i think i'm just gradually unfollowing everyone now.
― circles, Sunday, 7 October 2018 02:23 (five years ago) link
yes really
bar fights? gtfoh
― Dan S, Sunday, 7 October 2018 02:40 (five years ago) link
RIP
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/10/28/twitter-remove-like-tool-bid-improve-quality-debate/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
― frogbs, Monday, 29 October 2018 13:32 (five years ago) link
They are so desperate for a sale it’s almost tragic
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 29 October 2018 14:14 (five years ago) link
RIP Twitter, you mean
xp
― fred-a van vleet (voodoo chili), Monday, 29 October 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
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?
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 29 October 2018 14:16 (five years ago) link
BREAKING: Twitter to remove hated "tweeting" functionality from Twitter— Leo Mikłasz (@leomiklasz) October 29, 2018
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 29 October 2018 14:28 (five years ago) link
if you want to RT you should have to copy the tweet then paste it into your own tweet
― the dutiful and the banned (rip van wanko), Monday, 29 October 2018 14:45 (five years ago) link
?__twitter_impression=true
― It bit the shaggy men. (sic), Monday, 29 October 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
im confused as to how removing likes will improve the quality of —debate—
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 October 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
does this mean i have to add all the tweets i like to my bookmarks instead or else lose track of them
― ciderpress, Monday, 29 October 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
I think overall for most users it's a useless tool altho I do really like it as a bookmark
― k3vin k., Monday, 29 October 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
faving is at the very heart of social media life
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 October 2018 15:58 (five years ago) link
They should put it back to beign a star and stop making it appear in people's TLs
― stet, Monday, 29 October 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
otm
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 October 2018 16:03 (five years ago) link
Lots of things they *should"* do to make it more functional, they don't want to do any these things for whatever reason, it's getting almost as bad as facebook
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 29 October 2018 16:05 (five years ago) link
― lag∞n, Monday, October 29, 2018 8:58 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 29 October 2018 16:06 (five years ago) link
they don't want to make things more functional they want to get their house in order for a sale that is never gonna come because what mature enterprise would want to hang that albatross around their neck?
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 29 October 2018 16:08 (five years ago) link
imo in this era if there's no way to silently register some kind of engagement with the content on it the social media website will die probably
which
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnQ8N1KacJc
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 29 October 2018 16:09 (five years ago) link
that "we've removed the hated tweet function" thing is too real. I don't get this at all. the fav (rip) / like button is elemental to twitter.
― flappy bird, Monday, 29 October 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
all we can do here is FP and it works okay
― the dutiful and the banned (rip van wanko), Monday, 29 October 2018 17:00 (five years ago) link
why is the favorite an essential feature?
― k3vin k., Monday, 29 October 2018 17:00 (five years ago) link
it lets you communicate "yeah" to the tweeter without burdening them with reading your words
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 29 October 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
it allows u to tell ppl their tweet is your fave
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 October 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
it also imo motivates people to tweet more
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 29 October 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
the vast majority of twitter users have small follow counts and don't get replies. without the reassurance that somebody is reading (and enjoying) your ramblings, you're more likely to stop talking or go somewhere else
― fred-a van vleet (voodoo chili), Monday, 29 October 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
in other words, brad otm
yep
― flappy bird, Monday, 29 October 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
ya get a little dopamine rush from a tweet that "does well"
― flappy bird, Monday, 29 October 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
i think we can all agree that the feature they shd eliminate is tweets themselves
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 October 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
I’d be cool with getting rid of both likes and retweets lol
― k3vin k., Monday, 29 October 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
no way RTs are really actually twitters only good feature
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 October 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
― fred-a van vleet (voodoo chili), Monday, October 29, 2018 1:11 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
perhaps, but I’d guess that the twitter overlords have data on this that suggests otherwise or else they wouldn’t consider doing this
twitter is a cesspool tbh anything that encourages engagement and conversation rather than mindless liking and retweeting is fine by me
― k3vin k., Monday, 29 October 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
you can retweet but you actually should have to say something
― k3vin k., Monday, 29 October 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
have u ever read the comments man
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 October 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
― k3vin k., Monday, October 29, 2018 10:18 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
listen, i too support the death of the website twitter
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 29 October 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
the way the twitter overlords run twitter suggests they know nothing about their active user base nor do they understand how to attract new users
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 29 October 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link
Twitter's executives, and especially @jack, have no idea what they've built, what people like about it, or why it is failing.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 29 October 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
RT
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 October 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
twitter is a really bad platform for conversation though
if not for the system of liking and retweeting I probably wouldn't see any of the good tweets
― frogbs, Monday, 29 October 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
Twitter is a cesspool and the sooner the platform dies the better. I’ve reported so many vile accounts and nothing’s been done about them. Of course, the pipe bomber was on there threatening people who were being told by Twitter he didn’t violate their TOS, so.
― gyac, Monday, 29 October 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
murder is not, technically, a violation of our TOS
― the dutiful and the banned (rip van wanko), Monday, 29 October 2018 18:27 (five years ago) link
It's cool how twitter has a button for "I want to show this tweet to my followers" and a button for "I like this but I don't want to show it to my followers" and they're just gradually reversing what the two buttons do— Mike F (@mikefossey) October 10, 2018
― flopson, Monday, 29 October 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link
Twitter (mostly Jack) has a lot of problems w/r/t hate speech and who they ban/who they allow. But the medium is imo by far the best and most interesting of all the social media platforms. it's the only one that's idiosyncratic and isn't completely antiseptic like FB or straightforward IG. they need to either fire Jack or get serious about their hate speech priorities but I really hope it doesn't die, it's the only dynamic social media platform out there.
― flappy bird, Monday, 29 October 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
yeah the way they've handled the hate speech and the harassment and the bot stuff has been bad but I'm not sure that's the same issue as the other stuff we're talking about
― k3vin k., Monday, 29 October 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
my experience of twitter was not remotely dynamic, it is often a bunch of self-impressed people shouting identical jokes
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 29 October 2018 18:57 (five years ago) link
and it was even this way in 2015 before the world ended and after severely culling who i followed
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 29 October 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
it's entirely up to the people you follow and how interested you are in reorienting your brain to the peculiarities of the site. I don't doubt you had a bad experience but one's experience is mostly dictated by those you follow, how often you check it, how much you like viral phenomena and are fascinated by the way memes spread (like I am).
― flappy bird, Monday, 29 October 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
I follow around 400 people and I actually like the "so and so liked this tweet by this person you don't follow" feature. also I love how direct from brain it is - yes, it is a cesspool because people are sick in the head. I find this fascinating, and often exhausting... but I'd really like to see FB go down and Twitter survive. IG can stay.
― flappy bird, Monday, 29 October 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
the fact that they straight up said the TOS doesn't apply to fascists with power kinda says it all
― frogbs, Monday, 29 October 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link