Like this one https://twitter.com/the_ironsheik/status/280488287402065920
― Jeff, Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
do you think anybody thinks of their /favorites page with the kind of tumblr attitude of having ~curated~ a repository of premium content
god no
really it's 90% because i'm out and about and either can't open a link on my stupidberry or don't have time to read it properly or want to remember to download it later, so it's entirely random
naturally i never remember to do any of the above, like, ever, so it all sits there in my favourites folder as a testament to my goldfish memory span
― lex pretend, Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
ha, that wasn't aimed at you, i just wondered if it was an attitude. tbh bookmarking anything is a lost cause to me which slightly frees me up from trying to remember to do stuff.
― kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Thursday, 20 December 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
Definitely yes, with not so much pretentiousness as is implied. I'll catch up with a couple of my favourite "favouriters" at least twice a year
― you, your max is on fire (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 20 December 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
Oh I don't do it myself but I know a couple people who do. If I notice that a mutual follower has favourited a tweet that I thought was "only funny on a very personal level", checking out the other tweets they've favourited is usually just great
― you, your max is on fire (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 20 December 2012 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
ha ha. i mean i definitely think i possess that kind of refined judgment, favouriting tweets according to craft and nuance, canonising tweets that will span eras, which will transcend their clumsier counterparts. i think there is just something abstractly depressing about almost limitless resources like that, like being younger & writing jokes in google, like finding a blog you like in which you have to click to the next page & noticing at some point that you are clicking from page sixty five to page sixty six, just an endless well you are plumbing in search of something that will sate you & stop you from plumbing the well.
― kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Thursday, 20 December 2012 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
i think maybe once i looked at somebody else's favourites & it reminded me of the times i have started sentences with "i was watching this featurette on the seinfeld dvd-", just the depth of aloneness implicit in how i spent my time― kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:47
― kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:47
Would probably have favourited this on Twitter.
― Alba, Thursday, 20 December 2012 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
ha haall of these ~structural observations about twitter~ are just expressions of super self-conscious disdain for my stony-gazed 3am internet activity, none of it really has anything to do with anything else
― kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Thursday, 20 December 2012 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
See you just need to measure computer usage by time and you'll be fine
― you, your max is on fire (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 20 December 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
favorites work well in the twitter-as-comedy idiom tho -- a fav is a laugh, retweet is like retelling a joke -- it signals that you thought it was funny without @replying "LOL" at ppl
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 20 December 2012 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
something so sad about seeing like a lena dunham tweet that's funny & collapsing it to see people kinda half @joining in on the joke
i have done this btw
― kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Thursday, 20 December 2012 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
while we're at it, what does it mean when someone puts "MT" in front of a retweet instead of "RT"
― 2 Celloz (some dude), Thursday, 20 December 2012 23:44 (eleven years ago) link
Modified tweet (usually to make it fit into 140 characters once they've prefixed it with their own addition)
― Alba, Thursday, 20 December 2012 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
modified tweet or modified retweet or something
― markers, Thursday, 20 December 2012 23:49 (eleven years ago) link
rt now stands for Racistised Tweet, when you have added an epithet to make the original author seem racist or more racist
― kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Thursday, 20 December 2012 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
thanks y'all re: MT
― 2 Celloz (some dude), Friday, 21 December 2012 07:52 (eleven years ago) link
all right which one of you is @SantaKlausNomi
― mookieproof, Friday, 21 December 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
Haha yeah, I just got followed by him too. I for one blame Ned.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 21 December 2012 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
I only found out about Santa Klaus Nomi because someone completely non-ILX related retweeted him.
Wow, he sure started following a lot of ILXors.
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 22 December 2012 03:30 (eleven years ago) link
i dont fav i just rt a lot
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW7Z20fJH6I (lag∞n), Monday, 24 December 2012 13:50 (eleven years ago) link
Price drop to US$36/yr (also US$5/mth), so I have ended up on app.net― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, October 2, 2012 8:21 PM (3 months ago)
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, October 2, 2012 8:21 PM (3 months ago)
I have ended up on app.net too.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 5 January 2013 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
yay! get felix if you're on an iphone, it's fantastic
― das ist not einer 不必 (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 5 January 2013 02:01 (eleven years ago) link
btw app.net commands at least 90% of my social networking attention now, and isn't fraught with any of the garbage that turned me off twitter multiple times (obsession with fame, spam, echo chamber, etc.)
― das ist not einer 不必 (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 5 January 2013 02:02 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, Felix is great. Thanks for the rec... BTW, I'm on app.net at @quartzcity
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 5 January 2013 02:32 (eleven years ago) link
So of you who have moved to app.net, have people that you followed previously moved too? I can't imagine many of the circles I tweet in would.
― Jeff, Saturday, 5 January 2013 02:57 (eleven years ago) link
really enjoying app.net
― buzza, Saturday, 5 January 2013 03:09 (eleven years ago) link
I keep social networks separate in general, but a handful of my twitter crowd (many of whom I know in person) made the jump, and many of those (like me) have basically given up on twitter. some haven't and won't, which is the only reason I keep the twitter pilot light going these days.
― das ist not einer 不必 (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 5 January 2013 03:46 (eleven years ago) link
I'm maintaining dual citizenship for now. Twitter is still my primary social net of choice, but a fair number of one/few-man band development shops have been bigupping app.net. The potential of the platform seems interesting and the development/api/behind the scenes seems like Something I Should Know.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 5 January 2013 07:25 (eleven years ago) link
I'm intrigued, anyone got an invite? Or I can just pay $5 to try for a month.
― Jeff, Saturday, 5 January 2013 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/glitchr_
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 13 January 2013 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
Weirdly enough, I was just about to mention @glitchr_ here as well...
― Magic Miike (R Baez), Sunday, 13 January 2013 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
haha that is one of my favorite things about the internet
― 乒乓, Sunday, 13 January 2013 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
How does she/he do that?
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 13 January 2013 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
RTL languages
― 乒乓, Sunday, 13 January 2013 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
i love all the glitch twitters but still have no idea how they do it
― ogmor, Monday, 14 January 2013 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
netbot free atm
― resultant curry paste (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 January 2013 02:44 (eleven years ago) link
How does Twiends work? In real simple talking-to-a-12-year-old-girl terms? For grubby reasons (hi, dickhead boss) I need to have what appears to be a high-powered Twitter account so I signed up to twiends dot com and just paid £20 for a bunch of 'seeds'. Any other less-dodgy (fuck it, or more dodgy) techniques for increasing followers?
(This is grim I know, goes against spirit of Twitter but I no option other than sleeping for 3 hours less a night)
― NI, Thursday, 14 February 2013 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
if you need followers you can buy them on ebay
― 乒乓, Thursday, 14 February 2013 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
Have you, or anyone else on here, done this? Any tips for best one? Best being relative, obviously. Feels like I'm delving about in the sewers of the internet with this crap.
― NI, Thursday, 14 February 2013 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
no but my understanding is that you basically just buy tens of thousands of twitter bots
― 乒乓, Thursday, 14 February 2013 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
That many might look suss, think I'm just gonna go for 1k for £10.
― NI, Thursday, 14 February 2013 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
I would use the search box in the top right corner, find people and businesses related to the field your company is in, and follow them. Think of anyone who has a stake in your company--customers, vendors, whatever--and google their names and Twitter to find their Twitter accounts if they have one, and follow that.
Twitter is like the phone. Unfortunately, buying followers (unless a place is actually finding the best leads around you in some hand-crafted away) is like buying a bunch of dummy phone numbers.
― a tidy profit in Russia (Eazy), Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
Can't go into too much detail but this is basically something to show an arsehole boss to get them off my case. Well aware of the uselessness in real terms, and would never use this tactic on my genuine accounts.
― NI, Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
Tweet "#porn #bieber #iphone #ladygaga" and the bots will come your way.
― a tidy profit in Russia (Eazy), Thursday, 14 February 2013 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
yes! just say 'ipad' and 'iphone' heaps
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 14 February 2013 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
what's the trick to cutting down the signal to noise? relentlessly unfollowing boring ppl?
― Mordy, Saturday, 30 March 2013 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
scroll faster
― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 March 2013 03:05 (eleven years ago) link
disable some people's retweets
― Esteban Buttiérrez (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 30 March 2013 03:09 (eleven years ago) link
retweet the tweets u find annoying
― 乒乓, Saturday, 30 March 2013 03:09 (eleven years ago) link
i find them all annoying
― Mordy, Saturday, 30 March 2013 03:10 (eleven years ago) link