twitter dot com i live for this
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7pJDeOUwAAjBfn.jpg
― lag∞n, Friday, 24 March 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
i love how hes projecting his descendants warring against the traitorous filth for eons to come
― lag∞n, Friday, 24 March 2017 17:14 (seven years ago) link
tbf he's a professional futurist
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 March 2017 17:23 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 24 March 2017 17:26 (seven years ago) link
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
― mh 😏, Friday, 24 March 2017 18:12 (seven years ago) link
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
― Not the real Tombot (El Tomboto), Saturday, 25 March 2017 00:53 (seven years ago) link
booo
― k3vin k., Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:25 (seven years ago) link
twitter has once again identified a problem and made it worse
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:38 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, that was what I was on about last week. Terrible decision.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:50 (seven years ago) link
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
― softie (silby), Thursday, 30 March 2017 19:19 (seven years ago) link
i might have to reinstall tweetbot, because this is making twitter unreadable
― maura, Thursday, 30 March 2017 23:48 (seven years ago) link
the only thing I really "miss" with tweetbot is polls, and I do not actually miss those
― a landlocked exclave (mh 😏), Friday, 31 March 2017 14:43 (seven years ago) link
wow way to disenfranchise yrself
― lag∞n, Friday, 31 March 2017 14:45 (seven years ago) link
it's my choice
― a landlocked exclave (mh 😏), Friday, 31 March 2017 14:46 (seven years ago) link
its every netizens duty to vote in online polls
― lag∞n, Friday, 31 March 2017 14:48 (seven years ago) link
i only see it on web twitter and not on my phone yet but the new change is good imo
― flopson, Friday, 31 March 2017 16:32 (seven years ago) link
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, 31 March 2017 16:33 (seven years ago) link
This is why I've been c/p'ing the text in question lately as well.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 March 2017 16:35 (seven years ago) link
― flopson, Friday, March 31, 2017 12:33 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
update the twitter app w/ current version
― marcos, Friday, 31 March 2017 16:37 (seven years ago) link
― flopson, Friday, March 31, 2017 12:33 PM (three minutes ago)
this is infuriating and happens to me too
― k3vin k., Friday, 31 March 2017 16:37 (seven years ago) link
i don't wanna update tho because i like the old replies lol
― k3vin k., Friday, 31 March 2017 16:38 (seven years ago) link
thx marcos, updating now
replies/threads have always been the worst aspect of twitter, idk how it could get worse tbh
― flopson, Friday, 31 March 2017 16:43 (seven years ago) link
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'
― flopson, Friday, 31 March 2017 16:44 (seven years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Friday, 31 March 2017 16:48 (seven years ago) link
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
― flopson, Friday, 31 March 2017 16:49 (seven years ago) link
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
― flopson, Friday, 31 March 2017 16:52 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8MNGCOUMAAH8d4.jpg
This is gonna suck so so bad :-(
And now their ditching the twitter egg ava too, I read?
― On Some Faraday Beach (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 31 March 2017 17:06 (seven years ago) link
These should be easily mutable using the regex mute feature in tweetbot.
― Jeff, Friday, 31 March 2017 17:07 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8QxMNQXUAE-Cgo.jpg
― lag∞n, Friday, 31 March 2017 17:09 (seven years ago) link
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'.
― On Some Faraday Beach (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 31 March 2017 17:11 (seven years ago) link
the gray man shall speak
― lag∞n, Friday, 31 March 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
we've replaced the alienating egg with this featureless decapitated silhouette
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Friday, 31 March 2017 17:30 (seven years ago) link
Who cares about any of this, it's still free
― SSN Lucci (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 1 April 2017 03:29 (seven years ago) link
twitter users i guess
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 April 2017 04:56 (seven years ago) link
i just replied to someone and then after realized i was also replying to a locked account lol
thiss
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8TelgHVwAE3Qso.jpg
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 April 2017 05:42 (seven years ago) link
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?
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 2 April 2017 20:19 (seven years ago) link
they replaced the star with a heart
― lag∞n, Sunday, 2 April 2017 21:16 (seven years ago) link
turned face into heart
― a landlocked exclave (mh 😏), Sunday, 2 April 2017 21:37 (seven years ago) link
Whatever.
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 2 April 2017 22:34 (seven years ago) link
thinkpiece writers care
― a landlocked exclave (mh 😏), Monday, 3 April 2017 00:02 (seven years ago) link
Important thread on the smoothness of sharks
https://twitter.com/bransonreese/status/848746940179382272
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 14:55 (seven years ago) link
lmao
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 15:02 (seven years ago) link
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
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 15:25 (seven years ago) link
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
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 15:50 (seven years ago) link
it was always impossible to follow conversations but i don't see how these make it worse
― flopson, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 15:58 (seven years ago) link
i put twitter up there with soundcloud, spotify, itunes, etc in terms of how every update seems to just make the product worse
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 16:00 (seven years ago) link
idk i think ppl who use it too much just get used to existing features and are responding to the shock of change. i only started using twitter in in 2014 but recently found out ppl complained about the introduction of Quote Tweets (imagine having to #LRT or manual RT--LOL) and the blue lines(!), things I would never voluntarily give away
― flopson, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:47 (seven years ago) link