Twitter C/D

What happened to Boots Riley?

the only website i have to clear cookies for regularly to get to work properly

I wasn't starting this week expecting an extended twitter interaction between the helldude and a notable instagram scammer/influencer but it's raised my spirits

link

just trace back from @allahliker 's most recent tweets

there is some much inside information needed in order to understand any of this or the references

if you know nothing about any of these things, I would recommend not ruining your brain

luckily for me my brain is already ruined

Lately I've decided I should report any posts that contain political or factual falsehoods that I find harmful, along with any false or misleading information about COVID. The only problem is, I'm not sure which combination of report reasons I should select for these. Most of the choices are more about causing direct harm to individuals, as opposed to causing confusion and harm with fake information.

yeah, they have really fucked up by not just throwing “covid-19 misinformation” in as a category

probably a lot of internal waffling of how to make it a more general use category and what “science” and “medicine” really mean

I feel like the ability to "fact check" bullshit tweets would be very helpful, but I may be deluding myself.

"facts" according to whom, though?

sigh

According to me. Obviously there is a subjective element there, but maybe if tweets are egregious enough,vtgey will draw more than just my own attention, and ultimately get some of the worst offenders banned.

I get that this is very quixotic, pie in the sky stuff, but I'm bored.

the pandering brand account saga continues

the steak umms guys dad, who runs the ad agency he works for, is a rick santorum donor https://t.co/IMeOs8HhIl

— dean screan (@Lowenaffchen) April 14, 2020

a bad dad? now I've seen everything

he's not just the dad.. he's the boss

idk there's this element where someone who works in marketing also has their own account where they're tweeting about how it's a cool experiment to present a brand as this inspirational voice.. that's also marketing

and the marketing company is just another company

fuck the steak-umm boy hate him wish him gone here's his cover of dreams lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUspsh0wqcY

should be in prison for something

imo they should just tell the truth that steak-umms are reconstituted beef trimmings and eating them instead of buying fancy cuts of meat, which there are only so many of per cow, is a lot more environmentally conscious

woke steak-umms is a perfect internet moment

https://i.imgur.com/OcEfnbl.png

lol amazing

https://twitter.com/search?q=coronavirus%20taste%20praying&s=09

https://i.imgur.com/3WuyXv1.png

an artist at work

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWASJ5SVAAA6szR.jpg

these are the people who rule us

the toys that made us indeed

Every day on twitter:

Twitter: Hi, we've pinned this UK gov press conference on coronavirus to the top for you.
Me: Hide this event.
Twitter: Thanks, we'll use this feedback to improve your experience on twitter!

Repeat endlessly.

Our king Robert has returned to claim his throne. pic.twitter.com/rV23DkwmtE

— Ecce_Homosexual (@Ecce_Homosexual) April 20, 2020

I rarely tweet but last night I referred to a surgery I had performed in a hospital that's currently being demolished in my city...

This morning, the tweet has disappeared as well as all the replies/conversations with it. No warning or comment, just nuked without trace.

I used the word "guts" in place of "internal organs", which might have triggered something in their internal sentiment analysis but holy crap what a garbage platform. I admit, I've been using it more in quarantine, but I feel ready to move on to the next garbage platform concocted by another shitty technology company.

are you banned/suspended? could it have been deleted for political reasons or just some arbitrary moderation bullshit

twitter is dud for banning me for saying fuck off to the wrong person after telling me blatantly antisemitic & homophobic abuse doesn’t violate their rules. jack dorsey is a nazi coddling fuck

Not banned, just my tweet & subsequent tweet-replies/children/convos were all nuked without any notification. I went to my friends pages who had replied and all instances of their replies have also vanished.

I have been banned/twitter-jailed for 48 hours for posting Drive Like Jehu lyrics to accompany live video I took of them performing said song: https://genius.com/Drive-like-jehu-luau-lyrics

...but that process was really clear and direct. This seems way more shady and for not even a clear reason. Makes me wonder how often they shadow-censor people who tweet far more often than i do?

Okay, now it's back. Who here works at the twittz?

That seems like a glitch? As far as I know, Twitter doesn’t just delete tweets and threads, it only does suspensions/bans and locks accounts until offending tweets are removed by the user unless you’re in Germany or w/e and some content is completely unviewable but still present

the edit button finally arrives (for assholes)

When things get heated, you may say things you don't mean. To let you rethink a reply, we’re running a limited experiment on iOS with a prompt that gives you the option to revise your reply before it’s published if it uses language that could be harmful.

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) May 5, 2020

Glinner's extraordinary meltdown will be studied for decades i've no doubt.

The shit Owen Jones gets on there every day, apparently "fuck off and join the tories" is hate speech and this isn't

Right-wing twitter having a normal one, I see! pic.twitter.com/QhyeeOQazZ

— Owen Jones🌹 (@OwenJones84) May 9, 2020

There will be textbooks on the exponentially-increasing Glinner meltdown, yes, I am trying to curb my unhealthy morbid curiosity about him by blocking mentions, but it's impossible.

I mean it is clear that he was already a prick before this, think this video gives you a good idea of why the Twitter virus has destroyed him - he was already a bit of a prick, of the sort who wants to aggressively debate everyone and can't be told he's wrong - just took a case where he needed to apologise for a little thing to break his brain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-LZr4-4vI8

Think lots of creatives are like this, ironically for someone who claims to be a feminist, it's very much a toxic masculinity thing.

this blows

don't have or want an account so no tweetdeck or whatever. i just jump around to different pages when i want to. new twitter is unbelievably bad, one of the worst redesigns of a website ever

between blogger, twitter, and medium, evan williams has been responsible for a lot of misinformation and shittiness, huh

I haven't tried this out yet, but seems like it could be useful

https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/7kz9ez/go-into-2020-by-taking-your-twitter-feed-back-from-the-algorithms

I still do 99% of my twitter interaction through Tweetbot on my phone or iPad and it just shows tweets from people I follow, or their retweets, in chronological order

that'll probably disappear someday, but literally no sponsored tweets, no weird ordering or promoting popular content, just a good ol' stream of tweets

Thanks Noodles, going to try a few of those.

Moddles, I mean, need to switch auto correct off

thanks for that link, moodles! for those who won't click through but might be interested:

By adding a few strings—little bits of code used by Twitter to tag types of tweets—to your muted keywords list, you can change the way the Twitter algorithm sends content to your feed.

While logged in to Twitter, go to Settings > Notifications > Muted > Muted words, and add the strings below.

suggest_activity_tweet: Stops the platform from feeding you tweets you might like
suggest_recycled_tweet_inline: Stops repeated tweets from appearing over and over
suggest_pyle_tweet: Stops serving tweets because mutuals engaged with them
suggest_grouped_tweet_hashtag: Stops tweets associated with popular hashtags from appearing randomly in your timeline
suggest_who_to_follow: Self-explanatory
generic-activity-momentsbreaking: Keep tweets served simply because they're part of a Moment out of your feed

haha, is "suggest_pyle_tweet" a reference to nathan pyle?

gomer pyle? stop getting tweets from those gomers

i mean, i've engaged with my fair share of nathan pyle tweets, so i could be contributing to this problem for my mutuals. they're family friendly but actually funny!

u can get a chronological feed just by selecting latest tweets instead of home from that menu thats at the top of da app fellas

.. and keep selecting it every two days when it switches back BY ITSELF

what, you want a setting to permanently switch it to latest tweets instead of top tweets?

jack can implement that. but the catch is that now you must click the setting to permanently switch it to latest tweets...every two days

mwahahaha! yes!!