Twitter C/D

i don't seem to be on any new lists so either that worked or you hate me :D

haha it worked! :D

FINALLY sorted the people whose tweets i actually care about 100% of the time into a list - along w/turning off retweets by the worst offenders this is changing my life

Mine too. I'm down to ~75 following (all people I actually speak to), retweets from most of those are blocked, and now I'm actually using Twitter again.

i will follo u
if u will follo me

Between Xmas and New Year, I tried to reduce my "following" list from 100 to 50, but ended up at around 60 - which is just about manageable, for someone who prefers to at least skim-read every tweet. I ended up unfollowing some very nice people and some people I've met many times offline, but (a tiny handful of exceptions aside) I never feel obliged to follow anyone in perpetuity. With some, I dip and out; following for a while, muting for a while, then resuming a few months later. And yeah, I've blocked retweets from a small number of over-sharers.

Here's what I block:

• Tweets that are nothing more than replies to other tweets.
• People who offer links without explaining what their linking to. ("Oh, nothing more than a http://inwjt.us/234s? Let me at it!")
• Anyone who habitually makes more than six tweets in a given hour.
• Live tweeting sports or music events.

• Tweets that are nothing more than replies to other tweets.

?!

@crazed_Fan: That's right, I forgot you were there!

@TheRealShaq: Forgot all about that night at Palms #smirnoff.

@juju_buttah: Maybe around Friday?

@Ace_Frehley: AWESOME!

When someone doesn't actually post anything, but only replies to other tweeters.

Ahhhh.

But you can't see replies in your dashboard!

(Unless you follow both people.)

I logged into twitter and I have no idea hoa all the @ and RT and circular ouroboros arrows work

If you click the retweet button, that tweet will show up for people who follow you (unless they have turned off retweets by you).

If you write "RT" manually, it will show up for everyone who follows you even if they've turned off retweets.

If you begin a tweet with @charliesheen, people will not see it in their feed unless they also follow @charliesheen.

If you do not begin a tweet with @, that tweet will show up in your feed for everyone who follows you.

o_O

For example, I have no idea what Patton Oswalt is going on about here:

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/4631/screenshot20110303at843.png

He's using the // convention of RTing. Which is the same as our italic quoting -- the // splits the quote and the reply. Eg

“@JasonIsbell: Daryl Hall and Joyce Carol Oates? Can we make this happen?”//Wait -- COULD we?

Daryl Hall and Joyce Carol Oates? Can we make this happen?”
-- JasonIsbell (8 hours ago)
Wait -- Could we?

i just unfollowed patton oswalt hes not very funny on twitter

this is totally not about twitter but (thankfully!) there is no tumblr thread and i just need to get this little thing off my chest then i can be done with it

tumblr. fucking smug #whitepeople being arch about pop culture! this site is where awful, self-righteous opinions go to slap each other on the back.

you've pretty much described 98% of the internet there lex

yeah i know but tumblr seems particularly bad for it, it's almost like there's a house style on my dashboard and that house style is sady doyle's archness. i might unfollow everyone except tom ewing and erika villani.

you've pretty much described 98% of ilx there lex

I stopped following Twitter last year because it was getting boring. The only time it was half way interesting was when people would post photos or leak material.

ew

you've pretty much described 98% of ilx there lex

luckily 2% of ilx is pretty great and not like that :)

didn't know the moderator request forum could command such loyalty

lex there is a tumblr thread :(

it didn't come up in search?

lol dg

I have never noticed the misspelling until now.

lol tubmlr

tumblr. fucking smug #whitepeople being arch about pop culture! this site is where awful, self-righteous opinions go to slap each other on the back.

I thought tumblr was for looking at pictures of pretty boys and pretty dresses.

yeah i was bitching about tumblr to someone else today and we both realised we were bitching about completely different things - sara was hating on the alt.twee photo tumblrs, i was hating on the #whitepeople opinions text tumblrs. both of us were right. i never saw the point in following photo tumblrs, myself.

I don't really bother w/fashion magazines anymore so it's a nice way to see Vogue/Elle etc.

A lot of the meme-related postings are annoying/infuriating though.

i was hating on the #whitepeople opinions text tumblrs.

I have no clue what this means, do you have any examples?

don't go to any great effort, please! I'm only idly curious.

i never saw the point in following photo tumblrs, myself.

― lex pretend, Friday, March 4, 2011 1:19 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

reblogging. it's just an insane cycle of ego-driven reblogging.

#ff ffs.

If you begin a tweet with @charliesheen, people will not see it in their feed unless they also follow @charliesheen.

If you do not begin a tweet with @, that tweet will show up in your feed for everyone who follows you.

There's a pseudo-convention of beginning a tweet with ".@" if you want your reply to be seen by your followers. e.g. .@charliesheen if you want everyone to see it - not just people that follow you and @charliesheen

Please never so that.

never DO that

.@jeff hi

:(

.@jeff :)

Yeh fucking annoying way of putting people you deliberately don't follow back into you. Fuk a ".@jeffjarvis"

I had to unfollow someone whose every reply was an old-style retweet, e.g.:

Yes it is! RT @scally127 is it really warm today?!??!
Not yet RT @wimblywomble Who has bought the new NME?? BIEBER inside omg
haha RT @generictwat my dogs got no nose, how dose he smell terribal

I don't mind people who do the '.@' thing, but most of who I follow only do it for stuff like serious political debate that I find interesting

I refuse to @ any mention of charlie sheen

I've blocked @charliesheen in my client. Sick to fucking death of it.

i was hating on the #whitepeople opinions text tumblrs.

I have no clue what this means, do you have any examples?

only just saw this, i kind of don't want to call anyone out by actual name :/

(apart from sady doyle)

its ok white people can take it, were tough