Twitter C/D

lol

https://twitter.com/ORTECHCanada/status/777908430023585792

this was me

pretty scary for those two minutes when my username was that lol

wow learn something new abt ilxors every day

i'm nazi btw

Fair to say that ORTECH Consulting did... NAZI this one coming

damn what's the delay on this thing

i think they're deleting :(

dang, didn't get the chance to follow with "Ortech did 9/11"

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.

lmao

https://twitter.com/Justin__Bebis/status/777932050535944192

just had my first multiple-retweeted tweet, woot

congrats

can I give u a Twitter tip hurting... don't use hashtags unironically

never hashtag ever

cool thx

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

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.

i followed him

dear reader, i followed him

can't believe you found my second account I mentioned

ha

http://i.imgur.com/ikUKK41.png

lag∞n's feed too offensive for even the misogynists of twitter

can't see me, sorry

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

https://twitter.com/gretagrain/status/778451158440345600

he got jams tho can he come to ilm

aw he blocked me now

so like twitter is a battery hog and it's not just my phone dying on me right?

by "twitter" do we mean their official client or

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

^^ 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.

they fixed that this week

Didn't realize but you are right, was using tweetbot on (old) ipad

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.

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

new fave acct https://mobile.twitter.com/naked4u2see/

what the fuck dude

Indeed

that fellow certainly gets around town

Eh, you seen one Taco Bell, you've seen them all.

Lots of buzz around a new iOS client; have forgotten its name so not that much buzz. Leaf, maybe?

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 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

new fave acct https://mobile.twitter.com/naked4u2see/

― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), 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

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 read
6) 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 users
7) 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

#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.

I want to follow this great experiment.

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

man alive can you not just follow your friends

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.

Silby, I'm doing it semi anonymously (not using rn and only mentioned it to two friends), but also not a lot of my friends tweet actively and also I find facebook's format more conducive to conversation with friends.

My most successful tweet so far is currently at three rts and 22 <3s