Twitter C/D

its funny how this time its the centrists who have completely lost their marbles, life is full of variety

garland, mensch et al are imo very funny on their own, just some extremely self regarding loons going on important twitter rants, the only disturbing thing is that a lot of srs sober professionally powerful ppl seem to take them seriously

twitter dot com i live for this

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i love how hes projecting his descendants warring against the traitorous filth for eons to come

tbf he's a professional futurist

Does anyone here use Twitter for Mac? Since yesterday they removed the'@' from reply tweets, and replaced it with a tinyscript 'in reply to' byline. Utterly chaotic, you couldn't immediately see if someone replied to someone or had an original tweet. Changed back to Tweetbot today.

yeah I have't used the twitter desktop client for mac, ever

garland as tragic single dad is pretty amazing, following his arc before he got his "game theory" chops. like one day he's talking about really concentrating on his career and then after a while it goes to complaints about the divorce process and w/e, then there's this crazy persona that pops out later

A possibly important consideration for folks who blind link tweets- what happens if/when twitter is gone but ILX is still here?

I mean the same thing as always, we may bemoan the broken URLs, but to c&p a tweet is generally a trivial exercise as opposed to copying an image or a video

booo

twitter has once again identified a problem and made it worse

Yeah, that was what I was on about last week. Terrible decision.

I still use Tweetbot and still don't know what thing they've changed for the worse

I'll quit twitter when they terminally screw over Tweetbot

i might have to reinstall tweetbot, because this is making twitter unreadable

the only thing I really "miss" with tweetbot is polls, and I do not actually miss those

wow way to disenfranchise yrself

it's my choice

its every netizens duty to vote in online polls

i only see it on web twitter and not on my phone yet but the new change is good imo

lately this thing has been happening to me on twitter app where it won't show me a full tweet, like the last ~50 characters are a link to the web twitter location of the link, that i have to click if i want to see the whole thing. must be some kind of bug, right? any way i can shake it?

A possibly important consideration for folks who blind link tweets- what happens if/when twitter is gone but ILX is still here?

This is why I've been c/p'ing the text in question lately as well.

lately this thing has been happening to me on twitter app where it won't show me a full tweet, like the last ~50 characters are a link to the web twitter location of the link, that i have to click if i want to see the whole thing. must be some kind of bug, right? any way i can shake it?

― flopson, Friday, March 31, 2017 12:33 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

update the twitter app w/ current version

lately this thing has been happening to me on twitter app where it won't show me a full tweet, like the last ~50 characters are a link to the web twitter location of the link, that i have to click if i want to see the whole thing. must be some kind of bug, right? any way i can shake it?

― flopson, Friday, March 31, 2017 12:33 PM (three minutes ago)

this is infuriating and happens to me too

i don't wanna update tho because i like the old replies lol

thx marcos, updating now

replies/threads have always been the worst aspect of twitter, idk how it could get worse tbh

one really annoying aspect is when a user with a lot of followers does a 'tweetstorm' or more modestly threads a couple tweets, that the thread includes all the mentions and replies. for a 'power user' this can be hundreds of tweets for an otherwise brief thread. there should be some option to like, just see the thread, and it should be the default, not forcing you to read the 'comments section'

idk how it could get worse tbh

― flopson, Friday, March 31, 2017 12:43 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it can always get worse

another one is when you reply to one specific tweet in a thread, your replies appear sorted by time and not by order of which tweet they're referring to, so unless you're replying to the most recent tweet, it's impossible to know who's referring to what. i get that there are no simple solutions but it must be possible to improve this

i don't think this is worse tho cuz u still have the blue lines. having the blue lines and the @ replies was redundant

also sometimes u clickthru on a tweet that is replying to another tweet... and it doesn't show you the tweet it is replying to! wtf

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This is gonna suck so so bad :-(

And now their ditching the twitter egg ava too, I read?

These should be easily mutable using the regex mute feature in tweetbot.

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wut

Yeah, that will encourage so many ppl. Their running down the street here, shouting 'I FEEL SO ENCOURAGED NOW THAT THE EGG IS GONE'.

the gray man shall speak

we've replaced the alienating egg with this featureless decapitated silhouette

Who cares about any of this, it's still free

twitter users i guess

i just replied to someone and then after realized i was also replying to a locked account lol

thiss

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People will complain about the dumbest shit about Twitter. Like all those thinkpieces decrying Twitter's replacing of the heart with a thumbs-up. Who gives a fuck?

they replaced the star with a heart

turned face into heart

Whatever.

thinkpiece writers care

Important thread on the smoothness of sharks

https://twitter.com/bransonreese/status/848746940179382272

lmao

when you have a bunch of followers and are addicted to twitter complaining about minor changes gives you something more to talk about and get those likes

far be it from whiney to complain about a trivial topic

these new changes are just objectively bad and actually make it harder to use the site and more difficult to follow conversations

so i guess if you feel there's any value in twitter or are invested in it ux changes that make twitter worse are something to complain about

it was always impossible to follow conversations but i don't see how these make it worse