I’m so behind.
― Jeff, Sunday, 15 January 2023 19:56 (one year ago) link
idk it’s got a weird interface and is for businesses and perverts
― mh, Sunday, 15 January 2023 19:58 (one year ago) link
tweetbot working here, too!
tweetdeck is hackable (just js/html/css) and people have been adding little tweaks like that for a long time
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Sunday, 15 January 2023 20:00 (one year ago) link
it’s a diff project called “Better Tweetdeck” and the original dev sold Tweetdeck to twitter in 2011 or thereabouts
― mh, Sunday, 15 January 2023 20:03 (one year ago) link
uh oh, looking at a single accounts tweets on tweetbot still not working :(
― mh, Sunday, 15 January 2023 20:08 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Sunday, 15 January 2023 20:09 (one year ago) link
xps yeah major wires crossed on my part, I was misreading something that made me think he was the original dev.
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Sunday, 15 January 2023 20:25 (one year ago) link
lmao https://bid.hgpauction.com/auctions/8421/herita10194?page=1&pageSize=60
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 15 January 2023 21:07 (one year ago) link
There’s some pretty decent stuff
― mh, Sunday, 15 January 2023 22:15 (one year ago) link
i thought twitter bought tweetdeck at some point
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 16 January 2023 00:20 (one year ago) link
Gold check accounts have a square userpic now for no reason I can discern other than making twitter uglier to look at.
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Monday, 16 January 2023 01:13 (one year ago) link
It seems tweetbot switched their API keys and it worked for a hot second, but now gone again.
― Jeff, Monday, 16 January 2023 02:28 (one year ago) link
Gold check reminds me of the uk pol concept of piss diamonds.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 16 January 2023 02:36 (one year ago) link
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.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 16 January 2023 14:40 (one year ago) link
I don't spent as much time on the app as I used to either.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 16 January 2023 14:41 (one year ago) link
that’s how I’ve been viewing twitter for years w/tweetbot
― mh, Monday, 16 January 2023 14:46 (one year ago) link
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.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 16 January 2023 14:50 (one year ago) link
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.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 16 January 2023 14:54 (one year ago) link
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
― mh, Monday, 16 January 2023 15:01 (one year ago) link
Some great stuff in that auction. Tables! Chairs! Espresso machines! N95 masks! Would bid if I were in SF.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 January 2023 15:06 (one year ago) link
Yes, the Eames, Bertoia and Risom! And a box of 58 Apple Magsafe power adaptors :)
― Michael Jones, Monday, 16 January 2023 15:11 (one year ago) link
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
― mh, Monday, 16 January 2023 15:11 (one year ago) link
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
― mh, Monday, 16 January 2023 15:14 (one year ago) link
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.
― jaymc, Monday, 16 January 2023 15:20 (one year ago) link
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 appxp it doesn’t stick on latest, though, does it?
― mh, Monday, 16 January 2023 15:22 (one year ago) link
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.
― jaymc, Monday, 16 January 2023 15:23 (one year ago) link
^^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
― Karl Malone, Monday, 16 January 2023 15:56 (one year ago) link
Yes it generally stuck to latest for me, however there were times when even that would include recommended tweets that I did not follow.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 16 January 2023 16:18 (one year ago) link
Taliban start buying blue ticks on Twitter https://t.co/tJ5XM9nopV— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 16, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 16 January 2023 18:48 (one year ago) link
unban shami witness musk u coward
https://i.insider.com/52dda3a1ecad04da302ed0fa?width=600&format=jpeg
― mark s, Monday, 16 January 2023 18:51 (one year ago) link
Yeah I don’t want any recommend tweets, I don’t want to see what people I follow like.
― Jeff, Monday, 16 January 2023 18:58 (one year ago) link
surprising no one, trump is coming back to twitter. he's also petitioning facebook to let him back on there.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/donald-trump-prepares-return-facebook-twitter-rcna65809
Another Trump confidant who also didn’t want to be identified speaking about conversations with him said that Trump has sought input for weeks about hopping back on Twitter and that his campaign advisers have also workshopped ideas for his first tweet.
tweet workshop
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:28 (one year ago) link
awards show season. just some riffing on celebrities at the grammys or oscars would be a classic trump bit but they’ll flub it and do something political
― mh, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:35 (one year ago) link
It was sad he was gone during the whole Don't Worry Darling thing
― Motion to adjourn to enjoy a footling (President Keyes), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:49 (one year ago) link
"the overrated Florence Pee-Yew..."
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:51 (one year ago) link
Canceled my yearly tweetbot renewal until this 3rd party client stuff is worked out. If it ever is.
― Jeff, Thursday, 19 January 2023 13:40 (one year ago) link
twitter insists of showing me apparently important NBA matches even though i am in the uk and know nothing of basketball. that said, i do enjoy the nonsense poetry this sometimes creates
What's Happening:Nuggets at TimberwolvesRaptors at Pistons
― koogs, Thursday, 19 January 2023 14:10 (one year ago) link
Keeps trying to show me news about the beatles. And when I tell it I'm not interested, it shows me news about each individual beatle instead. And when I finally manage to get them off my feed it goes back to the beatles :(
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Thursday, 19 January 2023 14:39 (one year ago) link
How do I tell the beatles to fuck off?
phoney Beatlemania hasn't bitten the dust
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 19 January 2023 14:40 (one year ago) link
in this case
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 19 January 2023 14:41 (one year ago) link
How much news is Ringo generating these days?
― Motion to adjourn to enjoy a footling (President Keyes), Thursday, 19 January 2023 14:44 (one year ago) link
you'd be surprised! ancient history never ends it seems
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Thursday, 19 January 2023 15:02 (one year ago) link
The Battle of the Headshake
― The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 January 2023 15:08 (one year ago) link
cmon the beatles and the nba are great twitters trying to help you see some cool stuff
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 January 2023 15:35 (one year ago) link
Now imagining Bruce Vilanch cranking out hot Trump tweets.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 19 January 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link
NBA Twitter is still good, in fact it's one of the only good things about Twitter right now
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 January 2023 15:47 (one year ago) link
only thing that keeps me going back
― four square ups... no punches thrown (Spottie), Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:28 (one year ago) link
Seeing a much higher proportion of paid blue checks than normal now. I guess it could be random but it feels like part of the creeping push of unwanted recommendations. I’d managed to filter out everything not directly related to my follower list for a while but lately that seems impossible.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:46 (one year ago) link