 +39,9 @@ time, it was much harder to get help from the developers, and much harder to
 debug as HHVM is many times more complex than PHP.
 
 With PHP 7 released, we saw very little use of the HHVM driver for MongoDB.
-Some months ago I did a twitter poll_, where very few people were indicating
+Some months ago I did a twitter poll, where very few people were indicating
 that they were using HHVM—and even if they were, they would likely not choose
-to `switch to HHVM`_ given the current climate.
+to switch to HHVM given the current climate.
 
 .. image:: /images/content/hhvm-poll.png
    :title: Twitter HHVM Poll
@@ -57,10 +57,7 @@ Some of the feedback on the poll was not very assuring either:
 .. image:: /images/content/doublecompile.png
    :title: https://twitter.com/doublecompile/status/822091880955596800
 
-.. _poll: https://twitter.com/derickr/status/822027320005365761
-.. _`switch to HHVM`: https://twitter.com/doublecompile/status/822091880955596800
-
-With few users, frequent `API breaks`_, and `curious bugs`_ we came to the
+With few users, frequent API breaks, and `curious bugs`_ we came to the
 conclusion that supporting the HHVM driver for MongoDB no longer makes good
 use of our engineering time. With `Doctrine`_ and `Symfony 4`_
 also no longer supporting HHVM, we have decided to discontinue the MongoDB
@@ -69,7 +66,6 @@ driver for HHVM.
 If anyone is interested in assuming ownership of the HHVM driver, please drop 
 me_ a line and we can discuss the process in more detail.
 
-.. _`API breaks`: https://twitter.com/derickr/status/849946557344612352
 .. _`curious bugs`: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-hhvm-driver/issues/183
 .. _`Doctrine`: https://github.com/doctrine/common/pull/785#issuecomment-294369979
 .. _`Symfony 4`: http://symfony.com/blog/symfony-4-end-of-hhvm-support

201909100925-xdebug-update-august-2019.rst

@@ -131,8 +131,7 @@ happy to provide a suggested fix, which I will now have to put into practice.
 Funding Xdebug
 --------------
 
-At the end of the month I started a `thread
-<https://twitter.com/derickr/status/1167449201363623936>`_ on Twitter with the
+At the end of the month I started a thread on Twitter (now deleted) with the
 cheeky suggestion that I am considering making Xdebug non-free for commercial
 use. This is not something I would likely do, and instead would prefer to be
 funded through Patreon and commercial donations. The replies on the thread

202008200930-phpinternalsnews-67.rst

@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ PHP Internals News: Episode 67: Match Expression
    :Short: pin067
    :Enclosure: media/pin-067.mp3
 
-In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Derick Rethans (`Twitter
-<https://twitter.com/derickr>`_, `GitHub <https://github.com/derickr/>`_,
+In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Derick Rethans (`Mastodon
+<https://phpc.social/@derickr>`_, `GitHub <https://github.com/derickr/>`_,
 `Website <https://derickrethans.nl>`_) about the new Match Expression in
 PHP 8.
 

202011100912-xdebug-update-october-2020.rst

@@ -41,10 +41,8 @@ make sure all the new configuration methods are also supported with/through
 PhpStorm.
 
 There are also several anecdotal reports that Xdebug 3 is indeed a lot faster
-in many environments. I have asked the community for `benchmarks
-<https://twitter.com/derickr/status/1316724258341638144>`_, but I have not
-seen any write ups beyond a `tweet
-<https://twitter.com/DCoderLT/status/1323253602614419462>`_, and an `article
+in many environments. I have asked the community for benchmarks, but I have not
+seen any write ups beyond a tweet (now deleted), and an `article
 <https://php.watch/articles/php-code-coverage-comparison?rd>`_.
 
 PHP 8