Twitter C/D

several people here and elsewhere referencing twitter's forthcoming sell-off to be a factor in removing the like button. idgi? why would that make it a more attractive company to buy?

imo its something about how the cowards ratio is fucking up the algo to big up nasty shit people are afraid to repeat

Karl my read is that they're just trying new product directions every quarter or so to see what it does to their metrics so they can shop them around again. Like last year it was 280 characters, this year it's removing favs, next year it's gonna be a new button where when you click it it electrocutes your genitals

faving is at the very heart of social media life

this is the very reason why it has to go

flappy bird you must be coming at this from a position of relative safety
when i start to feel my safety threatened, it becomes less enjoyable to keep an eye on fringe thought because it isn't so fringe anymore
it's definitely not fun

i almost never look at facebook anymore but i still check twitter like a madman

I spent the weekend logged into Twitter and I still like it but it sucks

twitter's good for talking to acquaintances who are too distant to ever expect them to want to, like, text you

twitter for sports is good. wish the music discussion would come back here tho, convos just come and go so quickly and everyone moves on to the next thing within hours.

saw some study that purported to show that basically all youths are deleting facebook with increasing rapidity which is cool, of course they do own instagram too

Hi, sorry to just come in and blurt out nothing relative to anything, but I have registered for Twitter, mostly as a way to help get the word of my documentary and upcoming music out into the world.

https://twitter.com/gaustinanderson

I know nothing about Twitter, so please excuse my lack of etiquette.

just type your most deranged thoughts in the box then tap tweet

So, what do I use ilx for, then?

to talk about basketball

So, what. . . like, just type the lyrics to Kurtis Blow's 'Basketball', hit submit, and see if anyone disagrees?

worth a "shot"

yeah sports Twitter is generally very good esp. during games

using decent search terms, twitter is good for learning about local news as it's developing. for example, last week a car drove through the front of my local grocery store. so i just typed in the name of the grocery store, sorted by "latest", and it was the quickest way to find out wtf happened

it's also good for yelling at dumb politicians and never, ever getting a response

love to yell at famous people online

using decent search terms, twitter is good for learning about local news as it's developing.

― Karl Malone, Monday, October 29, 2018 6:02 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

one time i went outside and it smelled weird and i figured out what it was just by typing [my location] smell into twitter search lol

it's also good for yelling at dumb politicians and never, ever getting a response

― Karl Malone, Monday, October 29, 2018 6:02 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

love to yell at famous people online

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, October 29, 2018 6:03 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a lot of ppl are against this behavior but like we have proof that the actual president checks his mentions so why wldnt u take a shot on him knowing that you want him to choke on his own shit

*besides that it might provoke him into nuclear war or whatever

the only celebrity i consistently try to torment, for reasons that i myself dont fully understand, is newt gingrich

i think its cause his face is concave, and hes evil

i try to yell at politicians in the most natural way, possible. i don't force it, in fact, i try not to do it. i just wait for a particularly incredibly dumb politician to break me out of my rational zone and then just fucking go for it. "THIS will the clever tweet that ends his presidency". then, several hours later, after it attains 1 Like by someone who appears to have posted only NowThis videos for the last 3 years straight, i delete it

one time i replied to hillary "please leave us alone" and it got RTed into maga twitter and i felt kinda gross so i deleted it

also ive made that same reply to hillary on a number of occasions, its my standard hillary reply

i wish she wld

this weekend I used twitter once to tell HOOS he was famous and important and another time to compliment his chin, suggest you use twitter for this

hoos chin twitter

saw some study that purported to show that basically all youths are deleting facebook with increasing rapidity which is cool, of course they do own instagram too

― lag∞n, Monday, October 29, 2018 5:50 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya im super curious how this is gonna play out

the end stage of all social networks is boomers posting political minion memes

i kinda miss when facebook was good. i mean not that it was ever good-good but like there was definitely an era when it wasn't exclusively ppl i hate who posted to it

its also just full of of cruft now, the less it becomes —a site for friends— the worse it is

i deleted my fb account abt six months ago and there's not a single thing i miss about it, though i had essentially abandoned using it for at least a couple years prior to that

Both Obama and the Jet Propulsion Lab follow me on Twitter. Just knowing that has put the kibosh on a lot of rage-tweeting that I'd be unloading.

It's true me chin Twitter is good

Last year, we upgraded tweet length to 280 and guess what? Use of 'please' is up 54% and 'thank you' is up 22%. I love that! Also, people are asking more questions and having more conversations. All this, and the majority of tweets are still under 140. It worked.

— Biz Stone (@biz) October 30, 2018

'Please' and 'thank you' still used sarcastically at the (unchanged) rate of 78%

oh, please

reported a white supremacist for telling me Jews caused all current problems, I'm fighting on their behalf, and he'll be seeing me thru his ar15 sight. got response stating it didn't violate Twitter rules. cool cool.

twitter <3 nazis

*tweets "please kick off the nazis" ad nauseum for two years*

Biz: Oh good, they're saying 'please' more often!

We reviewed more than 4000 of bombing suspect Cesar Sayok’s tweets. We found more than 240 threats at 50 different people, news organizations, reporters, and celebrities.

We found a mind corrupted by right wing conspiracy theories of every sort.https://t.co/lzpDOnO9Fa

— 💀andrew👻kaczynski🎃 (@KFILE) October 31, 2018

https://twitter.com/drilosophers

that's pretty great.

i just deactivated my account. the site really caters to the bad, dumb bit of my brain and just feeds me rage. it's the first social media thing i ever ended up actively hooked on and I'm going to try and read during the times i would have reached for my phone

I've navigated to the website twice since i posted that

I admit I'm addicted to Twitter, but I do think you can manipulate your user experience there to be something you like

that's quite possible but the addiction to a website/app is something i find sufficiently deleterious or alarming regardless of the experience with the thing itself.