Here's how little Twitter cares about their platform being gamed:- Inform Twitter exec of accounts falsely representing NC and various NC municipalities- Twitter exec ignores tip, instead asks "Why don't you start a competitor?"- Two weeks later https://t.co/UqJJzDBfPb pic.twitter.com/zAmruXSjVN— geoff golberg (@geoffgolberg) August 22, 2018
― Eliza D., Wednesday, 22 August 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
Depends who you follow I suppose.
I think this used to be the case but increasingly (maybe this is the new "algorithm"?) to be on Twitter at all is to be on all of Twitter. The whole design of the platform works aggressively against creating micro-communities in which (less chaotic, more coherent) "conversations" or encounters can take place. The supreme annoyance of Twitter is that it's a room in which all points of view and all forms of talking are taking place at once and responding to (at) each other--when in the real world for any coherent or productive kind of communication to take place you're already relying of a number of exclusions and simplifications (or reductions in complexity) of social space.
― ryan, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
was this in response to the Dolly Parton tweet?
No, Jolene is the original version of that meme!
It was inspired by a few tweets I saw that started with "me during sex: [variant on "hurt me"]" followed by something they found emotionally wounding. Not funny imo and way too tmi for me even if it were funny, which I don't believe it is. Someone else upthread referred to it as the "hurt me" meme; when I saw it originally, I didn't realize it was a meme until I saw a few different variants. Usually if something annoys me in that way I just don't look at it for a while and it is gone the next time I look.
Everyone has a different use for twitter afaict. I assume someone somewhere finds the "hurt me" meme very amusing. Some people enjoy oversharing. /shrug
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
I mean I don't do them off alt because of work but twitter memes are one of the few bright spots of twitter
the best way to use twitter is to selectively copy-paste the good tweets into group chats
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
two things i have learned from twitter
a) a lot of people are really sad/in need of attention and/or validationb) a LOT of people are REALLY funny
― a roomba of one's own (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
not even catalogued here
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
be less literal
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
i mentioned MSN Messenger in a tweet and there's a Michael Jackson fan who searches "MSN Messenger" and replies with a video of his monitor as he uses an MSN Messenger clone
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
naturally
― a roomba of one's own (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
jolene was distracting boyfriend since before those stock photo teens were born (probably?) that's what i am saying -- not that anyone had used jolene in that meme because lord knows i couldn't keep track of that nor would i care to
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
dolly used that meme
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
for jolenelike yesterday
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:03 (five years ago) link
i know
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
im so confused loooool
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
Lechera, no disrespect, but you seem to completely misunderstand what is going on in the hurt me meme!
― Je55e, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link
it's not at all about oversharing
the joke is about the misunderstanding of the request "hurt me"
the person wanted to be hurt physically for sexual pleasure.
but the other person hilariously misunderstood and did something to hurt them emotionally.
it's all right there in the text.
― Je55e, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
i totally understand thatand it remains unfunny to me
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
great post seemingly misunderstood by everyone itt
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:47 (five years ago) link
i hate these especially whenever they require a bunch of media people to talk about how smart they were as children or whatever
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, August 22, 2018 12:30 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
adults whining about growing up as ~gifted children~ is really something, what dumbasses
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:54 (five years ago) link
― Je55e, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:56 (five years ago) link
I get the meme and still havent seen a funny one. and I like memes!
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 22 August 2018 22:07 (five years ago) link
je553 i understand it and have understood iti just don't find it funny and would rather not discuss it further. kindly give me the benefit of the doubt for having my own informed opinion.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
either you like this kind of millennial gallows humor or you don't, neither's better than the other
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 22:32 (five years ago) link
#BragAboutYourGeneration is catching up with gifted children as the most annoying thing on Twitter
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 22:36 (five years ago) link
I did wonder if LL was being arch about Jolene but tbh her v confusing reading of the "hurt me" joke, of which I have also not seen a version I found funny, threw me
in apology, have this answer record to Jolene (embed should start at 5:23)
https://youtu.be/kjXRJt-_znI?t=323
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 22:38 (five years ago) link
Depends who you follow I suppose.I think this used to be the case but increasingly (maybe this is the new "algorithm"?) to be on Twitter at all is to be on all of Twitter. The whole design of the platform works aggressively against creating micro-communities in which (less chaotic, more coherent) "conversations" or encounters can take place. The supreme annoyance of Twitter is that it's a room in which all points of view and all forms of talking are taking place at once and responding to (at) each other--when in the real world for any coherent or productive kind of communication to take place you're already relying of a number of exclusions and simplifications (or reductions in complexity) of social space.― ryan, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ryan, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
However much white noise there is, it hasn't been enough to stop connection forming. In my time I do see micro-communities (via group chats and the like) that develop when a few people find each other on twitter - and I reckon many of these then transfer to the real world connections so I am not sure it works as you say.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 August 2018 13:26 (five years ago) link
to clarify we did not meet on twitter, and at this point most people in it either don't use twitter or have it write-only. in my experience micro-communities do not form on twitter (or other social media) but are reflections of what exists in the real world already. which is what people don't understand about @ replying and why it usually isn't wanted
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 23 August 2018 13:55 (five years ago) link
I am sure that much of it is a reflection of the outside world but I have seen people from different places but similar interests forming connections.
Besides, twitter allows you to restrict your notifications to see replies by mutuals only so that aspect is covered, for the most part. I see the fact that many don't do it (despite knowing of it) means that they are looking to hear others' points of view (although you often see people's patience being tested).
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 August 2018 14:17 (five years ago) link
"hurt me" meme always reminds me of this (which i actually think is fairly funny)
http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/comics/2012-07-13-Happy-Ending.png
― Je55e, Thursday, 23 August 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
i... i... bought it
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1724941682
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 23 August 2018 15:59 (five years ago) link
availble now...Dril Official "Mr. Ten Years" Anniversary Collectionthe real dealhttps://t.co/FwmE7Vw9zL pic.twitter.com/1KYWte83pL— wint (@dril) August 23, 2018
Paperback: 420 pages
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 23 August 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
that is so strange just yesterday I was thinking how cool it would be to just have a @dril book since Twitter archives are so clunky
― frogbs, Thursday, 23 August 2018 16:09 (five years ago) link
This is legitimately going to be the only way to read tweets in about six years when the site finally shuts downUnless the Pinboard guy buys the company for $1
― faculty w1fe (silby), Thursday, 23 August 2018 16:11 (five years ago) link
after a few drinks tonight I suspect I will get the urge to try this out.
― mark e, Thursday, 23 August 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
Number One! In your face Chapo!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/new-releases/books/4456/ref=zg_b_hnr_4456_1
― cajunsunday, Friday, 24 August 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
no shame in being outsold by the dril book, but being outsold by David Spade's 'A Polaroid Guy in a Snapchat World' is another matter entirely
― soref, Friday, 24 August 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link
I'm going to buy the dril book but definitely not the chapo book (or the david spade book)
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 24 August 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
samr
― sprout god (lag∞n), Friday, 24 August 2018 21:09 (five years ago) link
if i were to play Read, Gift, Burn in a Fire it would go Spade, dril, Chapo.
Spade's kind of a creep and a narcissist but he's funny imo.
― a roomba of one's own (rip van wanko), Friday, 24 August 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
have one of those accounts that just seems to be in oblivious conversation with itself.
i recommend this
― macropuente (map), Friday, 24 August 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
also muting things on the reg. today: mollie tibbetts
― macropuente (map), Friday, 24 August 2018 22:04 (five years ago) link
https://twitter.com/search?q=%22pedal%20stool%22&s=09
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Saturday, 1 September 2018 13:08 (five years ago) link
lol
― sprout god (lag∞n), Saturday, 1 September 2018 13:19 (five years ago) link
I’m not one for muting/blocking random things that turn up in my timeline but I finally bit the bullet and muted Eddie Marsan.
― suzy, Saturday, 1 September 2018 13:21 (five years ago) link
Shit actor, total melt and that Sopranos knock-off he's in is utter pez!
― calzino, Saturday, 1 September 2018 13:38 (five years ago) link
Some of these people are a hundred times more obsessed by Corbyn than anyone they accuse of being “the cult”.
― suzy, Saturday, 1 September 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link
they are just as bad as them Chris Williamson/Canary/Galloway acolytes, just the other side of the coin really. Marsan is thick as pigshit, though - although he'll put "Good piece" on some long read on the evil of Corbyn in between retweeting Streeting, you can tell he doesn't really read them!
― calzino, Saturday, 1 September 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
I am one of the few people who actually doesn't mind this feature but for the rest of the world
Uh. Muting suggest_recycled_tweet_inline and suggest_activity_tweet actually has fixed my timeline. It's all chronological and there are barely any "x and y liked" tweets. pic.twitter.com/Dva6LPQyLF— Emma ⭐ (@EmmaKinema) September 16, 2018
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 17 September 2018 14:54 (five years ago) link
i did it
― sprout god (lag∞n), Monday, 17 September 2018 21:12 (five years ago) link