Twitter C/D

imo they should just tell the truth that steak-umms are reconstituted beef trimmings and eating them instead of buying fancy cuts of meat, which there are only so many of per cow, is a lot more environmentally conscious

woke steak-umms is a perfect internet moment

https://i.imgur.com/OcEfnbl.png

lol amazing

https://twitter.com/search?q=coronavirus%20taste%20praying&s=09

https://i.imgur.com/3WuyXv1.png

an artist at work

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWASJ5SVAAA6szR.jpg

these are the people who rule us

the toys that made us indeed

Every day on twitter:

Twitter: Hi, we've pinned this UK gov press conference on coronavirus to the top for you.
Me: Hide this event.
Twitter: Thanks, we'll use this feedback to improve your experience on twitter!

Repeat endlessly.

Our king Robert has returned to claim his throne. pic.twitter.com/rV23DkwmtE

— Ecce_Homosexual (@Ecce_Homosexual) April 20, 2020

I rarely tweet but last night I referred to a surgery I had performed in a hospital that's currently being demolished in my city...

This morning, the tweet has disappeared as well as all the replies/conversations with it. No warning or comment, just nuked without trace.

I used the word "guts" in place of "internal organs", which might have triggered something in their internal sentiment analysis but holy crap what a garbage platform. I admit, I've been using it more in quarantine, but I feel ready to move on to the next garbage platform concocted by another shitty technology company.

are you banned/suspended? could it have been deleted for political reasons or just some arbitrary moderation bullshit

twitter is dud for banning me for saying fuck off to the wrong person after telling me blatantly antisemitic & homophobic abuse doesn’t violate their rules. jack dorsey is a nazi coddling fuck

Not banned, just my tweet & subsequent tweet-replies/children/convos were all nuked without any notification. I went to my friends pages who had replied and all instances of their replies have also vanished.

I have been banned/twitter-jailed for 48 hours for posting Drive Like Jehu lyrics to accompany live video I took of them performing said song: https://genius.com/Drive-like-jehu-luau-lyrics

...but that process was really clear and direct. This seems way more shady and for not even a clear reason. Makes me wonder how often they shadow-censor people who tweet far more often than i do?

Okay, now it's back. Who here works at the twittz?

That seems like a glitch? As far as I know, Twitter doesn’t just delete tweets and threads, it only does suspensions/bans and locks accounts until offending tweets are removed by the user unless you’re in Germany or w/e and some content is completely unviewable but still present

the edit button finally arrives (for assholes)

When things get heated, you may say things you don't mean. To let you rethink a reply, we’re running a limited experiment on iOS with a prompt that gives you the option to revise your reply before it’s published if it uses language that could be harmful.

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) May 5, 2020

Glinner's extraordinary meltdown will be studied for decades i've no doubt.

The shit Owen Jones gets on there every day, apparently "fuck off and join the tories" is hate speech and this isn't

Right-wing twitter having a normal one, I see! pic.twitter.com/QhyeeOQazZ

— Owen Jones🌹 (@OwenJones84) May 9, 2020

There will be textbooks on the exponentially-increasing Glinner meltdown, yes, I am trying to curb my unhealthy morbid curiosity about him by blocking mentions, but it's impossible.

I mean it is clear that he was already a prick before this, think this video gives you a good idea of why the Twitter virus has destroyed him - he was already a bit of a prick, of the sort who wants to aggressively debate everyone and can't be told he's wrong - just took a case where he needed to apologise for a little thing to break his brain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-LZr4-4vI8

Think lots of creatives are like this, ironically for someone who claims to be a feminist, it's very much a toxic masculinity thing.

this blows

don't have or want an account so no tweetdeck or whatever. i just jump around to different pages when i want to. new twitter is unbelievably bad, one of the worst redesigns of a website ever

between blogger, twitter, and medium, evan williams has been responsible for a lot of misinformation and shittiness, huh

I haven't tried this out yet, but seems like it could be useful

https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/7kz9ez/go-into-2020-by-taking-your-twitter-feed-back-from-the-algorithms

I still do 99% of my twitter interaction through Tweetbot on my phone or iPad and it just shows tweets from people I follow, or their retweets, in chronological order

that'll probably disappear someday, but literally no sponsored tweets, no weird ordering or promoting popular content, just a good ol' stream of tweets

Thanks Noodles, going to try a few of those.

Moddles, I mean, need to switch auto correct off

thanks for that link, moodles! for those who won't click through but might be interested:

By adding a few strings—little bits of code used by Twitter to tag types of tweets—to your muted keywords list, you can change the way the Twitter algorithm sends content to your feed.

While logged in to Twitter, go to Settings > Notifications > Muted > Muted words, and add the strings below.

suggest_activity_tweet: Stops the platform from feeding you tweets you might like
suggest_recycled_tweet_inline: Stops repeated tweets from appearing over and over
suggest_pyle_tweet: Stops serving tweets because mutuals engaged with them
suggest_grouped_tweet_hashtag: Stops tweets associated with popular hashtags from appearing randomly in your timeline
suggest_who_to_follow: Self-explanatory
generic-activity-momentsbreaking: Keep tweets served simply because they're part of a Moment out of your feed

haha, is "suggest_pyle_tweet" a reference to nathan pyle?

gomer pyle? stop getting tweets from those gomers

i mean, i've engaged with my fair share of nathan pyle tweets, so i could be contributing to this problem for my mutuals. they're family friendly but actually funny!

u can get a chronological feed just by selecting latest tweets instead of home from that menu thats at the top of da app fellas

.. and keep selecting it every two days when it switches back BY ITSELF

what, you want a setting to permanently switch it to latest tweets instead of top tweets?

jack can implement that. but the catch is that now you must click the setting to permanently switch it to latest tweets...every two days

mwahahaha! yes!!

it’s so sadistic

what we need is a new push notification every two days to remind us to switch it to latest tweets. and in that notification, they might as well go ahead and embed some top tweets, since you're already looking

I get emails from Twitter with tweets from the same account (which I don't follow!) every day or so. No idea why.

McDonald's has a really rude bot. I posted a really, really old McDonald's commercial to YouTube. I didn't even criticize McDonald's. I didn't use a hashtag. There wasn't even the word "McDonald's" in my tweet. All I said was that their fries have changed dramatically over the years. And I get this bot tweet, "please fill out this form with your concerns". How Orwellian and creepy.

from YouTube, not to.

At least now you do have some concerns

I complained about a costcutter on twitter because they were charging £5 for a little bag of penne, since then their social media person has been asking me which one it was, but I just wanted to whinge, not to snitch, so am ignoring it.

switching on and off the algorithm taught me that the difference between 'latest tweets' and algo is minimal. also, if u folllow ppl from the uk or australia, the algo shows you their best tweets in the morning

their social media person has been asking me which one it was, but I just wanted to whinge, not to snitch

@Tesco am no a grass

— Nina Bibs (@ninabibs_gla) March 23, 2015

Any time you make a mistake on this platform, you can at least take solace in the fact that you didn't try to explain MLK Jr. to... MLK III pic.twitter.com/uUhnPFAPdt

— Jason Bailey (@jasondashbailey) May 29, 2020

There is a thing going on right now where kpop fans flood racist hashtags with their ubiquitous "kpop stars dancing" gifs.

https://news.avclub.com/k-pop-fans-are-now-hard-at-work-commandeering-racist-ha-1843880487

Now please tell me if I'm wrong here, but doesn't flooding a hashtag actually make it trend? So what they are doing is actually bumping racist hashtags AND subjecting us to more of those inexplicable gifs? Am I wrong about this or is it actually as stupid as I think?

I still use the website and have set it to show Berlin trends and saw WhiteLivesMatter at the top of that list earlier - didn't actually click it just assumed it was 20% bot stampede and 80% horrified reaction.

That's the one. 100% kpop dancing gifs. What is the point? Why is it there?

individually people are pretty dumb, together they are infinitely so

no they aren't

image spamming trolls is a time-honoured internet tradition

I get image spamming, but when it amplifies a racist hashtag then surely it's counterproductive.