Twitter C/D

common practices i find deeply embarrassing:

addressing new followers, eg "hey new followers! you liked my tweet about x? well i tweet about y too, hope you like y!"

commenting on unfollowers, eg "it's really telling who unfollowed me after i tweeted about y, you prudes must not be able to handle me lol"

obligatory "i don't have a soundcloud but here's this thing you can check out" post-viral tweet

I find these things embarrassing too, but suspect it is because I only have a couple of hundred followers and doubt that even they actually see my tweets. It's mainly a "wisecracking into the howling void" website for me, or else everyone is mortified at my behaviour and opinions but is too polite to say anything, same result.

I have recently fallen out with a low-level twitter celeb who actually followed me, just because he was constantly posting dull questions and I was posting facetious responses, probably for the best all round.

I wrote a couple of things on twitter that I wound up feeling moderately embarrassed by, mostly responding to other people's messages. Mostly because I am too earnest. I am incapable of hiding behind the joke cloak so I respond to people as if they were right in front of me. It's probably "embarrassing" to other people too but idk why anyone would be embarrassed on my behalf. Seems like a lite bitchy "bless your heart" move or at worst euphemism for "i am judging u" If/when I see these people again I don't expect them to remember the dumb earnest thing I said. Who cares?!

<3

oh let me be clear all of my tweets are dumb and earnest and embarrassing too

common practices i find deeply embarrassing:

addressing new followers, eg "hey new followers! you liked my tweet about x? well i tweet about y too, hope you like y!"

commenting on unfollowers, eg "it's really telling who unfollowed me after i tweeted about y, you prudes must not be able to handle me lol"

obligatory "i don't have a soundcloud but here's this thing you can check out" post-viral tweet

― marcos, Friday, February 28, 2020 9:44 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

think of these as opportunities for unfollowing

yeah but after you unfollow you should probably leave a public note on twitter explaining why

listen i never thought i would have to do this but i did unfollow @largemaoistgrandpa for beginning a tweet with "periodic reminder" i dont want to demonize him and i do believe in restorative justice but the simple fact is his tweets are bad and i dont want to read them anymore, if anyone wants to reach out to me my DMs are open

dyin

The whole "periodic reminder" thing seems like a product of the abrupt nature of the Twitter format. People feel awkward simply making a statement/assertion without any prior framing, so they use that as a pretend lead-in.

never shdve gone to 280

They did all this dumb stuff and they still don’t have a buyer lol

“Twitter isn’t real life” but it’s all rich centrist dipshits complain about so I guess it’s something https://t.co/xK8Dv9Pe9k

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) February 28, 2020

we did it

Republican mega-donor buys stake in Twitter and seeks to oust Jack Dorsey – report

Everyone will be forced to follow all the Trump and Trump brand accounts

As long as we don't have to follow the lame Nixon ones too.

I write about films here sometimes if anyone wants to take a look ⤵️ https://t.co/bInmpGFx0l

— Toilets With Threatening Auras (@scarytoilet) March 9, 2020

the obvs next step after film crit hulk

been smashing the 'turn off re-tweets option' option lately, i think it's good housekeeping

got into a conversation with a fellow writer about right wing hate for hillary and i’m pretty sure we’re being swarmed by girlboss-feminism “agents” because he mentioned how people have wanted her dead (not untrue!!)

anyway never tweet

if you're on or lurk ilx and/or reddit (and, crucially, have nothing to promote online) there's no point to being on twitter at this point, anything worthwhile (and a ton that isn't) gets reposted

yeah it's why i'm thinking of taking a long break

get better Twitter feeds imo

I believe brad is talking about ilx

Simon H - that isn't really true, whether that's politics or books.

I do get more about films or TV from ilx than twitter tho'.

lol dont go on twitter just go on..........reddit

select and limited lurking on reddit is fine imho. (NEVER post tho)

(I realize this will not be a popular opinion)

yeah it's why i'm thinking of taking a long break

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, March 10, 2020 7:45 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

does twitter have prefab sprout ballot polls, tho?

the tweets here too are getting me to consider taking a break from ilx :(
that, plus the ramp-up in assholism here lately, which is mostly usa primaries related but it's deeper.
even a politics board (that I could turn off on SNA) wouldn't stop it.
but people here seem to like things how they are (o/w the assholes would get 51d) so it's really just my problem :(

reminder: every year around February-March the sniping and griping reach their peak

how many hours do I have to stare at weird leftists on twitter before my brain gets this wrecked?

Nothing dril has ever tweeted can touch this pic.twitter.com/cZRHUo08WY

— L Ron Hubbard's Space Jazz (@MenshevikM) March 8, 2020

Just rt-ed. God's work on earth.

that Menshevik M is a total fucking dunce also (look at the replies, intersectionality "was influenced by Derrida and Foucault", fucking hell)

that is also bad

however I maintain the original tweet that is screenshoted is still mind-blowing

that Menshevik M is a total fucking dunce also (look at the replies, intersectionality "was influenced by Derrida and Foucault", fucking hell)

― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 bookmarkflaglink

One (with the link) seems a crank, the other one is mocking it. A lot of the replies are a variation of wtf.

What happened to Boots Riley?

the only website i have to clear cookies for regularly to get to work properly

I wasn't starting this week expecting an extended twitter interaction between the helldude and a notable instagram scammer/influencer but it's raised my spirits

link

just trace back from @allahliker 's most recent tweets

there is some much inside information needed in order to understand any of this or the references

if you know nothing about any of these things, I would recommend not ruining your brain

luckily for me my brain is already ruined

Lately I've decided I should report any posts that contain political or factual falsehoods that I find harmful, along with any false or misleading information about COVID. The only problem is, I'm not sure which combination of report reasons I should select for these. Most of the choices are more about causing direct harm to individuals, as opposed to causing confusion and harm with fake information.

yeah, they have really fucked up by not just throwing “covid-19 misinformation” in as a category

probably a lot of internal waffling of how to make it a more general use category and what “science” and “medicine” really mean

I feel like the ability to "fact check" bullshit tweets would be very helpful, but I may be deluding myself.

"facts" according to whom, though?

sigh

According to me. Obviously there is a subjective element there, but maybe if tweets are egregious enough,vtgey will draw more than just my own attention, and ultimately get some of the worst offenders banned.

I get that this is very quixotic, pie in the sky stuff, but I'm bored.