uh oh
― goole, Monday, 19 September 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
"brumpbo tungus," haven't seen that in a minute
lol
― lagβn, Monday, 19 September 2016 16:38 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/ORTECHCanada/status/777908430023585792
this was me
― flopson, Monday, 19 September 2016 16:40 (seven years ago) link
pretty scary for those two minutes when my username was that lol
― flopson, Monday, 19 September 2016 16:41 (seven years ago) link
wow learn something new abt ilxors every day
― lagβn, Monday, 19 September 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link
i'm nazi btw
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 19 September 2016 16:49 (seven years ago) link
Fair to say that ORTECH Consulting did... NAZI this one coming
― flopson, Monday, 19 September 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
damn what's the delay on this thing
― goole, Monday, 19 September 2016 17:11 (seven years ago) link
i think they're deleting :(
― goole, Monday, 19 September 2016 17:13 (seven years ago) link
dang, didn't get the chance to follow with "Ortech did 9/11"
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 19 September 2016 17:22 (seven years ago) link
So far I am noticing that early twitter use feels oddly like work, where you feel this need to do things to get followers and increase your reach.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 19 September 2016 18:44 (seven years ago) link
lmao
https://twitter.com/Justin__Bebis/status/777932050535944192
― goole, Monday, 19 September 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link
just had my first multiple-retweeted tweet, woot
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 19 September 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link
congrats
can I give u a Twitter tip hurting... don't use hashtags unironically
― flopson, Monday, 19 September 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
never hashtag ever
― Clay, Monday, 19 September 2016 20:18 (seven years ago) link
cool thx
― goole, Monday, 19 September 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link
I think all the handful of times I used hashtags so far were either ironic or in response to a specific thing (i.e dumb games where you're supposed to come up with a pun) except maybe one
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 19 September 2016 20:34 (seven years ago) link
oh cool, first thing to have really freaked me out in a while:
https://twitter.com/gretagrain/with_replies
guy w/ 0 follows/ers tweets obsessive gnomic shit, mostly at women, also music youtubes
hope to god it's a bot.
― goole, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 21:54 (seven years ago) link
i followed him
― lagβn, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 22:48 (seven years ago) link
dear reader, i followed him
― Mordy, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 22:58 (seven years ago) link
can't believe you found my second account I mentioned
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh π), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 23:06 (seven years ago) link
ha
http://i.imgur.com/ikUKK41.png
― lagβn, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 23:33 (seven years ago) link
lagβn's feed too offensive for even the misogynists of twitter
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 23:34 (seven years ago) link
can't see me, sorry
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh π), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 23:38 (seven years ago) link
ah i see this fella spent a good portion of the afternoon harassing a gizmodo writer i follow with increasingly creepy stuff that i can't even begin to decode
― Clay, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/gretagrain/status/778451158440345600
he got jams tho can he come to ilm
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 08:25 (seven years ago) link
aw he blocked me now
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh π), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 13:19 (seven years ago) link
so like twitter is a battery hog and it's not just my phone dying on me right?
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:40 (seven years ago) link
by "twitter" do we mean their official client or
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh π), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
like tweetbot usually is 20-30% of my total battery usage, but it's because I'm sitting there scrolling through tweets, loading tweets, loading images, and pulling the little refresh thing all the time
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh π), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 17:24 (seven years ago) link
^^ I've got autorefresh on.
Thing about tweetbot that does annoy me: it's always last to catch up with new features. Gif implementation took ages, and now that the 140 limit excludes links and pics it redirects me to web Twitter because it can't cope.
― the tightening is plateauing (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 17:34 (seven years ago) link
they fixed that this week
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh π), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 17:39 (seven years ago) link
Didn't realize but you are right, was using tweetbot on (old) ipad
― the tightening is plateauing (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link
i never could get with tweetbot's gestures. they felt different just for the sake of it. they still don't do polls, right? conversation threading has always been pretty awful. it was ALLLmost worth it for the syncing with desktop and the lack of ads but i just couldn't hang.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 19:46 (seven years ago) link
they don't do polls b/c twitter doesn't provide an API hook for polls, because twitter is trying to kill the lingering 3p clients like tweetbot without outright killing them
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 19:50 (seven years ago) link
new fave acct https://mobile.twitter.com/naked4u2see/
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh π), Thursday, 22 September 2016 02:55 (seven years ago) link
what the fuck dude
― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Thursday, 22 September 2016 03:05 (seven years ago) link
Indeed
― Ξα½ΟΞΉΟ, Thursday, 22 September 2016 03:05 (seven years ago) link
that fellow certainly gets around town
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 22 September 2016 03:14 (seven years ago) link
Eh, you seen one Taco Bell, you've seen them all.
― pplains, Thursday, 22 September 2016 03:15 (seven years ago) link
Lots of buzz around a new iOS client; have forgotten its name so not that much buzz. Leaf, maybe?
― stet, Thursday, 22 September 2016 09:03 (seven years ago) link
β slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 20:50 Bookmark
search is also vaguely crippled for 3ps, i forget how exactly. dont think they gave much heads up for the longer tweets either
normally have fenix on android but i'm using the official client until the latter issue is sorted - it's a lot better than it was but two clicks to get to a list and then a massive uneccessary nav bar permanently taking up the top quarter of the screen is infuriating
― r|t|c, Thursday, 22 September 2016 12:44 (seven years ago) link
new fave acct https://mobile.twitter.com/naked4u2see/β dr. mercurio arboria (mh π), Wednesday, September 21, 2016 10:55 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
β dr. mercurio arboria (mh π), Wednesday, September 21, 2016 10:55 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The best is this banal tweet in the middle of all the nudity
https://mobile.twitter.com/naked4u2see/status/661236375119753216
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 22 September 2016 15:08 (seven years ago) link
A few observations from my brief twitsperiment so far:
1) the only way to pick up followers in the beginning seems to be to reply to posters with more followers with retweetable posts. I have landed this trick twice and have a mere 22 followers. 2) but doing this takes an outsized amount of time and effort - finding the right joke right place right time right person combo. 3)I'm sure there's a point where growth could start to speed up exponentially, but only if you're really good at retweetable jokes 4) it seems really exhausting to get to even get to escape velocity 5) beyond the game of followers, it's sort of an annoying format, not that conducive to conversation compared to Facebook of even ilx, harder to read6) the majority of people who do have a lot of followers either have some separate minor notability (journalists, comics etc) or are just really long time users7) for the professionals, the tweets are really partly work and self promotion so there's much more incentive to put in the work 8) one thing I do think it could be really useful is for following specialized or obscure topics, like stuff beyond the same slate and salon pieces everyone already shares on Facebook
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, 23 September 2016 00:05 (seven years ago) link
#1 I mean you cleverly reply to someone popular, they throw you a retweet; a few of their followers also retweet and this leads to a few new followers for you.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, 23 September 2016 00:09 (seven years ago) link
I want to follow this great experiment.
― Jeff, Friday, 23 September 2016 00:09 (seven years ago) link
I'm pretty bad at twitter and you can count the number of non-ilx non-irl non-bot followers i have on two hands but i still have a good time on it idk. for me the purest narcissistic frisson isn't the one you get from making a good joke and getting a lot of RTs but when an account ur twitter crushing on follows u back
― flopson, Friday, 23 September 2016 00:37 (seven years ago) link
man alive can you not just follow your friends
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Friday, 23 September 2016 01:21 (seven years ago) link
I've got 2000 tweets in four years with a whopping 200 followers.id hate to be one of those nightmare people who have to create lists and stuff.
― pplains, Friday, 23 September 2016 01:56 (seven years ago) link