Twitter C/D

how do you ignore the weight that sits on your first tweet and just post something, I am having a hard time with this tbh

Don't tweet, just follow people who have 500+ followers and who you like, they have motivation enough to tweet

"Hi" is a good first tweet. Or "trying out twitter" followed by six months of silence.

just be sure to add "#gamergate" to all your tweets or no one will see them

take DJP's pointers and make jokes about #bitcoin and dudes will send you Bitcoin tips

There was never this type of precious debutante angst in the days of Citizens Band radio, just "One Nine One Nine a copy and what's your handle?".

"this is my first tweet #gamergate #bitcoin #tcot"

^what i wld suggest to get off on the right foot

marcos if u follow me and lagoon we p much cover all the angles of twitter

the yin and yang of tweets

Bise I want to follow u on twitter

followed your advice and talked about gamergate and bitcoins and shit and now my boss blocked me thanks a lot everybody

lol jk but I still haven't tweeted anything

u should tweet about how nobody answers yr tweets that seems popular

tell ur boss u will only discuss work via DM

subtweet ilx

uh I'm not volunteering as anyones go between with their boss how dare u

rude

twitter is good

unfollow anyone who puts 'writer' in their bio

follow Thinkers instead

thinkers & gurus

thinkfluenceers

Bise I want to follow u on twitter
― Clay, Thursday, March 26, 2015 4:58 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sure who wouldn't?

You mean to tell me that I'm the first person since last year to use the word periscope in an ILX post?

They should've called it, p'ello, I guess.

Twitter is asking me if I want to follow patton oswalt, where have I gone wrong in life to have had twitter make this suggestion to me,

Do I have to take confession, how many hail marys do I have to say

How have I sinned

you have to follow patton oswalt, sorry it is just the way of the tweet

in patton all things will be forgiven or at least punished

Yeah stop complaining and fulfill your destiny.

pattonement

(sorry)

yaaaa

I never got into twitter cause I had no idea what to write, ever. I admire writers in general because a blank canvas is really daunting to me.

use the standard joke templates

is there a wiki for that?

ha prob

you can start opinionating about things in the news but be careful to never explicitly note what you're talking about. this keeps some mystery alive for your followers who aren't reading the same things you are.

opinionating through standard joke format is also acceptable.

Just imagine you're in your forties, father of two, consistently behind one month on mortgage payments…

then suddenly, tweets like "Why didn't they call rotary phones 'digital phones' since your finger did the most work with those?" will suddenly spring to life.

i used to not get twitter but then i realized its function is finding random nerds with similar interests to you and outsourcing your opinions/scraping of the internet to them. i even have twitter "friends" that DM me about economics and math stuff now. weird twitter is ok but gets old, the whole (music)critic nexus of savvy young ppl making flip cultural observations is pretty horrifying, there's way too much "media criticism" in general and even a master of the form like heer jest can get annoying with that shit. the social justice stuff can be good but a lot of the star feeds are way too high frequency. following ppl who post a lot of graphs and charts is cool, like that demography guy. same for like, wildlife or nature photos. i follow a few hardline communists for some reason, one of whom is a former ilxor and mtl hipster LOL

The mute function is key I find

You gotta take your feed by the reins and curate the heck out of it

my feed has evolved to something that really suits me: handful of sports guys/gals who aren't annoying, handful of movie guys/gals who aren't annoying, academic presses, smaller record labels, musicians. good way to be exposed to *content* that may interest me.

Feel like the weird Twitter krew just treat Twitter like an irc chat room now

It's like meeting everyday at the Seinfeld cafe they're a bunch of Twitter olds now lol

lol i struggled to not have my phone autocorrect that to herr jest

What is herr jest should I be following them

1. u wld prob not like him he does

3. twitter

3. essays

Been on it for a week - twitter feed is a mix: from old ilx/Live Journal to following a lot of arts and lit based stuff that means I don't need my bookmarks/subscribe to emails anymore.

Have bought Finnegans Wake on the basis of its account - which extracts a line from it every few mins. Fools you into thinking its an easy read.

lol

I thought it would take away my energies from ilx-ing but at the moment I am still posting on here. xp

i wish i read jeet heer but whenever i try like a Full Third of a sixty-part twit-essay is dedicated to him announcing his realness