Twitter C/D

not trolling in the trad sense, but very much in the “building a platform” sense

yeah trolling is for fun these ppl are marketing

or genuinely feel they’re taking a real stance which I sometimes detect

in which case a big social media vacation is a good idea

that is to say Brad otm

yeah some of these ppl are obvs quite insane

tbh riling up your own emotions by pushing social media interactions until you find the right formula to get engagement is exhilarating

I’ve probably done it! people have spun off sites with engagement as low as ilx by doing it! it is generally bad for you

yeah sorry i'm being obtuse and media-insider-y

― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, January 28, 2020 3:08 PM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

twitter is like this.

today, clicking through twitter threads about politics, i came across 1.) john cusack 2.) raffi and 3.) an ilxor

lmao

i think the platform is only fun if you have a checkmark honestly. "public" people seem to use it more, and it holds no appeal for me. even though let's be honest i would be the best tweeter of all time.

its a power user network if u dont go on it for one day its bewildering and insane

I follow 107 accounts at least half of which must be completely inactive about this point and disabled retweets on half the rest and it’s Good

turn my retweets back on coward

I am not at all amazed that john cusack has been shown to have mostly the right stances but be kind of ephemerally dumb and very horny based on his twitter interactions

peeling back that thin curtain is something twitter has given us. if I am on the verge of celebrity I’m going to change my name and then have one of the Gravel teens be paid to run my new account

john cusack has been shown to have mostly the right stances but be kind of ephemerally dumb and very horny

― babu frik fan account (mh), Tuesday, January 28, 2020 10:39 PM (thirty-nine seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

the perfect man, an inspiration

if i ever actually got into twitter, i could probably lose years of my life on there.

i don't understand how journalists get anything done when they tweet every 2 hours.

it's engrossing and massively self-referential in the manner of like, finnegans wake, but that's why it's important to steer clear, avoid the siren's call, whatever

the most insane and thrillingly dystopian part of it these days is that people are always accusing others of being russian bots or trolls spreading disinformation

following/unfollowing anonymously and refraining from posting yourself is the only way to go imo

I’ve never done that fwiw xp

good i wldnt want you to miss the retweets

No I’ve def disabled your rts but I’ve never called anyone a bot

Don’t worry tho I click to your profile to view your RTs in batches

jfc

You were just doin a whole lot of them dude

thats why its important to keep them on

I have a family

lagoon is a Russian asset using retweets to undermine Hillary

this exchange justifies the existence of twitter imo

i love that theres a million sub 100 follower accounts who tweet "say hello to your boss PUTIN" all day

they are humans but also in many ways they are bots which is ironic

they have ben programmed by the russians to be mad at the russians

theyve hacked......themselves

I get the retweet as example, when someone with a lot of followers retweets weird abuse or comments going “what the heck”

but at the same fine, the abusive tweeter is like some guy who has five followers, fifty tweets total, and most of them are retweets of barstool sports or perpetual harassment of some chick with an onlyfans link

I have a tiny number of followers that see my insanely rare tweets but they’re all irl friends, ilx people, local people I interact with on twitter, and some that I’ve branched our with on those lines

if I was a brooklyn media person I’d inevitably get retweeted a couple times by a peer who had a following and pick up people, then feel the need to feed the machine and go insane

the most insane and thrillingly dystopian part of it these days is that people are always accusing others of being russian bots or trolls spreading disinformation

― treeship., Wednesday, 29 January 2020 03:55 (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

*leans in*

Xanadu du du
Stately pleasure dome decree
Xanadu du du
Sacred river sunless sea
Fertile ground, girdled round
Blossomed incense-bearing tree
Come and dance every night, to the dulcimer lady

— vote me into Aosdána u cowards (@johnorthside) January 27, 2020

Now find one to the tune of Baby Shark...

many xps to daniel: yes, troussé is an ilxor and an ilxor who still posts -- i too am unsure of the etiquette of doxxing at this point

On the plus side I can now save these for posterity pic.twitter.com/tEN1krfjMt

— bruise almighty (@kmlefranc) February 1, 2020

lol i'm never going to get hired by anyone again

calling my employees in for a meeting because the tweets they're liking aren't funny enough and use tired meme formats

Aphex Twin, “Windowlicker” (Cunningham, 1999) pic.twitter.com/qUgEoaVISZ

— maura 💥 johnston (@maura) February 3, 2020

btw great tweet maura

ty brad hope the AI can overlook my swear-likes and see my humor

Sorry, humor is a Flag Type Bad

lol that program is some amazingly amateur shit, like im sure theres more sophisticated open source —sentiment analysis— tools they cldve just plugged in, what a world

the "helping others" one is amazing, what a grift

mentioning alcohol is bad jfc

https://i.imgur.com/xZf7cvk.jpg

very nice

they've totally fucked up threading, haven't they?

noticed that