and have something to say
― markers, Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:24 (ten years ago) link
and give people a reason to follow you
being not boring and having something to say are high bars though!
― ryan, Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:24 (ten years ago) link
also a lot of work
― lag∞n, Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:25 (ten years ago) link
its like a project
the follower count is prob twitters biggest impediment to a bigger audience, its too competitive
― lag∞n, Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:26 (ten years ago) link
i've started tweeting at tech people, and it's fun to get favs and responses, but no one has followed me yet.
― markers, Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:27 (ten years ago) link
start w some lower tier bloggers lol
― lag∞n, Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:28 (ten years ago) link
arr1ngt0n fav'd one of my tweets. aw yeah.
― markers, Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:29 (ten years ago) link
try responding to every tweet in your feed with something aggressively sarcastic. (i fantasize about doing this sometimes.)
― ryan, Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:29 (ten years ago) link
wld be a good experiment
― lag∞n, Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:30 (ten years ago) link
it's funny though, for all the meritocracy (and there are people who are funny to a shockingly consistent extent), there's also a lot of people with tons of followers who basically tweet every banal faux-contrarian half-thought that comes into their thread.
― ryan, Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link
thread = head
― ryan, Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:32 (ten years ago) link
things just got self-referential
lol
― lag∞n, Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:32 (ten years ago) link
a lot of people have bad taste, and lot of them follow bad people.
― markers, Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:32 (ten years ago) link
there is a large market for bad tweets.
well this wraps up another episode of Tweet Talk. thanks to our panel of tweitirerrs.
― write 500 words of song (sleepingbag), Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:34 (ten years ago) link
#thx #4 having #me
― lag∞n, Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:36 (ten years ago) link
Lotta ppl looking less cute now their pics're bigger
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:47 (ten years ago) link
hahaha
― markers, Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
tweet bomb
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
omg liberalhorsenames
― idontknowanythingabouttechnlolgeez (waterface), Thursday, 1 May 2014 21:23 (ten years ago) link
https://twitter.com/jpbimmer
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 21:31 (nine years ago) link
http://valleywag.gawker.com/ex-twitter-employees-freaking-out-because-they-cant-sel-1572497320
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 14:39 (nine years ago) link
notifications now appear as a pop up on web twitter btw, loooooooooooooooooool
― online hardman, Thursday, 8 May 2014 08:39 (nine years ago) link
lol otm
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 8 May 2014 14:22 (nine years ago) link
another facebook feature
― markers, Thursday, 8 May 2014 15:18 (nine years ago) link
i don't see how it's necessarily bad. if you have it open all day on the desktop it means you won't have to keep switching over to the notifications tab to see what's going on
― markers, Thursday, 8 May 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
it might be more distracting to some
Is it a pop up that pop up blockers block?
― pick it up for ripple laser (onimo), Thursday, 8 May 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
i would assume not, but i could be totally wrong. traditionally, those have dealt with separate pages launching in a separate window, while this, i think, would be something like a div appearing as part of the existing page.
― markers, Thursday, 8 May 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
too bad lag00n's not here to tell me whether or not that's in the realm of plausibility
too busy popping up on my twtr
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 8 May 2014 15:41 (nine years ago) link
That's a thing iirc
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 8 May 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
poppage
― popchips: the next snapple? (seandalai), Friday, 9 May 2014 22:38 (nine years ago) link
got this promoted tweet in my feed:
Smash It In @SmashItInFollowing England to world cup glory with news, banter and local girls who are looking to score with you and get smashed in.
yeah no thanks.
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 04:51 (nine years ago) link
I Love Everything @ILXFollowing England to world cup glory with news, banter and local girls who are looking to score with you and get smashed in.
― schlump, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 04:54 (nine years ago) link
markersPosted: May 8, 2014 at 3:33:24 PMtoo bad lag00n's not here to tell me whether or not that's in the realm of plausibility
lol yeah feel like u cld def block those it just a lil jquery prob but no one does cause theyre usually used for legit purposes and a lot of sites wouldnt really work if u did tho maybe someone cld write a specific plugin for twitter to just block the notifications idk, u cant turn them off in settings
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 May 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
i just got finished w a two week solitary meditation retreat and i will admit to an extended episodic day dream abt making an app that is like twitter except less of a bummer and getting fabulously wealthy
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 May 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
welcome back, friend.
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Saturday, 17 May 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
thanks bud
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 May 2014 22:25 (nine years ago) link
Yo did you do it in Nepal
Someone in my program did one in Kathmandu and he said a girl started crying on the 3rd day and they had to give her back her passport and let her leave early
Namaste
― 龜, Sunday, 18 May 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
naw im in vt, yeah solitary retreat can be quite trying no one shd really do it until they have some solid experience w group retreat and daily practice under their belts, even then u might cry and demand yr passport back
― lag∞n, Sunday, 18 May 2014 03:46 (nine years ago) link
Have no idea if anyone remembers me at ILX. Currently, I have several hundred followers on twitter. Thank you to everyone for the helpful advice given me from a while back. Special thanks to the person up thread (I can’t find the exact post now), who suggested I use #hashtags. The use of hashtags does seem to have helped me get some twitter followers. Unfortunately, according to this article at http://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/is-twitter-phasing-out-hashtags-and-at-replies hashtags (& ‘at-replies’) will probably be phased out.
(P.S. If anyone’s interested: I haven’t been able to post at ILX for the past few months because there have been quite a few things going on: 1 of my cats died & the other cat had some health issues & needed several vet visits. It’s been quite busy & stressful the past few months. I hope things settle down by this Autumn 2014.)
Thanks again to everyone for the helpful advice.
― am.curious.sometimes, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 16:24 (nine years ago) link
new fave
― the only thing worse than being tweeted about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
no was the twit is ever getting rid of #hashtags thats them brand m8
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
more like am.asock.always
― ienjoyhotdogs, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
v curious to see what they do as far as @replies tho, multi party online convos are one of the toughest design problems on the whole net, and their current setup is lacking for sure
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
ienjoyhotdogs said:
Hmmm...Not sure what to make of this comment. I guess I'll just conclude that ienjoyhotdogs is stoned. No other conclusion makes sense in this situation.
Carry on!
― am.curious.sometimes, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link