The status updates on facebook are one of my favourite aspects of FB, so I liked the idea of twitter when I first heard about it a week or so ago. I've signed up, but it hasn't stuck with me as yet, I think because none of my friends are using it.
― krakow, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 21:31 (fifteen years ago) link
It's reduced all my literary ambitions down to daily one-liners: twitter.com/fireland
― Lie Bot, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 22:22 (fifteen years ago) link
So much hate for Twitter. So much.
― J0hn D., Wednesday, 30 July 2008 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Twitter is for productivity douche-bags and aspirational web developers.
― fields of salmon, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 22:49 (fifteen years ago) link
I used to use Twitter quite a lot, but Facebook status updates reach a lot more of my friends, and I can do them from my phone as easily as a Twitter so I've kind of abandoned it.
I think Twitter is good for publishing interesting links and news and things, and for asking advice from the microblogosphere, but for the latter you'd need a whole load of like-minded followers and it's hard to get there.
― Alba, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 22:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I think I will have to use it for a while before I decide if I love it or hate it.
― Sara R-C, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 22:54 (fifteen years ago) link
There was this thread, by the way:
twittervision
― Alba, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
we've def. had a twitter thread before because i remember checking out the twitter homepage to see what the fuss was about, and i just happened to see alba make an update. then i told him about it here.
― elan, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
dats it
TWITTER: I don't get it
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 31 July 2008 05:44 (fifteen years ago) link
CIO/KIU: using ilx like twitter
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 31 July 2008 05:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I just spent another fifteen minutes going down the rabbit hole with this shit clicking on follower avatars http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2008/20080423.jpg the text of the last panel could possibly be sold as a t-shirt
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 31 July 2008 05:46 (fifteen years ago) link
the weather alert stuff and airport delay announcement feeds seem vaguely useful but it remains the absolute dumbest shit I've ever seen since friendster
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 31 July 2008 05:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean what use is something that's supposed to provide low-bandwidth status updates on EVERY STUPID PIDDLING THING EVER IN THE WORLD if it also happens to be breaking constantly
identi.ca is ugly and has a terrible name, as with squoink and jaiku and whatever else, which just goes to show you what actually matters
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 31 July 2008 05:58 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.soup.io/
IT'S THE NEW TEEVEE
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 31 July 2008 06:02 (fifteen years ago) link
let me make sure to get back here and write you guys some more about how I feel about the web's direction in a little bit
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 31 July 2008 06:04 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah I still think it is all weird and gross
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 31 July 2008 06:50 (fifteen years ago) link
"the microblogosphere"
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 31 July 2008 08:52 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.the-trukstop.com/miscellaneous/socialmediacrity/warbbler.png
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 31 July 2008 09:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I use Twitter to keep up with a very small handful of friends (FreakyTrigger mob mostly) so mine is mostly a collection of stupid injokes that come to my mobile. I like that a lot, saves me having to text loads of people at once, but it freaks me out when I see random strangers following me. I have to purge my followers list about once a week.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 31 July 2008 09:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I used to use Twitter quite a lot, but Facebook status updates reach a lot more of my friends, and I can do them from my phone as easily as a Twitter so I've kind of abandoned it
this is a shame, because your minute-by-minute update from "control" was fucking genius. for the few minutes it lasted.
― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 31 July 2008 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
you'd need a whole load of like-minded followers and it's hard to get there. This is the key, really. Twitter got some ferocious use at wwdc, and was v. good for finding out what was giong on where, and what sessions to leave, etc, but it doesn't work so well if you've just trucked up in some random place.
There's a twitter client for iPhone that might help with that though -- it shows you all the updates from folks in your location.
― stet, Thursday, 31 July 2008 21:47 (fifteen years ago) link
People were complaining!
― Alba, Thursday, 31 July 2008 22:12 (fifteen years ago) link
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1640#more-1640
as usual
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 00:50 (fifteen years ago) link
the end of twitter in the UK? er: yes, as far as i can see. i don't want to have to *look* for tweets. i want them to come to me:
Hi,I'm sending you this note because you registered a mobile device to work with Twitter over our UK number. I wanted to let you know that we are making some changes to the way SMS works on Twitter. There is some good news and some bad news.I'll start with the bad news. Beginning today, Twitter is no longer delivering outbound SMS over our UK number. If you enjoy receiving updates from Twitter via +44 762 480 1423, we are recommending that you explore some suggested alternatives.Note: You will still be able to UPDATE over our UK number.Before I go into more detail, here's a bit of good news: Twitter will be introducing several new, local SMS numbers in countries throughout Europe in the coming weeks and months. These new numbers will make Twittering more accessible for you if you've been using SMS to send long-distance updates from outside the UK.Why are we making these changes?Mobile operators in most of the world charge users to send updates. When you send one message to Twitter and we send it to ten followers, you aren't charged ten times--that's because we've been footing the bill. When we launched our free SMS service to the world, we set the clock ticking. As the service grew in popularity, so too would the price.Our challenge during this window of time was to establish relationships with mobile operators around the world such that our SMS services could become sustainable from a cost perspective. We achieved this goal in Canada, India, and the United States. We can provide full incoming and outgoing SMS service without passing along operator fees in these countries.We took a risk hoping to bring more nations onboard and more mobile operators around to our way of thinking but we've arrived at a point where the responsible thing to do is slow our costs and take a different approach. Since you probably don't live in Canada, India, or the US, we recommend receiving your Twitter updates via one of the following methods.m.twitter.com works on browser-enabled phones m.slandr.net works on browser-enabled phones TwitterMail.com works on email-enabled phones Cellity [http://bit.ly/12bw4R] works on java-enabled phones TwitterBerry [http://bit.ly/MFAfJ] works on BlackBerry phones Twitterific [http://bit.ly/1WxjwQ] works on iPhonesTwitter SMS by The NumbersIt pains us to take this measure. However, we need to avoid placing undue burden on our company and our service. Even with a limit of 250 messages received per week, it could cost Twitter about $1,000 per user, per year to send SMS outside of Canada, India, or the US. It makes more sense for us to establish fair billing arrangements with mobile operators than it does to pass these high fees on to our users.Twitter will continue to negotiate with mobile operators in Europe, Asia, China, and The Americas to forge relationships that benefit all our users. Our goal is to provide full, two-way service with Twitter via SMS to every nation in a way that is sustainable from a cost perspective. Talks with mobile companies around the world continue. In the meantime, more local numbers for updating via SMS are on the way. We'll keep you posted.Thank you for your attention, Biz Stone, Co-founder Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/biz
I'm sending you this note because you registered a mobile device to work with Twitter over our UK number. I wanted to let you know that we are making some changes to the way SMS works on Twitter. There is some good news and some bad news.
I'll start with the bad news. Beginning today, Twitter is no longer delivering outbound SMS over our UK number. If you enjoy receiving updates from Twitter via +44 762 480 1423, we are recommending that you explore some suggested alternatives.
Note: You will still be able to UPDATE over our UK number.
Before I go into more detail, here's a bit of good news: Twitter will be introducing several new, local SMS numbers in countries throughout Europe in the coming weeks and months. These new numbers will make Twittering more accessible for you if you've been using SMS to send long-distance updates from outside the UK.
Why are we making these changes?
Mobile operators in most of the world charge users to send updates. When you send one message to Twitter and we send it to ten followers, you aren't charged ten times--that's because we've been footing the bill. When we launched our free SMS service to the world, we set the clock ticking. As the service grew in popularity, so too would the price.
Our challenge during this window of time was to establish relationships with mobile operators around the world such that our SMS services could become sustainable from a cost perspective. We achieved this goal in Canada, India, and the United States. We can provide full incoming and outgoing SMS service without passing along operator fees in these countries.
We took a risk hoping to bring more nations onboard and more mobile operators around to our way of thinking but we've arrived at a point where the responsible thing to do is slow our costs and take a different approach. Since you probably don't live in Canada, India, or the US, we recommend receiving your Twitter updates via one of the following methods.
m.twitter.com works on browser-enabled phones m.slandr.net works on browser-enabled phones TwitterMail.com works on email-enabled phones Cellity [http://bit.ly/12bw4R] works on java-enabled phones TwitterBerry [http://bit.ly/MFAfJ] works on BlackBerry phones Twitterific [http://bit.ly/1WxjwQ] works on iPhones
Twitter SMS by The Numbers
It pains us to take this measure. However, we need to avoid placing undue burden on our company and our service. Even with a limit of 250 messages received per week, it could cost Twitter about $1,000 per user, per year to send SMS outside of Canada, India, or the US. It makes more sense for us to establish fair billing arrangements with mobile operators than it does to pass these high fees on to our users.
Twitter will continue to negotiate with mobile operators in Europe, Asia, China, and The Americas to forge relationships that benefit all our users. Our goal is to provide full, two-way service with Twitter via SMS to every nation in a way that is sustainable from a cost perspective. Talks with mobile companies around the world continue. In the meantime, more local numbers for updating via SMS are on the way. We'll keep you posted.
Thank you for your attention, Biz Stone, Co-founder Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/biz
― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 14 August 2008 08:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I never understood why anyone would want tweets pushed to them. I get excited when I receive a text. I don't want to find it's some spazz like me telling the world they've found an odd-coloured bogey up their nose.
― Alba, Thursday, 14 August 2008 09:21 (fifteen years ago) link
it would be nice, when the iphone's push service is switched on, if twitter would push messages down to twitterific - this would solve the 'excited when I receive a text only to find it's about a bogey' problem
― cozwn, Thursday, 14 August 2008 09:31 (fifteen years ago) link
If my phone had let me assign unique message alert tones to numbers like it does with ringtones and voice calls then the problem might have gone away.
― Alba, Thursday, 14 August 2008 09:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe the fundamental problem is that I'm not interested enough in other people.
― Alba, Thursday, 14 August 2008 09:35 (fifteen years ago) link
most of twitter is exquisitely described in metaphor by that news story about the inflatable turd named "Complex Shit" blowing away and breaking actual stuff that matters
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 14 August 2008 09:39 (fifteen years ago) link
of course being me I would say the same for pretty much everything "web 2.0"
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 14 August 2008 09:40 (fifteen years ago) link
actually, i'd follow a tombot twitter feed. furious cynicism at unexpected moments could be fun.
i guess twitterific might step up to the plate here, but then again: it can't run in the background on the iPhone, can it?
(this, incidentally, is my first ILX post from my shiny new iMac.)
― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 14 August 2008 11:28 (fifteen years ago) link
creepy
13.28 cozeny Wondering out loud what we'd need to start a UK group SMS system and take Twitter's market: Ruby developers, time, money, and Red Bull... ? 9 minutes ago from web
13.37 Hi, cozeny.
tweetsms (tweetsms) is now following your updates on Twitter.
Check out tweetsms's profile here:
http://twitter.com/tweetsms
You may follow tweetsms as well by clicking on the "follow" button.
Best, Twitter
tweetsms http://www.tweetSMS.com will be available worldwide across almost all carriers. We also plan to deploy an ad-based service for free updates. 38 minutes ago from web
@PurpleKitchen check out www.tweetsms.com about 2 hours ago from web in reply to PurpleKitchen
just uploaded http://www.tweetsms.com to help all of those international SMS users! about 2 hours ago from web
― cozwn, Thursday, 14 August 2008 12:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Used it cause I was excited (are you still an early adopter a full year after the SXSW explosion of use?), then didn't for a few months cause I didn't really see the point, now I'm usin it again cause I've had some new local friends start following me.
Good for questions, link-sharing, Microemo bursts, etc.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 14 August 2008 13:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I have a friend who uses this to read his friends' feeds, so I basically only see it from the angle of a person who is constantly checking his phone while I'm trying to have a conversation with him. The first time I heard of Twitter was from him when I finally got exasperated with his constantly checking his phone.
Maybe I'm the one with the problem, but I can't really think of anyone in the world interesting enough for me to want updates on their activities throughout the day. I'd say the only people I could imagine wanting to twitter could be: Drug smuggler, violent prison inmate, Slash-in-his-heyday type rock star, and a dog (if they somehow managed to translate its thoughts into English text).
― rockapads, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link
don't use it, don't know anyone who does, but i check this one all the time: http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix
― Roz, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link
i very very rarely check it on my phone. does mobile use seem to be the prominent use?
― tehresa, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
SMS functionality seems to be its USP now that Facebook status updates have taken the mainstream microblogging space.
As I said above, people using it for pushed news bulletins and question-broadcasting rather than personal what-i'm-doing stuff is another application.
― Alba, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link
(I think you can now do Facebook by SMS in America, actually, but not here)
― Alba, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link
SMS is a fucking trilobite technology
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I followed @johncleese back when his followers were in the double digits.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Seriously someone FedEx me a fucking medal already.
how the fuck are they planning to make money? Also, they could easily have charged for this in Europe, and at least started making some actual income for a change.
― stet, Thursday, 14 August 2008 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link
so: brightkite, then. anyone played about with it much? i'm not sure i can particularly be arsed, TBH.
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Twinkle is useful to see if there's trouble on my tram line or the local cafe is on fire.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link
ON IPHONE
Brightkite seems particularly marvelous, actually. Like Twitter with upgrades.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link
mildly diverting for a bit
http://joshblog.net/projects/roktok/roktok.html
― cozen (cozwn), Sunday, 14 September 2008 23:32 (fifteen years ago) link
well, it would be if only folk would stop talking about coldplay and radiohead
oh
it combines the top artists from last.fm (coldplay, radiohead) with twitter
no potential to divert at all now
― cozen (cozwn), Sunday, 14 September 2008 23:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Lots going on this weekend….join the conversation.— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) April 6, 2024
― bae (sic), Sunday, 7 April 2024 02:26 (one week ago) link
Best paid street team shill ever
― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 7 April 2024 05:58 (one week ago) link
https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/112243296224055274
Lmao
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 22:39 (one week ago) link
spacetwitter dot com
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 22:44 (one week ago) link
Wait why would they *want* x.com links to go to twitter.com? Isnt it the other way round?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 02:36 (one week ago) link
twittertwittertwitter.twittertwittertwitter
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 03:12 (one week ago) link
Conversation on the eclipse is as BRIGHT as ever. So far — 1.2 million posts on X totaling 300 million impressions! The conversation is growing 38% every hour!!! pic.twitter.com/62tS3MNDK5— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) April 8, 2024
― bae (sic), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 06:54 (one week ago) link
guys it's really great, there is nothing wrong!
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 07:55 (one week ago) link
> The conversation is growing 38% every hour!!!
reminds me of homer simpson and his pumpkins
"Yeah, that's right, Barney. This year, I invested in pumpkins. They've been going up the whole month of October. And I got a feeling they're gonna peak right around January."
― koogs, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 07:58 (one week ago) link
Is her “CEO” job just being a glorified marketer?
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 13:09 (one week ago) link
seems like its thats her background and of course musk is going to be doing the tech and business stuff
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 13:11 (one week ago) link
The conversation is growing 38% every hour!!!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrSe4vfWAAAbWQT.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 13:39 (one week ago) link
feel like the ceo should have a word with the cto about his team’s inability to write a regular expression that matches the name of the company.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 13:53 (one week ago) link
maybe grok did it
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 14:52 (one week ago) link
i really hate it now, i think it was something about today just everyone lining up so smug with their little clever OJ Simpson jokes that they hoped would get picked up
i wish i could quit this is like brain smoking
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 11 April 2024 19:52 (one week ago) link
switch to bluesky its not as bad but also its not as good so youll use it less
― lag∞n, Thursday, 11 April 2024 19:57 (one week ago) link
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Thursday, 11 April 2024 20:01 (one week ago) link
the only oj tweet that matters
https://i.imgur.com/NTb8L5V.png
― lag∞n, Thursday, 11 April 2024 20:31 (one week ago) link
looool
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GK6vChjXMAAOjA9?format=jpg&name=small
― mookieproof, Thursday, 11 April 2024 22:36 (one week ago) link
Bluesky is fine good people are on it and it’s not as much of a time suck
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 11 April 2024 22:41 (one week ago) link
What are their customs there?
― President Keyes, Thursday, 11 April 2024 22:56 (one week ago) link
No video and your favorite Twitter peeps are there but they post a lot less.
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 11 April 2024 23:03 (one week ago) link
Also no direct messages
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 11 April 2024 23:15 (one week ago) link
Does Bluesky promote as much discussion about Twitter/Musk/Tesla as Threads does? The vibe over there is very much "oh yeah, I'm totally over my ex - anyway, did you hear what they did last weekend?"
― peace, man, Friday, 12 April 2024 11:52 (one week ago) link
I mean, I guess you could say that about this thread too, and yet I still have it bookmarked. 🤔
― peace, man, Friday, 12 April 2024 11:54 (one week ago) link
no one can get enough of elon hes just that awful
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 April 2024 12:30 (one week ago) link
Fwiw you can block Twitter screenshots on bsky using this custom labellerhttps://bsky.app/profile/xblock.aendra.devI don’t use this one but it’s cool that bsky’s architecture makes things like this possible.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 12 April 2024 15:10 (one week ago) link
Does Bluesky promote as much discussion
As far as I know, they haven't actually tried to make money from the app yet, so there's no ads or suggested posts in your feed or etc.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 12 April 2024 16:04 (one week ago) link
pic.twitter.com/uiA4gnqeVb— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) April 12, 2024
― bae (sic), Saturday, 13 April 2024 06:41 (six days ago) link
powerful
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Saturday, 13 April 2024 16:09 (six days ago) link
and if you pay a nominal monthly fee, you can have your free speech shoved directly at innocent bystanders who will feel the need to take a shower immediately afterward
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 13 April 2024 18:17 (six days ago) link
tbh they always say free speech isn’t free
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Sunday, 14 April 2024 04:06 (five days ago) link
look the state of Twitter ain't great, it's being slowly taken over by porn bots and really gross ads like this "Liver King" one I keep getting where it's a really gross roided out Macho Man Randy Savage looking dude sticking his head into a slab of raw beef or whatever. I think it's still in better shape than Facebook which I can see has really been taken over by AI generated engagement bait which works really well on the platform because its average user is not online savvy at all
― frogbs, Monday, 15 April 2024 03:35 (four days ago) link
lol I've been seeing Liver King, too
― jaymc, Monday, 15 April 2024 03:50 (four days ago) link
liver king has bled through his soul to bring you the truth, you ingrates
once i saw one about how he hasn't washed his hair or beard in years (bc decadence, or something) but i guess that didn't test well because never again
― mookieproof, Monday, 15 April 2024 04:21 (four days ago) link
I mean like none of the apps can possibly be good anymore because the apps industry has determined that the thing that generates the most money is short form vertical video telling people to bet on sports, that's all the internet is for now
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 15 April 2024 04:45 (four days ago) link
eventually TikTok and Fanduel will be one app and there will be no apps after that
How many album titles beginning with 'N' can you name?
― Ethinically Ambigaus (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 15 April 2024 09:04 (four days ago) link
Nebraska - Bruce Springsten
Never mind...
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Monday, 15 April 2024 09:18 (four days ago) link
didn't they debunk the liver king as being on roids?
― 龜, Monday, 15 April 2024 11:30 (four days ago) link
he was (is?) on ten thousand dollars of steroids a month, idk how much steroids cost but that seems like a lot
― lag∞n, Monday, 15 April 2024 12:10 (four days ago) link
yea I'm pretty sure it's impossible to look like that otherwise
― frogbs, Monday, 15 April 2024 12:43 (four days ago) link
no you just need to eat more raw liver
― 龜, Monday, 15 April 2024 12:48 (four days ago) link
you can only aspire to liver prince until he dies from causes unrelated to liver
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 15 April 2024 13:59 (four days ago) link
skips leg days
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Monday, 15 April 2024 14:03 (four days ago) link
Something I've noticed is that there will be tweets w numbers of "Views" listed as being in the tens or h a hundreds of thousands (or more), but which have only a handful (if that) of likes and/or replies. Seems slightly off...
― dell (del), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 04:20 (three days ago) link