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
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:45 (seven years ago) link
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
― flopson, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:45 (seven years ago) link
xp- ha i just did that
― flopson, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:46 (seven years ago) link
yeah. it's like with food. it all gets broken down into sugar eventually anyway, so i just eat refined sugar all the time.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:46 (seven years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:47 (seven years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:51 (seven years ago) link
crazy to think u have to be in this place for work where anonymous strangers direct sexist threats at u wattba
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:52 (seven years ago) link
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
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:54 (seven years ago) link
i luv 2 tweetstorm
― ( ^_^) (Lamp), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:55 (seven years ago) link
it wld be sick if heer jeet was like 'get ready 4 the jeetstorm' everytime he posted a bunch of connected tweets
― ( ^_^) (Lamp), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:56 (seven years ago) link
now we're talking
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:58 (seven years ago) link
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
― flopson, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:59 (seven years ago) link
who is heet jeer
― 龜, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 02:00 (seven years ago) link
i just realized he has basically recreated the UK prime minister's "question time" where one man speakers and others interject questions and heckles
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 02:00 (seven years ago) link
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...
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 02:01 (seven years ago) link
tho the numbers do predate twitter threading so theyre also vestigial
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 02:03 (seven years ago) link
it's fine to have a few thoughts on a topic imo
― Treeship, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 02:03 (seven years ago) link
ive got some thoughts
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 02:04 (seven years ago) link
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
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 02:04 (seven years ago) link
u post a pic of yr dic
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 02:06 (seven years ago) link
but my threads are about my dick
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 02:09 (seven years ago) link
twitter needs a way to keep my tweets pinned in everybodys feed
― 龜, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 02:09 (seven years ago) link
twitter needs to make my tweets better
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 02:12 (seven years ago) link
an andy rooney cosplay account is tweeting at me rn jfc
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 02:16 (seven years ago) link
finally my voodoo doll worked
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 02:17 (seven years ago) link
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.
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 02:18 (seven years ago) link
jeetship
― 龜, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 02:22 (seven years ago) link
the tao of jeet kune heer
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 02:29 (seven years ago) link
this all started cuz jeet heer tell em
― ( ^_^) (Lamp), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 02:33 (seven years ago) link
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
― 龜, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 02:43 (seven years ago) link
fair
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 02:58 (seven years ago) link
alert mh is manthreading
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 03:08 (seven years ago) link
i did it
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 03:12 (seven years ago) link
should have drafted it all out first to proofread and add BUT and MORE EMOTION
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 03:15 (seven years ago) link
this is the worst tweetshower i can recall seeing, i mean come on dude
https://twitter.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/806619518340648961
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 03:33 (seven years ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, December 20, 2016 8:16 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yah patton oswalt is pretty tiresome
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:04 (seven years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:20 (seven years ago) link
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
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:34 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Wozniak on Kimye's Baby (jaymc), Thursday, 29 December 2016 21:30 (seven years ago) link
those are made by people so someone prob just searched the topic and thought it was a good tweet
― lag∞n, Thursday, 29 December 2016 22:41 (seven years ago) link
what was yr good tweet?
― ( ^_^) (Lamp), Thursday, 29 December 2016 22:47 (seven years ago) link
People! Imagine.
This was the tweet:https://twitter.com/jmcunning/status/814483133798240256
― Wozniak on Kimye's Baby (jaymc), Thursday, 29 December 2016 22:52 (seven years ago) link
lol awesome
― flopson, Thursday, 29 December 2016 23:01 (seven years ago) link
Wow, so Morgan Fairchild, Martina Navratilova, and David Fahrenthold himself retweeted it, and now it's my most popular tweet ever.
― Wozniak on Kimye's Baby (jaymc), Friday, 30 December 2016 03:25 (seven years ago) link
first xls, then jeopardy, now this? u lead a charmed life
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Friday, 30 December 2016 05:37 (seven years ago) link
Cory Booker@CoryBooker
Hate is a prisonAnd you won't jail meI'm gunna love youAnd Set us both free.
― salthigh, Friday, 30 December 2016 06:36 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/815054471634026496
lolthis has been up for 4+ hours now and he's trying to play it off as intentional???????????
― oiocha, Saturday, 31 December 2016 09:01 (seven years ago) link
Yes, this is magnificent.
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Saturday, 31 December 2016 09:03 (seven years ago) link
Lmao.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 31 December 2016 10:59 (seven years ago) link