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
i just mean halfway between full follow and mute, like having a volume knob for everyone that corresponds to frequency or something
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
i always interact with elmo on twitter :)
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link
Twitter is no good when you are a broken misanthrope, even if they made a twitter for broken misanthropes it would be equally as worthless a pile of fucking dogshite.
― xelab, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 21:55 (nine years ago) link
no I'm the best twitter elmo is second
― The Reverend, Thursday, 2 April 2015 03:37 (nine years ago) link
i follow rev and lagoon, i will follow the elmo, btw my son loves your show elmo's world
― brosario nawson (m bison), Thursday, 2 April 2015 04:00 (nine years ago) link
elmo has v. good selfie game
― jaymc, Thursday, 2 April 2015 04:24 (nine years ago) link
true rev is all-time twitter
― flopson, Thursday, 2 April 2015 04:40 (nine years ago) link
― xelab, Wednesday, April 1, 2015 5:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
twitter seems quite popular with broken misanthropes fwiw!
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 April 2015 04:53 (nine years ago) link
As always @quartzcity
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 2 April 2015 12:10 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/wPSJlHd.png
:( :( :(
― 龜, Friday, 10 April 2015 02:34 (nine years ago) link
Kill yrslf. No where to go from here.
― Jeff, Friday, 10 April 2015 03:38 (nine years ago) link
harsh but fair
― Clay, Friday, 10 April 2015 03:41 (nine years ago) link
Due to the Nakatomi Corporation's legacy of greed around the globe, they are about to be taught a lesson in the real use of Twitter.
― louie louie whoa baby imago (how's life), Friday, 10 April 2015 10:04 (nine years ago) link
http://eggsbacon.co.nz/twitter_mau
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
Marjorie Scardino, who joined their board in Dec 2013, has made three tweets since.
https://mobile.twitter.com/marjscar/tweets
― Ethnically Ambiguous / 28 - 45 (ShariVari), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 20:26 (nine years ago) link
lol "@TheEconomist"
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 20:29 (nine years ago) link
I'd start a new account if I joined twitter, i think. I already have separate ones for different purposes.
― kinder, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 21:13 (nine years ago) link
Simon Amstells tweets are very, erm, informative
"hello xxxx people, thank you"
repeat.
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Sunday, 26 April 2015 07:49 (nine years ago) link
http://www.mountainsofmouthness.com/
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 30 April 2015 22:49 (nine years ago) link
Replacement of Discover (which was mostly people i don't follow tweeting about things that were broadly relevant to my interests) with "tailored" hashtag sidebar is so awful. Currently have three tags about Kate Middleton, two #makeamovie... trends, and tags about the Philippines netball team / domestic Indian real estate legislation. Essentially, unless the fairly limited number of people i follow are saying anything, it's not worth using the site at all.
― Petite Lamela (ShariVari), Saturday, 2 May 2015 08:25 (nine years ago) link
Hardly ever explore hashtags...its mostly ever good for keeping up with people and events.
Following a couple of campaigners, that's a whole other story but I wonder how effective these things are. Which is no reason NOT to do them of course.
Personally you get to say things in bite-sized chunks which are good to expunge off your mind. Or you can be as banal as you like. Appreciate the space.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 2 May 2015 10:21 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/president-obama-joins-twitter-wave-of-hate-filled-racism-and-vitriol-ensues/article24560745/
twitter is a complete dud. i wish it would disappear. like someone said in the g&m comments, it especially tends to attract shallow commentary and encourage short attention span
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 22 May 2015 17:16 (eight years ago) link
But shallow commentary and short attention span are my specialties!
― Jeff, Friday, 22 May 2015 17:22 (eight years ago) link
counterpoint: twitter is the most important invention of the 21st century
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 May 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
Counterpoint: Twitter is good
― 龜, Friday, 22 May 2015 17:42 (eight years ago) link
twitter is extremely good and cool
― ciderpress, Friday, 22 May 2015 17:43 (eight years ago) link
it especially tends to attract shallow commentary and encourage short attention span
it's true, you can't find such things anywhere else on the internet
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Friday, 22 May 2015 17:46 (eight years ago) link
remember 20 years ago when people complained about "soundbites" ruining culture? yeah
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Friday, 22 May 2015 17:48 (eight years ago) link
100 people have chosen to follow my micro-posts about turds and pee, if that isn't great i don't know what is
― ciderpress, Friday, 22 May 2015 18:05 (eight years ago) link
All I know is that thanks to Twitter, I can make whatever stupid jokes I want and Chuck D will see them.
― DJP, Friday, 22 May 2015 18:14 (eight years ago) link
twitter is good
― ultimate american sock (mh), Friday, 22 May 2015 18:24 (eight years ago) link
it would be nice if most of it were well-intentioned, but it amplifies people's worst side
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 22 May 2015 18:26 (eight years ago) link