Rick Calvert

Tweets from the founder of the first event for content creators and social influencers. comments on creator freedoms, other creator stuff, travel, privacy.

[Rick Calvert @blogworld]

Google, Social Media and LLM's are making the world worse. https://t.co/TOd63idmoD

[Rick Calvert @blogworld]

The Whitney Houston version of this song is one of the best performances of all time in any genre.

It was so good that people overlook the Doly's exceptionally sweet and beautiful original performance.

https://t.co/K0puGLoFOm

I cannot wait to see @rickbeato cover Dolly and her career.

[ElaineStark @ElaineSstark]

Dolly Parton casi chocó su automóvil la primera vez que escuchó a Whitney Houston cantar “I Will Always Love You”.

La canción había nacido casi 20 años antes, cuando Dolly decidió separarse profesionalmente de Porter Wagoner, el hombre que había impulsado su carrera.

Como él se negaba a dejarla marchar, ella escribió una despedida y se la cantó.

Porter terminó llorando.

Tiempo después, Elvis Presley quiso grabarla. Para Dolly era un sueño, hasta que su representante le exigió entregar la mitad de los derechos de autor. Aunque necesitaba el dinero, se negó.

Aquella decisión cambió su vida.

En 1992, Kevin Costner eligió la canción para “The Bodyguard” y Whitney Houston la convirtió en un fenómeno mundial. Dolly escuchó la versión por primera vez mientras conducía y tuvo que detenerse: estaba tan emocionada que temió sufrir un accidente.

“Tomó mi pequeña canción y la convirtió en algo enorme”, recordaría después.

La versión le generó cerca de 10 millones de dólares en regalías. Dolly invirtió parte de ese dinero en un complejo de oficinas situado en un barrio históricamente afroamericano de Nashville.

Lo llamó «la casa que Whitney construyó».

Dolly escribió la canción. Whitney la hizo volar. Y entre las dos crearon una despedida que el mundo nunca pudo olvidar.

Ahora las dos nos han dejado, pero juntas hicieron que una canción de despedida se volviera eterna.

[ElaineStark @ElaineSstark]

Dolly Parton casi chocó su automóvil la primera vez que escuchó a Whitney Houston cantar “I Will Always Love You”.

La canción había nacido casi 20 años antes, cuando Dolly decidió separarse profesionalmente de Porter Wagoner, el hombre que había impulsado su carrera.

Como él se negaba a dejarla marchar, ella escribió una despedida y se la cantó.

Porter terminó llorando.

Tiempo después, Elvis Presley quiso grabarla. Para Dolly era un sueño, hasta que su representante le exigió entregar la mitad de los derechos de autor. Aunque necesitaba el dinero, se negó.

Aquella decisión cambió su vida.

En 1992, Kevin Costner eligió la canción para “The Bodyguard” y Whitney Houston la convirtió en un fenómeno mundial. Dolly escuchó la versión por primera vez mientras conducía y tuvo que detenerse: estaba tan emocionada que temió sufrir un accidente.

“Tomó mi pequeña canción y la convirtió en algo enorme”, recordaría después.

La versión le generó cerca de 10 millones de dólares en regalías. Dolly invirtió parte de ese dinero en un complejo de oficinas situado en un barrio históricamente afroamericano de Nashville.

Lo llamó «la casa que Whitney construyó».

Dolly escribió la canción. Whitney la hizo volar. Y entre las dos crearon una despedida que el mundo nunca pudo olvidar.

Ahora las dos nos han dejado, pero juntas hicieron que una canción de despedida se volviera eterna.

[Marshall Mathers @Eminem]

I'm sorry we never got a chance to meet, but getting this note from Dolly really had a an impact on me. She definitely didn't have to take the time to do it. Even for a kid who mostly listened to rap music, she was an icon. A superstar in every sense. Rest easy Dolly. And thank you for the kind words.

[Rick Calvert @blogworld]

When I was eight years old my mom left my dad for the first time. When we were driving up in our beat up old pontiac and Jolene came on the radio; my mom would turn it up. https://t.co/8x0ufOWNDg RIP Dolly Parton, a true legend in music who has me thinking of my mom today.

[Rick Calvert @blogworld]

@douglaskarr It's funny, but I am glad she didn't seriously hurt herself. Any details on how this happened?

[Rick Calvert @blogworld]

This is the magic we loved about YouTube.
https://t.co/agCseDx6Og
A young kid jamming a Rush cover on his acoustic guitar in his living room.

[Rick Calvert @blogworld]

Me too. Unfortunately we are the outliers.

Google dominates the global search market with approximately 90% to 91.4% of worldwide search traffic, while competitors collectively hold less than 10%. As of mid-2026, Bing is the second-largest engine with roughly 5% market share, followed by Yahoo and Yandex at approximately 1.4% to 1.5% each. DuckDuckGo accounts for about 0.76% globally, and Baidu holds around 0.55%.

[Rick Calvert @blogworld]

@redsteeze Countdown to the meme begins now.....

[Rick Calvert @blogworld]

Honestly I don't remember if it was 1976 when Brett hit two home runs in game 5 and Chris Chambliss came back with a homer to win it for the Yankees, or 1978 when Brett hit 3 HOME RUNS in game 5 and Thurman Munson came back and hit a home run for the Yankees win.

But after one of those games, George did a locker room interview, head in his hands in stunned disbelief. He had given everything and lost to the Yankees again.

To me, that interview epitomizes what it means to give the performance of your life in sport and still come up short. I never felt more sympathy for a player after a loss and I was a Yankee fan back then.

I have searched for it many times online and have not found it.

[Rick Calvert @blogworld]

@rustybrick How nice for them.

[Douglas Karr @douglaskarr]

In a few years, @Google will probably have a single organic link on the SERP, but it’s randomly located and disappears within a millisecond… replaced by an ad.

[Rick Calvert @blogworld]

The amount of ads on @YouTube now are insane. The more YouTube becomes like broadcast TV the more I hate it.

[Rick Calvert @blogworld]

@EWErickson The alogrithm made this site and every other social media site worse.

We should all see the content of the people we choose to follow, know, like, and trust not the content the platform thinks will keep our eyeballs longer.

Creators deserve to be paid for their work.

[Rick Calvert @blogworld]

X continues to tweak their creator rev share program.

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

Some updates on the creator rev share program:

1. Soliciting engagements (“I’ll follow everyone who replies”) 3 or more times will results in removal from the program and your account will be forwarded to the policy team for suspension. Grok now catches all of these.

Nearly 4000 accounts were removed from the program today.

2. Our new model now detects duplicated content at 3x the rate of the previous model. Adding watermarks, intros and other edits will send monetized impressions to the original uploader. This also includes copying viral text posts (most common one: “Twitter is like the smoking section of the internet”).

We detected 1.5 million posts that were stolen this cycle. Repeated or intentional circumvention will lead to removal from the program.

With these changes, over $1 million will be given back to original content creators.

[Rick Calvert @blogworld]

Adam is one of the early music YouTubers. He has a huge catalog of great cover tunes and does his own original music.

Give his version of the classic Marsh Tucker song Cant You See a listen:

https://t.co/v4xQe4Ghey

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[Rick Calvert @blogworld]

Happy Father's Day to all the dads.

My girls put on Stairway to Heaven when I woke up this morning. Not sure how I should take that.