i like zany sweeping stoned polo sci grad student twitter essays too. maybe my fav form of twitter essay
― flopson, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:26 (nine years ago) link
are there good examples of good twitter essays or is the thing we're admiring more the being on the ground during the gettysburg address sensation, the temporality of just swimming in live content, something like the flickering cursor live-typing of '00s computer thrillers
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
theres something sort of sweet about watching the urban planning accounts talk to each other all day
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
the internet of the internet of things
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:29 (nine years ago) link
i posted one in the Greece/syriza thread that is a classic imo. on my phone so I can't find it now. lots of good economics ones idk. I like herr jest
― flopson, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:30 (nine years ago) link
sometimes ill notice who someone i follows irl best friend is and follow them in order to eves drop on their convos is this creepy im not sure
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:31 (nine years ago) link
infinite jeet
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:31 (nine years ago) link
lol i have def done that
― flopson, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:31 (nine years ago) link
a fav recent JH one was about globe & mail, gawker, journalistic ethics
― flopson, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:33 (nine years ago) link
but rly flopson who is mtl hipster ex-ilx twitterer, I need to follow
― mh, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:33 (nine years ago) link
ty flopsoncan you summarise
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:34 (nine years ago) link
knock yrselves out folks https://storify.com/JeetHeer1
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:37 (nine years ago) link
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, March 31, 2015 12:28 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark
I generally agree re: the above on twitter essays, but the one exception is obv @pushinghoops who is a master of any medium she touches imo
― 龜, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link
wait the really wordy dude was on ilx?
― mh, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link
commie former ilxor is j4y w4tts III https://twitter.com/jaywattsiii
― flopson, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 17:07 (nine years ago) link
join the @jacobinmag Toronto Reading Group lmao
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 17:10 (nine years ago) link
adorno
adorn your life with lols
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 19:03 (nine years ago) link
i am probably the worst twitter tbh
Congress, no
― camp event (suzy), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 19:42 (nine years ago) link
(what you really want)
― DJP, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
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― lag∞n, Tuesday, March 31, 2015 1:10 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
Update: I followed this guy, and then muted him
― 龜, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 19:46 (nine years ago) link
u shd not be able to mute ppl u follow this goes against everything twitter stands for
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 19:49 (nine years ago) link
― camp event (suzy), Tuesday, March 31, 2015 7:42 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 19:50 (nine years ago) link
cnn really thirsty these dayshttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBcypj2UkAAVRD8.png:large
― mh, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 19:52 (nine years ago) link
damn, CNN
― DJP, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 19:56 (nine years ago) link
Probably the best part about twitter is that when you're feeling sad you can go on and find other people who are also feeling sad but who have thousands or tens of thousands of more followers than you and that makes you feel better because having a lot of twitter followers is supposed to help you feel less sad but for those people it didn't work
― 龜, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
wish you could turn people down
― Pic Verry (mattresslessness), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:28 (nine years ago) link
for what
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:34 (nine years ago) link
i just mean halfway between full follow and mute, like having a volume knob for everyone that corresponds to frequency or something
― Pic Verry (mattresslessness), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:38 (nine years ago) link
u cld have a thing where for certain ppl u only see their more popular tweets
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:39 (nine years ago) link
Yeah that would be a good addition
The other thing twitter needs is to incorporate favstar functionality
― 龜, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:41 (nine years ago) link
like facebook does? lol
― mh, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:41 (nine years ago) link
twitter would be good if you could fp ppl from it
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:43 (nine years ago) link
it would be really good if you could make it disappear
― Pic Verry (mattresslessness), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link
having lots of followers would suck
― flopson, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 21:08 (nine years ago) link
klout will send u free dog food tho
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
Muting retweets and hashtags has made the usability go way up. (Tweetbot does this, don't know about the regular twitter client)
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link
just let it wash over u imho
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 21:39 (nine years ago) link
ps xyzzz² what's yr username― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
xyzzzz__, let us know yours schlump?
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 22:52 (nine years ago) link
followed you!, & i'm filmclubbristol, i am not useful on twitter, just #fyi
& i feel like a judiciously controlled feed is probably in some ways desirable but i don't mind the sprawl, i don't think, feel like the design is compatible with a kind of human scanning frequency learned from personal ads & telephone books, & that in some ways calibrating the frequency or visibility of somebody would just deny me the simple periodic pleasure of unfollowing, something that makes me feel like i'm truly exercising control in my life, being firm, putting a foot down. it's meant to be kind of messy, i think. neil hagery just got more successfully aphoristic on twitter but for a long time he was really into the messy transparent language angle, i don't mind twitter feeling like scanning a radio dial
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 23:12 (nine years ago) link
It totally is radio dial.
Thanks, followed back - if you all want to know my struggles in watching the world upside down (otherwise known as yoga), random lines of poetry and novels I'm reading (that I then structure into my commentaries on my reading at ILB), live Columbo commentary (Saturdays at around 12pm GMT) and re-tweeting lines from that Finnegans Wake account.
Well, then I'm yer bot.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 23:23 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/p1XQBFl.png
― 龜, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 14:53 (nine years ago) link
:|
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 14:58 (nine years ago) link
its me, your beloved erstwhile ilxor elmo argonaut that spends all his time on twitter @patron_sailor, i love you all & i miss you please follow me ok
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 20:42 (nine years ago) link
ok "beloved" is maybe a stretch but you get the idea
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 20:43 (nine years ago) link
No "beloved" is spot on and maybe even understating it. Miss you boo
― 龜, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 20:44 (nine years ago) link
I like your tweets, keep it up
― mh, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 20:44 (nine years ago) link
Made my return to Twitter after (1) learning how to mute people and (2) wanting to escape the raccoon shitposting
― 龜, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 21:17 (nine years ago) link
elmo is the best twitter
― flopson, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 21:19 (nine years ago) link