Twitter C/D

Does anyone know if the Twitter API lets clients use the new(ish) "search tweets of people you follow" function? It's the only reason to use the Twitter website, I think.

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hey elmo argonaut your new name on twitter is like the cellar door of imaginary handles, it has been in my head all day

twitter is refusing to let me delete a 4 year old tweet about shia lebeouf

lol

ty schlump, who are you on twet? i know a lot of ilxors are on twitter but i have trouble matching up who's who

I don't know any. I need a google doc.

I was at the Job Centre yesterday, and woohoo my life is complete, because now apparently I can follow them on Twitter, because each Job Centres now has a Twitter account.

twitter is refusing to let me delete a 4 year old tweet about shia lebeouf

― 乒乓, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why would u do this!

is anyone finding their feed to be missing a lot of content (skipping tons of tweetage)?

yeah coz I muted everyone

tweet abandon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1ouUrDZtMGM

awesome

o man the disney star wars joeks

http://twitter.com/Lioneltext

ty schlump, who are you on twet? i know a lot of ilxors are on twitter but i have trouble matching up who's who

― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 25 October 2012 08:40 (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i only just saw this
i am f1lmclubbr1stol
your new name maintains the high standard of your last fwiw

Wait are you anything to do with my local arts cinema? In the UK?

ha i maybe was?, provided you live in that part of the uk. it was a screening programme that's finished now.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/the-apprentice/9729289/Donald-Trump-blasts-Lord-Alan-Sugar-in-Twitter-wind-farm-spat.html

REAL MATURE GUYS

@realDonaldTrump @Lord_Sugar Unlike yours, my financials are phenomenal.

Would be a good early 90s rap lyric.

@lenadunham
Ask my dad's friend Bob RT @crousselle what the hell happened to you as a child that made you like this?

someone explain to me the point of 'favoriting' someone else's tweets -- like people will favorite mine (and sometimes also retweet, sometimes not, sometimes retweet and not favorite), but i just retweet things i like and never favorite them, should i feel like a dick? or is it just a way of bookmarking stuff so that it's easy to find later?

it's really easy to accidentally favorite things on the phone, happens to me a lot.

more like bookmarking ime, but i'm sure diff ppl use it for diff reasons

yeah the bookmark thing I guess

its a way to acknowledge that you like a tweet without broadcasting it to all your followers. i favorite any tweet i particularly like but i only retweet if the tone & content still make sense in the context of my own feed

a fav can be a a way to say 'i like this,' a wink, a nod, a high-five, a gesture of agreement or support, or just an acknowledgement of when someone @replies to you directly

i don't think of favorites as bookmarks, i just like awarding stars to ppl

right yeah i guess it can be a private signal thing, which is how i tended to take it (stupid question but can other people see your favorites? i haven't tried)

I used iffft to send faves to Pinboard and can't get out the bookmarking habit. RIP

twitter.com/username/favorites

I use them most of the time as pathetic stamps of approval and done of the time as bookmarks. Keep 'em guessing.

Some of the time.

they can be like signing off a text message exchange with something slightly concrete, a x or a 'see you later!', to imply without stating that they are the end of the exchange, that obviously these things need to end rather than continuing forever. you favourite to punctuate. for me they are sincerely favouriting, though. i am reading a tweet & in my john mccain interior monologue voice saying i approve this message.

I thought the point of favouriting is for other people to read and enjoy your history of favourites

i think maybe once i looked at somebody else's favourites & it reminded me of the times i have started sentences with "i was watching this featurette on the seinfeld dvd-", just the depth of aloneness implicit in how i spent my time

i mostly favourite tweets when i'm on the move and they have a link to something i want to read or download when i'm at a proper computer; sometimes when it's a tweet/quote i might want to find quickly later; occasionally if it's a particularly sparkling turn of phrase that i just like a lot

sometimes if it's a mutual follower i rarely have cause to actually communicate with, it's a sort of signal to say "hey i still like & appreciate your tweets even though i never respond to them"

yeah i guess i just rarely feel the desire to signal these things re: a tweet that don't also just want to retweet

do you think anybody thinks of their /favorites page with the kind of tumblr attitude of having ~curated~ a repository of premium content

I favorite tweets that are an exceptional use of the medium.

apologies if this is too old man/cloud but anything in the way of "favorites" or "likes" that takes the utility of these kinds of sites into a further level of abstraction just makes it seem more like a video game high score thing and is not interesting to me at all

Like this one https://twitter.com/the_ironsheik/status/280488287402065920

do you think anybody thinks of their /favorites page with the kind of tumblr attitude of having ~curated~ a repository of premium content

god no

really it's 90% because i'm out and about and either can't open a link on my stupidberry or don't have time to read it properly or want to remember to download it later, so it's entirely random

naturally i never remember to do any of the above, like, ever, so it all sits there in my favourites folder as a testament to my goldfish memory span

ha, that wasn't aimed at you, i just wondered if it was an attitude. tbh bookmarking anything is a lost cause to me which slightly frees me up from trying to remember to do stuff.

do you think anybody thinks of their /favorites page with the kind of tumblr attitude of having ~curated~ a repository of premium content

Definitely yes, with not so much pretentiousness as is implied. I'll catch up with a couple of my favourite "favouriters" at least twice a year

Oh I don't do it myself but I know a couple people who do. If I notice that a mutual follower has favourited a tweet that I thought was "only funny on a very personal level", checking out the other tweets they've favourited is usually just great

ha ha. i mean i definitely think i possess that kind of refined judgment, favouriting tweets according to craft and nuance, canonising tweets that will span eras, which will transcend their clumsier counterparts. i think there is just something abstractly depressing about almost limitless resources like that, like being younger & writing jokes in google, like finding a blog you like in which you have to click to the next page & noticing at some point that you are clicking from page sixty five to page sixty six, just an endless well you are plumbing in search of something that will sate you & stop you from plumbing the well.

i think maybe once i looked at somebody else's favourites & it reminded me of the times i have started sentences with "i was watching this featurette on the seinfeld dvd-", just the depth of aloneness implicit in how i spent my time

― kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:47

Would probably have favourited this on Twitter.

ha ha
all of these ~structural observations about twitter~ are just expressions of super self-conscious disdain for my stony-gazed 3am internet activity, none of it really has anything to do with anything else