Twitter C/D

special snowflakes us all

admitted news junkie here folks, its the first step to recovery lol

Kashmir Hill
‏@kashhill
You know you've made it when early adopters start writing eulogies. RT @PrivacyCamp: A Eulogy for Twitter - Atlantic http://bit.ly/1iAWlnF

William C.
@williamcander
Outspoken POC are taking over Twitter, so White people have decided it’s dead: donotlink.com/hae

Just like when they use our slang.

totally agree that if people trimmed their friends list, FB would be less terrible/more useful

― Dominique, Wednesday, April 30, 2014 2:22 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkp

i'm not really sure about that. i basically blocked all but a few friends from my newsfeed and it's not any more interesting. now instead of having 300+ people linking to stupid bullshit on the web, it's 10-15 people linking to stupid bullshit on the web. that's what the facebook environment is conducive to. it has never made me feel more connected to people. if i want to talk to my friends i call them or hang out with them.

Well yeah -- and I did the same. The end result was that I ended up dropping off FB entirely for 2 months, and then when I came back, I was just way less interested in general. It has a use for me, I guess, in that my family/friends can see my pictures, and if I have to, I can catch up on their (generalized) exploits. But as an everyday thing, something that I have to make an effort to parse -- no thanks. It's aggressively soul-eroding.

completely agree with everything you said

here and there i'll think "oh yea, facebook, i'll see what's going on there" and 30 seconds later i'm off

I'd be more likely to use Facebook if it didn't keep reverting back to "top stories". I just want to read everything in chronological order.

just use www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr

i'm not really sure about that. i basically blocked all but a few friends from my newsfeed and it's not any more interesting. now instead of having 300+ people linking to stupid bullshit on the web, it's 10-15 people linking to stupid bullshit on the web. that's what the facebook environment is conducive to. it has never made me feel more connected to people. if i want to talk to my friends i call them or hang out with them.

― marcos, Wednesday, April 30, 2014 4:39 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not in my experience. most of the people i know and are closeish friends with don't live near me and are not phone talkers. i was off FB for over 2 years and ended up losing touch w basically everyone. it was just easier to rejoin with a small friends list to post baby pictures and updates to out of towners.

William C.
@williamcander
Outspoken POC are taking over Twitter, so White people have decided it’s dead: donotlink.com/hae

Just like when they use our slang.

― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, April 30, 2014 7:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha i certainly recognise this as one of the reasons a lot of white mainstream media types are suddenly "disenchanted" with twitter but LOL at the idea that any group of people anywhere is taking over twitter. it contains more multitudes and more communities than you realise.

Still more dumb racists on Twitter than outspoken POC. It's a common fallacy to think that your own Twitter feed is representative of the whole thing but clicking on an unfamiliar trending topic usually sets me straight.

I first learned that lesson by searching for the #takemeout hashtag while it was on telly.

the thing about twitter is it's only really rewarding if you can bring original ideas to it, so people without original ideas see it and get confused

LOL at the idea that any group of people anywhere is taking over twitter. it contains more multitudes and more communities than you realise.

― lex pretend, Thursday, May 1, 2014 10:05 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this

the thing about twitter is it's only really rewarding if you can bring original ideas to it, so people without original ideas see it and get confused

― steendriver dysphoria hoos (The Reverend), Thursday, May 1, 2014 8:56 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah one of the things twitter wants is for people to feel cool just following and not tweeting if they want but idk if thats ever really caught on, i dont think there are too many daily users who exhibit that behavior

this piece is kinda common sensical https://medium.com/five-hundred-words/6f3b7e9f38fa

agree w this

None of this is to say Twitter is without its challenges. From my own perspective, the product is sort of a mess of half-baked engagement experiments. But underneath that still lies a fun, powerful, and important service. They just need someone to go in there and tighten things up. To trim the fat. To say “no”.

i mean wtf is this

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmhHzi2CEAANq9x.png

yeah one of the things twitter wants is for people to feel cool just following and not tweeting if they want but idk if thats ever really caught on, i dont think there are too many daily users who exhibit that behavior

mayne not daily, but a lot of people do do this. or so i've heard.

All these people who are wringing their hands about twitter should just follow @wettbutt. That dude kills.

yeah hes the best

mayne not daily, but a lot of people do do this. or so i've heard.

― markers, Thursday, May 1, 2014 9:30 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i just wonder how many hardcore users actually take that approach, my feeling is its more those who occasionally check in for a minute or two shrug and close the tab, like to truly get that twitter drug youve got to get in there and mix it up do some RTs some @s send out some straight up tweets you know

that's a good point

send out some straight up tweets you know

― lag∞n, Thursday, May 1, 2014 1:35 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

SUTs as we call them

just out here SUTin you know

on twitter everyone says you know alot its a thing

#SUTin

i have had a twitter account for years but i have never written a single tweet, it's like a spare room with no furniture and a dead fly on the windowsill.

u must tweet, i insist

they see me SUTin
they hatin
patrollin
they tryna catch me not adding value to the platform

i'd follow estela. i'd follow hoos & lag00n too.

;)

To say “no”.

otm, as is whoever said it has been product-managed to death. I get that they're saying "yes" because lots of these things are designed to make it easier for them to make money from it, but they're going to kill it in the process.

Urgh @wetbutt

no, not @wetbutt, @wettbutt. it's different.

Oh that explains a lot

yeah one of the things twitter wants is for people to feel cool just following and not tweeting if they want but idk if thats ever really caught on, i dont think there are too many daily users who exhibit that behavior

this is me basically, i basically use it as news wire plus joke book though, very very few irl friends on it though, they're all on instagram which i'm not interested in really.

how often would you say you "check in" with yr pal twitter

oh me and the toot go way back

the extension of that is that typical user has to be ok with it being essentially non-participatory after their uncool and unfunny tweets fail to garner followers or comments or any attention at all really.

im essentially internet shy so im ok with being bad at twitter, but it'll always lag behind other services that are more flattering to the user imo.

you can gain an audience over time by interacting with others via tweeting at them

if you're not boring

and have something to say

and give people a reason to follow you

being not boring and having something to say are high bars though!

also a lot of work

its like a project

the follower count is prob twitters biggest impediment to a bigger audience, its too competitive

i've started tweeting at tech people, and it's fun to get favs and responses, but no one has followed me yet.