yeah not RTs, it just shows me algorithmically selected tweets that people I follow have liked, not even RTed. if there's a way to turn it off it's well hidden since I can't find it― ciderpress, Thursday, 9 November 2017 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ciderpress, Thursday, 9 November 2017 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The other side is some of the same ppl show up so often for me I don't have to follow them.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 11 November 2017 20:57 (six years ago) link
knowledgeable specialists who like to share and learn are def some of the best follows
― lag∞n, Saturday, 11 November 2017 20:58 (six years ago) link
yesterday i unfollowed someone and the algo immediately showed me two of their tweets via the x and five others liked interface, trying to get me to change my mind lol
― lag∞n, Saturday, 11 November 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
which must work some of the time, or they were just testing it
yeah a handful of the ppl i used to follow for jokes and general nonsense pivoted to posting mostly about politics in the wake of the election and i had to prune a lot of them. not because they werent aligned with my views but because i only want so many politics tweets in my timeline and for that id rather prioritize ppl w/ more experience talking about it and/or from marginalized groups, rather than internet jokesters-cum-pundits
― ciderpress, Saturday, 11 November 2017 21:03 (six years ago) link
i'm not gonna miss out on any good jokes about current events regardless, algorithms have ensured that
― ciderpress, Saturday, 11 November 2017 21:06 (six years ago) link
i must see half of all krang and pixelated boat tweets and i dont even want to
― lag∞n, Saturday, 11 November 2017 21:14 (six years ago) link
pixelated boat is so fn bad lol
― flopson, Saturday, 11 November 2017 21:38 (six years ago) link
it's like, printed on a t-shirt in a head shop level humour
lol i blocked pixelated boat
― ciderpress, Saturday, 11 November 2017 21:38 (six years ago) link
i'm also realizing that myabe the reason why im not seeing a ton of 280 char tweet is i have a lot of words muted and the longer a tweet is the more likely it contains one of them
― ciderpress, Saturday, 11 November 2017 21:40 (six years ago) link
I liked the how the fake Orwell quotes got into The Guardian as Orwell himself though. That was great.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 11 November 2017 21:41 (six years ago) link
(made up by Pixelated boat)
few accounts that have a greater reach and are quality retweeters (like lagoon)
i think the feed would be to just follow like a dozen or so of these as twitter digest, and then a handful of low-frequency favs
― flopson, Saturday, 11 November 2017 21:47 (six years ago) link
*ideal feed
― flopson, Saturday, 11 November 2017 21:49 (six years ago) link
actually there is a third kinda-famous guy I follow - american sports media dude and chart expert jon bois. he is the best
― imago, Saturday, 11 November 2017 21:58 (six years ago) link
Tyshawn Sorey follows me. I like his music so much I didn't post for days. Now I got over it, I just unselfconsciously don't post fuck all for days! Probably means I'm doing it wrong etc!
― calzino, Saturday, 11 November 2017 22:17 (six years ago) link
Some people I stay loyal to consistently post awful shit: The Canary, Orwell Memes, shrill shouty stuff about imminent demise of the Con gov etc. But I stick with them, as much as they bore me rigid.
― calzino, Saturday, 11 November 2017 22:22 (six years ago) link
there was this evil sage tweet that was something like "keep stomping around my room getting so mad about all the sweet dsa pussy krang t nelson must get" that i cant find because he deleted his account but it was the only thing related to krang ive ever found funny
― ( ^_^) (Lamp), Saturday, 11 November 2017 22:35 (six years ago) link
re: krang and Pixelated boat (also Hippo). Half of the time they are just beefing on politics but it can be seen as a cry of pain a lot of the time.
@dril is left politics but he/she is much more careful about tying to anything like an identifiable politics.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 11 November 2017 22:45 (six years ago) link
not gonna deny they all have classic moments but fucking even the 90th percentile pixelated boat tweet is some warmed up trenchant social commentary
Hot dog purchase pic.twitter.com/Z8LSktfIix— Pixelated “Pixelated Boat” Boat (@pixelatedboat) August 27, 2017
― flopson, Saturday, 11 November 2017 22:49 (six years ago) link
at some point years ago I decided life was better wint-less
― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Saturday, 11 November 2017 23:04 (six years ago) link
― imago, Saturday, November 11, 2017 4:58 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm jon is singularly good at twitter
― ciderpress, Saturday, 11 November 2017 23:10 (six years ago) link
most of my favorite ppl i follow have their own voice like that and not the twitter house style
― ciderpress, Saturday, 11 November 2017 23:12 (six years ago) link
yeah the sameness of the language and joke structures makes following most of the weird joke guys unfun. i dont really follow any of them and just look @ there feeds when im bored or in the mood for those type of jokes
― ( ^_^) (Lamp), Saturday, 11 November 2017 23:15 (six years ago) link
Did a purge last year, amounting roughly to me following 300, w/ 600 followers. Following 375 now with 805 followers and it feels like a fitting ratio.
But then I like pixelated boat so who am I etc
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 11 November 2017 23:34 (six years ago) link
i am not much of a tweeter but i like reading ilxors on twitter
― estela, Sunday, 12 November 2017 00:13 (six years ago) link
a recurring thing i enjoy on twitter is when local garda slings off at the pope
― estela, Sunday, 12 November 2017 00:29 (six years ago) link
i too enjoy those moments. lg in general on there tbf.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 12 November 2017 00:35 (six years ago) link
yes, he’s great fun
― estela, Sunday, 12 November 2017 00:44 (six years ago) link
I envy how LG - and the likes - can be completely his own person on there, if that makes sense? In seemingly relative anonymity. I've accumulated half of my following I'd say because of me, yet half because of my job and what those ppl expect of me and there's no escaping. It's a tight rope, with "the personal" and "work/what ppl expect" since the beginning. After all these years it's still a pain in the ass to manage and not let rip freely a slag on the pope, say. And this will forever be why I'm ambivalent to twitter and the likes.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 12 November 2017 01:32 (six years ago) link
Can't imagine what it must be like for ppl more, or actuallly, famous. It must suck so hard.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 12 November 2017 01:33 (six years ago) link
until facebook it was the norm to be anonymous/use a handle online! its easy to forget that now
― ciderpress, Sunday, 12 November 2017 01:54 (six years ago) link
I know right?! That's how I grew up too. But then we got careers and stuff and had to use that, profile that, for better or worse, too. Idk for millenials the divide probably isn't a thing, simply non-existent because the personal and the public are one and the same? This is where I, as a person in his late 30s, am old now.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 12 November 2017 01:57 (six years ago) link
I gave 280 a try, but ended up having to mute it last night. I would be fine with it if it was just used to get a few extra characters over 140 to complete your thought but it seems that most people I follow are using it to the fullest capacity.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 14:27 (six years ago) link
You see, I don't get this at all. Can someone please explain to me how dril is remotely political? To me, he's just an absurdist parody of people who are so online that they don't know what constitutes acceptable behavior.
Or is all Weird Twitter just Left Twitter now?
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 15:02 (six years ago) link
dril occasionally references a left twitter or larger news cycle dustup but does it in an extremely obtuse way that generally works on its own as a joke instead of just latching on to someone else's bad opinions.
BREAKING: Millionaire rapist rehab facility lost to random gas explosion—Dozens of 2nd chances tragically denied—"Mist of splinters & flesh"— wint (@dril) October 15, 2017
― oiocha, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 16:44 (six years ago) link
thread
Baked Alaska got banned permanently from Twitter and now he's ranting outside a McDonald's that "Twitter cannot get away with this" pic.twitter.com/YXJ0vinzxI— Will Sommer (@willsommer) November 15, 2017
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 November 2017 16:31 (six years ago) link
al digiorno please stop uyour cowardly efforts to defame this delicious treat— wint (@dril) August 3, 2017
^ dril is certainly aware and there is definitely quite a bit of subtweeting going on.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 16 November 2017 17:36 (six years ago) link
Twitter banning right-wing trolls and un-verifying is welcome. Its definitely late.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 16 November 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link
too late u might say
― wow. that was truly the minecraft of sex. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 16 November 2017 19:06 (six years ago) link
they def did it in their panicky twitter piecemeal way too, theres still tons of verified nazis on there
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 November 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
oh shit apparently dril's been revealed
find the tumblr people who doxxed dril and try them in the god damn hague.— mmmm breeens 👻💀⚰️ (@isi_breen) November 17, 2017
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 17 November 2017 19:25 (six years ago) link
750k followers, sort of inevitable
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 17 November 2017 19:26 (six years ago) link
why does it matter if he got doxxed, can he not still tweet safely from home, or is he an already famous person or what
― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Friday, 17 November 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
I imagine "doxxing" dril would be kind of like this:
http://i.imgur.com/Xv4xqTr.jpg
― JRN, Friday, 17 November 2017 22:33 (six years ago) link
lmao
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 November 2017 22:49 (six years ago) link
he got verified
― treeship: a year in the life (wins), Friday, 17 November 2017 23:03 (six years ago) link
― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Friday, November 17, 2017 2:42 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
idk what his day job is but it's reasonable to not want your crude twitter persona be linked to your real name
― ciderpress, Friday, 17 November 2017 23:20 (six years ago) link
when i find out who dril is
7 / 244 https://t.co/3BSdIPZAsm— BTC: 1JBJ8nczRAfBUpMQNQGthxgZwWGcrbYeb9 (@mannynotfound) November 17, 2017
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 November 2017 23:58 (six years ago) link