looks like erica has just deleted her account AA. due to the hacking.
― Upt0eleven, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 11:22 (twelve years ago) link
r.i.p.
― (gr8080), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
also keep it on twitter, morans
― (gr8080), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
We can just wait for mh to post her new Twitter account.
xp
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
https://twitter.com/#!/howryeh/status/111483170171518976
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 8 September 2011 11:10 (twelve years ago) link
@diveintomark"THE ADOBE UPDATER MUST UPDATE ITSELF BEFORE IT CAN CHECK FOR UPDATES" IS AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL PARADOX FUCK YOU ADOBE4 minutes ago via Plume Favorite Undo Retweet Reply
<3
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 September 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
nbc news hacked https://twitter.com/#!/nbcnews
― (gr8080), Friday, 9 September 2011 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/JzTbj.png
― (gr8080), Friday, 9 September 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
whoops
― thank got forks showed up (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 10 September 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
down?
― markers, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
I can get it on my phone but not my laptop. Weird.
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
Big us routing issues this evening
― stet, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
Http://www.internettrafficreport.com
― stet, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe from your gmail contacts or facebook contacts? Don't know if they have access that information but who knows.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
they send someone to your house to peer through the window while you use the computer
― markers, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
I don't use gmail, nor facebook.
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
Good point Steve, but I don't use any of those! So I'm still mystified by this.
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
Brand spankin' new!
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.quora.com/How-does-Twitters-follow-suggestion-algorithm-work
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
or if u like the technical side
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triadic_closure
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
ladies and gentlemen,
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
their algorithm freaked me out when it was suggesting i follow some coworkers.. then i realized it probably takes your subnet into consideration
― jeff tWEEDy (diamonddave85), Thursday, 29 September 2011 03:29 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 29 September 2011 03:40 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 29 September 2011 05:37 (twelve years ago) link
that is hella mysterious
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 29 September 2011 05:38 (twelve years ago) link
it might be suggesting people who've emailed you in the past and subsequently put their email contacts in who-to-follow?
― civilisation and its discotheques (c sharp major), Thursday, 29 September 2011 07:06 (twelve years ago) link
i.e. it doesn't have to be you who's used the friend-finder application?
― civilisation and its discotheques (c sharp major), Thursday, 29 September 2011 07:10 (twelve years ago) link
I suppose I could see that, yes.
Does that work the other way around too then? Because I signed on with my e-mail address, even though I don't have my name in my display name and don't have my full name up there, it will link my account to them suggesting to follow me? Wouldn't like that tbh.
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 29 September 2011 07:44 (twelve years ago) link
there's a 'let others find me by my email address' tickybox on yr account settings iirc
― civilisation and its discotheques (c sharp major), Thursday, 29 September 2011 07:47 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, but I haven't ticked that.
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 29 September 2011 08:02 (twelve years ago) link
There's a good chance these people used the friend finder some time before you signed up and your address was in their contact lists - meaning they'd already searched for you. Twitter remembers that then tries to re-establish the link once you sign up.
― 44.9 percent indie rock individualist (onimo), Thursday, 29 September 2011 10:13 (twelve years ago) link
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, September 29, 2011 5:37 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i misunderstood you there, sorry--yeah, it is remarkably weird given all your caveats.
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
onimo otm tho
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
makes sense but it wouldn't have occurred to me at all
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
That was my guess too - those other people looked for YOU before you joined twitter!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
or like one of them did
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 29 September 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
Onimo's example would make sense if it was an active account with tweets and loads of followers/followees. The suggestion in my example was a long-abandoned account (I'm new to twitter) with no tweets, no followers, and only seemed like it was created to follow a company (which has been defunct for some time).
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 29 September 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:37 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark
Fastest neutrino's :)
I see what you mean, but still find it highly odd. How will people have looked for me on twitter before I was on there? I don't use my real name, nor my 'normal' e-mail address. Adn all of the above I mentioned. And yet and yet and yet...
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 29 September 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link