It's not OK, hence the apology. But there is definitely a distinction, in terms of intent, between tweeting an offensive joke to a friend and tweeting abuse at a stranger. The former might be crass or unpleasant but it's not targeted.
yeah true, it's an important distinction. though i do think these, and other comments she's made, make her not such a great person to be spearheading this campaign but if something does change for the good then that makes it worthwhile i guess. out of interest, what are their specific goals? and are there any signs twitter will commit to any of them?
― NI, Monday, 5 August 2013 21:01 (ten years ago) link
https://twitter.com/whitehouse/status/367301180910624768
― dale cthulhu (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 15:17 (ten years ago) link
haha
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 16:28 (ten years ago) link
me and a mate both got 'hacked' today ie someone sending out the same spam DMs from our accounts. Is changing password sufficient?
― kinder, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link
Change pw and enable two step verification.
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 23:07 (ten years ago) link
also, go into 'settings' and make sure that the only apps that have access are ones you're familiar with and still use.
― confusion is sexts (c sharp major), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 23:19 (ten years ago) link
^^ that is a very good one, too.
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 23:29 (ten years ago) link
ya its usually via apps is my understanding, no one prob actually has yr login infos
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 23:53 (ten years ago) link
Patricia Lockwood @TriciaLockwood 1mThe clearest indication that the tweet is a form is the fact that there are people who write beautifully in it who can't write anything else
truth
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 20:17 (ten years ago) link
wait... was she writing about herself
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 20:20 (ten years ago) link
j/k i like your poetry trish
on twitter
burn
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 20:21 (ten years ago) link
well i just unfollowed abt 300 people
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 26 August 2013 18:51 (ten years ago) link
i feel abt the same
chaki is butthurt you unfollowed him btw
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 16:31 (ten years ago) link
aw man
i never see him in my TL tbh
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 16:37 (ten years ago) link
like i mostly unfollowed accounts of people who've unfollowed me, biz/companies/firms i'm not into anymore, and people i never really see tweet much, and dude was in there
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 16:39 (ten years ago) link
he'll be ok
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 16:47 (ten years ago) link
so after noticing that she follows a bunch of ppl i follow, i checked and yoko ono follows nearly 1 million accounts
maybe i don't know about twitter best practices but this is kinda weird to me
― your authentic guitar playing self (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 23:07 (ten years ago) link
are there any other verified accounts following a number of ppl?
― your authentic guitar playing self (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 23:08 (ten years ago) link
some people just follow everyone who follows them
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 23:09 (ten years ago) link
ghostly international (the label) follows everyone who follows them. i guess who cares if it's not account that's actually going to read any tweets.
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 23:13 (ten years ago) link
yeah i guess if you're using twitter just for broadcasting there's not much need to look past your @ mentions
wonder if it might be "negatively impactful" on your "brand" because it makes you look "spammy" but idk what the accepted social media wisdom is about twitter follower ratios.
― your authentic guitar playing self (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 23:17 (ten years ago) link
when someone follows me how has like 5k followers and follows 5k people i never check on them
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 23:30 (ten years ago) link
why would u unfollow someon for never being on your TL??
― zvookster, Thursday, 29 August 2013 01:54 (ten years ago) link
its cool to only follow a few ppl
― 乒乓, Thursday, 29 August 2013 02:01 (ten years ago) link
I follow 772. That's about all I can take.
― Jeff, Thursday, 29 August 2013 02:05 (ten years ago) link
i think it's cool to only have a few followers, also, like maybe ~70?, all the best people, the most singular, they are just quietly, personally tweeting their life to a coterie of interested friends
― szarkasm (schlump), Thursday, 29 August 2013 02:08 (ten years ago) link
so how abt this blue line huh
― lag∞n, Thursday, 29 August 2013 02:30 (ten years ago) link
causing quite a stir
i like it. i often read a TL hours back into it rather than check it regularly, so it's good for me. i don't think basically anyone else uses twitter like that tho
― zvookster, Thursday, 29 August 2013 02:34 (ten years ago) link
like it too, i like seeing conversations
― lag∞n, Thursday, 29 August 2013 02:36 (ten years ago) link
not sure why its blue tho
― lag∞n, Thursday, 29 August 2013 02:37 (ten years ago) link
it had to be something. black frames the tweets. twitter bird is blue rite?
― zvookster, Thursday, 29 August 2013 02:38 (ten years ago) link
blue is generally associated w links tho
― lag∞n, Thursday, 29 August 2013 02:43 (ten years ago) link
I only look at twitter through tweetbot, so I will never see this line.
― Jeff, Thursday, 29 August 2013 02:43 (ten years ago) link
does anyone else remember when they did this before, for about a day, and then got rid of it? or have i gone nuts?
also, it doesn't really work with more than two people, does it? twitter conversations get muddled too quickly for it to make sense.
― Clyde One DJ Diane “Knoxy” Knox-Campbell (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 29 August 2013 03:04 (ten years ago) link
i only really use ~twitter~ on my phone and i hate it
tweetdeck has the open/close convos which i like much more
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 29 August 2013 04:01 (ten years ago) link
my line is red rather than blue, idk what that says about me.
the new conversation view doesn't work with the conversations on my tl - people aren't having then in a strictly linear you-talk-then-i-talk way. i wish twitter could have rolled it out w/ an opt-out option.
― Dora Viola G. I. de Orellana Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tolle (c sharp major), Thursday, 29 August 2013 09:40 (ten years ago) link
i can't see any blue lines or red lines?
― lex pretend, Thursday, 29 August 2013 12:08 (ten years ago) link
only blurred lines
― 乒乓, Thursday, 29 August 2013 12:15 (ten years ago) link
you joke but as we type some enterprising youtube guitar comedian is writing a blurred lines/twitter conversation view "parody"
― Dora Viola G. I. de Orellana Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tolle (c sharp major), Thursday, 29 August 2013 12:45 (ten years ago) link
also, lex, they don't roll out new features to all users at once, so it's likely it just hasn't got to you yet - often it doesn't happen until you start a new twitter session (by logging in or by starting up yr browser and opening the twitter website)
― Dora Viola G. I. de Orellana Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tolle (c sharp major), Thursday, 29 August 2013 12:48 (ten years ago) link
When twitter beetles fight, they have a twitter beetle battle
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 29 August 2013 12:51 (ten years ago) link
https://twitter.com/QuantumPirate/status/373061978639462401/photo/1
― Dora Viola G. I. de Orellana Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tolle (c sharp major), Thursday, 29 August 2013 13:39 (ten years ago) link
who is the least famous person to have a verified account and the most famous person not to
― So hot in Herrenvolk (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 2 September 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
Off the top of my head? Caitlin Moran remains unverified.
― aldi young dudes (suzy), Monday, 2 September 2013 19:23 (ten years ago) link