Sorry
― 龜, Friday, 20 November 2015 02:53 (eight years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 03:07 (eight years ago) link
haha both yr twitters are p good idk, with ilx being kinda dead its weird to see ilx-y stuff on twitter i guess
― LEGIT (Lamp), Friday, 20 November 2015 03:35 (eight years ago) link
~the world moves on~
i've wondered if ilx has been kinda dead or if its just my bookmarks
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 20 November 2015 05:11 (eight years ago) link
Site New Answers25 Active Users
feel like a year or two ago this would have been nearly twice that on a thursday night in late fall
― Clay, Friday, 20 November 2015 05:21 (eight years ago) link
i said something a while back about the decline in use of the wdyll threads being a good indicator of the drift from ilx to social media and just noticed there is no november thread. boyz ii men getting ready to sing
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 20 November 2015 15:26 (eight years ago) link
some people are on zing instead of the site, I'm not sure if those stats are counted?
― calstars, Friday, 20 November 2015 15:27 (eight years ago) link
Plenty of ilx on twitter iirc
― MONKEY had been BUMMED by the GHOST of the late prancing paedophile (darraghmac), Friday, 20 November 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link
imo ilx still feels more like one of the better methods for the same ~150 people to keep talking to each other but that's kinda all it is at this point. we are definitely in metafilter land now, there has been basically no new blood for years, the 'young people' here are all in their late 20s and the 45 y/os are just busier w/ lyfe / kids / painting their garage.
― iatee, Friday, 20 November 2015 15:43 (eight years ago) link
children of zing
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Friday, 20 November 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
i'm taking another break from twitter and have just kinda ended up rechanneling that attention into ilx and tumblr, two (relatively) dead places
hope twitter dies soon too
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 20 November 2015 15:46 (eight years ago) link
imo ilx still feels more like one of the better methods for the same ~150 people to keep talking to each other
this is what the internet is for, huge swirling pools of discourse aren't fun for anybody
― pizza rolls are a food that exists (silby), Friday, 20 November 2015 15:50 (eight years ago) link
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, November 20, 2015 10:46 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lot of ppl seem p convinced this is happening but idk
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 15:52 (eight years ago) link
i think those perspectives mainly focus on the business end of twitter. i personally don't see it dying soon but it really shifted in 2012-2013 from a kind of cool and fascinating thing where ppl were really funny and i felt less alone (lol) to a site of unbelievable anxiety, which has gotten way worse in the past two years, even as i followed as few ppl as possible
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 20 November 2015 15:56 (eight years ago) link
i mean, my own fault for being embedded in both media and music twitter
twitter def used to be more fun and funny before ppl decided it was a srs platform for expanding ones brand
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 15:59 (eight years ago) link
i think those perspectives mainly focus on the business end of twitter. i personally don't see it dying soon
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, November 20, 2015 10:56 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
business concerns and its health as a platform are pretty intimately connected tho
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 16:01 (eight years ago) link
idk where ppl wld go tho
oh yeah true that
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:03 (eight years ago) link
I realized Something Was Up with Twitter when the committee for my college reunion started collecting everyone's Twitter handles to put on a list and mine was the only one not geared towards promoting my brand/professional work. At first I was embarrassed but it quickly became hilarious as I watched white paper link after appointment announcement after newspaper article scroll by punctuated with me joking with ilxors about some terrible band/politician
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:05 (eight years ago) link
lmao
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 16:07 (eight years ago) link
lol one time i tweeted a link to something i wrote and it felt so lame
muted in tweetdeck: the phrase 'excited to announce'
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 November 2015 16:08 (eight years ago) link
I like the lag∞n brand.
― Jeff, Friday, 20 November 2015 16:09 (eight years ago) link
It needs expanding.
Hire an intern.
accepting applications
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
― mookieproof, Friday, November 20, 2015 11:08 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"wrote a thing"
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 16:11 (eight years ago) link
excited to announce is def one of the primo depressing phrases online
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 16:12 (eight years ago) link
feel like twitter gives me insight into how baked lag∞n is any particular moment, so ✓
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 November 2015 16:12 (eight years ago) link
lmao ✌
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 16:13 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGPSXZz_3yA
saw this ad multiple times during basketball last night
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
yeah a few years ago i started a new job and on my first day my boss was like "follow me on twitter" - until then i had mostly used twitter as a kind of secret tool for stuff i'd never put on facebook, i mean nothing illegal or whatever but given it was my first day of a new job i had to go and delete a load of things and blandify my account. as it turned out my boss wouldn't have cared but i didn't know that then.
put my career there for the first time recently, i guess because i am a contractor and it might get me work, and also cos i am proud of it for a change.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
how long before moments becomes the default tab
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
it's nice when ppl compliment their friends but i am getting fed up with 'the god @user wrote' and 'the dude @user has thoughts'
it is a peeve
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 November 2015 16:21 (eight years ago) link
LG: why didn't you make a separate Twitter account for business associates? Too much hassle to switch between them?
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:21 (eight years ago) link
I had a brief period where I was more into using twitter for professional ideas and then some ppl followed me and I ended up posting lots of swearing and bad tweets and they went away
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:23 (eight years ago) link
i guess i have a decent amount of followers for my account as it is, so i decided to keep it to one. tho tbh i churn a lot because i post about 20 diff things obsessively for an hour at a time. my personal brand is highly fragmented
xpost
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:24 (eight years ago) link
i mean like, i could be posting about any one of those 20 things for an hour, rather than all 20 all at once.
I occasionally use my Twitter for work-related stuff, esp. if I'm at a conference or event, or for brownie points with my SVP by RT-ing the company feed, but mostly I talk about Star Wars or tell Newt Gingrich and James Woods to fuck off.
― Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:26 (eight years ago) link
i talk abt industry related things sometimes but in a v unprofessional manner
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
lol Phil, I caught you going after James Woods
one of my most popular recent Tweets was going after Ben Carson so game recognize game
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:32 (eight years ago) link
ned is a good amplifier for all personal brands. most big numbers i've got have started with support from ned.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:33 (eight years ago) link
want numbers? simply call ned and ask him to leverage his assets in your favour.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:34 (eight years ago) link
Who can help me create a bot to respond to every single James Woods tweet with a screencap of him cleaning the Quik-E-Mart microwave on "The Simpsons?"
― Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:37 (eight years ago) link
watch out, he might sue you
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:39 (eight years ago) link
just unfollowed (almost) all non individual human accounts: publications brands businesses and it felt so good
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 19:01 (eight years ago) link
was abt a quarter of the total
i followed so many like digital agencies and accounts for front end frameworks lol smh
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 19:02 (eight years ago) link
think this is the first time i have more followers than following B-)
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link