Twitter C/D

whiney does them I thought?

Until recently I only really followed personal accounts as it was a useful real-time tool for keeping up with exactly what is happening, but its usefulness in that way has become severely hampered due to huge levels of overtweeting inanity from certain friends which has become increasingly irritating

I fixed the problem of people retweeting comedians but the obvious solution of 'lists' I can't really see how to apply to this problem

i feel like the new twitter interface would be a huge improvement if it weren't slow - like, you can actually SEE the shape of a conversation, plus images and videos (otoh i would rather just never watch videos)

i don't really understand computer performance these days though. this from 'destroy twitter', the lightweight option:

DestroyTwitter packs in a ton of features while leaving an unbelievably small footprint. How does memory usage as low as 25mb sound?

IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE USING ENOUGH MEMORY TO RUN THREE SEPARATE GAMES OF QUAKE TO LOAD A BUNCH OF 140-CHARACTER TEXT MESSAGES, WHEN DID WE ALL AGREE THIS WAS OKAY

someone should code a twitter client based on the quake engine

i've just tried @tweetalondoncab .. no response yet tho

The great thing about Twitter is that you can basically thread the content through your browser or phone or whatever else you're doing at the time - kind of baffled that anyone would want to actually go to the website.

i'm fairly new to it and i go through the website. work won't let me install programs to my computer, so is there another way of integrating it?

you can basically thread the content through your browser [...] kind of baffled that anyone would want to actually go to the website

does not compute... not a heavyweight twitterer tho

he means you can download an app that sits in your browser toolbar, or an app that sits in your computer's menubar, or an app that lives on your phone, that's always updating and always available and designed just for tweets, rather than being a webpage in a browser

you can basically thread the content through your browser

not if your browser is camino and you have mac 10.4

comedy accounts are the worst fucking things, music hulk certainly included in that (as though the smug received wisdom of @discographies wasn't bad enough). actual professional comedians should obviously be put to death.

the funniest people on twitter for me by far are my friends alix and pip - they never make ~jokes~ as such but their tone and style is such that i'd read them tweeting about any old mundane shit (which is often exactly what they do)

i love twitter but the worst thing about it is def when everyone seems to be trying to out-funny each other. STOP TRYING TO BE FUNNY NONE OF YOU CAN MANAGE IT.

(obviously there are exceptions but seriously they're so rare that it's better to assume you're not one of them)

alix and pip

I use Twitter for work reasons more and more, it's great for entertainment/music stories.

Generally I find personal accounts to be sort of odd, people saying v inane things and saying a lot more than they would on say, Facebook, where people post frivolous shit but at least it's one or two a day, or whatever. Also I don't really get people arranging social events and stuff on Twitter, why would you want to do this publicly and with a character limit instead of via email?

i have two friends whose tweets are like 50% or more about commuting

one of them is funny

alix and pip

― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Friday, 5 August 2011 10:36 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i understand the point of this post way less than any inane shit on twitter. you repeated the names of my friends, i don't get it

They are kind of cool names, to be fair.

brodie

Also I don't really get people arranging social events and stuff on Twitter, why would you want to do this publicly and with a character limit instead of via email?

it can be pretty useful when you're feeling vague - like, who's around in the area and wants to hang NOW - or specific about what you want to do but unsure exactly who you want to do it with. a nice way to end up hanging out with people who aren't necessarily the ones you hang out with all the time, kind of "improving" certain friendships

most people i follow on Twitter I don't know IRL, which is the difference between Twitter and FB. More likely to organise social events on FB.

yeah lex i just like that you have two friends named alix and pip

it sounds like the name of a comic strip!

they don't know each other and are kind of polar opposites tbh

maybe am old school (relatively) but i just like the more thoughtful blog feel of facebook, you can have a discussion there, just feels calmer and looks nicer, and so much stuff contained within the network. plus i like seeing where a link will take me before i click it.

I'm reading Hitch-22 and he keeps quoting the "hilarious" word subtitution games he used to play with Amis, Rushdie, Clive James et al, all of which resemble the most aggravating kind of Twitter hashtag game. "Replace 'love' with 'fuck'." Yeah brilliant, well done.

"thoughtful blog feel of facebook"

???!

garda there are twitter clients that will expand shortlinks before opening them.

those are okay to spend two minutes doing in a room generally

it's when you have to see people making 89 posts of them over two days they're annoying

on the other hand, why on earth would anyone read hitch-22

compared to twitter ffs it's way more spaced out, longer posts, more discussion. people can actually speak in decent sentences.

on facebook you could kick a ball

first time i've seen facebook described as "thoughtful" before - not that i haven't had the occasional good conversation there but it's not the norm.

it's just a swamp really, i use it exclusively to bitch about things i can't put on twitter (my facebook-only friends prob think i'm a lot angrier than i am, lol)

i dunno, it depends how you use it i suppose. i just feel like things move more slowly on facebook and discussions can involve more people, and lengthier points.

sharing say, a video, is just in no way as enjoyable on twitter as it is on facebook, because of the interface and the way people use it.

can we all set aside our difference and agree that google+ combines the best of all possible social networks

not used it yet...are you joking or serious?

i take it ledge likes his social networks devoid of any thing other than people screaming "HELLLLOO??" into a big empty void?

xp bit of both... it has the long-form aspect of facebook and the more casual network-building of twitter, and 'circles' are way better than lists in fb or twitter.

but yeah it's not really worth it until more people are on it. and then, what, i'd have three social network things to try and keep up with? christ. just forget the whole thing.

Not seen google+ yet but its arrived at a point where I'm wanting to streamline/downsize any social network stuff rather than expand - I'm also uncomfortable that my real name is used with the google stuff.

Realizing a work person was following me on twitter (despite my name never having been on it) was the final straw

yeah, i'm sure google+ is fantastic but i just don't need another thing. i wonder if people will eventually make the move from FB to Google like when everyone just decided to up sticks and leave MySpace?

The idea appears to be that they will because can restrict content to certain people much more easily than fb?

yeah if i could get it to work (it's not camino compatible) the appeal would be that - twitter's just about reached the point that fb did a while back, where it's not as much fun because "everyone" is on it

they don't know each other and are kind of polar opposites tbh

― lex pretend, Friday, 5 August 2011 10:51 (36 minutes ago) Permalink

even better!

Realizing a work person was following me on twitter (despite my name never having been on it) was the final straw

Can't you just make your Twitter private and kick that person off?

Can't be arsed with Google +. If it wasn't for the events page I'd have canned Facebook ages ago.

twitter's just about reached the point that fb did a while back, where it's not as much fun because "everyone" is on it

But "everyone" being on it was why people went mad for Facebook in the first place - like it suddenly seemed to be full of people who weren't anywhere else on the internet. But the novelty of that wore off pretty quickly. I don't want to have conversations on Facebook because I don't really like the idea of someone I went to school with chipping in on a discussion of eg politics with some rabid and inane right-wing viewpoint i'd been previously unaware of.

Dunno, FB was better when it was all on one page and they hadn't overhauled the status updates to make it more like Twitter (and less navigable in the process).

yeah if i could get it to work (it's not camino compatible) the appeal would be that - twitter's just about reached the point that fb did a while back, where it's not as much fun because "everyone" is on it

Dude yr browser is clearly barely fit for purposes, you should just bin it.

I don't want to have conversations on Facebook because I don't really like the idea of someone I went to school with chipping in on a discussion of eg politics with some rabid and inane right-wing viewpoint i'd been previously unaware of.

Google+ circles makes it really easy to avoid that (as does using Facebook lists, probably, haven't tried)

I did a lot of picking and choosing over which people from school I would add to FB, and I stuck to the rule 'would appear in public with them still' when making my choices. My page is blissfully free of right-wing morons jumping into threads as a result.

Dude yr browser is clearly barely fit for purposes, you should just bin it.

i don't have any choice! chrome doesn't work on my mac version and firefox is the worst piece of shit ever.

safari?

though new-twitter is a pain in the arse on my 10.4-running powerbook too - marginally better in firefox than safari, but still pretty rubbish.

firefox is the worst piece of shit ever.

Hello lex pretend, I would like to introduce you to Internet Explorer. We are not allowed to install other browsers on our work machines and all day I am so thankful for the very existence of Firefox. It isn't perfect, but goddamn there is so much worse out there.