Twitter C/D

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

twitter essays are an automatic unfollow for me.

i follow a few hardline communists for some reason, one of whom is a former ilxor and mtl hipster LOL

didn't know s1ocki was so red

there's also something about the smug way "intellectualism" is performed on twitter that really puts me off...like that seemingly patient, here let me break it down for you 140 characters at a time kind of thing.

worst part might be people "discovering" political thought and opining about it in the most vapid ways and then getting retweeted by people who find them visionary

i like twitter essays more stuff shld be written in bullet pt form imo

also i really like the thing phil elverum said about twitter, that just the mechanics of reading it mean you can say “Here, think this thought really quick”, can super directly convey something abstract in this really open context, space, people's attention span so wide & then specific. like the language part of it is really lovely, i think, to have access to this fragmentary branch of somebody's thoughts.

what the form really needs is someone really gifted at this genre: A Thread for Posting Brutally Pessimistic Quotes by Anguished Philosophers

ryan - def feel you but those ppl would be smug in any format tbrr

i like twitter essays more stuff shld be written in bullet pt form imo

― flopson, Tuesday, March 31, 2015 12:21 PM (18 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya its kinda cool how they do away with a lot of the "writing" part of writing

ps xyzzz² what's yr username

i like zany sweeping stoned polo sci grad student twitter essays too. maybe my fav form of twitter essay

are there good examples of good twitter essays or is the thing we're admiring more the being on the ground during the gettysburg address sensation, the temporality of just swimming in live content, something like the flickering cursor live-typing of '00s computer thrillers

theres something sort of sweet about watching the urban planning accounts talk to each other all day

the internet of the internet of things

i posted one in the Greece/syriza thread that is a classic imo. on my phone so I can't find it now. lots of good economics ones idk. I like herr jest

sometimes ill notice who someone i follows irl best friend is and follow them in order to eves drop on their convos is this creepy im not sure

infinite jeet

lol i have def done that

a fav recent JH one was about globe & mail, gawker, journalistic ethics

but rly flopson who is mtl hipster ex-ilx twitterer, I need to follow

ty flopson
can you summarise

knock yrselves out folks https://storify.com/JeetHeer1

are there good examples of good twitter essays or is the thing we're admiring more the being on the ground during the gettysburg address sensation, the temporality of just swimming in live content, something like the flickering cursor live-typing of '00s computer thrillers

― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, March 31, 2015 12:28 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

I generally agree re: the above on twitter essays, but the one exception is obv @pushinghoops who is a master of any medium she touches imo

wait the really wordy dude was on ilx?

commie former ilxor is j4y w4tts III https://twitter.com/jaywattsiii

join the @jacobinmag Toronto Reading Group lmao

adorno

adorn your life with lols

i am probably the worst twitter tbh

Congress, no

(what you really want)