yea i've been halfheartedly trying to quit for a while.. internet is kind of awkward without twitter though, it's weird like, going to websites
― flopson, Saturday, 17 November 2018 01:00 (five years ago) link
ive been thinking about deactivating for a while. it's a miserable place where people act small and petty, sanctimonious, unreflective, uncharitable. there are things about it that work but it also brings out terrible qualities in people. every time i go on it i feel irritated by what i see.
― marcos, Saturday, 17 November 2018 01:45 (five years ago) link
after 8 years I still don't "get" twitter and that's probably a good thing. it seems like either opinions4u or 'look how I zinged this famous/semifamous person' but I have zero confidence in the accuracy of that appraisal
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 17 November 2018 03:01 (five years ago) link
oh and then there's weird twitter but I never found one account I really jived with there either
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 17 November 2018 03:03 (five years ago) link
dril is the best tweeter
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 November 2018 03:14 (five years ago) link
I might get the dril book, I don’t much care for websites these days
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Saturday, 17 November 2018 03:17 (five years ago) link
twitter became funner when i did a cull of ppl i followed and created lists for lols and basketballs
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Saturday, 17 November 2018 03:24 (five years ago) link
Arts/science/professional/straightlaced twitter can be great of course. Sports too but how you filter your feed into something digestible and good I have no idea
xp yeah. I wish I knew how to do that!
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 17 November 2018 03:27 (five years ago) link
yeah you just gotta engage selectively it’s not that hard
― k3vin k., Saturday, 17 November 2018 03:32 (five years ago) link
https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=“muscle%20the%20courage”&src=typed_query
― flopson, Saturday, 17 November 2018 04:07 (five years ago) link
not bad
― flopson, Saturday, 17 November 2018 04:08 (five years ago) link
Got the dril book for my birthday. Perfect tome to peruse on the shitter.
Hit this one today. Killed me again.
im the guy at mcdonalds who decides which states the offers are not valid in, an d i get more death threats than god— wint (@dril) March 27, 2017
― pplains, Saturday, 17 November 2018 04:16 (five years ago) link
lmfao
― flappy bird, Saturday, 17 November 2018 05:50 (five years ago) link
this is a recent gem
there should be a good version of the oscars where they hand out statues that are fucking wearing clothes— wint (@dril) November 15, 2018
― flappy bird, Saturday, 17 November 2018 05:59 (five years ago) link
today is my 12th twitter birthday
― maura, Saturday, 17 November 2018 14:38 (five years ago) link
hb
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 November 2018 14:43 (five years ago) link
your twitter acct is almost old enough to start its own account
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Saturday, 17 November 2018 14:57 (five years ago) link
I was just thinking, it's amazing you were able to secure your own .com and @
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 17 November 2018 15:00 (five years ago) link
i bought maura.com in 1996!
― maura, Saturday, 17 November 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
My boss has a two-letter Twitter handle. He tries not to get too smug about it.
― pplains, Saturday, 17 November 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
People with short Twitter names get loads of junk and misdirected @ mentions so it's not such a great thing
― Alba, Saturday, 17 November 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
You're so jealous.
― pplains, Saturday, 17 November 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
:-D
i actually don’t get that very much anymore
― maura, Saturday, 17 November 2018 21:15 (five years ago) link
I'm pretty happy passing along art pics and funny non sequiturs, the rest I can leave. I try to not retweet political stuff anymore.
― macropuente (map), Saturday, 17 November 2018 21:37 (five years ago) link
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― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, November 16, 2018 5:58 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, November 16, 2018 5:58 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Good for you. I actually deleted Twitter from my phone yesterday morning for similar reasons. I'm looking at it as a hiatus rather than a permanent break, but I need to get out of the habit. I'm using Nuzzle to catch up with all the articles that people are tweeting about, without actually seeing the tweets.
― jaymc, Saturday, 17 November 2018 22:00 (five years ago) link
I accidentally locked myself out of my twitter account and can't be bothered going through the rigmarole of getting back into it so that's one way to kick it
― single bed mentality (||||||||), Saturday, 17 November 2018 22:07 (five years ago) link
jaymc good at Twitter imo
― flopson, Saturday, 17 November 2018 22:50 (five years ago) link
Can some of you folks add me? Or post your @s please.
I'm @gaustinanderson
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 19 November 2018 16:04 (five years ago) link
I'm @critterjams and I RT a lot of good stuff
Twitter & Reddit are both really shitty in general but you can definitely curate it into something good if you follow the right accounts/subs. coincidentally basketball Twitter and basketball Reddit are both awesome
― frogbs, Monday, 19 November 2018 16:22 (five years ago) link
What's Your Twitter Username?
― mookieproof, Monday, 19 November 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
Ahh, cheers mookie!
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 19 November 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
there should be a term for big accounts where 90% of their tweets are them quote tweeting rando haters in their replies? have unfollowed so many otherwise good accounts for this. prob most regrettable is tressie maccotam. most recently celeb chef Kenji Lopez. it's like a mania imo
― flopson, Monday, 17 December 2018 04:12 (five years ago) link
lol yeah I think Al Roker is like that too
― flappy bird, Monday, 17 December 2018 04:15 (five years ago) link
tressiemc is still a good follow! dont think thats a fair description tbh (altho obv thats your prerogative to not read her if the amount she does of this sort is still more than your liking, but idk...)
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, 17 December 2018 04:48 (five years ago) link
she does do it a lot
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 December 2018 04:57 (five years ago) link
sometimes you have to call out your haters though!!!!!
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, 17 December 2018 05:00 (five years ago) link
lord knows i have to do it on ilh every single day
― Clay, Monday, 17 December 2018 05:01 (five years ago) link
i cant come up w a nice reason why these ppl w high follower counts wld do the embedded reply thing instead of just replying like a normal person
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 December 2018 05:02 (five years ago) link
i think josh marshall said he did it to protect himself from going to war w every hater in his mentions, like he has to me more considered when he embed replies cause all his followers see it, but also it pretty much looks like sicking your followers on someone who made u mad online
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 December 2018 05:04 (five years ago) link
i follow 'don't read the replies' so when ppl do this it's like they are forcing the replies into my face
― flopson, Monday, 17 December 2018 05:34 (five years ago) link
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Sunday, December 16, 2018 11:48 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i like her and she's obv really good at twitter (to a v unusual degree for an academic, most of whom are super corny tweeters of Office gif replies) but nah i just checked her feed and she did it 6x in the last 24 hours lol. also imo it's self-care to periodically unfollow high-frequency accounts no matter how quality they are. it like, fucks with your brain to read so many tweets by the same person
― flopson, Monday, 17 December 2018 05:39 (five years ago) link
🗑️ pic.twitter.com/ztBAzMIgL5— derek (@bobby) December 18, 2018
― bros before HOOS (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 22:57 (five years ago) link
bcz if 9 ppl an hour ask you the same question, you can quote-reply one of them and forestall some of the future repeat questions
or if you love the attention, you can be bombarded with questions about your answer
comme ci, comme ca
― sans lep (sic), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 03:02 (five years ago) link
xp lmfao
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 03:06 (five years ago) link
these are generally not has a question type scenarios
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 03:11 (five years ago) link
right now shes in a embedded tweet fight about how she doesnt like millennials texting to tell u theyre there instead of ringing the doorbell which is admittedly kinda funny
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
I have a doorbell. Ring it. https://t.co/eJPTgmxjbm— The Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd) December 19, 2018
twitter hardmanning is the stupidest hardmanning
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
oh lol it is clearly not hardmanning in context of literally discussing doorbell ringing but sure resembles hardmanning out of context
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link