i used to do the same with irc chats
― 龜, Saturday, 21 November 2015 20:17 (eight years ago) link
now i'm pretty chill about it like you log on and read what's happening and then you log off and it's cool don't have to read everything
i like twitter because it reminds me of irc actually like the stream is always on there's always content but the asymmetricalities are kinda cool
also it's probably the closest i've come to a high school lunch table environ like if you thought ILX was cliquey then
― 龜, Saturday, 21 November 2015 20:18 (eight years ago) link
back when i was first addicted to twitter (as a consumer and not a content creator) i would obsessively read my timeline and read all of it and never miss like get up in the morning and read all the tweets from last night
yeah i did this too when i first got into it. i remember feeling like, physically sick after long bouts of reading. there are a few accounts that i will like check up on to see what they've posted
i think the ppl for whom tweeting is a professional obligation have a sort of frantic sensibility to their tweeting. its not really anxious its more the sympathetic exhaustion you get from watching someone who is always on, always performing, selling themselves. this long commercial for something your pretty sure no ones buying
example of someone we follow who is like this? this descrip made me think of miserable humanities phd students i used to follow who i guess are trying to position themselves for placement in hip departments that would take kind of stuff into consideration? like, the new inquiry people? they are the worst people on our internet though IMHO. but i don't get this as a general overarching vibe
it kinda ties in to ppl who use twitter as a way of connecting the various web-based platforms although tbh that stuff just feels more effective on facebook.
idk man i deeply hate facebook these days
― flopson, Saturday, 21 November 2015 20:22 (eight years ago) link
the dopamine hit from having a tweet go viral or even from just having the people who follow you fav a good tweet of yours ensures that a lot of narcissists make twitter their primary home
― 龜, Saturday, 21 November 2015 20:23 (eight years ago) link
[drake voice] i need acknolwedgment
― 龜, Saturday, 21 November 2015 20:24 (eight years ago) link
― flopson, Saturday, November 21, 2015 3:22 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
interacting with people on facebook is a visible horror
― 龜, Saturday, 21 November 2015 20:26 (eight years ago) link
narcisism sounds bad but that dopamine hit is good incentive imo. it's kind of hilarious that we're like, hard wired to want to make other ppl laugh
― flopson, Saturday, 21 November 2015 20:27 (eight years ago) link
I still read every tweet in my TL. Unless I've been off for several days which never happens.
― Jeff, Saturday, 21 November 2015 20:28 (eight years ago) link
Usually only about 100 unread when I wake up in the morning.
― Jeff, Saturday, 21 November 2015 20:31 (eight years ago) link
tbh if ILX wasn't so dead and had better #content i would probably spend more time on here
― 龜, Saturday, 21 November 2015 20:33 (eight years ago) link
like all i want out of ilx is a darraghmac rss feed and the rest to the wolves
― 龜, Saturday, 21 November 2015 20:34 (eight years ago) link
I mean I returned to Twitter after a break of almost a year and immediately got work from tweeting about carly rae jepsen. for my profession it feels super necessary, which also makes me feel trapped. I'm also really easily stressed out by the relentlessly updating feed. I sorta think we weren't meant to hang out with everybody all the time
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 21 November 2015 20:36 (eight years ago) link
example of someone we follow who is like this?
after my year in the wilderness my new account follows like two dozen ppl atm. only person i could think of currently is mallory ortberg and i had to unfollow her cuz it was #2much. thats just my impression from looking at some media/tech/academia ppls twitters w/o really following them
― LEGIT (Lamp), Saturday, 21 November 2015 20:56 (eight years ago) link
i unfollowed her as well lmao
― 龜, Saturday, 21 November 2015 20:58 (eight years ago) link
I use twitter to connect with social justice educators and read up on spurs basketball journo tweets. And some academics who talk abt interesting things.
Facebook is a whole other animal. Most of my FB friends are coworkers or former students now. I share articles and the usual half dozen or so people are into them.
― Rich Homie Quan Poor Homie Quan (m bison), Saturday, 21 November 2015 20:59 (eight years ago) link
think the secret to enjoying twitter is following a bunch of high volume ppl (in both senses of the word) who are funny. in other words treat it like a chatroom
― 龜, Saturday, 21 November 2015 21:06 (eight years ago) link
I follow lagoon, and I also follow desusnice.
― Rich Homie Quan Poor Homie Quan (m bison), Saturday, 21 November 2015 21:08 (eight years ago) link
what does that mean
― 龜, Saturday, 21 November 2015 21:16 (eight years ago) link
this is exactly how i treated it three years ago and it no longer functions for me in this way
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 21 November 2015 21:20 (eight years ago) link
had to unfollow her cuz it was #2much
lol same
― mookieproof, Saturday, 21 November 2015 21:45 (eight years ago) link
i did not but curiously it did make me weary of reading the toast again
― j., Saturday, 21 November 2015 21:47 (eight years ago) link
― 龜, Saturday, November 21, 2015 3:16 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lagoon and twitter user desusnice both make me laugh a lot on twitter thats all
― Rich Homie Quan Poor Homie Quan (m bison), Saturday, 21 November 2015 21:52 (eight years ago) link
Six months in and I do scroll through about 12 hrs worth of timeline in one go - RT anyhing I want to read (RTs no endorsement indeed!)(a review of a book, an interview), or any particular bits of poetry I like - both from twitter dead poet accounts or ppl using twitter creatively (someone like Elisa Gabbert is pretty much the best I've seen at this).
With writers/media = if they use it to promote their work and just that I don't follow.
Thinking about it I don't know how widespread that is. Maybe I am lucky with the ppl I follow and don't happen to know as most ppl real tweet what they love or hate and its all tied in to what they are interested in.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 22 November 2015 09:15 (eight years ago) link
elisa is the best
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Sunday, 22 November 2015 15:39 (eight years ago) link
if somebody started a bunch of ilx threads led by her sort of quirky, deadpan pensée they would be clowned remorselessly tbrr
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 November 2015 16:36 (eight years ago) link
? i guess so. her books are great, i've always enjoyed her on twitter
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Sunday, 22 November 2015 16:38 (eight years ago) link
her tweets are great imo - never read her books.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Sunday, 22 November 2015 16:39 (eight years ago) link
the self unstable is a really tiny book of compressed, mini-essays that also kinda function as poetry. it rules imo
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Sunday, 22 November 2015 16:42 (eight years ago) link
I feel like twitter is where I practice my more ephemeral thoughts and read about or engage on issues that might be important without getting really emotionally lit up
good practice for not fixating on thoughts
― μpright mammal (mh), Sunday, 22 November 2015 16:51 (eight years ago) link
will try to check that out, sounds good xpost
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Sunday, 22 November 2015 16:53 (eight years ago) link
Elisa Gabbert is the very center of my idea of what Twitter is good at.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 23 November 2015 00:30 (eight years ago) link
jeez i am on the wrong side of history huh
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 November 2015 00:34 (eight years ago) link
she's @egabbert? seems like p unremarkable twitter to me
― flopson, Monday, 23 November 2015 01:09 (eight years ago) link
yeah i gave her a follow and was immediately suggested to follow a bunch of vaguely literary margot tenenbaum-lookin' sarah lawerence grads
― LEGIT (Lamp), Monday, 23 November 2015 02:08 (eight years ago) link
and read about or engage on issues that might be important without getting really emotionally lit up
teach me
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Monday, 23 November 2015 04:26 (eight years ago) link
same
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 23 November 2015 04:51 (eight years ago) link
I am always emotionally lit
was immediately suggested to follow a bunch of vaguely literary margot tenenbaum-lookin' sarah lawerence grads
you say that like it's a bad thing
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 23 November 2015 05:05 (eight years ago) link
xp i recommend getting your hopes and dreams repeatedly dashed until you are dead inside
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 November 2015 06:00 (eight years ago) link
a bunch of vaguely literary margot tenenbaum-lookin' sarah lawerence grads
You rang?
― voodoo rage (suzy), Monday, 23 November 2015 06:44 (eight years ago) link
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 November 2015 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Twitter has a likeness to ilx but its not ilx. She is much better than quirky and she writes longer pieces, like this one
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 23 November 2015 10:49 (eight years ago) link
/a bunch of vaguely literary margot tenenbaum-lookin' sarah lawerence grads/You rang?
― iatee, Monday, 23 November 2015 13:40 (eight years ago) link
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, November 22, 2015 11:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
my immediate thought was "who is going to be the first person to jump on this as an aspiration" and lo and behold
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 23 November 2015 14:47 (eight years ago) link
lamp what is your twitter i want to follow u
― goole, Monday, 23 November 2015 17:28 (eight years ago) link
@on3ness
― LEGIT (Lamp), Monday, 23 November 2015 18:02 (eight years ago) link
:]
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 November 2015 18:25 (eight years ago) link
\o/
― goole, Monday, 23 November 2015 18:26 (eight years ago) link
i follow lamp he's @ristolable
― 龜, Monday, 23 November 2015 18:55 (eight years ago) link
i love to read lamps tweets at account @robdelaney
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 November 2015 19:22 (eight years ago) link