Twitter C/D

pour one out, heaven needed a feature-light tumblr used by millions of misogynist bots

the only good twitter accounts are neonwario and everyone adjacent to him

young_laureate is probably my favourite twitter account tbrr

140: ¯_(ツ)_/¯

280:
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— Alvadrug ಠ_ಠ (@alvaroga91) November 9, 2017

i <3 140/280 joek tweets

the only good twitter accounts are neonwario and everyone adjacent to him

my twitter is extremely good

neonwario is like a dare for how many irony levels deep can u go, def one of the lowkey lynchpins to twitter society

I still have no idea how to use Twitter. If you follow hundreds of accounts, there's no way you read your whole timeline, so how do you pick and choose?

whatevers there lol

i follow like 200 ppl max and prune fairly often, also maybe only 80 of them are particularly prolific so my feed isn't that chaotic

also you just read whatever's recent that's what it's all about

i try to keep my following under 1000

Surely 280 guarantees that any given tweet will now be seen by fewer ppl

yeah good point, there are all sorts of weird effects that cld happen faster scrolling more skipping/scanning etc

one thing on mastodon that's kind of cool to look at but would never work for something as big as twitter is the 'federated timeline' which is just a real-time firehose of every post on the network. like 3/4 of the posts on it are in japanese tho because the biggest mastodon instances are the ones for niconico and pixiv

i wish to be annihilated by the blast of data

i've been aggressively pruning my feed of moralist grandstanding, performative outrage, and basically anything that annoys me and now it's pretty boring and therefore much better. following a few accounts that have a greater reach and are quality retweeters (like lagoon) is enough for me. usually if something is particularly funny/good/weird it'll pop up in my feed eventually.

thx bud, i just started trying to eliminate the moral/sociological experts in my feed even tho theyre often informative its such a vibe killer

yeah otm i tend to follow professional people with specialized interests these days instead of ppl who feel the need to have an opinion on everything even if the opinions are “right”

yeah not RTs, it just shows me algorithmically selected tweets that people I follow have liked, not even RTed. if there's a way to turn it off it's well hidden since I can't find it

― ciderpress, Thursday, 9 November 2017 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The other side is some of the same ppl show up so often for me I don't have to follow them.

knowledgeable specialists who like to share and learn are def some of the best follows

yesterday i unfollowed someone and the algo immediately showed me two of their tweets via the x and five others liked interface, trying to get me to change my mind lol

which must work some of the time, or they were just testing it

yeah a handful of the ppl i used to follow for jokes and general nonsense pivoted to posting mostly about politics in the wake of the election and i had to prune a lot of them. not because they werent aligned with my views but because i only want so many politics tweets in my timeline and for that id rather prioritize ppl w/ more experience talking about it and/or from marginalized groups, rather than internet jokesters-cum-pundits

i'm not gonna miss out on any good jokes about current events regardless, algorithms have ensured that

i must see half of all krang and pixelated boat tweets and i dont even want to

pixelated boat is so fn bad lol

it's like, printed on a t-shirt in a head shop level humour

lol i blocked pixelated boat

i'm also realizing that myabe the reason why im not seeing a ton of 280 char tweet is i have a lot of words muted and the longer a tweet is the more likely it contains one of them

I liked the how the fake Orwell quotes got into The Guardian as Orwell himself though. That was great.

(made up by Pixelated boat)

few accounts that have a greater reach and are quality retweeters (like lagoon)

i think the feed would be to just follow like a dozen or so of these as twitter digest, and then a handful of low-frequency favs

*ideal feed

actually there is a third kinda-famous guy I follow - american sports media dude and chart expert jon bois. he is the best

Tyshawn Sorey follows me. I like his music so much I didn't post for days. Now I got over it, I just unselfconsciously don't post fuck all for days! Probably means I'm doing it wrong etc!

Some people I stay loyal to consistently post awful shit: The Canary, Orwell Memes, shrill shouty stuff about imminent demise of the Con gov etc. But I stick with them, as much as they bore me rigid.

i must see half of all krang and pixelated boat tweets and i dont even want to

there was this evil sage tweet that was something like "keep stomping around my room getting so mad about all the sweet dsa pussy krang t nelson must get" that i cant find because he deleted his account but it was the only thing related to krang ive ever found funny

re: krang and Pixelated boat (also Hippo). Half of the time they are just beefing on politics but it can be seen as a cry of pain a lot of the time.

@dril is left politics but he/she is much more careful about tying to anything like an identifiable politics.

not gonna deny they all have classic moments but fucking even the 90th percentile pixelated boat tweet is some warmed up trenchant social commentary

Hot dog purchase pic.twitter.com/Z8LSktfIix

— Pixelated “Pixelated Boat” Boat (@pixelatedboat) August 27, 2017

at some point years ago I decided life was better wint-less

actually there is a third kinda-famous guy I follow - american sports media dude and chart expert jon bois. he is the best

― imago, Saturday, November 11, 2017 4:58 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm jon is singularly good at twitter

most of my favorite ppl i follow have their own voice like that and not the twitter house style

yeah the sameness of the language and joke structures makes following most of the weird joke guys unfun. i dont really follow any of them and just look @ there feeds when im bored or in the mood for those type of jokes

Did a purge last year, amounting roughly to me following 300, w/ 600 followers. Following 375 now with 805 followers and it feels like a fitting ratio.

But then I like pixelated boat so who am I etc

i am not much of a tweeter but i like reading ilxors on twitter

a recurring thing i enjoy on twitter is when local garda slings off at the pope

i too enjoy those moments. lg in general on there tbf.

yes, he’s great fun

I envy how LG - and the likes - can be completely his own person on there, if that makes sense? In seemingly relative anonymity. I've accumulated half of my following I'd say because of me, yet half because of my job and what those ppl expect of me and there's no escaping. It's a tight rope, with "the personal" and "work/what ppl expect" since the beginning. After all these years it's still a pain in the ass to manage and not let rip freely a slag on the pope, say. And this will forever be why I'm ambivalent to twitter and the likes.

Can't imagine what it must be like for ppl more, or actuallly, famous. It must suck so hard.

until facebook it was the norm to be anonymous/use a handle online! its easy to forget that now