Twitter C/D

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

Thank you mookieproof for saving me $5.

If you use tweetbot, you can mute everything over 140

Behold my true power. pic.twitter.com/wdVhwH73nJ

— Jason ̃̈ (@XaiaX) November 8, 2017

Twitterrific lets you limit by length too

brb gonna filter out tweets of longer than four characters

OK, /1

Look /2

I see /3

you /4

all /5

... /6

@bizarrogazzara
OTM.

the single good thing about twitter was it forced people to edit themselves, look at this monstrosity that prob wldve been good in the 140 era

*wife shakes me awake in the middle of the night*
me: w-what happened
wife: you were talking in your sleep. kept muttering goth this and goth that
me: like what, specifically
wife: like death is goth life and blackberries are goth raspberries
me:[taking notes] oh these are good

— wylde de beest (@flashember) November 9, 2017

There’s actually something folkloric in the Twitter founders’ utter inability to understand the true nature of their creation

— Vann R. Newkirk II (@fivefifths) November 7, 2017

it doesn't even work visually, the eye can process the 140s almost instantly, now you have all these self-important bores who wish they were journalists and their huge blocks of text.

the good news is after years of trying they mightve actually found the thing that kills the website

still pretty bummed out at all the Nazis getting blue checkmarks

one thing im surprised twitter hasnt done which wld also be awful is building a verification system for all real name accounts and then having tool that allow u to say only receive notifications from verifieds, the situation where verifieds are celebrities seems bad for them and if everyone cld get verified it wld control some of the nastiness that ppl dont like abt the site and it wldnt be making celebrities of nazis, also banning nazis wld be good imho

kinda sounds like keybase's web of trustish thingy

i still can't get over how horrible "weird twitter" got once it went mainstream

If by horrible you mean painfully unfunny, then yes. And that includes ilx0rs fave @dril.

FYI

How to hide long tweets in Tweetbot pic.twitter.com/Q6PYp2b9MP

— Evan (@silby) November 9, 2017

thankig u

They’ve stopped verifying any new accounts until they do what lagoon says

you should lose your blue check mark if you change your display name imo. Seeing sometime with a random joke pun name and Verified is pretty ??? like what is the purpose of the system

heh thats a good own to the system

the only good thing about verified is that it made julian assange so mad that he's not verified that he added a little blue diamond to his name to make people think he's verified

a boo check mark for scarified accounts

i tried adding all sorts of check mark gliphs to my name and they thought of that lol hence asanges sad blue diamond

having posts in your timeline from people you don't follow and having no way to turn it off is by far the worst thing they've done, 280 is no big deal in comparison imo