Twitter C/D

Paperback: 420 pages

that is so strange just yesterday I was thinking how cool it would be to just have a @dril book since Twitter archives are so clunky

This is legitimately going to be the only way to read tweets in about six years when the site finally shuts down

Unless the Pinboard guy buys the company for $1

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

after a few drinks tonight I suspect I will get the urge to try this out.

Number One! In your face Chapo!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/new-releases/books/4456/ref=zg_b_hnr_4456_1

no shame in being outsold by the dril book, but being outsold by David Spade's 'A Polaroid Guy in a Snapchat World' is another matter entirely

I'm going to buy the dril book but definitely not the chapo book (or the david spade book)

samr

if i were to play Read, Gift, Burn in a Fire it would go Spade, dril, Chapo.

Spade's kind of a creep and a narcissist but he's funny imo.

have one of those accounts that just seems to be in oblivious conversation with itself.

i recommend this

also muting things on the reg. today: mollie tibbetts

https://twitter.com/search?q=%22pedal%20stool%22&s=09

lol

I’m not one for muting/blocking random things that turn up in my timeline but I finally bit the bullet and muted Eddie Marsan.

Shit actor, total melt and that Sopranos knock-off he's in is utter pez!

Some of these people are a hundred times more obsessed by Corbyn than anyone they accuse of being “the cult”.

they are just as bad as them Chris Williamson/Canary/Galloway acolytes, just the other side of the coin really. Marsan is thick as pigshit, though - although he'll put "Good piece" on some long read on the evil of Corbyn in between retweeting Streeting, you can tell he doesn't really read them!

I am one of the few people who actually doesn't mind this feature but for the rest of the world

Uh. Muting suggest_recycled_tweet_inline and suggest_activity_tweet actually has fixed my timeline. It's all chronological and there are barely any "x and y liked" tweets. pic.twitter.com/Dva6LPQyLF

— Emma ⭐ (@EmmaKinema) September 16, 2018

i did it

What a dumb site:

A bunch of crybabies mass reported my great tweet and twitter had to invent a new rule to make me delete it even though it doesn’t violate the rule lol pic.twitter.com/2jgUG0bleg

— Abortion Doc for the Deep State (@drnifkin) September 17, 2018

very thoughtful of them that this rule leaves room for tweets celebrating white genocide

We are tearing ourselves apart.

Twitter is not a "dumb site". Facebook isn't a "dumb site". I've a friend who was diagnosed with PTSD because of all the shit he had to moderate for facebook: decapitations, child-pornography... It's not the sites that are dumb; it's that we've created monsters. We want to say and draw and place photos of everything from nice to vile to criminal and... expect, somehow, these platforms can moderate that. Can moderate "us". People put so much out there, online, who could possibly moderate all that?

There are 19 year olds in Manilla working for Facebook having to press either a 'keep' or 'delete' button, preferably within three to five seconds, deciding on what we can or cannot see on facebook. Can't blame them for making mistakes. We are doing this. Same with twitter. Force-feed our first world shit through a digital medium and eventually someone in the third world will deem it inappropriate. It's how rotten we are.

It's dumb that they exist

Also can someone find me that tweet that was like

You: Actually, Bojack is a gut-wrenching show about depression

Me: Cool

We - 'the west' - outsource our moderation to third world, non-English speaking people, is what I'm trying to say. No way can we expect the biggest online free speech platforms to actually be there for free speech or moderation when needed. We created something but have given it away to underpaid and undereducated people, exploiting them. This is the reality. xxp

What a dumb shite: https://nypost.com/2018/09/14/twitter-ceo-admits-conservative-employees-dont-feel-safe-expressing-opinions/

LBI your argument doesn’t actually hold up, because there is no industry consensus or standard practice on outsourcing moderation work, whether to neural networks, sweatshops in developing countries, or contracted native language speakers. You are right that humans are terrible, because duh, but “the system” is not even close to being as competent as you suggest.

weird how they never seems to say what these opinion conservatives are afraid to express are

Weird how Rosen gives a completely useless interview and recode has no commentary of their own. Tech journalism is so utterly fucking useless

all very disappointing to hear. Rosen has seemed so incisive in his criticism of the media recently

lrb isn't arguing that the system is competent, quite the opposite actually. here's a piece from 2014 on it:

https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/

this 'woke brand' thing is pretty tiresome but this got a good laugh out of me

why are so many young people flocking to brands on social media for love, guidance, and attention? I'll tell you why. they're isolated from real communities, working service jobs they hate while barely making ends meat, and are living w/ unchecked personal/mental health problems

— Steak-umm (@steak_umm) September 26, 2018

has anyone else noticed far fewer "ICYMIs" and suggested tweets since the latest update? i didn't use any macros, but they've basically disappeared from my feed. which is nice.

meat us halfway steak-umms

they shd rename twitter "the sexual assault feed" not an easy read tbqh!

Ive been in dozens of bar fights (ask the guys I grew up with) nearly lost an eye in one and that's just one of the injuries (I have the scarred stitch marks to prove the rest) never been black out drunk but I have had to defend myself, which I am still perfectly capable of doing https://t.co/VQSotGWW5g

— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) October 2, 2018

i think i'm just gradually unfollowing everyone now.

yes really

bar fights? gtfoh

RIP

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/10/28/twitter-remove-like-tool-bid-improve-quality-debate/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

They are so desperate for a sale it’s almost tragic

RIP Twitter, you mean

xp

I haven't been using Twitter lately because it just depresses me, so they keep spamming me with emails saying "You've got 22 new notifications", then you login and you in fact have zero notifications. What is the point of that? I just unsubscribed from the email. Who thought it was a good strategy to just send people lying emails?

BREAKING: Twitter to remove hated "tweeting" functionality from Twitter

— Leo Mikłasz (@leomiklasz) October 29, 2018

if you want to RT you should have to copy the tweet then paste it into your own tweet

?__twitter_impression=true

im confused as to how removing likes will improve the quality of —debate—

does this mean i have to add all the tweets i like to my bookmarks instead or else lose track of them

I think overall for most users it's a useless tool altho I do really like it as a bookmark

faving is at the very heart of social media life

They should put it back to beign a star and stop making it appear in people's TLs