Twitter C/D

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLQ6oieVAAAWpJa.jpg

you have to admire the extent of the craft

that's incredible

Yes, he did an obviously fake one yesterday and has either followed it up with a more realistic one today - or actually been sued.

― I wear my Redditor loathing with pride (ShariVari), Friday, July 31, 2015 3:30 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

he hasn't been sued lmao

My partner does a twitter account that is purely about autism. She retweeted something by professor of autism at Cambridge, Simon Baren-Cohen about anti-Semitism and suddenly lost a few dozen of her followers. #big up humanity.

http://www.lacourt.org/casesummary/ui/ValidateCase.aspx

I checked, no such suit.. Unless they are delayed in updating the info from yesterday, which is entirely possible.

assumed leyawn was just making a joke about this - http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/james-woods-sues-twitter-user-812107

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/03/twitter-collapses-5-tumbling-toward-ipo-level-prices/

https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/twitter-fall.gif?w=400&h=300

lmao

Perfect tweet has been achieved :)
https://twitter.com/ChrisEubank/status/630488278194626560?s=04

what's the AmE translation of that

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-20/twitter-falls-below-ipo-price-as-concerns-mount-over-ceo-growth

"concerns mount over CEO growth"

my god costolo is...he's huge

hes now consuming 85% of all RTs worldwide the national guard has been called in

ganges river of social media

enjoy your sip

Making GOOD use of Twitter:

https://storify.com/Laupina_/from-the-margins

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/08/twitter-global-social-media/402415/?single_page=true

This stagnation, and its implications, are often obscured by Twitter’s very real achievements. For instance, when Barack Obama traveled to East Africa in July, news outlets lavished attention on the Twitter hashtag #SomeoneTellCNN, a vehicle for ridiculing CNN’s assertion that the U.S. president was headed to a “hotbed of terror” in Kenya, as emblematic of Kenyan public opinion on the matter. And perhaps it was. (Kenyan Twitter is a vibrant community.) But Twitter’s insight into how people in the region were assessing Obama’s visit was far more limited than coverage of the various hashtags associated with the trip suggested. As the human-rights advocate Jeffrey Smith tweeted at the time, “People noticed that ‘Ethiopians aren’t tweeting about #ObamaInEthiopia.’ Well, internet penetration is 2% & there’s mass state surveillance.” To cite just one other example: A Pentagon official recently marveled that U.S. intelligence first learned of a Scud-missile launch in Yemen via Twitter. Wow! But the official didn’t mention that the vast, vast majority of Yemenis don’t use Twitter. We are still only hearing from a tiny sliver of the battlefield in Yemen.

Gary Vaynerchuk, an early Twitter investor, described this challenge in particularly blunt terms in March, suggesting that Twitter’s town-square model could be its undoing. Twitter has “become a massive firehose,” he said, and if it doesn’t “stop showing you everything, Twitter will die.”

This shift to more closed networks makes it more difficult for big-data researchers like myself, and the public at large, to realize Twitter’s lofty aspiration of tapping into “what the whole world is thinking about any topic at any time.” Further complicating matters, the majority of social-media posts in the past were textual, meaning that computer algorithms could rapidly assess their content and emotional attributes. Today, however, photo and video content form the fastest-growing segment of social sharing.

so the 'global town square' is mostly famous people, marketers, and aspiring prizewinners

love these new stats

https://i.imgur.com/wJ4lQXd.jpg

welp

just go ahead now (and block me)

he followed me too, 'hm chris barron i know that name who's that again... OH'

spindoctoibasketshoes

omg

chris barron unfollowed me :( :(

https://twitter.com/thechrisbarron/status/644411180459687936

phew!

pottery

@Snowden goes live

http://i.imgur.com/E4dqH4N.png

yes, bro

just a man
with a man's courage

You don't have to capitalize some of those words, Neil.

it depends if they asre nametag/lanyard categories

He could capitalize deGrasse though, but I respect his decision.

lol it'd been funny if he'd replied 'fuck off nerd'.

snowden seems like a totally normal boring person who did one thing one time, i mean i still followed him but

are they seriously gonna make tweets more than 140 characters? so fucked if true

it's crazy how the ppl who own twitter don't seem to understand what it is or what its appeal is... like sometimes reading shit they say you'd think they expect it to become facebook

unless it's like 150 characters that's a horrible idea

Seems to be less about what the appeal of Twitter is to current users, more about what the perceived appeal would be to new users. Not sure that would get a lot of new users though.

are they seriously gonna make tweets more than 140 characters? so fucked if true

they should just add two zeros to that and we can all publish peer-reviewed scholarly articles on twitter.

"In the following tweet, I first examine the opportunity costs of the proposed legislation, followed by a discussion of some of the crucial challenges to implementation..."

Lol

add fp function to twitter

John Herrman ‏@jwherrman 10h10 hours ago
it's not a "character limit" thing, it's embedded posts to replace links

suspect this is right

like u cld blog on twitter but its not actually a longer tweet, its a thing thats embedded in the tweet that u have to click through to to see all of my guess

twitter prob being coy abt it to goose the media

/twitter.com users

wait so is it something so you can share a link but you don't have to waste characters sharing the link or whatever?

maybe a place on twitter where you can write longer than 140 characters but its not a tweet? u link to it from a tweet