The 'rewards' are interesting takes by people who don't normally have a voice. And yeah you see a reality, a certain insight on people's lives, whether bad or good. I know I'll miss it.
But saying twitter has bought misery on lots of ppl when not many ppl actually tweet and *looks at what actually immiserates people* is just wrong.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 November 2022 15:22 (one year ago) link
new tab alert
Lol I guess I got an early rollout? Farewell verified tab, I will never think of you again pic.twitter.com/aep3Gpw02I— Anna Merlan (@annamerlan) November 4, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
ppl who don't want to get angry at their feeds at all use instagram I believe but boy are things boring on there
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Friday, 4 November 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
I get most of my news from Twitter tbh, including labor stuff, author stuff, very-online-personality stuff, academics who are also public figures stuff, following electeds that I like, hyper-local politics stuff...there's no other place where all of those things are accessible.
otm re IG, reels made it unusable.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 4 November 2022 15:45 (one year ago) link
xp to gyacsomeone on ilx recently shared the tip that if you tap the Instagram logo and then pick "Following" you only see posts from people you follow (well, plus ads I think). You have to do it every time, but it might be worth it if you only look once a day
― rob, Friday, 4 November 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link
yeah i get all my news via twitter great source for links
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link
Such a shame Ed Lee isn't around to see this. Yup.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 November 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
I did see that tip rob, and I have found it useful, but I guess the issue is not that you can change it, but, like so many things, that you keep needing to put stuff back that was never broken in the first place.
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:18 (one year ago) link
yeah i get all my news via twitter great source for links― lag∞n, Friday, November 4, 2022 11:48 AM (fifty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― lag∞n, Friday, November 4, 2022 11:48 AM (fifty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is the only good feature of twitter blue!
https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-blue-features#top-articles
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:42 (one year ago) link
yeah ive heard other people say thats good too
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 16:45 (one year ago) link
that's what nuzzle used to do iirc
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 November 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
yeah they bought nuzzle and turned it into that iirc
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
ah i see there are a few replacements now
https://murmel.social
https://www.markpack.org.uk/168092/tweetshelf-a-great-tool-for-making-the-most-of-twitter/
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 November 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
insta switched to an awful side-menu view in my browser a few days ago. there is literally a frame with a scroll bar when i look at my notifications. also i can't see the 'following' option when i click the logo anymore.
i followed a bunch of random gays and drag queens because i do my dj promotion on insta. sounds fun in theory but boy does my timeline get monotonous.
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:58 (one year ago) link
there's always matrix!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v1HKXYQbfU
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 4 November 2022 17:22 (one year ago) link
what if were all already in the matrix
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
ah i see there are a few replacements nowhttps://murmel.socialhttps://www.markpack.org.uk/168092/tweetshelf-a-great-tool-for-making-the-most-of-twitter/― Tracer Hand, Friday, November 4, 2022 11:56 AM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Tracer Hand, Friday, November 4, 2022 11:56 AM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Ooh, thanks for this. I was a devoted Nuzzel user and was sad when it shut down and was incorporated into Twitter Blue.
― jaymc, Friday, 4 November 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
what the everloving fuck is the Verified tab? blue checkmark folks complaining about shit the rabble has never even heard of is some top tier schadenfreude
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 4 November 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
lol It's obviously a tab that screens out tweets by the unwashed masses
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Friday, 4 November 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link
to replace twitter-as-links-service i’m just going back to rss feeds of sites i like again, the way forward is backward
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Friday, 4 November 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
I was looking at the Twitter Blue features the other day and it's funny but half of the features are just.. there.. if you use a third-party client and not the official Twitter one (or the website)
I hope Elon doesn't remember that third-party clients exist
― mh, Friday, 4 November 2022 18:24 (one year ago) link
xp the death of Google Reader was the real apocalypse all along imo
― mh, Friday, 4 November 2022 18:25 (one year ago) link
i instituted a 5 minutes a day limit on twitter a few months ago, it's been wonderful! it's only once you're off of it that you realize how inane 99% of it is, the hell site
― 龜, Friday, 4 November 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I got back on yesterday for the first time in weeks just to enjoy watching it implode and ended up spending half an hour hate-reading people defending Kyrie Irving
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Friday, 4 November 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
what the everloving fuck is the Verified tab? blue checkmark folks complaining about shit the rabble has never even heard of is some top tier schadenfreude― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, November 4, 2022 1:12 PM (forty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, November 4, 2022 1:12 PM (forty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
If you have a verified account, it's a tab that shows only mentions by other verified accounts. (I know this because I once ran a brand account for work.)
― jaymc, Friday, 4 November 2022 19:03 (one year ago) link
Twitter taught me that there is a person named Kyrie Irving yesterday, and I'm not sure I needed to know that
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Friday, 4 November 2022 19:21 (one year ago) link
Yesterday was my last day at Twitter: the entire Human Rights team has been cut from the company.I am enormously proud of the work we did to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights, to protect those at-risk in global conflicts & crises including Ethiopia,— Shannon Raj Singh (@ShannonRSingh) November 4, 2022
― peace, man, Friday, 4 November 2022 19:25 (one year ago) link
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Friday, November 4, 2022 3:00 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
One reason I finally deleted was forcing myself to face how much time I was spending reading replies from UK-based terf nightmare freaks. I don't know anyone in real life who would express those views and had to recognize that "being aware" of this shit isn't any kind of actual politics
― rob, Friday, 4 November 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link
Never read the comments section… but it’s all comments section.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 4 November 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
LOL at twitter user @MattHelgeson trying to get banned. reminds me of the time i was banned from AOL for copying Steve Case's profile as my own
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 4 November 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
LMAO ums, that is some amazing work
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 4 November 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
― mh, Friday, November 4, 2022 2:25 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
The death of Google Reader is what prompted me to create my twitter account, which I originally just used as a news aggregation service (I have yet to tweet, I guess I should get around to that before it's too late). I really should go back to rss feeds, it was a much healthier way to get my news.
― silverfish, Friday, 4 November 2022 19:47 (one year ago) link
i created a twitter account purely to talk to rappers, no other reason
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 4 November 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
I tried to use a Google Reader replacement for a while, but never stuck for some reason.
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 4 November 2022 19:57 (one year ago) link
around the time I'd built enough of a network of people who were sharing articles on google reader and commenting with some good interaction, they killed it
people building a community and interacting by talking about links? who would want that?
― mh, Friday, 4 November 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
Another reason I won't leave this app. pic.twitter.com/y8gGWt3P4A— Ashley Winter MD || Urologist (@AshleyGWinter) November 4, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 November 2022 20:08 (one year ago) link
ok lol
― rob, Friday, 4 November 2022 21:01 (one year ago) link
maybe I can subscribe to a "best of twitter" substack, I do miss the rare good jokes
1/ There is some pretty substantial context about Twitter's 2023 revenue and advertisers that I think partly help explains why Musk is really losing it...And it involves upfront ad sales. Let me explain...— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) November 5, 2022
― stet, Saturday, 5 November 2022 01:32 (one year ago) link
Nice threads about what was good about twitter and why the likes of tik tok won't work.
What I like(d) about Twitter, and what I’ll look for from whatever comes next: I joined Twitter in 08 or 09. The thing that mattered in those early days was that ties were unidirectional (following), not bidirectional (friending). (1/x)— dave karpf (@davekarpf) November 5, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 5 November 2022 11:51 (one year ago) link
Won't quite work for me though I will give it a go at some point.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 5 November 2022 11:52 (one year ago) link
Chuck Tingle to the rescue
https://www.twiddor.com/
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 5 November 2022 16:08 (one year ago) link
Seems bad
OK, this is worrying ... decided to download my Twitter archive as there are several scholarly points I have bookmarked over the years. Used to be a case you just entered your password ... not any more ... they want a scan of either my driving licence or passport ... As if ...— Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy (@dramdarcy) November 5, 2022
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Saturday, 5 November 2022 19:52 (one year ago) link
I downloaded my archive last week and have tweeted less than a dozen times since. I don't really give a fuck about my old tweets, which are preserved in a gigantic javascript file, though. I'll probably just toss it.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 5 November 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
Downloaded mine last weekend as well. Takes up a small space on my hard drive -- could probably back it up elsewhere too, so I'll likely do that. It may not be of specific use but good to have it regardless.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 5 November 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
Grimes NEVER said I had a "weird dick" and "smelled like nachos" and if you repost this you will be arrested— Elon Musk (@jephjacques) November 5, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 5 November 2022 20:28 (one year ago) link
caek I just really need to know that you didn’t refer to yourself as a “tweep” ever
― Wiggum Dorma (wins), Saturday, 5 November 2022 20:52 (one year ago) link
crossposted but read this, seems bad:https://davetroy.medium.com/no-elon-and-jack-are-not-competitors-theyre-collaborating-3e88cde5267d
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Saturday, 5 November 2022 21:10 (one year ago) link
Xp I did not but lots of people do. Someone should write a list of all the names for tech company employees. Tweep might be the worst though.
Mailchimp employees call themselves peeps as seen in this deranged memo from the ceo
One month before Mailchimp CEO Ben Chestnut stepped down as CEO, he sent a 1,400-word email to employees about the use of preferred pronouns internally. He told workers (he calls them "peeps,") the practice was harmful — even coercive. Read it in full: https://t.co/DryNxqQzrR— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) October 20, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 5 November 2022 21:17 (one year ago) link
a chestnut blight
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Saturday, 5 November 2022 21:20 (one year ago) link