Twitter C/D

kapow right out of the park

he does this kind of nerdy canadian writer thing in actual publications and his aspirational career thread (lol) was publishing... a book of his tweetstorms

i was at a bookstore with two people from his town and when i pointed it out had to explain who he was because they had no idea

also he did the corporate email thing with his twitter handle so people keep screwing up his first and last name and i feel for him

tweetstorms are good imo. big ass rectangular blocks of prose an inappropriate way to express 99% of info u read online. so many times i read and articles and the preamble was like the first 8 paragraphs and the actual new info could be expressed in a handful lines. lists, threaded tweets, hell just straight bullet point form shit

xp- ha i just did that

yeah. it's like with food. it all gets broken down into sugar eventually anyway, so i just eat refined sugar all the time.

if we want to get deep the subtext of the manthreading complaint is twitter used to be fun before it was populated with oblivious careerists

whether or not thats true who knows its prob kinda true, also media ppl are basically required to be on there even if they find it hellish which is another angle

crazy to think u have to be in this place for work where anonymous strangers direct sexist threats at u wattba

btw he starts out saying he's a "twitter essayist" then says "blogs are much like essays" but claims often they lack a professional imprimatur
note he wrote this in response to two blogs on a media site, as a blog on a media site
https://newrepublic.com/article/139384/defense-twitter-essay

like the main idea is that he's facilitating a conversation in public with input and conversational sidetracks via retweets which is sometimes true! but the fact there is such a thing as a chain of tweets now (although the interface has changed since he started) basically shows the whole numbered thing is dumb -- all it does is show it's his conversation and these are the canonical signposts because other participants don't get numbers

i luv 2 tweetstorm

it wld be sick if heer jeet was like 'get ready 4 the jeetstorm' everytime he posted a bunch of connected tweets

now we're talking

i asked him if i make a contribution to his tweet essay if i get a number

controversial opinion: the numbers are good because sometimes the threading gets fucked up

who is heet jeer

i just realized he has basically recreated the UK prime minister's "question time" where one man speakers and others interject questions and heckles

the numbers function purely to indicate that its a tweetstorm, particularly in the context of a rt u think oh hey maybe ill read the whole thing, like they cld be replaced with a designated emoji and nothing wld change, some crazy semiotics 2 think abt

which makes the numbers i think the real sticking point, its an advertisement, its belies the pomposity and desperation beneath the casual a few thought on...

tho the numbers do predate twitter threading so theyre also vestigial

it's fine to have a few thoughts on a topic imo

ive got some thoughts

THREAD

basically i think twitter just needs a way to point to a single tweet and then show everything that person tweeted after that chronologically and you can just jump off when you realize they're off the topic or boring

u post a pic of yr dic

but my threads are about my dick

twitter needs a way to keep my tweets pinned in everybodys feed

twitter needs to make my tweets better

an andy rooney cosplay account is tweeting at me rn jfc

finally my voodoo doll worked

whenever I think of Jeet Heer I think of YAHHH! by Soulja Boy, except the song is called HEER! and the chorus goes about how you'd expect.

jeetship

the tao of jeet kune heer

this all started cuz jeet heer tell em

ive thought a lot about this and i think most tweetstorms are fine however its the ones that start 1/x and don't put a number on it til like 45/45 are the obnoxious ones

fair

alert mh is manthreading

i did it

should have drafted it all out first to proofread and add BUT and MORE EMOTION

this is the worst tweetshower i can recall seeing, i mean come on dude

https://twitter.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/806619518340648961

an andy rooney cosplay account is tweeting at me rn jfc

― lag∞n, Tuesday, December 20, 2016 8:16 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yah patton oswalt is pretty tiresome

lol

just saw all this, not sure how kevin k would have much idea about my intelligence anyway - in the case of jeet i'd say self-awareness is a vital part of intelligence, though that's just my opinion.

fwiw i also thought manthreading was a fairly silly way of describing it but the main thrust of the article, that there are lots of really poorly constructed threads, was pretty sound. it's not just political threads either, i'm starting to see people do long threads about their lives or their childhood or something. the fact that jeet calls them "essays" is fairly off too - i'd say a thread on twitter is more similar to a speech or a rant, or a presentation maybe.

these two tweets were a p comprehensive takedown:

https://twitter.com/AlbertBurneko/status/810840899471245312

Somehow a tweet of mine made it into a Twitter Moment™ despite the fact that it didn't have any likes or retweets. (It's accumulated a few since.) Weird.

those are made by people so someone prob just searched the topic and thought it was a good tweet

what was yr good tweet?

People! Imagine.

This was the tweet:
https://twitter.com/jmcunning/status/814483133798240256

lol awesome

Wow, so Morgan Fairchild, Martina Navratilova, and David Fahrenthold himself retweeted it, and now it's my most popular tweet ever.

first xls, then jeopardy, now this? u lead a charmed life

Cory Booker
@CoryBooker

Hate is a prison
And you won't jail me
I'm gunna love you
And
Set us both free.

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/815054471634026496

lol
this has been up for 4+ hours now and he's trying to play it off as intentional???????????

Yes, this is magnificent.