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
its coming from inside the weird twitter
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
that dude didnt invent the phrase "weird twitter" guys
― max, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 22:34 (eleven years ago) link
"weird twitter" has been calling it "weird twitter" for a while
max i agree w/ u i think 'weird twitter' is an awesome name. i just want to complain about this moron. unrelated.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
i dont get what's stupid abt what he's saying, tho!
― max, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
i mean the second thing you posted, yes, stupid
maybe ur just not weird twitter enough
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
i do not appreciate the irony that by complaining about this faux-academic analysis of 'weird twitter' i am symbolically constructing the critical media community within a digital social space
― Mordy, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
u and hell homer, members of weird criticism
― max, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
http://cremationofcare.com/images/literature/book_encyc_symbols.jpg
― Mordy, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
weird structuralism
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
i'd be into a weird criticism movement
― Mordy, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
i think that might just be pop culture criticism tho.
by situating buffy in a paradigm of post-feminism, we relocate the lacuna of lost gender-performed mythology; this problematizes the symbolic other within the preexisting superstructure and undermines the hierarchy presupposed
― Mordy, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/DDWvG.gif
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
i'd like to see "you've been watterSONned" become a thing.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
yo ciderpress i sent u an email
― max, Thursday, 18 October 2012 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
what's stupid is he's like "these tweets are works of surrealist détournement" and then responding to them literally and at face value!
― s.clover, Thursday, 18 October 2012 02:49 (eleven years ago) link
like did you think that maybe these people who spend their time saying funny things that aren't necessarily true are perhaps not responding to you in earnest? is that another possibility, perhaps?
― s.clover, Thursday, 18 October 2012 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/oTtsS.jpg
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Thursday, 18 October 2012 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/WfI4c.jpg
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Thursday, 18 October 2012 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
none of these are actually "famous irl"
― Mordy, Thursday, 18 October 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link