now lets all go back to pasting tweets we like
sreegs @ahuj9[playing Guess Who] "Does your guy look like a fucking HIPSTER??" "Uh, no." *flips down every remaining character on the board*
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
Tech toys get played with and an academic finds significance in this shockah.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
every ischool ph.d student has to write about something before they don't get a job.
― Neutral Coliseums (Matt P), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
aimless is not weird twitter
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
i still like the term better than "youtube poop"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
regarding nancy grace and horse_ebooks, that stuff wouldn't have been considered weird until it was curated and recontextualized through RTs
― Anime Mann (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
horse_ebooks is pretty fucking strange regardless
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
if something is weird in the forest
― max, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
horse_ebooks is curated by its creators now, or at least its algorithm is a lot more sophisticated at hitting funny/meaningful fragments than it was when i started following it a couple years ago
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
i dont think most would have given horse_ebooks a second thought unless it had been framed as random absurdist poetry
― Anime Mann (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
like it used to actually just be random sentences from horse-related ebooks
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
ebook descriptions, rather
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
xp the way horse_ebooks is now, they would!
though in the past, yeah it was just your typical spambot that occasionally had funny horse-related tweets. I wonder what really happened there
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
seems like he's now generating the tweets from all sorts of ebooks but now there's someone at the helm who maybe keeps cycling through them until he finds one bizarre enough to actually tweet out?
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
yeah there are definitely different heuristics generating/selecting tweets now.. probably also involving human interaction
― Anime Mann (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
right, but i'm still convinced they're auto generated. i can't see a human coming up with some of this stuff.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
wrong
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
I made an Andrew WK generator awhile ago, but it never said anything more ridiculous than real Andrew WK.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
my bad. guess elmo knows what's really up
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
this is the oldest one i have favorited https://twitter.com/Horse_ebooks/status/44114266613231616
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
aleksy argonov
― Anime Mann (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
i wish there was a way to search individual users' twitter accounts, or jump to a certain past date
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
Twitter, Inc. doesn't want you to use their service that way: it's all about the NOW
― Anime Mann (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i understand that, but why even give the option of scrolling down forever then rather than just cutting it off after 500 tweets or whatnot
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.allmytweets.net/
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
― ciderpress, Wednesday, October 17, 2012 4:31 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
topsy.com's advanced search is pretty good
favstar works for some stuff
― max, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
awesome thanks
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
i figured these things existed third-party but never actually got around to looking before complaining. so i apologize for that
apology rejected
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
this still isn't helping me find what i wwas looking for though which is the genesis of horse_ebooks's following
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
fart wrote an article for sa im pretty sure
― max, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
this is a decent if incomplete history/summary http://splitsider.com/2012/01/the-ballad-of-horse_ebooks/
yeah but i was already following it before the SA article so that can't have been it
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
oh well i will let it remain a mystery
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
according to this, initial spike came in May 2011http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=horse_ebooks
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
ok yeah it was the SA article then probably - makes sense
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
But is @fart the guy who first noticed the twitter account, or just the guy who wrote the article about it.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
alright i think it was this tweet https://twitter.com/fart/status/44315613941866496 plus a retweet of the horse_ebooks tweet i linked upthread that started it all
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
not to discount @fart, but i feel like a counterfactual universe without something awful would still have seen the rise of horse_ebooks and who is to say it wouldn't have been for the better?
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
these questions are too big for me to answer
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
can we get a new board called "weird ilx"? normal ilx is just too 'square' for me
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
feel like 'weird twitter' is a v fine offhanded condescension, like theres this thing many people are way too into and then this uncool guy comes along looks at it for a second and goes oh i get it youre being weird and everyone instantly feels lame
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
the ph.d effect
― Neutral Coliseums (Matt P), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
twitter is weird twitter, weird twitter is twitter, dont u get it
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
i have a less condescending but way worse word for it if you want: slipstream twitter
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
i don't like 'weird twitter' because it implies that twitter isn't already weird
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
Twitter user @hell_homer (whose avatar depicts the popular Simpsons character, Homer, in hell) appears to not appreciate the irony that by reaching out to the people who might be concerned about the ‘weird twitter’ label, he is symbolically constructing the weird twitter community within the digital social space. @hell_homer autoreifies ‘weird twitter’ through his very acts of resistance.
graduate school makes people stupid
― Mordy, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
more evidence
Moreover, academic language’s distinction from the vernacular echos the power dynamics of meatspace into the digitally dual virtual world. These power dynamics problematize organic community growth.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
my fist wants to problematize someone's face
sounds like self parody
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link