Twitter C/D

lol

sucks when a celeb makes the same joke you made in a previous tweet and you look at their RTs and favs and followers vs. your RTs and favs and followers and you feel a little sad about it

eh if someone makes the same joke as you it's prob not a terribly original joke worth feeling any type of way about

but i made it first. so they're the ones being unoriginal.

starting a twitter feud is def the way to go in these situations

You gotta do the standup to get the followers.

my little brother has been laboring on this truly amazing twitter project far too long & hard to have only 18 followers-- please follow him

https://twitter.com/#!/eatingabagel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNQpYz1ztx8

Why did your parents decide to have another child that is a bot. Xpost

cool tip http://kottke.org/12/07/turn-your-twitter-stream-into-your-friends-linkblog

this is punishment for me mocking ppl annoyed that gchat is down

is twitter down too my lord

Twitter is currently down for <%= reason %>.
We expect to be back in <%= deadline %>.

lmao cant even rouse the fail whale

Thanks for your patience!

aaaaaand we're back

not me :(

works for me now

oh god the olympics

Tweetbot for iOS can mute hashtags and keywords. Quiets things down quite a bit.

Oh Jeff, you're brilliant. I didn't know there was a keyword/expression mute in Tweetbot until now.

In Australia we have a "sport" called "AFL" that's basically just a lower-class version of rugby. Every week the incredibly obnoxious AFL twitter account starts a load of brand new hashtags, one for EVERY SINGLE FUCKING GAME (#aflbluestigers #afleaglesbats etc etc fucking etc). I've just created a wildcard filter (#afl*) in Tweetbot that WORKS and suddenly love the shit out of you, Jeff.

I'm very lovable.

In Australia we have a sport called footie that's basically just awesome

FIXED, CAARN THE PIES

They give you points for missing

CAAAAARN THE BLUES wot did you say AA I can't hear you over the FOOTYMAYTE

What was it this kid tweeted to Tom Daley that got him arrested, then? Did he threaten to blow him sky high? Either way, Graham Linehan's gleeful "get him banned" campaign is nagl

It was something along the lines of "You've let your dead dad down".

Oh. I see. It then escalated into tweets like "I'll stick a knife down your throat" to people who attacked him

http://liberalconspiracy.org/2012/07/31/does-tom-daleys-twitter-troll-deserve-arrest/

jesus christ I fucking hate the way Twitter scapegoats individuals sometimes, and it's even less of a good look when those individuals are CHILDREN

the kid was being a cunt but singling him out as though the problem isn't endemic makes me really uncomfortable

it's even less of a good look when those individuals are CHILDREN

see also the hunger games racist tweets. yeah they were dubious but OMG WITCH-HUNTING 12-YEAR-OLDS IS EVEN WORSE

pour encourager les autres

Well, he's 17, so not quite a child, but yes.

Sudden thought: not a big fan of people having to use real names online, but knowing people's ages might take a lot of heat out of things. Not practical, I know, but knowing someone's 17 you can kind of just put certain things in a box.

There is an awful part of me that gets a real kick out of police arresting young trolls and presumably putting the fear of God in them, but as I say, this probably an awful part of me and not to be trusted.

Yeah, fuk a troll, but looking back through last night's tweeting it was also not great the way Daley and Linehan both set their mobs on him. Of course the kid was going to escalate it from there.

I am expecting some pretty contorted thinking to arrive later to explain how Robin Hood Airport = outrageous prosecution and infringement of all we hold dear while arresting idiot teenagers = noble and just.

Linehan's a fucking knob isnt he?

what does ILX think of the 100worstpeopleontwitter account/tumblr?

basically there needs to be some sort of ceremony where that kid's phone gets publicly crushed in the town square, then we can all just go home and forget about it

I don't blame Daley, that was a personal response to an insult. (Why Daley thought checking Twitter so soon after that performance - or indeed during the Olympics at all - would be a good idea, I have no clue.) Certain adults (Linehan, yeah) acting like the Twitter police is just NAGL in the extreme though.

tbh i read that Riley69s guy feed and laughed quite a bit. took me into a weird part of twitter full of preening 16 year old essex boys who take endless topless photos of themselves and have girls begging them for dickpics and stuff.

Right. And Daley's just a teen too, after all. I have no idea how some of these guys put up with the abuse they get on twitter, tbh -- the cyclists got hell at the weekend, too.

Linehan is also the one who monsters anyone for @ing him with criticism. I can see his point, and I notice less @ing of celebs these days unless they're being directly addressed, but he's sensitive to the extreme about it.

Doesn't he block people for saying mean things about him? very childish IMO

otm re weird world of teen twitter. I saw it when Sly Bailey quit as head of the Mirror and her teen kids were out there attacking all comers schmitty-style. Their @mentions were hilarious. xp

its a weird collection of snabpack-adorned boys with 130000 followers who just post jpgs about girls not texting back

I kind of love how there are so many self-contained and utterly disparate communities on Twitter which occasionally are forced into acknowledging each other in really weird ways

Doesn't he block people for saying mean things about him? very childish IMO

Tbh, I think this is fair enough. Why should people be expected to choose to subject themselves to abuse? I hardly ever attract such attention on Twitter, but when I've had it elsewhere it has really unsettled me and I'd be happy to have a way to shut it out.

What is a snabpack?

that 100 worst people on twitter thing looks like it should be on its own list, same woeful kind of tryhard humour. i'd never heard of 3/4 of those accounts. the ones about women were on some abysmal sub-passantino shit

It is D0m's site, no?

ahahahaha really?!

lol

what an irrelevance that boy is