Twitter C/D

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

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

xp lmfao

these are generally not has a question type scenarios

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

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

oh lol it is clearly not hardmanning in context of literally discussing doorbell ringing but sure resembles hardmanning out of context

i can see the appeal of setting your followers on some feeb. like imagine for a second that ilx was all conducted on twitter, and you had a massive following, you might be tempted to quote tweet whoever your bête noir is when they reply to you with some nonsense.

it just seems like if you have that kind of platform and reach... maybe use it for something less petty?

this tressie account, just why

she’s great i feel bad for singling her out

i'm super stoked for her book!

https://thenewpress.com/books/thick

yeah i like her too, shes a good follow, i even mostly enjoy rubbernecking her embed beefs lol

yeah ok scanning her twitter and it's so many embedded beefs, a few is one thing but this just looks pathetic and yes, petty. people on twitter like this are so tedious

my personal preference is that if academics are going to argue all the time on twitter, which I am all for, I’d appreciate if they argued with people who were worth their time, because it might actually lead to some interesting discussion. but that is not how you amass followers and likes and rts and I’m sure they understand that

there are plenty of otherwise interesting accounts Ive just decided to unfollow because I didn’t really feel like I was learning anything other than how to make fun of dumb people

There are some gems in the replies here.

this’ll go down well pic.twitter.com/N11L7CedkD

— Nick Schadegg (@nickschadegg) December 20, 2018

good use of loss there

it wld be cute if u had a baby oh well merry xmas!

need a way to mute 'office' gifs (in particular)

its so disturbing to look at the replies to some popular tweet and its 75% reaction gifs

I know, right?

https://media.giphy.com/media/dEdmW17JnZhiU/giphy.gif

i used to think social media needed gifs, before it had gifs

it was fun for a minute but it's long been dead.

i deleted the app from my phone on new year’s. it was just too much negative energy, made even people i’d otherwise like seem small and petty, overconfident in dumb moralisms. and the memes and gifs and takes are all bad

namaste marcos you have chosen the path of light

new dn thanks marcos

welcome marcos

thanks marcos

<3

tbh wish I had the courage to delete my account and not just the app on my phone :/

do what I did - set the age on your profile to <13. you'll then have to upload a scan of your passport to unlock your account

this is too much of a faff so I've just left my account locked

plus you have to go to the trouble of obtaining a fake passport for a child in your own name, which takes fucking forever these days

When you deactivate your account there's a month before it's properly deactivated & deleted forever. Logging in means you're back up and you have to wait another month if you want it gone. Done it many times and never made it to the end of a month.

christ

Please do continue sharing and reminding people in the thread that empathy is important. This isn't about whether screen readers/twitter should be fixed. It's about what the experience of people is really like today and that by using characters like these you're harming people.

— Kent C. Dodds (@kentcdodds) January 9, 2019

morality is getting too hard

(see head of thread)

its compassionate to prevent people from reading tweets imo

i'm sorry

hey were all learning here you know but im afraid i am going to contact your employer and try to get you fired

lol twitted thread embeds 'click this tweet to see more tweets'... OK!!!

love posting. Love too post

"harming" people

good lord

my mom's been reading my Twitter and i didn't realise 🥺

one of my best pals has a dad who phones her from overseas to check she’s okay, should she not have tweeted for 12 hours

she shouldn't have

My mother replies to every post my sister-in-law makes.

darcie wilder on people's court, suing her roommate for bedbugs https://vimeo.com/94097676

morality is getting too hard

morality has always been hard, damn near impossible even. that's why compassion is so necessary.

tbh wish I had the courage to delete my account and not just the app on my phone :/

― marcos, Friday, January 4, 2019 6:23 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a month ago i posted about how i'd deleted the app from my phone and was feeling like it was a good step, but now i just look at mobile.twitter.com every day like a dumb-ass.

was she inspired by teeth mountain xxxxp

but now i just look at mobile.twitter.com every day like a dumb-ass.

― jaymc, Monday, January 14, 2019 10:55 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jesus christ respect yourself