Twitter C/D

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.

Taliban start buying blue ticks on Twitter https://t.co/tJ5XM9nopV

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 16, 2023

unban shami witness musk u coward

https://i.insider.com/52dda3a1ecad04da302ed0fa?width=600&format=jpeg

Yeah I don’t want any recommend tweets, I don’t want to see what people I follow like.

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

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

It was sad he was gone during the whole Don't Worry Darling thing

"the overrated Florence Pee-Yew..."

Canceled my yearly tweetbot renewal until this 3rd party client stuff is worked out. If it ever is.

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 Timberwolves
Raptors at Pistons

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 :(

How do I tell the beatles to fuck off?

phoney Beatlemania hasn't bitten the dust

in this case

How much news is Ringo generating these days?

you'd be surprised! ancient history never ends it seems

The Battle of the Headshake

cmon the beatles and the nba are great twitters trying to help you see some cool stuff

Now imagining Bruce Vilanch cranking out hot Trump tweets.

NBA Twitter is still good, in fact it's one of the only good things about Twitter right now

only thing that keeps me going back

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.

serious question to regular twitter posters: where is the tipping point for you where supporting team elon becomes more unpleasant than having this free service

i will never log off twitter dot com i live for this

I respect lagoon's choice but I am done, personally

you can find my posts at https://jklol.net/posts.html

I went back, for a bit. Then I got banned, for wishing ill on a Tory MP who was gloating about immigrants dying in the sea. Then I got back on again, and I'm hating it, and I feel complicit. Basically my plan is to stay off it unless I have an article or project to promote on it. It's a miserable place. It was before Elon took it over but now it's just miserable to such a vast degree, like Sideshow Bob stepping on rakes for all eternity, but still somehow carrying on.

feel like there was an explosion of enthusiasm for twitter amongst the worst people in the world when elon took over but its pretty much gone back to normal now which makes sense like if you didnt want to be there before knowing that elon is in charge is only going to go so far

should say that i always use the chronological (currently "following" used to be "latest" before that was just the only option) timeline so whatever changes happen there i never see them

i suspect this elon experiment wont last and twitter will have some faceless private equity bosses before long, if it doesnt just go out of business altogether which seem pretty unlikely but not totally impossible

Basically my plan is to stay off it unless I have an article or project to promote on it.

Where I'm at. I have Tweetdeck set up so I know when I'm tagged or DM'd and that's all I use it for; killed out my actual main feed.

I appreciate people out there still using it for good things as they can, like this amazing thread today.

Wouldn't you love to visit the Disneyland knockoff, Nara Dreamland, in its prime? Thanks to an early 1960s souvenir guidebook, we'll do just that! Here's a comparison with Disneyland's 1962 edition.

1/36 pic.twitter.com/bcobQJaxLy

— Jason Schultz (@ArchivistJason) January 19, 2023

what exactly is Elon musk getting from me using twitter

A hardon

xp yeah but that could be (and likely is) just as easily disseminated on tumblr or insta or whatever

not xp - you personally? nothing. "you" in the larger sense is anybody utilizing the 44b playground which is revenue. i dunno, that seems purposely disingenuous along the lines of "what exactly is r kelly getting from me listening to him on spotify"

one hundredth of a cent

advertisers bailed, his fortune is tied up in tesla stock which is dropping daily, he didn’t create the site/app/whatever and while he’s a creepy worm, people attribute all kinds of things to him (both positive and negative) that he has nothing to do with

for personal and work reasons I use software products and services by companies who have announced layoffs exceeding those he did at twitter by a large margin

I guess if me leaving teaches the world or one man that it’s bad to be a disgusting person publicly — when many are as bad or worse but keep their mouths shut — then…

instagram, the social media service famously run by an ethical silicon valley billionaire