its getting really bad they show u the same tweet multiple times and so forth shd prob switch to tweetbot
― sprout god (lag∞n), Saturday, 11 August 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/x049E8b.png
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 17 August 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link
The ratio on that original tweet is hilarious.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 17 August 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
Don't bother. https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/16/twitter-company-email-addresses-why-its-breakingmytwitter/
When Twitter kills off third party clients, I'm off twitter for good.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 17 August 2018 22:58 (five years ago) link
Jack's approach to hate speech seems quite like that of China, where people are reprimanded more for "spreading rumours" and "disrupting social order" than for actual harassment or spreading bigotry.
Right now my biggest problem with using twitter is that half the people I follow seem to be so heavily engaged in the trans / TERF debate that there seems to be room for very little else, and there is no way it's going to end anytime soon. It is definitely an important topic, but arguing on twitter is like picking a scab until it bleeds, and the energy put into this could surely be better spent elsewhere. Recently I've found myself only using my website's twitter account, where I mainly follow sound archivists, and it's a much more pleasant experience, though effectively it means not following a number of old friends any more.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 18 August 2018 20:08 (five years ago) link
Twitter reminds me a lot of the "Is this racist?" thread here, where there for awhile, well-meaning people would post incredibly racist things and add "CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS SHIT?" Like, I know right? And yet, here it is right in front of me.
For example, the more lib the Tweeter I follow, the more likely I'm going to see a RT from the current president.
― pplains, Saturday, 18 August 2018 22:32 (five years ago) link
blockity block block block
― Everything to do with chocolate (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 18 August 2018 22:48 (five years ago) link
i don’t even use twitter and i blocked that orange bastard years ago
― Everything to do with chocolate (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 18 August 2018 22:51 (five years ago) link
i blocked all of twitter on my home pc but unfortunately tweets still show up converted to text. i'd like it if i could get rid of the text too.
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Saturday, 18 August 2018 22:57 (five years ago) link
I blocked the his surname, but not his account. I figure one of these days, I won't mind being among the first to hear about WWWIII.
― pplains, Saturday, 18 August 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
WWIII, not the website.
― pplains, Saturday, 18 August 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link
www.twitterIII.com
― sprout god (lag∞n), Saturday, 18 August 2018 23:08 (five years ago) link
lol
can't say I have issues with twitter. I'm 100% a viewer not a contributor though, so don't have anything at stake
― Dan S, Saturday, 18 August 2018 23:14 (five years ago) link
but neal schon is already on twitter
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Saturday, 18 August 2018 23:15 (five years ago) link
(apparently he's upset that journey wants to tour without him? i've got a bootleg of the 1971 "santana journey into the universe" tour, he shreds on it)
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Saturday, 18 August 2018 23:17 (five years ago) link
A furry became an intern for NASA and got instantly fired after telling someone on their council to suck their dick because this is 2018. pic.twitter.com/XL7jvCKFFj— Michelle Catlin (@CatlinNyaa) August 21, 2018
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
Space Force claims its first victim
― badg, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
These filter settings that people are passing around have upgraded my experience quite a bit
https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=filter%3Afollows%20-filter%3Areplies&src=typd
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
what do they do exactly
― marcos, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 20:00 (five years ago) link
still have yet to see a good "hurt me" meme
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 21 August 2018 20:01 (five years ago) link
"filter follows" removes anyone you don't follow. Filter replies I'm a little hazy on
http://www.followthehashtag.com/help/hidden-twitter-search-operators-extra-power-followthehashtag/
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link
i liked this "hurt me" meme
me during sex: hurt meher: You’ve been traded to the Metsme: wait—her: you have a sore elbow. Mets expect you to miss one start.me: stopher: It’s a torn UCL. Tommy John surgery. 12-18 months recovery.— JB (@JB_August) August 19, 2018
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
― k3vin k., Tuesday, August 21, 2018 4:01 PM (forty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
almost all memes are bad imo
― marcos, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 20:43 (five years ago) link
hard disagree there but the hurt me meme is a rare example that i haven't found funny yet either
surprised so many people here are having such a negative time on twitter. it's still by far my favorite social media thing between IG and FB in a distant third. the algorithm didn't fuck up my experience of the site.
just curious, how many people do y'all follow?
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 02:19 (five years ago) link
i see a fair amount of pretty funny stuff.
there was once an ugly duckling. the other ducklings made fun of him. but eventually he grew up. he got larger. much larger than a duck should be. and far uglier. he was the size of a labrador and had razorlike serrated teeth and a pea brain incapable of remorse— Mike F (@mikefossey) August 20, 2018
― macropuente (map), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 02:25 (five years ago) link
eh, C-
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 02:28 (five years ago) link
I accept twitter as a flawed part of life just like any other. clearly better than any social media platform
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 22 August 2018 02:29 (five years ago) link
it sucks so much oh my god
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 02:30 (five years ago) link
No diss .. Please explain to me what’s Dril? https://t.co/y9j3V3lADg— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) August 19, 2018
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 02:30 (five years ago) link
ice t blocked me cause i made fun of his cover of institutionalized thats about trying to game while yr wife nags you
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 03:00 (five years ago) link
Lmao
― flopson, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 03:14 (five years ago) link
abolish ice-t
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 03:15 (five years ago) link
i follow like 1.5k, totally disregarded the ‘follow less than you’re followed by’ advice
― flopson, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 03:15 (five years ago) link
^ total feeb moveI’m not going back, all my posts from now on will be Nintendo Switch screenshots
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 03:16 (five years ago) link
this is the only good meme
😂 😂 😂 pic.twitter.com/6CWwDMJPcL— Dolly Parton (@DollyParton) August 20, 2018
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 03:21 (five years ago) link
hero
― a roomba of one's own (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 04:09 (five years ago) link
― flopson, Tuesday, August 21, 2018 11:15 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
😳 i only follow ~400 ppl
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 04:33 (five years ago) link
I follow 666 ppl and have been keeping that way for awhile. Can't add anyone w/o dumping someone first.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 06:04 (five years ago) link
memes that are just people talking about themselves/attempting to be funny via personal details are boring to me
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 16:28 (five years ago) link
when i quit twitter i only followed 200 people, it still sucked
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, August 22, 2018 9:28 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i hate these especially whenever they require a bunch of media people to talk about how smart they were as children or whatever
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
really the problem is media and not twitter itself maybe but... media is so much of it from my experience
if that ("media") is who all these random people are then i would agree with that. i don't know who they are, do not recognize their names, it's just oh this random person is telling me how to hurt their feelings (or whatever) and now I am supposed to what -- laugh? i can't
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 16:38 (five years ago) link
it's probably safe to assume that me complaining about twitter = me complaining about my career and/or me complaining about the way people talk about politics and swarm around political news there
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
also i haven't used it in three years, so idk why i feel the need to say it sucks all the time, other than my experience of it from 2013-2015 was like 80 percent negative and i can't imagine it's gotten better
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
anyway sorry for my routine myopic outbursts itt
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, August 22, 2018 12:28 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
was this in response to the Dolly Parton tweet?
― a roomba of one's own (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link
The key to enjoying Twitter (to the extent that it is enjoyable) is to participate as little as possible and passively observe people engage in psychological self-harm to amuse you while you wait in line for a few minutes or whatever. The constant spectacle of people shouting into the hurricane force winds of the “discourse” (all the while, all good intentions aside, just adding to the noise) is instructive as well. This applies to all social media, to varying degrees, but Twitter is premised on a kind of total participation of everyone in everything that is especially brain melting if you try to do anything other than just passively observe it or have one of those accounts that just seems to be in oblivious conversation with itself.
― ryan, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
Depends who you follow I suppose. there isn't that much hooting and hollering on my TL, at least not to the point where I have to eject. But I'm not on it for extended periods of time ever. I understand that many people have a hard time with social media because they either can't do it at all or when they do it they're completely addicted to it. A friend of my mine had to delete her account because she wouldn't be able to look away from Twitter until she read every single tweet that was new. A lot of my friends are that way. Most of the people I follow are either musicians, filmmakers, writers, critics, friends, or publications/websites/companies like Criterion, Kranky, Bandcamp, et al. It's nice.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
Here's how little Twitter cares about their platform being gamed:- Inform Twitter exec of accounts falsely representing NC and various NC municipalities- Twitter exec ignores tip, instead asks "Why don't you start a competitor?"- Two weeks later https://t.co/UqJJzDBfPb pic.twitter.com/zAmruXSjVN— geoff golberg (@geoffgolberg) August 22, 2018
― Eliza D., Wednesday, 22 August 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link