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
a happy ending after all
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 31 December 2016 11:03 (seven years ago) link
hahahaha
― k3vin k., Saturday, 31 December 2016 14:29 (seven years ago) link
basically nobody with a job should be on social media is what I learned― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto)what i learned is that spending lots of time on social media is a great pathway to not having a job
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto)
what i learned is that spending lots of time on social media is a great pathway to not having a job
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Saturday, 31 December 2016 14:33 (seven years ago) link
LMAO
― flopson, Saturday, 31 December 2016 19:27 (seven years ago) link
hooooo boy
the other lesson to draw is perhaps that working from home will always be a bad idea one way or another
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 31 December 2016 19:35 (seven years ago) link
the joshtpm saga is hilarious
― marcos, Sunday, 1 January 2017 01:07 (seven years ago) link
how in the fuuuuuuck
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Sunday, 1 January 2017 04:24 (seven years ago) link