i don't think people give that much of a fuck about news or information or whatever you want to call it
― markers, Wednesday, April 30, 2014 2:23 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
news is extremely popular markers more popular even than facebook
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 18:26 (ten years ago) link
news how do i get it
― idontknowanythingabouttechnlolgeez (waterface), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
information: where is it
ilx is my platform
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
how many sources do people follow? ben thompson the other day said something like "people have seven websites they go to" and it was in the context of a bigger point that was probably way more nuanced, but the thing stands that you can just install the fucking cnn app or follow them on fb and you don't need a separate service to keep up with a thousand sources like all of us do
― markers, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 18:28 (ten years ago) link
people like us are not like most people when it comes to news consumption
― markers, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
we're not that special
― idontknowanythingabouttechnlolgeez (waterface), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 18:30 (ten years ago) link
thebn again i don't knwo anythig about technologies
how many sources do people follow? ben thompson the other day said something like "people have seven websites they go to"
― markers, Wednesday, April 30, 2014 2:28 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
seven websites isnt cool you know whats cool one website
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 18:31 (ten years ago) link
as an aside, lag00n, i'm getting those phantom twitter notifications too
― markers, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 18:31 (ten years ago) link
they fkn w us
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 18:32 (ten years ago) link
― markers, Wednesday, April 30, 2014 6:29 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i do think this is v true
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 18:40 (ten years ago) link
special snowflakes us all
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 18:42 (ten years ago) link
admitted news junkie here folks, its the first step to recovery lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link
Kashmir Hill@kashhillYou know you've made it when early adopters start writing eulogies. RT @PrivacyCamp: A Eulogy for Twitter - Atlantic http://bit.ly/1iAWlnF
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 19:21 (ten years ago) link
William C. @williamcanderOutspoken POC are taking over Twitter, so White people have decided it’s dead: donotlink.com/hae
Just like when they use our slang.
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 19:22 (ten years ago) link
totally agree that if people trimmed their friends list, FB would be less terrible/more useful― Dominique, Wednesday, April 30, 2014 2:22 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkp
― Dominique, Wednesday, April 30, 2014 2:22 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkp
i'm not really sure about that. i basically blocked all but a few friends from my newsfeed and it's not any more interesting. now instead of having 300+ people linking to stupid bullshit on the web, it's 10-15 people linking to stupid bullshit on the web. that's what the facebook environment is conducive to. it has never made me feel more connected to people. if i want to talk to my friends i call them or hang out with them.
― marcos, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 21:39 (ten years ago) link
Well yeah -- and I did the same. The end result was that I ended up dropping off FB entirely for 2 months, and then when I came back, I was just way less interested in general. It has a use for me, I guess, in that my family/friends can see my pictures, and if I have to, I can catch up on their (generalized) exploits. But as an everyday thing, something that I have to make an effort to parse -- no thanks. It's aggressively soul-eroding.
― Dominique, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 21:42 (ten years ago) link
completely agree with everything you said
― marcos, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 21:45 (ten years ago) link
here and there i'll think "oh yea, facebook, i'll see what's going on there" and 30 seconds later i'm off
I'd be more likely to use Facebook if it didn't keep reverting back to "top stories". I just want to read everything in chronological order.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 21:49 (ten years ago) link
just use www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 23:57 (ten years ago) link
― marcos, Wednesday, April 30, 2014 4:39 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
not in my experience. most of the people i know and are closeish friends with don't live near me and are not phone talkers. i was off FB for over 2 years and ended up losing touch w basically everyone. it was just easier to rejoin with a small friends list to post baby pictures and updates to out of towners.
― smooth hymnal (m bison), Thursday, 1 May 2014 03:03 (ten years ago) link
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, April 30, 2014 7:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ha i certainly recognise this as one of the reasons a lot of white mainstream media types are suddenly "disenchanted" with twitter but LOL at the idea that any group of people anywhere is taking over twitter. it contains more multitudes and more communities than you realise.
― lex pretend, Thursday, 1 May 2014 10:05 (ten years ago) link
Still more dumb racists on Twitter than outspoken POC. It's a common fallacy to think that your own Twitter feed is representative of the whole thing but clicking on an unfamiliar trending topic usually sets me straight.
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Thursday, 1 May 2014 10:10 (ten years ago) link
I first learned that lesson by searching for the #takemeout hashtag while it was on telly.
― Alba, Thursday, 1 May 2014 10:23 (ten years ago) link
the thing about twitter is it's only really rewarding if you can bring original ideas to it, so people without original ideas see it and get confused
― steendriver dysphoria hoos (The Reverend), Thursday, 1 May 2014 12:56 (ten years ago) link
LOL at the idea that any group of people anywhere is taking over twitter. it contains more multitudes and more communities than you realise.
― lex pretend, Thursday, May 1, 2014 10:05 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:06 (ten years ago) link
― steendriver dysphoria hoos (The Reverend), Thursday, May 1, 2014 8:56 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah one of the things twitter wants is for people to feel cool just following and not tweeting if they want but idk if thats ever really caught on, i dont think there are too many daily users who exhibit that behavior
― lag∞n, Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:09 (ten years ago) link
this piece is kinda common sensical https://medium.com/five-hundred-words/6f3b7e9f38fa
agree w this
None of this is to say Twitter is without its challenges. From my own perspective, the product is sort of a mess of half-baked engagement experiments. But underneath that still lies a fun, powerful, and important service. They just need someone to go in there and tighten things up. To trim the fat. To say “no”.
― lag∞n, Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:11 (ten years ago) link
i mean wtf is this
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmhHzi2CEAANq9x.png
― lag∞n, Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:12 (ten years ago) link
mayne not daily, but a lot of people do do this. or so i've heard.
― markers, Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:30 (ten years ago) link
All these people who are wringing their hands about twitter should just follow @wettbutt. That dude kills.
― how's life, Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:33 (ten years ago) link
yeah hes the best
― lag∞n, Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:34 (ten years ago) link
― markers, Thursday, May 1, 2014 9:30 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah i just wonder how many hardcore users actually take that approach, my feeling is its more those who occasionally check in for a minute or two shrug and close the tab, like to truly get that twitter drug youve got to get in there and mix it up do some RTs some @s send out some straight up tweets you know
― lag∞n, Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:35 (ten years ago) link
that's a good point
― markers, Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:39 (ten years ago) link
send out some straight up tweets you know
― lag∞n, Thursday, May 1, 2014 1:35 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
SUTs as we call them
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:41 (ten years ago) link
just out here SUTin you know
― lag∞n, Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:44 (ten years ago) link
on twitter everyone says you know alot its a thing
― lag∞n, Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:45 (ten years ago) link
#SUTin
― idontknowanythingabouttechnlolgeez (waterface), Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:48 (ten years ago) link
i have had a twitter account for years but i have never written a single tweet, it's like a spare room with no furniture and a dead fly on the windowsill.
― estela, Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:52 (ten years ago) link
u must tweet, i insist
― lag∞n, Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:54 (ten years ago) link
they see me SUTinthey hatinpatrollin they tryna catch me not adding value to the platform
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:56 (ten years ago) link
i'd follow estela. i'd follow hoos & lag00n too.
― markers, Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:57 (ten years ago) link
;)
― idontknowanythingabouttechnlolgeez (waterface), Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:57 (ten years ago) link
To say “no”.
otm, as is whoever said it has been product-managed to death. I get that they're saying "yes" because lots of these things are designed to make it easier for them to make money from it, but they're going to kill it in the process.
― stet, Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:59 (ten years ago) link
Urgh @wetbutt
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Thursday, 1 May 2014 14:11 (ten years ago) link
no, not @wetbutt, @wettbutt. it's different.
― how's life, Thursday, 1 May 2014 14:13 (ten years ago) link
Oh that explains a lot
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Thursday, 1 May 2014 14:23 (ten years ago) link
this is me basically, i basically use it as news wire plus joke book though, very very few irl friends on it though, they're all on instagram which i'm not interested in really.
― balls, Thursday, 1 May 2014 14:54 (ten years ago) link