Twitter C/D

www.twitterIII.com

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

but neal schon is already on twitter

(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)

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

Space Force claims its first victim

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

what do they do exactly

still have yet to see a good "hurt me" meme

"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/

i liked this "hurt me" meme

me during sex: hurt me

her: You’ve been traded to the Mets

me: wait—

her: you have a sore elbow. Mets expect you to miss one start.

me: stop

her: It’s a torn UCL. Tommy John surgery. 12-18 months recovery.

— JB (@JB_August) August 19, 2018

still have yet to see a good "hurt me" meme

― k3vin k., Tuesday, August 21, 2018 4:01 PM (forty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

almost all memes are bad imo

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?

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

eh, C-

I accept twitter as a flawed part of life just like any other. clearly better than any social media platform

it sucks so much oh my god

No diss .. Please explain to me what’s Dril? https://t.co/y9j3V3lADg

— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) August 19, 2018

ice t blocked me cause i made fun of his cover of institutionalized thats about trying to game while yr wife nags you

Lmao

abolish ice-t

i follow like 1.5k, totally disregarded the ‘follow less than you’re followed by’ advice

^ total feeb move

I’m not going back, all my posts from now on will be Nintendo Switch screenshots

this is the only good meme

😂 😂 😂 pic.twitter.com/6CWwDMJPcL

— Dolly Parton (@DollyParton) August 20, 2018

hero

i follow like 1.5k, totally disregarded the ‘follow less than you’re followed by’ advice

― flopson, Tuesday, August 21, 2018 11:15 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

😳 i only follow ~400 ppl

I follow 666 ppl and have been keeping that way for awhile. Can't add anyone w/o dumping someone first.

memes that are just people talking about themselves/attempting to be funny via personal details are boring to me

when i quit twitter i only followed 200 people, it still sucked

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, 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

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

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

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

anyway sorry for my routine myopic outbursts itt

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, August 22, 2018 12:28 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was this in response to the Dolly Parton tweet?

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.

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.

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

Depends who you follow I suppose.

I think this used to be the case but increasingly (maybe this is the new "algorithm"?) to be on Twitter at all is to be on all of Twitter. The whole design of the platform works aggressively against creating micro-communities in which (less chaotic, more coherent) "conversations" or encounters can take place. The supreme annoyance of Twitter is that it's a room in which all points of view and all forms of talking are taking place at once and responding to (at) each other--when in the real world for any coherent or productive kind of communication to take place you're already relying of a number of exclusions and simplifications (or reductions in complexity) of social space.

was this in response to the Dolly Parton tweet?

No, Jolene is the original version of that meme!

It was inspired by a few tweets I saw that started with "me during sex: [variant on "hurt me"]" followed by something they found emotionally wounding. Not funny imo and way too tmi for me even if it were funny, which I don't believe it is. Someone else upthread referred to it as the "hurt me" meme; when I saw it originally, I didn't realize it was a meme until I saw a few different variants. Usually if something annoys me in that way I just don't look at it for a while and it is gone the next time I look.

Everyone has a different use for twitter afaict. I assume someone somewhere finds the "hurt me" meme very amusing. Some people enjoy oversharing. /shrug

I mean I don't do them off alt because of work but twitter memes are one of the few bright spots of twitter

the best way to use twitter is to selectively copy-paste the good tweets into group chats

two things i have learned from twitter

a) a lot of people are really sad/in need of attention and/or validation
b) a LOT of people are REALLY funny

No, Jolene is the original version of that meme!

not even catalogued here

be less literal

i mentioned MSN Messenger in a tweet and there's a Michael Jackson fan who searches "MSN Messenger" and replies with a video of his monitor as he uses an MSN Messenger clone

naturally

jolene was distracting boyfriend since before those stock photo teens were born (probably?)
that's what i am saying -- not that anyone had used jolene in that meme because lord knows i couldn't keep track of that nor would i care to

dolly used that meme

for jolene
like yesterday