Twitter C/D

so do i. when the trending team, with elon's guidance, took a deep look under the hood, they found an astonishing correlation between the names of the states and areas where the name of that state was trending. it was too important to suppress

Author Susan Meachen died from suicide 2 years ago. Except it turns out she didn’t. What an absolute piece of shit #authors #MentalHealthMatters pic.twitter.com/nNU0LCEU3i

— Be a lot cooler if you did 💫🌪💫 (@Draggerofliars) January 4, 2023

oh yowza... username/post etc

burying the lede

At the time, a group of authors dedicated this anthology to her, proceeds were given to the family I believe (will confirm). Btw, these are USA Today best selling authors. Susan’s “suicide” was due to bullying pic.twitter.com/vsnprlAVyh

— Be a lot cooler if you did 💫🌪💫 (@Draggerofliars) January 4, 2023

Best selling? From bits I read I got the impression she was a self published Kindle author looking to make a little off being dead. I'll be wasting more time on this yet lol

samples

the fact that her bio reads like this is so funny. “author” really is a generous word here. https://t.co/5SaYyEiHKO pic.twitter.com/gAASNCWngv

— kate wagner (@mcmansionhell) January 4, 2023

I put this on the literary clusterfuck thread but I hadn’t gotten to the writing samples, oh my god

For Straight-to-Kindle-Paranormal-Romance it's probably above the norm

oh I'll have to check in on ILB. Does it take a lot of sales to be a USA Today best seller?

I'm a Wife, Mom, Meme

I'm just pleased that there's a twitter main character of the day that isn't the dipshit who bought the company. Maybe there's hope for 2023 after all

in my eye

i always welcome questions and messages from fans or anyone who hates what i did

well this is exceptionally terrible.

some sort of masochism thing there

if she had written detective stories it wouldve been cool

lol "what i did", and this was before the fake death?

paging colonel sebastian moran

Arrogant tyrants.

Blue-blood bastards.

Call them whatever you want.

Around here, we just call them Kings.

Fancy boats.

Lakeside mansions.

Luxe watches and bespoke suits.

The Kings of High Court College act like Gods.

And Cooper Valcourt is the worst of them.

He is the bully king.

His family owns everything.

And his mission is to put me in my place and send me packing.

i think I'm in love

yeah there is a huuuge “in love with my bully” fic genre

i prefer "kings"

i meant with the author though. it'll pass. like so much mist in the lagoon.

therapy is expensive

Think of the unpaid co-pays!

Dark Debt-Collector Calls Romance

gonna wait for the inevitable new york magazine article (and subsequent FX miniseries starring sarah paulson) to pay attention to this

i’ve been logged out and when i try to log back in it says “this account already exists”

um i know

i just got switched to home timeline without doing anything

notes on why its is also a nice site:

in a retweet-n-pray tale variously involving twitter users frosty the snowman (parody), followers for algernon (aka @bonerhitler) and foreskin gamer extreme (aka @nudeobama aka pikachu headpat girl), craigslist shaman (aka @sendgod2jail)'s lost inside-only cat yoda returned safely of its own accord

currently banned for a week for replying to a Tory MP's bigoted tweet "I wish unlimited ill on you you racist piece of shit". total pointless suicide-by-cop behaviour but it does underline why I need to stay off it tbh

https://i.postimg.cc/wTpT4GdC/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-9-18-09-AM.png

(checks twitter)

no, yeah- that's 100% accurate

ive seen that shit with the weird accent trend a number of times

I know a million posts have been posted since, but I recommend Laura Bates' book "Men Who Hate Women" if you want a breakdown of what kids are being subjected to.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/aug/27/laura-bates-on-the-men-who-hate-women-idolise-murderers


Now I’m reading this book. Thanks for recommending.

why do you guys talk about literary clusterfucks on the twitter thread?

Introducing 4000 character tweets might be the move that actually kills Twitter. There are two dozen people in the world who want that and they all read each others’ 1/89 tweet threads anyway.

tlwittdr

Will be genuinely surprised if they ship that anything like on the schedule he claims. The changes required are enormous.

Is there a running list of things Musk has promised to come and never came through with?

yes, but if you post it on Twitter you will be banned

he's trying to make Twitter a competitor to YouTube and Wordpress (??), which again begs the question of what exactly he thinks Twitter is and why he thinks people use it. what he's doing here is Bad Software Design 101, I'd say "this might actually kill Twitter" but it's Elon so it'll probably just never happen

wonder if the long tweets with have formatting available or if itll just be a really long tweet i hope its just a long tweet thats funnier

also if they just show the whole thing on the timeline

I think once your tweet goes beyond 280 characters you should lose the ability to punctuate or insert line breaks. If you're gonna type 4000 characters it's gonna appear in a solid block of text.

┳┻| _
┻┳| •.•) This will be so tight 4000 characters tall
┳┻|⊂ﾉ https://t.co/vu4i5Ukw9y

— Patrick Cosmos (@veryimportant) January 8, 2023

Just noticed a load of yellow/gold ticks on official accounts. Are they gonna start trying to charge $80 for those at some point or what?

gold ticks are for official business accounts

(so yes, they may well start charging more)

NYTimes airhead @ezraklein:

"Clean, abundant energy is the foundation on which a more equal, just and humane world can be built."

Two points:

1. Wind power made the trans-Atlantic slave trade possible.

2. Modern 'clean' energy has been a disaster. https://t.co/NczKWIrPwG

— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) January 9, 2023

When Twitter dies I’m going to miss exposure to this kind of insanity.

lmao

#1 is some galaxy brain shit, just amazing

dude get out from under that car, quick!