Twitter C/D

Or this could just be more bullshit he pulled out of his ass like everything else he says.

blukas?

so close

lubkas

maybe he just thinks the site was more fun when you'd see the fail whale several times a week

i do have some nostalgia for the fail whale

hey lets all use Twitter Blue!!

twitter should randomly go down a few hours a day. it’s help the chronically online have a cooling off period instead of tweeting through it

fwiw twitter has had <1 hour of downtime in the last 7 years or something iirc. it's way better than facebook's uptime for example, despite twitter's reputation for being a shitshow[*]. so there's probably some slack before things get really bad.

but things won't get bad slowly. i.e. it's not going to be a fail whale thing where it deteriorates for some users some of the time. it's going to break eventually.

[*] deserved on the product side, not at all deserved on the eng side.

This is my favorite tweet I saw this week, perfect encapsulation of Twitter 2022. Five years ago it would be utterly inscrutable to me, feels like a line from a Mark Leyner novel or a Mad Lib.

A woman went to a shop to confront her door dash guy so a cat asked why she didn't just do her own shopping and got called ableist

downtime is not bad. continuous uptime on a media known for “storms” of content is bad.

Lady Gaga becomes the latest celebrity to fall into a meme trend of someone posting a picture of a celebrity or 3D-rendered character for humorous effect

ok

your move tiktok

I'd hate to be Lady Gaga right now

I used to think those trending topics were just really poorly written but it's pretty obvious they're just made as obtuse as possible for clicks

my sister was freelancing for twitter writing ad copy that went in the trending list, so m/l the same thing as those, and she said she go to three meetings to come up with some shit like that lol

I wonder what the new 3-d object social media will be called

Is there a setting that I'm missing to stop seeing tweets from people that I don't follow, but have been liked by people I follow? I feel like this is half my feed all of a sudden and it sucks.

switch from home to latests tweets, should be a button at the top somewhere depending on where youre using it

yeah the default is algorithmic timeline but to twitter's credit it is afaik the only social network to retain the option to go back to reverse chronological, and they've been clear they don't plan to remove that option.

till friday

musk has been openly hostile to the algorithmic feed fwiw. he tells people to turn it off all the time.

Very important to fix your Twitter feed:

1. Tap home button.
2. Tap stars on upper right of screen.
3. Select “Latest tweets”.

You are being manipulated by the algorithm in ways you don’t realize.

Easy to switch back & forth to see the difference.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 14, 2022

he's good again

"switch from home to latests tweets, should be a button at the top somewhere depending on where youre using it"

I actually change this quite often to see the differences - I wish Facebook had this

yeah the default is algorithmic timeline but to twitter's credit it is afaik the only social network to retain the option to go back to reverse chronological, and they've been clear they don't plan to remove that option.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, October 26, 2022 10:57 AM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

instagram has that option but people on the 'gram don't post nearly as much as people on the bird app, so if you go to recent posts, it's all media publications and celebs instead of people in your life.

so instagram's algorithmic feed makes sense to me, but it's still way too easy to miss posts

algorithms can be our friends

slave to the rithm would be a v dadpun but true album drop

I actually change this quite often to see the differences - I wish Facebook had this

Iirc, Facebook does have this, but (annoyingly) it defaults algorithm and makes you change it back to chronological each time you visit.

I do think it's cool that you can refresh your FB feed and get a new set of posts, in case you're bored or whatever. But yeah I've realized that of the 400 or so friends I've got on there I'm really only getting updates from like 50 of them. If you just don't interact with someone you will slowly stop seeing updates about them. But then if you get reminded of them somehow and click their profile you can see what they're up to. Amusingly this means that ILX people make up a decent chunk of my feed because y'all are the people whose stuff I'll like and comment most often

I use FB mostly from my desktop machine and my bookmark is specifically to the chron feed. (Also with FBP to block sponsored posts.) When I use FB on my phone it's always amazing/horrifying to see all the landfill and see the preferred stuff out of order.

Ahh yes, the weird star icon, not anything in settings, thank you!

they really don't want you to use latest tweets, but they also know they'll bleed even more money if they take it away

The fb feed really drives me crazy, I hate the refreshing because it makes it very difficult to find posts again that you've already seen. Unfortunately, with about 75% of my feed being promotional posts, I don't think there's really much room for improvement.

Yeah, whenever I try to find something I saw to show my wife she always says "why don't you save it?" or like it or whatever the fuck you're supposed to do, but damned if I'm going to interact with that site and give it any active data. It knows what I follow (same with Twitter) and that's about all it's going to get out of me.

FB knows what posts you pause on, and how long you pause there, they know what you click on afterwards - they know a lot of things

Yeah, that's fine. I consider that passive data. But I'm not going to actively provide them with data by pressing buttons and hitting likes and BS like that.

but what if that results in a worse feed rather than a better one?

I'm interested in the idea of how to optimize this, I've recently been annoyed with YouTube recommending stuff because I paused on something as I was scrolling through. I ended up with a lot of bullshit recommendations when there's only very specific stuff I want to be bothered with.

It definitely results in a worse feed, no question, but I just turn that to my advantage as an excuse to look at these sites less. I try to ignore the noise and search out the one thing I want to see at any given time, whether it's Facebook, Spotify, Twitter, Youtube ...

Twitter is worth keeping for this account alone.

http://twitter.com/PH_Heathcliff60

Randomly selected Heathcliff cartoons paired with randomly selected PornHub comments.

pic.twitter.com/hDbEeJr5ft

— Hourly Pornhubbed Heathcliff (@PH_Heathcliff60) October 23, 2022

that basically sums up the appeal of all social media

the passive data is just as useful as likes or whatever because all of it is processed in aggregate, and pushes for more machine learning, data science, etc because likes and reposts are comparatively small data and pausing, reading, etc are big data pushing initiatives

So they're studying how much time I'm spending googling Facebook's stock dive?

you gotta hand out likes to reward people for making good posts

twitter should randomly go down a few hours a day. it’s help the chronically online have a cooling off period instead of tweeting through it

this is otm, the failwhale could be smiling beatifically while being hosed down

Time to find out what happens when I mute "Elon Musk"

Muted the word "Elon" early in the year, think it has worked out well, what's he up to these days anyway?

So, I cannot claim to know How Things Work, but wouldn't it be a bit rich, coming so close to that congressional testimony claiming Twitter's a security shit show, to ask people to start providing payment information?

not going well

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-paul-pelosi-tweets-link-to-conspiracy-theory-santa-monica-observer/

free and open debate

Starting to miss the old days when @jack would come on here like "Sorry about all the Nazis. I'm 11 days into a tantric fast" or whatever

— Chase Mitchell (@ChaseMit) October 30, 2022