Twitter C/D

never

what i'm getting from this is to be wary of anyone named sarah

The Aaron Bady "top secret note" is what elevated that explainer to a classic I think

http://recode.net/2016/01/27/mossberg-twitter-has-become-secret-handshake-software/

Basically, Twitter has become what I call “secret-handshake software” — something that’s so complicated that, as in a secret society, only insiders know the rituals that unlock its power.

That has to stop. New Twitter CEO (and co-founder) Jack Dorsey has to tear out a lot of this stuff by the roots and rebuild the service in a clearer, more accessible form. The trick will be to find a way to do this that’s both inviting for new users and still attractive to Twitter addicts.

I don't think this is possible for a few reasons:

1. Making Twitter welcoming to late adopters would be kind of an Eternal September for the power users, I suspect; they also already have a pretty ugly troll problem without making the app convenient for dummies
2. Part of making Twitter approachable for people like me would mean taking an axe to several things that are integral to Twitter: the 140 limit, the lack of privacy, and really, anything resembling a cool factor (things people like me do are not cool)
3. Most of the people who are not on Twitter have nothing they want to contribute to Twitter; the interface is not the barrier, you're trying to sell record players to people who don't buy vinyl
4. The functionality they are competing with is me and/or people like me collecting a bunch of handles in a bookmarks folder and occasionally using the "open all in tabs" command. No login, no buy-in, no compulsion to stay up-to-date.

That has to stop.

lol

I liked the youtube videos that had a puppet parodying Mossberg reviews

why not fire 75% of engineering and just make money off of merely hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue

too easy

shareholders in the 21st century don't give a shit about profitable, dividends are for chumps, what matters is GROWTH so you can sell your shares to some idiot when the company peaks. BTW shareholders are not allowed to be the "some idiot" in this scenario; company peaks are never in the past.

i only skimmed this piece but i can tell its bad im sensitive to bad tech punditry smell http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-end-of-twitter

For instance, new users might be confused about what a retweet is, or the difference between that and a “quote tweet” (where you say more about something you’re re-posting). And they surely might not understand the need to place a period before the handle of a user, when that handle is at the very start of a tweet you compose, yet not elsewhere in the tweet.

Maybe? But this took me, max, 3 days to figure out? And I am not some kind of social media genius. I am 100% legit OK with Twitter not being dominated by people who can't handle this, though Twitter, as a business, is probably not OK with this.

If Twitter’s real-time feed is its most powerful asset (and it is), it’s not difficult to see a future in which Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, or even a newcomer like Peach (yes, I am citing Peach) focus enough on real-time news that they obviate the need for Twitter’s narrow, noisy, and oft-changing ideas on social interaction.

ppl been saying this abt twitter since like a month after it launched

Don't use twitter guys its bad

ppl been saying this abt twitter since like a month after it launched

i'm told that the children do not use facebook

one of the few things that makes me optimistic about the future

Sometimes u gotta own being right and im stepping up right now and saying that's me

i am friends w some teens on facebook and they seem to use it some, i mean some ppl use facebook as in posting commenting browsing etc but a lot of ppl seem to use it in the sense that its the place that everyone can be found, thats its basic utility

yeah imagine feeling the need to go to the same website every single day and enter 100 pithy messages into a box to get approval from strangers.

xpost

lol

is linkedin useful for . . . anything?

that's the one that mystifies me the most

afaict LinkedIn is useful for meeting other people who care about LinkedIn

linkedin is useful if you like sending spam messages to everyone you know regarding linkedin

an acquaintance's teenage daughter recently sent me a linkedin request; freaked me the fuck out

linkedin is good for getting jobs if you are extremely lazy and have certain technical skills highly valued in the tech industry

linkedin also good for latently keeping track of people you used to know and if they might be useful to you

the slightly less lazy version lol

linkedin is good for networking in yr [my] industry tbph

should i join peach

like it has def brought in business to my company w/out question. nb it's obv annoying as hell but xp

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d5/Peach_(Super_Mario_3D_World).png

I found my current job on LinkedIn. It's definitely a useful job-hunting tool. Its "social" aspects are virtually nil - part of my job is to post news related to my industry on our LinkedIn page, and Nobody Gives A Fuck.

can't believe the kendzior mess is back. in passing i like sarah jeong ok; i'm always surprised when people turn out to hate each other but i guess i shouldn't be

what do you all make of the molly crabapple vs tankies feud? no idea on that one either, jesus

you're just making up words and putting them together into sentences now aren't you

i googled it and found this article that said: "But nowhere has the backlash been worse than on Stalinist Twitter: a peculiar mélange of social justice paraphernalia, Komsomol Manga, and Red Army porn." is there really such thing as Red Army porn??

lmao what a world

what do you all make of the molly crabapple vs tankies feud? no idea on that one either, jesus

― goole, Friday, January 29, 2016 8:06 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

emma rules and imo molly belongs with the sarahs in the Exploit Misunderstanding To Get A Bigger Outrage Audience column

im told molly is v cool and nice irl and i'm really impressed by her art, but like, doxxing an aid worker in a warzone bcz she said something you didn't like on line is beyond the pale imo

it seems kind of rude but: https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/406dyp/molly_crabapple_doxes_a_twitter_communist_to_get/

fucking seriously

http://www.buzzfeed.com/hayesbrown/a-twitter-account-that-denies-people-are-starving-in-syria-i#.ahP3q0ynR

I also just learned what "tankies" are, what a world

idk someone who works helping syrians resettle in canada tweeting about how she doesn't think ppl in syria are actually starving... ppl should have some option for anonymity, but that's... rude

http://i.imgur.com/Q76F2B5.png

hehe

why do you guys care so much about these randos caught up in twitter beefs, are they important ppl?

nope

if you follow enough people in left twitter you see these factional+personal feuds flare up eventually

^^^^^^ and if you follow or know enough of them these feuds can even take up your whole TL & fuck up irl friendships

amber f, who wrote articles that started both Jacobinghazi and the Molly/Emma battle, is a good friend of one of my housemates--she refused to stay at our house while visiting the city because she thinks i'm an asshole

and like, who the fuck am i, even

MC's art is p bad imo

xp huh she's written some things i've liked in the past but she seems like a huge asshole herself. not that there's anything wrong with that.

i couldn't possibly comment

i side w/big hoos, i've got your back if twitter war comes to town