Twitter C/D

prayers up

People are being negative about 'following' but isn't that how twitter should work?

Some things about Twitter haven't changed. A local news story here has gone mildly viral, due to bad actions by our local sheriff's department. A post about it by Radley Balko made it look like it was actually the city police department. As somebody who has covered this story from day 1, I replied with a slight correction that it was the sheriff's department. And for the last four days I've been responding to people who think that somehow directing their rage in the right direction amounts to loving cops.

I’m not twitter person- like i didn’t really know about tweetdeck 3p apps and shit, but i’m still surprised there isn’t some kind of alt medium better than mastodon or whatev. is that like just not gonna happen or ?

its hard to get people to switch it might even be impossible what you need is something that people want to use on its own merits not because its a replacement, you start with a small group of early users having fun fucking around developing the language of the app so to speak and eventually more people are attracted to that situation, also all the attempted twitter replacements have exactly the wrong idea theyre trying to make an elevated serious nice twitter but whats good about twitter is that its funny messy weird etc

prob more likely that twitter dies on its own than having its users stolen by a replacement

It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of micro-blogging

does tweetdelete still work? I rely on that to erase my stupid tweets weekly

Yup. I blew out my entire post history with it.

https://semiphemeral.com/ is also good

https://www.macstories.net/stories/twitter-intentionally-ends-third-party-app-developer-access-to-its-apis/

Ugggggggggh

lmao rip

lol something bad has happened at twitter

i agree, the last 3 months has been pretty horrible

I’m enjoying being on ilxor instead, and posting posts on my own website

I wondered about tweetdeck cos they are/were used by a lot of company accounts? But they say it’s affected them too:

If I'm being real, I'm starting to feel like TweetDeck's days are counted because like 3rd party clients it doesn't bring any (ad) revenue.

If it happens I expect it to be done in a cowardly manner, without any warning because that's how Twitter does things now I suppose.

— BetterTDeck is unmaintained. (@BetterTDeck) January 15, 2023

Loving this new setting in Better TweetDeck lol. pic.twitter.com/dBkojSNvau

— Stilgherrian (@stilgherrian) January 12, 2023

tweetdeck team going rouge

wld be funny if they nuked all third party apps and tweetdeck as part of their project to alienate advertisers

Yeah, I dug a little more:

Welp, all the people I've met over the years at Twitter/working on Tweetdeck either left or got laid off. Make of that what you want but: oof. 🫡

— Damien ✨ (@Eramdam) November 18, 2022

It’s back for me on tweetbot! Long dark nightmare is over.

tweetdeck is hackable (just js/html/css) and people have been adding little tweaks like that for a long time

I’m so behind.

idk it’s got a weird interface and is for businesses and perverts

tweetbot working here, too!

tweetdeck is hackable (just js/html/css) and people have been adding little tweaks like that for a long time

it’s a diff project called “Better Tweetdeck” and the original dev sold Tweetdeck to twitter in 2011 or thereabouts

uh oh, looking at a single accounts tweets on tweetbot still not working :(

Sheen Austin, who joined Twitter from Tesla, is out. He led the infrastructure team after Musk laid off Nelson Abramson. No details yet as to why.

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) January 15, 2023

Hearing that he resigned from Tesla and left Twitter as a result.

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) January 15, 2023

xps yeah major wires crossed on my part, I was misreading something that made me think he was the original dev.

lmao https://bid.hgpauction.com/auctions/8421/herita10194?page=1&pageSize=60

There’s some pretty decent stuff

i thought twitter bought tweetdeck at some point

Gold check accounts have a square userpic now for no reason I can discern other than making twitter uglier to look at.

It seems tweetbot switched their API keys and it worked for a hot second, but now gone again.

Gold check reminds me of the uk pol concept of piss diamonds.

Gotta say 'following' is the site at the best it's ever been. It's just what the 300 or so accounts I follow post/like/retweet. There is less of Musk or any other crap than I've seen since he took over. Surely it won't last but I am enjoying it. Take out the ads and it would've been close to perfect.

I don't spent as much time on the app as I used to either.

that’s how I’ve been viewing twitter for years w/tweetbot

Lol I had no idea that option was on the table. Knew it was too good to be true that the cunt had come up with something useful.

I'm a very, very light user of Twitter (I've barely posted anything since 2019), but I don't think I know what ppl mean by ads? I don't think I ever see any? Nothing in my "Following" feed that is being pushed at me as far as I can tell.

there are fewer ads right now because no one’s paying for them, but I was seeing an ad every 50 - 100 tweets on the web yesterday

Some great stuff in that auction. Tables! Chairs! Espresso machines! N95 masks! Would bid if I were in SF.

Yes, the Eames, Bertoia and Risom! And a box of 58 Apple Magsafe power adaptors :)

there was a decent article on the history of twitter apps but the short version is:
twitter predates apps, the following-only chronological timeline was the former default, several iOS apps popped up (Twitterific first iirc?) and twitter only had an official app after they bought Tweetie in 2010.

I think algorithmic scroll was added around the same time period, although I think it was later. The official app got it, other apps maintained the following/chronological view.

Note that @mentions, retweets, referring to posts as “tweets,” and a handful of other things were all adopted from the community and rolled into the site as features over several years

xp the unopened thunderbolt 3 docks are still good imo!

it’s funny because everything that’s used is starting around $25 and nearly everything that’s unopened and priced higher is for employee onboarding. modular work area furniture in a box, laptop docks, decent power strips

Even without a third-party app, you could always avoid the algorithmic timeline in the Twitter app by tapping the little sparkly icon at the top to switch to Latest.

oh, and my twitter “hack” of the day: if you go to the site on iOS and do the “add to home screen” action so you get it as a faux-app, it appears to keep you stuck on whichever timeline you pick and probably phones home less than the native app

xp it doesn’t stick on latest, though, does it?

I think if you hadn't logged on in a while it would automatically switch you back to Home (algorithmic), but I never had that problem.

^^same. i think i pressed the little sparkly follow/recommended button at the top maybe 10 times over several years. otherwise it was on follow mode

Yes it generally stuck to latest for me, however there were times when even that would include recommended tweets that I did not follow.