Twitter C/D

"clear water breeds no fish"

theres a mostly sad but kind of lol cycle with influencers where they get big followings by a cultivating an aesthetic following their bliss approach but inevitably their audiences will get board with them and they have to start working for the views doing dances hopping on trends and so forth, i saw a video by one of the paul brothers a while ago where he was doing this really involved craft project that clearly took all day if not more and was like wow they really put him to work lol

I think that’s what the reinstated right wing grift types on the site don’t get. Nobody is checking them out anymore because that project is over and people are into different shit now

yeah saw some thing about the video site rumble where theyve brought on all these big names greenwald charlie kirk etc but their view counts have total cratered and the stuff thats getting eyeballs is like about pre ice age advanced civilizations ancient aliens type shit they managed to attract an audience that loves very stupid conspiracy theories but theyve tired of the politics ones and have moved on to other stuff

didn't realize the history channel had a new social media platform, i wish them all the best

this guys trying to forge a career on there lol

Is Climate Change A Real Threat?? Get watching my conversation with @BjornLomborg from 5pm GMT / 12pm ET / 9am PT👇@rumblevideohttps://t.co/zVNLcZGZet

— Russell Brand (@rustyrockets) January 20, 2023

i was going to ask which one, but no bjorn lomborg is doing the exact same thing he's been doing for 20 years+ now. he's one of those people that, when he dies, like 1% of humanity will intensely celebrate and everyone else will have no idea who he is

i've watched ~ russell brand clips in my life, and i wish that at least one of them would have been him running into a door really hard or something that was actually funny

* ~ 3 russell brand clips, 4 tops

hes so good in forgetting sarah marshall IMHO

lol that is what I was thinking

the weird sequel movie where jonah hill is trying to hustle him to some concert has some moments but overall has too much of him

I don't know a lot about Russell Brand except that people used to post clips of him saying some liberal stuff in a British accent, and now I see clips of him with like Jordan Peterson and Amanda Palmer.

get him to the greek is so bad it tries to have a message and make his character learn things, all wrong! what a disappointment

yeah the parody rock guy persona doesn't work if you do more than allude to it, making it explicit was a bad choice

diddy was the best character in that one

itt: ppl brazenly re-entering the vampire castle

oh yeah, that thing no one seems able to explain

Is t that Andrew

itt: ppl brazenly re-entering the vampire castle

Like Twitter, I guess, Insta is all about curating the feed. I mostly get rad stuff from friends, artists, publishers I like, and trans teenagers posting outrageous shitposting memes.

https://tapbots.com/tweetbot/#eulogy

It’s over.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/20/twitter-is-down-to-fewer-than-550-full-time-engineers.html

the hardcore pledge thing was so fn funny "i will have them click a button and then the company will be hardcore"

Like "Doom" difficulty settings.

tbf they have indeed hurt me plenty

Like Twitter, I guess, Insta is all about curating the feed. I mostly get rad stuff from friends, artists, publishers I like, and trans teenagers posting outrageous shitposting memes.

― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, January 20, 2023 1:11 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I wish I could see shit from accounts I actually follow, the whole thing is so shitted up with ads, suggested posts and reels

The chrome extension one of you mentioned way back still works well for me, totally locked down, only what I want to see, etc. I don't use the app or check twitter on my phone.

xp if you tap on the Instagram logo you can switch to “following”

Ha well shit that does work

IIRC, someone here (Mike, maybe) predicted that Twitter would quickly shutter their generous media uploads. It appears that’s happened. Try copying an image from a browser tab (“Copy Image”) then pasting it into a tweet. It now pastes the URL rather than the image.

still works on web, i copied a picture of henry kissinger

HK is the only exception.

For You can fuck off

It's been switching over to For You quite a bit too, very stupid

I don't engage at all on twitter, just read the posts, and the app doesn't default to a choice for me, it stays with what I pick

I've recently been liking "For You" more than "Following", but I look at both

The chrome extension one of you mentioned way back still works well for me, totally locked down, only what I want to see, etc. I don't use the app or check twitter on my phone.

checked account this morning. "Following" has no posts in four days. "Home" has multiple posts from yesterday from people that i follow... can't both be true. (Facebook is the same). just give me reverse chronological!

i din't know there was a facebook extension-- as someone who feels forced there for family purposes, will check thx

I come and go with actual twitter but even during periods where I wasn’t reading it, I follow a handful of people via my rss reader feedbin. Easy way to jay get a couple of accounts you want to read and not go there.

it's just one climate dude's experience, but i've been following him for several years (he posts a lot of climate change visualizations with regular updates) and he's not one to complain much about climate deniers

This is a pretty unassuming climate tweet, but look at the replies… This website has become such a mess. https://t.co/YCfxjuSYqm

— Zack Labe (@ZLabe) January 22, 2023

Not sure I've ever seen any video/forum post/article/etc. on climate change (outside of Gawker comments and ILX, though maybe we had a denier or two at some point) that didn't have a wide variety of assholes in the comments and replies.

it's one of the constants in life for sure

i think the point of his tweet is that it has gotten notably worse on twitter, at least for him

My guess is that the continual push to "For You" is an attempt to hide the total lack of activity compared to your usual feed; predicting "tumbleweeds" will trend soon.

Now it is automatically starting in For You every time I open the app. WTF!?!

yep, that change landed about a week back. not clear if it's deliberate or them shipping a bug. musk claims it's going to be reverted, but he also claims he's going to solve traffic with used sewer drills.

here are the first two posts suggested for me on my algorithmic timeline. great stuff.

https://i.imgur.com/ezMC3mB.png

lol wow

Well, i guess we know Nitasha Tiku and Will Oremus are dickheads, if nothing else.

they are both extremely musk skeptical tech journalists fwiw

Again, that whole mars catalog guy is really, hopelessly, in love with Elon. I wish him much happiness bearing musk’s strange children

feel like nitasha tiku is a dickhead nevertheless but i can't remember quite why and perhaps i'm confused

see also leah finnegan

feel like nitasha tiku is a dickhead nevertheless but i can't remember quite why and perhaps i'm confused

This is kind of how it feels for everyone on Twitter.