it’s so sadistic
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 16:47 (four years ago) link
what we need is a new push notification every two days to remind us to switch it to latest tweets. and in that notification, they might as well go ahead and embed some top tweets, since you're already looking
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 16:49 (four years ago) link
I get emails from Twitter with tweets from the same account (which I don't follow!) every day or so. No idea why.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 16:58 (four years ago) link
McDonald's has a really rude bot. I posted a really, really old McDonald's commercial to YouTube. I didn't even criticize McDonald's. I didn't use a hashtag. There wasn't even the word "McDonald's" in my tweet. All I said was that their fries have changed dramatically over the years. And I get this bot tweet, "please fill out this form with your concerns". How Orwellian and creepy.
― Alpha 666, The Number of the Beast (I M Losted), Saturday, 23 May 2020 10:11 (four years ago) link
from YouTube, not to.
― Alpha 666, The Number of the Beast (I M Losted), Saturday, 23 May 2020 10:13 (four years ago) link
At least now you do have some concerns
― Josefa, Saturday, 23 May 2020 14:46 (four years ago) link
I complained about a costcutter on twitter because they were charging £5 for a little bag of penne, since then their social media person has been asking me which one it was, but I just wanted to whinge, not to snitch, so am ignoring it.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 23 May 2020 15:06 (four years ago) link
switching on and off the algorithm taught me that the difference between 'latest tweets' and algo is minimal. also, if u folllow ppl from the uk or australia, the algo shows you their best tweets in the morning
― flopson, Saturday, 23 May 2020 16:51 (four years ago) link
their social media person has been asking me which one it was, but I just wanted to whinge, not to snitch
@Tesco am no a grass— Nina Bibs (@ninabibs_gla) March 23, 2015
― Bleeqwot (sic), Saturday, 23 May 2020 18:57 (four years ago) link
Any time you make a mistake on this platform, you can at least take solace in the fact that you didn't try to explain MLK Jr. to... MLK III pic.twitter.com/uUhnPFAPdt— Jason Bailey (@jasondashbailey) May 29, 2020
― dip to dup (rob), Friday, 29 May 2020 12:45 (four years ago) link
There is a thing going on right now where kpop fans flood racist hashtags with their ubiquitous "kpop stars dancing" gifs.
https://news.avclub.com/k-pop-fans-are-now-hard-at-work-commandeering-racist-ha-1843880487
Now please tell me if I'm wrong here, but doesn't flooding a hashtag actually make it trend? So what they are doing is actually bumping racist hashtags AND subjecting us to more of those inexplicable gifs? Am I wrong about this or is it actually as stupid as I think?
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 22:17 (four years ago) link
I still use the website and have set it to show Berlin trends and saw WhiteLivesMatter at the top of that list earlier - didn't actually click it just assumed it was 20% bot stampede and 80% horrified reaction.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link
That's the one. 100% kpop dancing gifs. What is the point? Why is it there?
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 22:27 (four years ago) link
individually people are pretty dumb, together they are infinitely so
― imago, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 22:31 (four years ago) link
no they aren't
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 22:37 (four years ago) link
image spamming trolls is a time-honoured internet tradition
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 22:45 (four years ago) link
I get image spamming, but when it amplifies a racist hashtag then surely it's counterproductive.
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
? The hashtag was already beginning to trend. That's why the kpop trolls intervened.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 22:57 (four years ago) link
was it though? it suddenly appeared right at the top of my trending topics and was already full of the gifs. I guess perhaps it was pushed up there by bots or w/e in one location, then the flooding made it trend everywhere.
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 23:12 (four years ago) link
It's not trending for me, but "BlueLivesMatters" is
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 23:16 (four years ago) link
yeah, it's gone for me too now
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 23:17 (four years ago) link
if u dont like the kpop fans flooding racist websites, they took a whole police snitch app down btw, then you have to fight me and im gonna dance on yr ass like bts
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 23:36 (four years ago) link
Flooding a hashtag with posts that have nothing to do with the hashtag is just fighting fire with fire, it’s a known troll farm tactic and is also used by psyops pros (OK, same diff)
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 23:39 (four years ago) link
Or all those black squares under #blacklivesmatter.
― pplains, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 23:54 (four years ago) link
i'm willing to stipulate that k-pop fans know much more about social media algorithms than we do
― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 June 2020 00:47 (four years ago) link
they are battle tested
― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 June 2020 01:14 (four years ago) link
this is really up there with "our juggalo comrades are a strong and necessary flank in the fight against fascism"
― lukas, Thursday, 4 June 2020 01:18 (four years ago) link
Aren’t they?
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Thursday, 4 June 2020 01:20 (four years ago) link
I wasn't citing that in disapproval :)
― lukas, Thursday, 4 June 2020 01:20 (four years ago) link
So what they are doing is actually bumping racist hashtags AND subjecting us to more of those inexplicable gifs?
the posts get promoted, they make less sense (and clog up the space for anyone interested in making functional use of the hashtag), fewer people who see them mimic the behavior or redirect it into their own networks - it's like gresham's law but for when you actually want the good money to be driven out by the bad
― j., Thursday, 4 June 2020 01:41 (four years ago) link
so Twitter puts the little blue notification for on the app icon if there are any new tweets in your timeline, huh. that's helpful
― i will FP you and your entire family (rip van wanko), Thursday, 4 June 2020 07:16 (four years ago) link
do you have any new tweets right now
― j., Thursday, 4 June 2020 08:03 (four years ago) link
I would like for there to be a blue notification dot on the little birdie icon when someone has replied to me or rt me, only then
― i will FP you and your entire family (rip van wanko), Thursday, 4 June 2020 12:17 (four years ago) link
the kpop kids have shown us all how to harness the forces of stan culture for good:
OPERATION #BLUEFALL. 8AM PST.FUCK THAT PRIDEFALL SHIT, LETS TAKE IT & MAKE IT MORAL. THIS PRIDE MONTH. LETS FUCKING GO. RT & QUOTE WITH YOUR LOCAL @‘S. WE ARE BLUEING OUT THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA WITH THEIR OFFICERS BRUTALITY. LOS ANGELES:@MayorOfLA @LAPDHQ @LAPDChiefMoore pic.twitter.com/tAApz35WwN— elijah daniel (@elijahdaniel) June 4, 2020
ARIANA GRADE STANS, 1D STANS, BARBZ. I SUMMON YOU TO COME TOGETHER FOR #BLUEFALL https://t.co/5gIF5p9z43— elijah daniel (@elijahdaniel) June 4, 2020
― Roz, Thursday, 4 June 2020 14:19 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/NVXPWO3.png
― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 June 2020 19:01 (four years ago) link
it's a lifestyle
― i will FP you and your entire family (rip van wanko), Thursday, 4 June 2020 19:05 (four years ago) link
twidder
― Joey Corona (Euler), Thursday, 4 June 2020 21:17 (four years ago) link
dud
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 5 June 2020 00:49 (four years ago) link
classic now for constantly fucking w trump
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 5 June 2020 09:25 (four years ago) link
I liked a tweet a couple of weeks ago & it is having significant good irl consequences so I'm all mixed up about it.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Friday, 5 June 2020 09:27 (four years ago) link
you guys it's so much worse than any of us thought... I clicked a tweet in a thread and swear to god it took me to a place with many more tweets... tens of thousands of tweets, and each one more horrifying than the last. a veritable living nightmare. i fear that with these reserves at hand, tweets will soon outnumber posts by an insurmountable margin
― lumen (esby), Friday, 5 June 2020 17:16 (four years ago) link
they can't get in through the holes in the threads, those are one-way
― j., Friday, 5 June 2020 18:01 (four years ago) link
homie what set you from
― mh, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 00:19 (four years ago) link
where do you go for this circle of your closest twitter friends??
― brian emo (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 23:47 (four years ago) link
tens of thousands of tweets
My childhood is tweets upon tweets upon tweets upon tweets.
― geoffreyess, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 00:11 (four years ago) link
a thread
A friend who’s fully into the covid conspiracies sent me this post that says Captain America predicted the coronavirus outbreak in 2011, and while its obviously bs, I started fixating on that circled image on the right. pic.twitter.com/N4XywDTZEx— William Mullally 🚮 (@whmullally) June 11, 2020
― ACABincalifornia (voodoo chili), Thursday, 11 June 2020 23:41 (four years ago) link
I'll make out just fine if this is so, but can you not play embedded Twitter videos on ILX or third-party sites now, or is there a glitch in my browser? I can still play YouTubes.
― clemenza, Thursday, 11 June 2020 23:46 (four years ago) link
that's just what they want you to think
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 12 June 2020 00:07 (four years ago) link
I understand OPs not liking to be tagged in threaded replies that aren't directed at them, but get annoyed that this is perpetually framed as a rudeness/etiquette issue as opposed to a shitty interface issue.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 20:27 (four years ago) link
when you think about it its there own fault for tweeting
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 20:36 (four years ago) link