the double digits thing is funny.. but i think you mean triple!how many listens do you give each album?― s1ocki, Thursday, February 12, 2009 6:58 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
how many listens do you give each album?
― s1ocki, Thursday, February 12, 2009 6:58 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I do mean triple! I didn't feel like correcting it.
I usually give them one listen. If I REALLY like something, I'll listen to it again to make sure I'm not tripping balls before I gush on it.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 13 February 2009 03:49 (fifteen years ago) link
do you find stuff you've been 1000ing gets into your regular rotation - if you have one?
― s1ocki, Friday, 13 February 2009 03:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Of course.
Albums I've 1000'd that are in my reg rotation:
Zu - CarboniferousZombi - Spirit AnimalDalek - Gutter TacticsBruce Springsteen - Working On A DreamAntony And The Johnsons - The Crying LightDan Deacon - BromstAnimal Collective Merriweather Post Pavillion (sorry!)Gui Borratto - Take My Breath Away
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 13 February 2009 04:16 (fifteen years ago) link
looking forward to that dan deacon. i checked out harmonic 313 and dalek (among others) based on yr tweeding and am glad i did
― some black dude (k3vin k.), Friday, 13 February 2009 04:32 (fifteen years ago) link
tweeting makes a difference!!!
― s1ocki, Friday, 13 February 2009 04:51 (fifteen years ago) link
the good kind of kk vibes
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 13 February 2009 05:36 (fifteen years ago) link
"Like, what sort of role does it play in people's lives? "
If I don't tweet then I have the shakes.
Hello, I'm Nathalie a twitaholic.
Srsly just something mindless if I have ten min to lose.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 13 February 2009 08:53 (fifteen years ago) link
does tumblr have a character limit? what makes it different from twitter aside from images/vids being embedded instead of linked?
Lack of desktop/phone push clients would be the most obvious thing; that and the fact nobody's really jumped on the bandwagon ;)
Whiney: I've just remembered that I favourited a couple of your posts because they were things I wanted to check out ... Weird Owl, Mountains, These Are Powers and Emeralds. Should start to check some of those out.
Anyway. Witterings and swearing: https://twitter.com/weesimon
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Saturday, 14 February 2009 11:33 (fifteen years ago) link
twitter makes sense when i'm drunk and on public transportation at the end of the night, wanting to catalog the weirdos around me (or in my head). i've only ever sent from text though because every time i encounter the WHAT ARE YOU DOING RIGHT NOW? screen at the computer all i can think is i am sitting at a computer, reading, and isn't that fascinating
http://www.twitter.com/jelky
― person of interest (jergins), Saturday, 14 February 2009 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Your Twitter compatibility with weesimon is MediumFollowers you have in common include stevienixed, fluxion23, 1000TimesYes and NedRaggett.
Your Twitter compatibility with jelky is LowFollowers you have in common include hoosteen, tehresa and just1n3.
― Objective Deployment Component for Failure Mode Effect Analysis (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 14 February 2009 20:51 (fifteen years ago) link
So, erm, if you are following someone, but they're not following you, they CAN'T read what you have written, right?
― Questionable Rock-Frog (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:00 (fifteen years ago) link
If you're set to private they cant.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:26 (fifteen years ago) link
If you've not blocked access and they go to your Twitter page, they can see everything.
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, but why on earth would they go to my twitter page?
I wish there was a way to follow people without their knowing that you are. And also so people can't see that you are following them.
Though I'm just saying that because of the embarrassment factor... I'm sure that people would find a way to abuse that.
― Questionable Rock-Frog (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:36 (fifteen years ago) link
You could subscribe to the RSS feed on that person's page.
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:40 (fifteen years ago) link
ilx0rz whose Twitter feeds I would read, for one reason or another:
- Abbott- Dom- Tombot- Dan- moley- estela- LJ
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 03:00 (fifteen years ago) link
btw I have just added a metric fuckload of random people who I think are ilxors and will prob. remove them just as soon as I work out what the hell is going on. If in the meantime you find it crepey/disturbing tell me and I will gladly remove you with all speed.
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 04:40 (fifteen years ago) link
There are twitter spamreaders like anywhere else. The real randoms kinda disturb me, like... hey! I'm not a celebrity. Is your life that boring that you have to follow me rambling on about gay porn and synth sequencers?
― Questionable Rock-Frog (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 10:20 (fifteen years ago) link
I see it as a means to having actual interesting conversations, not just following other people's lives. I'm about to ditch Stephen Fry because despite loving his work I find him distinctly boring, and the mechanics of attempting conversation with a complete stranger who has 170,000 followers is patently ridiculous (although Charlie Brooker gets to stay because he's actually worth reading).
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 10:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Adam - my twitter is c h e r r y 2 0 0 0 r o o l z but I don't know how long I'll persevere with this one. On the one hand, it suits the essentially trivial nature of my thoughts. On the other hand, it's a bit of a waste of everyone's time, let's be honest.
― moley, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 10:43 (fifteen years ago) link
What's yours?
― moley, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 10:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm sorry I'm still not getting this. If you dont follow it by each others twitter web pages how do you follow each other? I feel like I'm missing something (not that I want in rly)
― one art, please (Trayce), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 10:45 (fifteen years ago) link
We're finding more and more new applications that enable us to chat the same old fart to each other.
― moley, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 10:50 (fifteen years ago) link
― moley, Tuesday, February 17, 2009 9:45 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Vzzzbx
It's definitely a waste of time, but so's ilx to be honest. It's what fun you get out of it that counts.
Twitter seems to be gaining momentum. I need to fill a big dirty facebook-shaped hole with something; Twitter might not be it, but without trying I'll never know.
Trayce: Your 'home' page (i.e. not the one with your username in the url) contains feeds of those whom you follow. Makes sense once you actually do it.
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 11:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm about to ditch Stephen Fry because despite loving his work I find him distinctly boring
I find him quite fun; what I can't stand is the way he's now re-Tweeting so much stuff (eg the thing about the blank profile yesterday) because so many of his followers are obviously fucking bell-ends.
From a social-psychology angle I'm fascinated by the way the 'sleb Twitterers deal with having unfettered, two-way access to their fans. Graham Linehan is a joy.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 13:49 (fifteen years ago) link
I joined this - jelbugle.
― jel --, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link
jelky fwiw i love your tweets even though i usually have no idea what you are talking baout!
i do a lot of mine from fone, too.
― a transitional transitionalistic woman dat is transitionally great (tehresa), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link
:)
― person of interest (jergins), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 18:13 (fifteen years ago) link
What you said.
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 19:32 (fifteen years ago) link
get ready for some really exciting tweets about soup!
― a transitional transitionalistic woman dat is transitionally great (tehresa), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
... and indeed what they both said.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link
you gotta figure random ppl are gonna follow u, part of the fun in my opinion, drill my pov into their brains
― person of interest (jergins), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 23:52 (fifteen years ago) link
that ended grosser than intended
Yeah! Skull fuck the world!
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Like any blogger who knows his site is pointless, my greatest hope is that people who follow me are as bored as I am.
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:05 (fifteen years ago) link
okay, Graham Linehan lasted all of eight hours. Waking up to find 110 new tweets, uh, no thanks.
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Ah, so that is who all these strange new people following me on twitter is! You're not strangers, you're ILX0rs.
― Questionable Rock-Frog (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Many of them are. I'd bet some are just random people, though.
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I get spammers who don't say anything and disappear within 24 hours anyway. It's all rather creepy in that regard.
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I get a little appalled when a client asks me to set up a Twitter account for him. 1) You don't need me to do that. 2) I'm not going to update the fucker, and unless you are, I can't see the point. 3) Who told you this was a fantastic new way to sell things? Because I want to sock that person in the nose.
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually #3 is conditional -- you can sell things on Twitter, sure. If you make things. But look here client man -- you make auto parts. Trust me when I say that Twitter is not your market.
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:42 (fifteen years ago) link
That's for RSS anyway. Jesus.
Technology is routinely fucked over by people who don't get what it's for and go misappropriating it. e.g. Facebook was for SOCIAL networking until old people en masse started hunting down their kids.
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:49 (fifteen years ago) link
And their staff.
― one art, please (Trayce), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 01:03 (fifteen years ago) link
And the people journos want to chase for a "story".
(well not old people, just people, obv)
My user name is igotabeefpastry
― i'm shy (Abbott), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 01:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Wouldn't have guessed it, for sure.
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 01:18 (fifteen years ago) link
haha
― i'm shy (Abbott), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 01:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Rah!
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 02:02 (fifteen years ago) link
If this thread turns into a thread of people talking about what they were talking about on twitter I think I might just well go shoot myself.
― one art, please (Trayce), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 02:12 (fifteen years ago) link