Twitter C/D

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fucking new twitter! i can see my timeline but nothing else, the button to tweet is missing, everything on the RH sidebar is blank, WHY CAN THINGS NOT JUST FUCKING WORK PROPERLY

i want to rip someone's head off

Are you still on OS6 or whatever?

what is OS6?

is it the same as OSX?

it started working again, anyway

i just want technology to leave me alone and just WORK without causing me stress

Wow. I warned ENBB that her account might have been hacked (weight loss spam) and in response she unfollowed me. I'm not butthurt but that's about as harsh as it gets.

― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, August 30, 2011 8:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest

you're butthurt

also if her account got hacked, she prob wasn't controlling it

i've always thought "oh my account unfollowed you without me realising" was an excuse but since the entirely unwelcome advent of new twitter i swear it's actually been happening

Oh shit, I didn't know that was a thing

Twitter keeps favoriting tweets that are not actually my favorites!

Wow. I warned ENBB that her account might have been hacked (weight loss spam)

I actually thought that was genuine because I'm on a diet, but then I realised that ENBB didn't know I was on a diet.

looks like erica has just deleted her account AA. due to the hacking.

r.i.p.

also keep it on twitter, morans

We can just wait for mh to post her new Twitter account.

xp

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nbc news hacked https://twitter.com/#!/nbcnews

http://i.imgur.com/JzTbj.png

whoops

down?

I can get it on my phone but not my laptop. Weird.

Big us routing issues this evening

Http://www.internettrafficreport.com

Ok so I'm new to this. Signed up recently. Can someone explain how twitter can list people I know in their "who to follow" suggestions? How does that work? There's three people there I know, acquaintances, not friends. But how does twitter know I know them?

Curious about this because an ex-friend of mine keeps popping up as a "who to follow" suggestion, but I'm not sure why. I'm not friends with this person on Facebook or any other social media site. In fact, the only online contact I've had with her was via gmail about four years ago. Is linking Twitter to that account enough to dredge up emails that old?

That's exactly what I like to know! I don't have any contact with these people, have not been watching their twitter before etc, yet still they are there! Scary.

Maybe from your gmail contacts or facebook contacts? Don't know if they have access that information but who knows.

they send someone to your house to peer through the window while you use the computer

I don't use gmail, nor facebook.

lol markers

;-)

i have a feeling that if your email used to reg for twitter is cross-regged at any of the following sites:

https://twitter.com/#!/who_to_follow/import

then you will get follow recs based on that.

Good point Steve, but I don't use any of those! So I'm still mystified by this.

I think mine can be explained by tying it to gmail but, still, seems weird to keep prodding me with a person that I literally emailed 3 times more than four years ago!

I've got an old gf, a girl I once hired for freelance work for a year and an old classmate. It seems awfully random but I know them all, obviously. Very strange.

i would imagine that a certain significant proportion of the ppl you follow/follow you are also linked to this other person

though if you're really brand new i have no good explanation

Brand spankin' new!

It's creeping me out. If I refresh a new batch of people I know but don't have specific contact with pop up as suggestions. I want to know how Twitter pulls this off damnit.

http://www.quora.com/How-does-Twitters-follow-suggestion-algorithm-work

or if u like the technical side

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triadic_closure

I think that algorithim talk is 100% bullshit. One of my recommendations was a twitter user with zero followers and was only following one acct... his employer.

This is a person who emailed me a couple years ago, and I remembered he worked at that obscure biotech company.

ladies and gentlemen,

Thanks Hoos, but I signed up on twitter, not knowing or reading anyone on there, let alone following someone. I entered my details opening an account and *boom* three people I know are suggested. That can't be through a simple cookie, it's fishy.

their algorithm freaked me out when it was suggesting i follow some coworkers.. then i realized it probably takes your subnet into consideration

That can't be through a simple cookie, it's fishy.

― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, September 28, 2011 9:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

that's just the point though, it isn't!

I understand the triadic closure, but twitter would still need to identify who I am first, which node I am. Didn't even give them my real name. But even if I did, I enter twitter completely blank, people obv have not been able to follow me before I was on there, I don't use any of the 3rd party applications they are linked to, so... Or am I not understanding you?

that is hella mysterious