Twitter C/D

yeah following tons of people is the best

so tired of people tweeting about how they're so tired of things

^^^ tired af

tired of listening to gossip
gossip and complaints

if deray was the only person on twitter it would still be the best social network

I am only 2 degrees of separation from Deray IRL and that makes me inordinately happy

if you had to pick one account to make an argument for twitter being a meaningful and useful medium it would be his yeah

Twitter has made my poetry more aphoristic. Formally, it’s a platform ideally suited to the aphorism; in fact aphorisms should be quite a bit less than 140 characters. Further, you can like (or “favorite”) an aphorism even if you disagree, or aren’t sure you agree. “RT ≠ endorsement,” as many Twitter bios attest, but nor does a favorite. Some tweets, of course, aspire to literal, factual truth — those that report on science or the news, for example. But others are more like essays or poems or novels which can’t, fundamentally, be true or not true; it’s a category error.

http://thesmartset.com/aphorisms-as-essays/

h8 aphorisms

umair

https://twitter.com/The_Soviets

^ tick.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/QmmBJO5.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Ve6tKID.png

the sensitivity of the internet in action

a sensitive internet and a time travelling robot could have saved him

RIP that guy

otm

rip... ped in half by a robot

lagoon that's horrible; also, lol

figure thats how were all gonna go

i clicked through from this tweet and was kind of shocked by the disparity between retweets and people actually doing something to help. i understand that not everyone has money to donate and maybe it's right to be suspicious of people asking for cash on the internet and everything, but i dunno, this sort of thing makes me feel that twitter is mostly just about people fronting:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/birdnestsoup/dornella.jpg

should say that i recognise that is much more to that tweet than just asking for assistance obv - injustice, violence and social inequality in a nutshell

sorry, this was a dumb example to use to make a point about the shittiness of social media

i've had my first experience of a tweet being widely retweeted, shit is wild

let me have some of your twitter money that you get

link?

i can pay you in furries and eggs

i can't believe yr wasp butt tweet went that big

https://twitter.com/patron_sailor/status/616235140822511616

rated nsfw for mild butt content

thats really impressive, ive been having a lot of trouble pushing insect-based statue butt tweets to go viral, do u think because its just bees in a plaster cast of my actual ass

lol niice

am I a humor twitter noob for enjoying Andy Richter?

No he's great.

ya hes funny

http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/07/08/fbi-director-for-would-be-terrorists-twitter-is-the-devil-on-their-shoulder/

FBI Director James Comey accused Twitter of being the main conduit for Islamic State recruitment on Wednesday and said the social media site amounted to the “devil on their shoulder” for extremist sympathizers around the world.

“ISIL is reaching out, primarily through Twitter, to about 21,000 English-language followers,” Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee, using an acronym for the extremist group. “It buzzes in their pocket … a device, almost a devil on their shoulder, all day long saying, ‘Kill, kill, kill, kill.’”

i can confirm this

seconded

“It buzzes in their pocket … a device, almost a devil on their shoulder, all day long saying, ‘Kill, kill, kill, kill.’”

That is some straight up reefer madness talk right there.

shd i change my ringtone

all day long lag∞n is a devil on my shoulder saying 'wow, rude'

“It buzzes in their pocket … a device, almost a devil on their shoulder, all day long saying, ‘Kill, kill, kill, kill.’”

That is some straight up reefer madness talk right there.

― pplains, Wednesday, July 8, 2015 10:03 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dunno man, honestly, twitter can be pretty powerfully at drawing you further into whatever passing interests you might have on a daily basis and making your opinions about various issues stronger and more vehement. i can totally see that working the same way if your interests are a little more, ahem, fringe.

all day long lag∞n is a devil on my shoulder saying 'wow, rude'

― mookieproof, Wednesday, July 8, 2015 10:07 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

uh angel hello? rude

Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it.

keep seeing these angels, telling me what to do. and these devils, pulling me down.

and I thought, what if these angels are really the demons

thats some fucked up trippy shit man

There has to be a benefit to morons giving away locations and operational details that outweighs the need to shut them down, surely?

I can't think of any reason Twitter would continue to host known ISIS accounts other than governments not wanting them to switch to WhatsApp.

theyve shut down thousands of accounts, u can just get a new one

http://i.imgur.com/oKhUl2W.jpg

"Just wrote a great tweet, but then I deleted it. Allahu Akbar!"

xp, you're right - it looks like they started doing this properly a few months ago having let them get on with it before then.

is this a glitch or did everyone stop tweeting and delete all the tweets

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