Twitter C/D

http://theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/why-did-9-000-porny-spambots-descend-on-this-san-diego-high-schooler/281773/

girl either visited lots of porn sites or probably paid for one of those follower services on the low and isn't owning up to it

Every time I log in I'm following 30 new people that I've never heard of. Wtf? I've already changed my password.

changing your password doesn't revoke applications you've granted access to, you'll have to do that as well

ohhhhhh my god this change to blocking. why would you do that!

can someone explain? ^ this is all i'm hearing about it but no one links to any info

https://support.twitter.com/articles/117063-blocking-users-on-twitter

Note: If your account is public, blocking a user does not prevent that user from following you, interacting with your Tweets, or receiving your updates in their timeline. If your Tweets are protected, blocking the user will cause them to unfollow you.

yeah that's ridiculous

Oh cool, I can follow Jesse Thorn again (I won't).

Wasn't broke, shouldn't fix.

Oh, what the shit? This is fucking appalling.

why because engineers are dumb

the general thinking is "if it's technically possible, when even try to stop it?"

facepalm

when even try -> why even try

Twitter's current party line is that this is good because now people won't know they've been blocked, so they won't get all mad

so just make Block and Ignore separate options, cmon

ive never blocked anyone

tho I have no problem imagining situations where itd be essential

I block people constantly, usually for no good reason

tweet sb

breaking

@twitter: We're reverting the changes to block functionality. https://t.co/H3W3V27rKN

lol

I don't block, but I used Tweetbot's mute function all the time. (worth it on it's own)

Yes!

I think the only accounts I've ever blocked have been spambots, but it honestly never occurred to me that they would not be able to read my tweets as a result. I just wanted to get them off my screen.

it never occurred to you that people might need to block abuse on twitter?

i mean, i've only blocked spambots and don't habitually receive abuse, but...it never occurred to you how commonplace that was?

I've never been sent anything beyond polite disagreement, but the rapey Twit abuse received by some feminists of my acquaintance is staggering.

who blocks the most people? Graham Linehan? He's a serial blocker, I think anyone who dares suggest that Count Arthur Strong/The IT Crowd aren't the pinnacle of comedy get blocked ASAP.

I was just thinking of him. We used to be friends, but I think if I met him 'fresh' now I wouldn't like him very much. He's turned into this rich white guy who throws hissies when people have the audacity to contradict him.

Master of the manual RT as well #scum

eh, he doesn't want to directly engage with people who diss his work. Sounds fair enough to me.

xp

it's less about people dissing his work and more an unwillingness to be contradicted on any matter at all - i've never interacted with him or desired to but he comes across as insufferably pompous

okay, sorry I misunderstood.

Yeah, does not respond well to being contradicted or corrected. If enough people told him to check his privilege at the same time, he might spontaneously combust in righteous liberal indignation!

wow everyone is super pumped for this surprise beyonce huh

tbh i always thought that's how blocking worked, that you never knew you were blocked and could tweet at someone who blocked you without them knowing, like a killfile. it seems kind of silly to prevent someone from following someone else, if they really want to stalk the person they can just make another account

Twitter

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lol

Because of the wang

ok, this year FOR REAL i am going to use twitter more frequently.

@weinventyou

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:) Thanks schlump! I'm hoping this will motivate me to get off of my ass this year and do things. or maybe stay on my ass this year and do things

I am bummed I missed out on recording voice for that

a whole band followed me today with all their personal accounts and the account for the band, also an app for betting on the long term prospects of others romantic relationships followed me, today in followers

just checked out their website, looks like they might be teens, p cool

i was wrong actually that they all followed me the drummer had not but dont worry he just did

i just got spell checked in a manual RT lol

I don't know if you've realized yet, but now you're in that band

well shit *sax solo*

Phil Renaud added you to list phil_renaud/nodejs-users

news to me

hope this guy isnt looking forward to a lot of node focused tweets