Twitter C/D

is it possible to deactivate an account without twitter deleting your shit? (twitter say they only start to delete after 30 days but this guy's testimonial says they deleting his entire following list & other shit after day 1)

is scrambling my password the only option if i need to take indefinite break?

Ted Cruz jacking off jokes are cheering me up after a horrible day.

i'm blocked by adamjohnsonnyc? confused, isn't he like a morbsy/intercept/greenwald guy? never tweeted at him before either

sometimes people use scripts that block everyone who follows x person

i know about blocklists, not sure who triggered it though. probably roger stone

https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/Giving-you-more-characters-to-express-yourself.html

eh

no thanks

why shorter tweets are actually better (1/35)

— Mina Kimes (@minakimes) September 26, 2017

They need to increase the character limit on twitter names

Trying to find out which politicians, political advisors, journalists and commentators with big followings got 280. Anyone noticed any?

It looks like verified users got it, plebs will have to wait.

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— Mariners (@Mariners) September 27, 2017

That’s awesome though

pic.twitter.com/NxaME4QBT1

— wint (@dril) November 21, 2014

Loving the fallout of that Milo Buzzfeed piece rn. Dan Lyons runs away, comes back, says he's apologised, then:

No you didn't. https://t.co/xi7XYwTqMg

— 💀zombië queen💀 (@UnburntWitch) October 6, 2017

I'm just going to set this account public and abandon Twitter, leaving this as a monument to media bullying and malpractice.

— David Auerbach (@AuerbachKeller) October 5, 2017

he's definitely not mad

clearly did not do the things theres evidence of him doing

just added twitter.com to my ublock origin filter list. my life is already so much better. i feel so happy and relieved.

It's a good monument 2 media bullying and malpractice tbf

wtf is szechuan sauce

the sauce outrage is way funnier than the show

most/least successful product placement ever

It's a good monument 2 media bullying and malpractice tbf

― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (Bananaman Begins)

twitter is a "good monument" in the same way all those civil war statues are. monuments of this sort need to be kept way the hell away from statehouses.

max on point

http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/10/twitter-should-stop-pretending.html

can someone explain to me what verification actually is

is it just... "we have verified that this person exists"

regarding this

We’re reconsidering our verification policies. Not as high a priority as enforcement, but it’s up there

— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017

what were the verification policies before? i guess it's to verify that the account is the real person and not a faker, but why are there so many non-public figures with them

It is “this person is who they claim to be”. So initially for celebs, it quickly expanded to journalists with high self-regard, conference speakers, Nazis, etc

ah

that sounds about right

man, max read clearly believes twitter is in a much stronger position than it actually is. every day twitter becomes more and more an appendage of donald trump. did i ever tell you about the microblogging platform who taught his...

https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2017/safetycalendar.html

so Trump banned in 2018, then?

.@KFC follows 11 people.

Those 11 people? 5 Spice Girls and 6 guys named Herb.

11 Herbs & Spices. I need time to process this.

— Edge (@edgette22) October 19, 2017

checks out

at first when i saw that i just thought it was an awful dad joke from the tweeter

I don't care what you think about RT, Sputnik & co, I don't want to live in a world where I can only read government approved ads and news. https://t.co/0EEJKXBrho

— Amir (@AmirAminiMD) October 26, 2017

I don’t think banning ads makes sense: just make them transparent! I mean foreign governments take out ads all the time. https://t.co/LLjIYSXv3j

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 26, 2017

Roger Stone suspended "for life." His style page remains.

lot of ppl close to trump seem upset right now

The young, handsome faces of paedophilia. https://t.co/3KdTssC0vY

— The Courier-Mail (@couriermail) October 28, 2017

quite the ratio on that one

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— George Wallace (@MrGeorgeWallace) November 7, 2017

did they make 280 universal now?

280 is really, really bad. Scanning my TL my eyes ignore the 280s automatically. For twitter they are literally tl;dr

i love it

280 is really, really bad. Scanning my TL my eyes ignore the 280s automatically. For twitter they are literally tl;dr

― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, November 9, 2017 8:46 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Same.

I'd be willing to invest $5 in a code that filters out any tweet with more than 140 characters.

Hell, make it 150.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2017/11/08/download_slate_s_140_chrome_extension_which_limits_all_tweets_to_140_characters.html

280 is really, really bad. Scanning my TL my eyes ignore the 280s automatically. For twitter they are literally tl;dr

dear twitter, 280 characters is violence

love, bizarro gazzara xox

Otm. To show good will I can get behind PP's suggestion of 150, but the 280s seem to lead mostly to hot takes served more slowly. They're dragging (me down).

you can't train people to communicate in 140 characters or fewer and then suddenly double it - a cursory glance at the madness being unleashed now across twitter dot com will tell you that

mr twitter, put back up those walls