Twitter C/D

truly, he died in vain rip

Cum-filled sweatsock Jeffrey Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere steps in it on Twitter, doesn't understand why everyone is so mad at him now:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CynmdEXXUAU5qwY.jpg

sometimes I feel like those little reading exercises that emphasize "context clues" that elementary kids have should be given to horrible conversationalists

"so, this guy has been avoiding movies with grieving and loss and has given a specific period of time. do you think that at that time, he was grieving?" *points to picture of man at movie theater*

lol

I love the way this guy's moral compass is "you should only call strangers "little pussy" on the internet if you have no reason to think they've suffered a recent death in the family"

https://twitter.com/ThaddeusRussell

This chucklehead.

PissPigGranDad on the left

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-LST28hghCs/TPGverGCZ0I/AAAAAAAAA24/FaonZx0mhZ8/s1600/get%2Bloose%2B2.JPG

http://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/music-interviews/warkrime/

cork gaa jersey whut

it wld be cool if the noise dude al qaeda guy was in the band too

Did you all see this interview with PissPigGranddad?

https://shadowproof.com/2016/12/06/american-syria-ypg-communal-society-ruins/

dwayne was @collatingbones originally but he hasn't been that for a long time. he did the simpsons marijuana thing and some other similar brief gimmicks

― ciderpress, Wednesday, November 23, 2016 6:22 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark

he was mr baseball too i liked that one tweet he head. for some reason i associate him with crows too

http://i.imgur.com/BDdYg5c.jpg

overall the verdict is: too many tweets

http://i.imgur.com/tijhhv2.png

On Nov. 7, the hashtag #pizzagate first appeared on Twitter. Over the next several weeks, it would be tweeted and retweeted hundreds or thousands of times each day.

An oddly disproportionate share of the tweets about Pizzagate appear to have come from, of all places, the Czech Republic, Cyprus and Vietnam, said Jonathan Albright, an assistant professor of media analytics at Elon University in North Carolina. In some cases, the most avid retweeters appeared to be bots, programs designed to amplify certain news and information.

“What bots are doing is really getting this thing trending on Twitter,” Albright said. “These bots are providing the online crowds that are providing legitimacy.”

Online, the more something is retweeted or otherwise shared, the more prominently it appears in social media and on sites that track “trending” news. As the bots joined ordinary Twitter users in pushing out Pizzagate-related rumors, the notion spread like wildfire. Who programmed the bots to focus on that topic remains unknown.

Is it really so hard to purge all the eggs and obvious bot accounts? What value does all that sewage bring to the business?

Monthly active uniques

though it turns out you can't trade those in for dollars

germany is calling this "automated opinion shaping":

https://twitter.com/ridt/status/806958107167518720

silby otm except you can exchange them for $ via referrals. the volume for a particular hashtag / account / referral combo is small but with bots working on several thousand hashtags a day you can start to accumulate a critical mass. a less automated version of this is the entire basis of most online publishing. i imagine a crackdown is possible (and is happening) but i also imagine that it's an arms race that will be difficult to win.

anton newcombe called cassandra fairbanks a cow, right here on twitter dot com

those dont sound like real ppl

they sound like dickens chars

yah I feel like I have heard tangentially of one name and the other seems fake. but it could go the other way

I notably have a fictional name in the "too plausibly real" real tho

Julia Ioffe has been sacked by Politico for the tweet referenced here:

https://mobile.twitter.com/leahmcelrath/status/809171829248196608

to be fair, trump is probably fucking his daughter

"Gratuitous opinion had no place, anywhere, at any time"

Trump probably cool about being rumoured to be fucking his daughter tbh, as long as his daughter is widely acknowledged as hott

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/donald-trump-twitter-emoji-crooked-hillary-232647

that ioffe tweet was obv stupid and indecorous and in a perfect world she deserves some sort of punishment for that but probably also important to remember that the president-elect of the united states more or less rose to power saying stuff pretty similar to that

all journalists should tweet incest jokes about the president

when the president does it that means that it is not poor twitter etiquette

news org shd adopt an "anything goes" policy on twitter baby!

imo, regardless of the example set by the president, fucking yr own daughter is poor twitter etiquette

Gotta wonder if a) POLITICO would've shitcanned Ioffe if she weren't already one foot out the door, and b) if Ioffe would've made that tweet if she weren't already etc. Also curious to know if there's a significant difference between the attitudes of POLITICO and The Atlantic (where Ioffe's headed) w/r/t their writers' use of social media.

Matt Bruenig was fired from Demos during the primary for calling Clinton ally Neera Tanden a "scumbag" in a tweet.

Which is not to say Ioffe deserved to be fired. Probably neither deserved to be fired, and probably both tweets were ill-considered.

noo matt bruenig was given the choice to either stop constantly calling people names on twitter or be fired and he chose to be fired because being a rageball online was too dear to his heart lol

that website drives ppl fn insane lol

some nerd ass socialist lawyer is suddenly a wild pugilist, once he tastes blood he cant get enough and asking him to abide by any standards of decency is a violation of first amendment rights

i mean dont get me wrong i love respect free journalism but the 140 characters makes ppl lose all perspective

this website is a hell to me

when im offline for a while then come back to twitter im always like wtf is this horrific shit, but then an hour im back in the groove baby!

noo matt bruenig was given the choice to either stop constantly calling people names on twitter or be fired and he chose to be fired because being a rageball online was too dear to his heart lol

― lag∞n, Thursday, December 15, 2016 1:50 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that website drives ppl fn insane lol

― lag∞n, Thursday, December 15, 2016 1:53 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

some nerd ass socialist lawyer is suddenly a wild pugilist, once he tastes blood he cant get enough and asking him to abide by any standards of decency is a violation of first amendment rights

― lag∞n, Thursday, December 15, 2016 1:55 PM (eight minutes ago)

you gotta respect it he died for what he believed in

i've thought about trimming back on people who talk about politics a lot, i'm really just on there for the poop jokes

https://68.media.tumblr.com/606fbd6a91600577c99eea64521a199a/tumblr_oi7nqs0iJI1qa9yvvo1_1280.png

you gotta respect it he died for what he believed in

― k3vin k., Thursday, December 15, 2016 2:05 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tru

current josh marshall meltdown over a gizmodo article saying tweetstorms are bad is the good twitter

yeah the bruenig thing was a seriously wtffff moment and went off the rails hardcore when every twitter buddy (or person who wanted to be his buddy) started hammering his perceived foes about how he, a real person with a job, was now without a job and they should die in a fire for not letting this man rage at others

the best part was he was only writing part time while holding an actual well paying lawyer job

can't remember, is gamergate lawyer a real lawyer now? he was married to a real lawyer, but I was thinking he got divorced and remarried or something