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
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Friday, May 22, 2015 6:46 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinki'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but the point was that twitter forces this concept, unlike, for example, this message board, which has no character limit
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 22 May 2015 18:28 (eight years ago) link
way too many characters around here tbh
― Οὖτις, Friday, 22 May 2015 18:31 (eight years ago) link
i joined a few months ago, a lot of folks in my field use it and i've found it fun to engage w/ colleagues and share ideas in a loose way
― marcos, Friday, 22 May 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link
I've been on twitter since 2008 or so, but never really figured out how to use it well. I read it a few times a week, but probably only tweet something a few times a year. I've gone through phases where I've followed irl friends, ilxors, professional colleagues, weirdos, brands, activists, and I kinda hate the resultant paste.
― cause baby, now we got dad bod (how's life), Friday, 22 May 2015 18:46 (eight years ago) link
I mostly respond to other ilxors with bad jokes
― ultimate american sock (mh), Friday, 22 May 2015 18:48 (eight years ago) link
hey ∞, do you use twitter? i am curious. i always thought that concern over the forced character limit was one of those things that evaporates upon use, or for whichever other reasons is just exclusively held as a kind of theoretical objection. like your cousin-in-law says it after dinner during the holidays - Well!, I don't know how much you can say using [cites wrong number of characters] - & you have to just be like yeah Richard I don't know what to tell you it just isn't really like that. it's like an understanding of anti-depressants as Bad Thought Deleters, just kind of super literally invested in the an outsider's understanding of the concept. twitter is great & super interesting in a million ways, i think, but i think the idea that it's essentially insubstantial is wrong, provably wrong, misunderstands what it means to write out thoughts, something which even if they were subject to character limits one wouldn't be restricted by twitter in expressing (you can link, you can split things into multiple tweets, you can abbreviate, you can grandiosely essay-tweet, &c&c&c). expressive sentences aren't always long & the sort of space a tweet takes up in expression is really beautiful, i think, like it's a proposition, it's phil elverum saying he can 'make you think that'. & i feel like a bunch of stuff that's at least occasionally attached to twitter, ie evidence of its credibility - increased visibility of conversations about social justice, individual international reportage, humour platform less openly unhospitable to women, &c - also rejects the idea that it's vapid, is somehow a truncated form of like ... whatever the thought that ran 179 characters would have been. you know. constraints are good. newspaper writing isn't bad because they needed to make it fit five hundred words. & it's super satisfying to play with arbitrary constraints. i remember going to the dentist & imagining a kind of Foam Dome style hat that would be mounted with two of the weird suction tools the hygienist was using to vacuum my drool, something i could wear around town to be able to drool freely, & being just so satisfied that i could actually compress this hellish vision into something tweet-size, shareable. it got zero favs? so, you know, OBVIOUSLY the system is not perfect. the soundbite panic patron sailor mentions is sort of super interesting & salient too, like i can remember feeling really persuaded by reading that the length of an average interview extract on the news had dramatically reduced, to sort of bumper-sticker proportions, since the '70s or whatever, & that as a result the discourse was impoverished, that our understanding was diminished because nuance was excised. but twitter feels oppositional to that too, just because its breadth can be so wide, & because the practice of using it - seeing someone say something, & then clicking into that, reading whatever else they've wrote, writing them or whatever - is like ... conducive to conversation. short attention span is probably just a fundamental byproduct of info overload stuff, now, like the ship has sailed. twitter is cool though.
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Friday, 22 May 2015 19:00 (eight years ago) link
i'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but the point was that twitter forces this concept, unlike, for example, this message board, which has no character limit
c'mon, buddy
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Friday, 22 May 2015 19:03 (eight years ago) link
formal constraints don't dictate content
next
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Friday, 22 May 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link
hmm I think they influence it, though
― ultimate american sock (mh), Friday, 22 May 2015 19:05 (eight years ago) link
weird twitterers r funny
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 22 May 2015 19:08 (eight years ago) link
of course, but twitter doesn't "force" any sort of content
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Friday, 22 May 2015 19:09 (eight years ago) link
true!
people who do this extended numbered rant thing, I am not sure that is the best use, but the format doesn't preclude it
― ultimate american sock (mh), Friday, 22 May 2015 19:09 (eight years ago) link
i mean there are skilled communicators writing of all kinds of great & diverse stuff on twitter 24/7, if you choose to disregard that in favor of a blinkered judgement against the form, well that's on you imho
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Friday, 22 May 2015 19:14 (eight years ago) link
yeah I mean have you even followed me yet? if not you're missing gems:
https://twitter.com/djperry1973/status/600846435328884736
― DJP, Friday, 22 May 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
the form is extremely good which is why so many interesting ppl use it, its the only power user social network
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 May 2015 19:19 (eight years ago) link
the numbered "tweetstorm" thing is kind of annoying to me, but yeah
you can also tweet links to longer pieces of writing that can't be condensed! imagine that
also people regularly post screenshots of text to get around the character limit
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Friday, 22 May 2015 19:20 (eight years ago) link
the screenshots of text thing is dumb imo
― ultimate american sock (mh), Friday, 22 May 2015 19:24 (eight years ago) link