Twitter C/D

1d and rigid about what to talk about, how to talk about it etc etc

a lot of the great posters of yore would slowly stop posting on ilx until they only posted on their favorite sports subboard and i feel that

i been too busy to post on ILH tho >_<

We welcome u back w open arms bro

Agree w that but when was the last really good n funny ilx thread

amanda

One big wish I have is for Twitter names to be longer my display name potential is capped severely on Twitter

― 龜, Saturday, November 21, 2015 9:15 AM (3 hours ago)

twitter display names are undoubtedly the worst thing about twitter, they are all so bad

ilx ones are worse

all of the lame variations on "trill" or other decade+ old southern rap meme puns fill me with despair and make me long for the display name era of ilx

lol

agree. so many cringe puns on "bae" too

i like combining cool rap-related slang with references to nerd culture of the 90s or terms beloved of urban youth to academic subjects

my interests are almost too niche now and nobody really wants to talk about [stuff i want to talk about]

feel this although admittedly working long-ass finance guy hours i have fewer interests in general than i used to. really i wish that ppl on ilx were still interested in the sort of sociological trend-watching that i am. or books.

Lamp, you ought to spend more time on I Love Books. It's books, books, and more books over there.

i love brooks

huh, never used it but i didn't know tumblr was dead. guess that boat has sailed. the slow death of ilx makes me sad, i agree with lex and Lamp that you can't really have the same discussions on twitter as on ilx. but i still love twitter and don't get a vibe of "anxiety" from it. twitter is both its own self contained thing but also has a dual role as like, scaffolding erected (lol) above an underlying web 2.0 structure; a lot of tweets are "here is a link to a blog post i wrote in response to @twitteruser bt.ly/420" where twitter is like the edges connecting the nodes of stuff that more closely resembles ilx, plus stray off the cuff commentary. another big functional difference is the temporal dimension, like you can come home at the end of the day and say "let's see what me ilxor chums got up to today" and just read the threads that got bumped thoughout the day. you can't really do that on twitter, like you can't go back

think all the tweens have moved on to snapchat

or ISIS, idk, whatever tweens do these days

D

Ugh

my tween cousin reads buzzfeed dot com and watches youtubes about people playing minecraft

here is a link to a blog post i wrote in response to @twitteruser bt.ly/420" where twitter is like the edges connecting the nodes of stuff that more closely resembles ilx

ok but ime over the past year or so linking on twitter has kinda become completely pointless, no one pays attention to them

but i still love twitter and don't get a vibe of "anxiety" from it

i think the ppl for whom tweeting is a professional obligation have a sort of frantic sensibility to their tweeting. its not really anxious its more the sympathetic exhaustion you get from watching someone who is always on, always performing, selling themselves. this long commercial for something your pretty sure no ones buying. it kinda ties in to ppl who use twitter as a way of connecting the various web-based platforms although tbh that stuff just feels more effective on facebook.

maybe im the only one but i love back-reading some weirdos twitter just seeing what they had to say like two years ago the state of the union.

back when i was first addicted to twitter (as a consumer and not a content creator) i would obsessively read my timeline and read all of it and never miss like get up in the morning and read all the tweets from last night

probably why i burned out on it and didn't start again until recently

i used to do the same with irc chats

now i'm pretty chill about it like you log on and read what's happening and then you log off and it's cool don't have to read everything

i like twitter because it reminds me of irc actually like the stream is always on there's always content but the asymmetricalities are kinda cool

also it's probably the closest i've come to a high school lunch table environ like if you thought ILX was cliquey then

back when i was first addicted to twitter (as a consumer and not a content creator) i would obsessively read my timeline and read all of it and never miss like get up in the morning and read all the tweets from last night

yeah i did this too when i first got into it. i remember feeling like, physically sick after long bouts of reading. there are a few accounts that i will like check up on to see what they've posted

i think the ppl for whom tweeting is a professional obligation have a sort of frantic sensibility to their tweeting. its not really anxious its more the sympathetic exhaustion you get from watching someone who is always on, always performing, selling themselves. this long commercial for something your pretty sure no ones buying

example of someone we follow who is like this? this descrip made me think of miserable humanities phd students i used to follow who i guess are trying to position themselves for placement in hip departments that would take kind of stuff into consideration? like, the new inquiry people? they are the worst people on our internet though IMHO. but i don't get this as a general overarching vibe

it kinda ties in to ppl who use twitter as a way of connecting the various web-based platforms although tbh that stuff just feels more effective on facebook.

idk man i deeply hate facebook these days

the dopamine hit from having a tweet go viral or even from just having the people who follow you fav a good tweet of yours ensures that a lot of narcissists make twitter their primary home

[drake voice] i need acknolwedgment

idk man i deeply hate facebook these days

― flopson, Saturday, November 21, 2015 3:22 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

interacting with people on facebook is a visible horror

narcisism sounds bad but that dopamine hit is good incentive imo. it's kind of hilarious that we're like, hard wired to want to make other ppl laugh

I still read every tweet in my TL. Unless I've been off for several days which never happens.

Usually only about 100 unread when I wake up in the morning.

tbh if ILX wasn't so dead and had better #content i would probably spend more time on here

like all i want out of ilx is a darraghmac rss feed and the rest to the wolves

I mean I returned to Twitter after a break of almost a year and immediately got work from tweeting about carly rae jepsen. for my profession it feels super necessary, which also makes me feel trapped. I'm also really easily stressed out by the relentlessly updating feed. I sorta think we weren't meant to hang out with everybody all the time

example of someone we follow who is like this?

after my year in the wilderness my new account follows like two dozen ppl atm. only person i could think of currently is mallory ortberg and i had to unfollow her cuz it was #2much. thats just my impression from looking at some media/tech/academia ppls twitters w/o really following them

i unfollowed her as well lmao

I use twitter to connect with social justice educators and read up on spurs basketball journo tweets. And some academics who talk abt interesting things.

Facebook is a whole other animal. Most of my FB friends are coworkers or former students now. I share articles and the usual half dozen or so people are into them.

think the secret to enjoying twitter is following a bunch of high volume ppl (in both senses of the word) who are funny. in other words treat it like a chatroom

I follow lagoon, and I also follow desusnice.

what does that mean

think the secret to enjoying twitter is following a bunch of high volume ppl (in both senses of the word) who are funny. in other words treat it like a chatroom

this is exactly how i treated it three years ago and it no longer functions for me in this way

had to unfollow her cuz it was #2much

lol same

i did not but curiously it did make me weary of reading the toast again

what does that mean

― 龜, Saturday, November 21, 2015 3:16 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lagoon and twitter user desusnice both make me laugh a lot on twitter thats all

back when i was first addicted to twitter (as a consumer and not a content creator) i would obsessively read my timeline and read all of it and never miss like get up in the morning and read all the tweets from last night

Six months in and I do scroll through about 12 hrs worth of timeline in one go - RT anyhing I want to read (RTs no endorsement indeed!)(a review of a book, an interview), or any particular bits of poetry I like - both from twitter dead poet accounts or ppl using twitter creatively (someone like Elisa Gabbert is pretty much the best I've seen at this).

With writers/media = if they use it to promote their work and just that I don't follow.

Thinking about it I don't know how widespread that is. Maybe I am lucky with the ppl I follow and don't happen to know as most ppl real tweet what they love or hate and its all tied in to what they are interested in.

elisa is the best

if somebody started a bunch of ilx threads led by her sort of quirky, deadpan pensée they would be clowned remorselessly tbrr

? i guess so. her books are great, i've always enjoyed her on twitter

her tweets are great imo - never read her books.

the self unstable is a really tiny book of compressed, mini-essays that also kinda function as poetry. it rules imo