i'm taking another break from twitter and have just kinda ended up rechanneling that attention into ilx and tumblr, two (relatively) dead places
hope twitter dies soon too
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 20 November 2015 15:46 (eight years ago) link
imo ilx still feels more like one of the better methods for the same ~150 people to keep talking to each other
this is what the internet is for, huge swirling pools of discourse aren't fun for anybody
― pizza rolls are a food that exists (silby), Friday, 20 November 2015 15:50 (eight years ago) link
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, November 20, 2015 10:46 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lot of ppl seem p convinced this is happening but idk
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 15:52 (eight years ago) link
i think those perspectives mainly focus on the business end of twitter. i personally don't see it dying soon but it really shifted in 2012-2013 from a kind of cool and fascinating thing where ppl were really funny and i felt less alone (lol) to a site of unbelievable anxiety, which has gotten way worse in the past two years, even as i followed as few ppl as possible
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 20 November 2015 15:56 (eight years ago) link
i mean, my own fault for being embedded in both media and music twitter
twitter def used to be more fun and funny before ppl decided it was a srs platform for expanding ones brand
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 15:59 (eight years ago) link
i think those perspectives mainly focus on the business end of twitter. i personally don't see it dying soon
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, November 20, 2015 10:56 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
business concerns and its health as a platform are pretty intimately connected tho
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 16:01 (eight years ago) link
idk where ppl wld go tho
oh yeah true that
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:03 (eight years ago) link
I realized Something Was Up with Twitter when the committee for my college reunion started collecting everyone's Twitter handles to put on a list and mine was the only one not geared towards promoting my brand/professional work. At first I was embarrassed but it quickly became hilarious as I watched white paper link after appointment announcement after newspaper article scroll by punctuated with me joking with ilxors about some terrible band/politician
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:05 (eight years ago) link
lmao
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 16:07 (eight years ago) link
lol one time i tweeted a link to something i wrote and it felt so lame
muted in tweetdeck: the phrase 'excited to announce'
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 November 2015 16:08 (eight years ago) link
I like the lag∞n brand.
― Jeff, Friday, 20 November 2015 16:09 (eight years ago) link
It needs expanding.
Hire an intern.
accepting applications
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
― mookieproof, Friday, November 20, 2015 11:08 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"wrote a thing"
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 16:11 (eight years ago) link
excited to announce is def one of the primo depressing phrases online
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 16:12 (eight years ago) link
feel like twitter gives me insight into how baked lag∞n is any particular moment, so ✓
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 November 2015 16:12 (eight years ago) link
lmao ✌
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 16:13 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGPSXZz_3yA
saw this ad multiple times during basketball last night
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
yeah a few years ago i started a new job and on my first day my boss was like "follow me on twitter" - until then i had mostly used twitter as a kind of secret tool for stuff i'd never put on facebook, i mean nothing illegal or whatever but given it was my first day of a new job i had to go and delete a load of things and blandify my account. as it turned out my boss wouldn't have cared but i didn't know that then.
put my career there for the first time recently, i guess because i am a contractor and it might get me work, and also cos i am proud of it for a change.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
how long before moments becomes the default tab
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
it's nice when ppl compliment their friends but i am getting fed up with 'the god @user wrote' and 'the dude @user has thoughts'
it is a peeve
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 November 2015 16:21 (eight years ago) link
LG: why didn't you make a separate Twitter account for business associates? Too much hassle to switch between them?
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:21 (eight years ago) link
I had a brief period where I was more into using twitter for professional ideas and then some ppl followed me and I ended up posting lots of swearing and bad tweets and they went away
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:23 (eight years ago) link
i guess i have a decent amount of followers for my account as it is, so i decided to keep it to one. tho tbh i churn a lot because i post about 20 diff things obsessively for an hour at a time. my personal brand is highly fragmented
xpost
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:24 (eight years ago) link
i mean like, i could be posting about any one of those 20 things for an hour, rather than all 20 all at once.
I occasionally use my Twitter for work-related stuff, esp. if I'm at a conference or event, or for brownie points with my SVP by RT-ing the company feed, but mostly I talk about Star Wars or tell Newt Gingrich and James Woods to fuck off.
― Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:26 (eight years ago) link
i talk abt industry related things sometimes but in a v unprofessional manner
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
lol Phil, I caught you going after James Woods
one of my most popular recent Tweets was going after Ben Carson so game recognize game
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:32 (eight years ago) link
ned is a good amplifier for all personal brands. most big numbers i've got have started with support from ned.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:33 (eight years ago) link
want numbers? simply call ned and ask him to leverage his assets in your favour.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:34 (eight years ago) link
Who can help me create a bot to respond to every single James Woods tweet with a screencap of him cleaning the Quik-E-Mart microwave on "The Simpsons?"
― Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:37 (eight years ago) link
watch out, he might sue you
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 20 November 2015 16:39 (eight years ago) link
just unfollowed (almost) all non individual human accounts: publications brands businesses and it felt so good
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 19:01 (eight years ago) link
was abt a quarter of the total
i followed so many like digital agencies and accounts for front end frameworks lol smh
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 19:02 (eight years ago) link
think this is the first time i have more followers than following B-)
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link
tho theyre roughly the same so i kinda look like a #teamfollow back "fuckboi"
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 November 2015 19:05 (eight years ago) link
I started off with a joke account, just C&P'ing random non sequiturs and never letting on who I was on the other end.
Then I started feeling left out and started using an account with my own name. It's a bit scary - I don't even go by my name on here - but hey, I only have 100 followers so what the hell.
My boss got on early and has a two-letter handle.
― pplains, Saturday, 21 November 2015 03:19 (eight years ago) link
I can't remember why I don't! I think maybe I only tried my default and it was taken so I just gave up
― μpright mammal (mh), Saturday, 21 November 2015 03:30 (eight years ago) link
approaching nine years on twitter in a few days (!)
― μpright mammal (mh), Saturday, 21 November 2015 03:31 (eight years ago) link
i'd love to see what twitter was like pre-2009 when no one was on it
― k3vin k., Saturday, 21 November 2015 03:34 (eight years ago) link
it was really just programmers at conferences tweeting about how they were at a conference I think, you could just look at everybody's tweets on one page, it crashed all the time, etc.
― pizza rolls are a food that exists (silby), Saturday, 21 November 2015 07:03 (eight years ago) link
I've been on 8 years and 8 months. I honestly don't remember it early on, it really took me several years to go into it.
― Jeff, Saturday, 21 November 2015 11:21 (eight years ago) link
Get into it.
― Jeff, Saturday, 21 November 2015 11:22 (eight years ago) link
twitter is cool in that it took my previous need to overshare on ilx and provided another and more instantaneous way of satisfying it probably why i don't post as much to ilx anymore
― 龜, Saturday, 21 November 2015 12:24 (eight years ago) link
spending some time away from ilx and then coming back makes you realize how repetitive a lot of ilx is idk
― 龜, Saturday, 21 November 2015 12:26 (eight years ago) link
not to say twitter isn't
tumblr is th eonly good platform left if all u care about are memes like me, the mem carer