I logged into twitter and I have no idea hoa all the @ and RT and circular ouroboros arrows work
― Neu! romancer (dayo), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
If you click the retweet button, that tweet will show up for people who follow you (unless they have turned off retweets by you).
If you write "RT" manually, it will show up for everyone who follows you even if they've turned off retweets.
If you begin a tweet with @charliesheen, people will not see it in their feed unless they also follow @charliesheen.
If you do not begin a tweet with @, that tweet will show up in your feed for everyone who follows you.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 23:40 (thirteen years ago) link
o_O
― Neu! romancer (dayo), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 23:42 (thirteen years ago) link
For example, I have no idea what Patton Oswalt is going on about here:
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/4631/screenshot20110303at843.png
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 3 March 2011 14:46 (thirteen years ago) link
He's using the // convention of RTing. Which is the same as our italic quoting -- the // splits the quote and the reply. Eg
“@JasonIsbell: Daryl Hall and Joyce Carol Oates? Can we make this happen?”//Wait -- COULD we?
Daryl Hall and Joyce Carol Oates? Can we make this happen?”-- JasonIsbell (8 hours ago)Wait -- Could we?
― stet, Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i just unfollowed patton oswalt hes not very funny on twitter
― max, Thursday, 3 March 2011 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
this is totally not about twitter but (thankfully!) there is no tumblr thread and i just need to get this little thing off my chest then i can be done with it
tumblr. fucking smug #whitepeople being arch about pop culture! this site is where awful, self-righteous opinions go to slap each other on the back.
― lex pretend, Friday, 4 March 2011 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
you've pretty much described 98% of the internet there lex
― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 March 2011 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i know but tumblr seems particularly bad for it, it's almost like there's a house style on my dashboard and that house style is sady doyle's archness. i might unfollow everyone except tom ewing and erika villani.
― lex pretend, Friday, 4 March 2011 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
you've pretty much described 98% of ilx there lex
― Romford Spring (DG), Friday, 4 March 2011 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I stopped following Twitter last year because it was getting boring. The only time it was half way interesting was when people would post photos or leak material.
― Is Aware That She Hasn't Replied Much Lately (MintIce), Friday, 4 March 2011 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
ew
― I love priest but I've chosen maiden (Edward III), Friday, 4 March 2011 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
luckily 2% of ilx is pretty great and not like that :)
― lex pretend, Friday, 4 March 2011 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
didn't know the moderator request forum could command such loyalty
― Romford Spring (DG), Friday, 4 March 2011 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
lex there is a tumblr thread :(
― call all destroyer, Friday, 4 March 2011 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
it didn't come up in search?
lol dg
― lex pretend, Friday, 4 March 2011 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I have never noticed the misspelling until now.
lol tubmlr
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 4 March 2011 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought tumblr was for looking at pictures of pretty boys and pretty dresses.
― Peyton Flanders (Nicole), Friday, 4 March 2011 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i was bitching about tumblr to someone else today and we both realised we were bitching about completely different things - sara was hating on the alt.twee photo tumblrs, i was hating on the #whitepeople opinions text tumblrs. both of us were right. i never saw the point in following photo tumblrs, myself.
― lex pretend, Friday, 4 March 2011 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't really bother w/fashion magazines anymore so it's a nice way to see Vogue/Elle etc.
― Peyton Flanders (Nicole), Friday, 4 March 2011 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
A lot of the meme-related postings are annoying/infuriating though.
i was hating on the #whitepeople opinions text tumblrs.
I have no clue what this means, do you have any examples?
― lycanthrope electrif (Pashmina), Friday, 4 March 2011 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
don't go to any great effort, please! I'm only idly curious.
― lycanthrope electrif (Pashmina), Friday, 4 March 2011 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
i never saw the point in following photo tumblrs, myself.
― lex pretend, Friday, March 4, 2011 1:19 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
reblogging. it's just an insane cycle of ego-driven reblogging.
― kelpolaris, Friday, 4 March 2011 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link
#ff ffs.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 4 March 2011 23:00 (thirteen years ago) link
If you begin a tweet with @charliesheen, people will not see it in their feed unless they also follow @charliesheen.If you do not begin a tweet with @, that tweet will show up in your feed for everyone who follows you.
There's a pseudo-convention of beginning a tweet with ".@" if you want your reply to be seen by your followers. e.g. .@charliesheen if you want everyone to see it - not just people that follow you and @charliesheen
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 4 March 2011 23:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Please never so that.
― Jeff, Saturday, 5 March 2011 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
never DO that
― Jeff, Saturday, 5 March 2011 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
.@jeff hi
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 5 March 2011 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
:(
― Jeff, Saturday, 5 March 2011 00:09 (thirteen years ago) link
.@jeff :)
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 5 March 2011 00:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeh fucking annoying way of putting people you deliberately don't follow back into you. Fuk a ".@jeffjarvis"
― stet, Saturday, 5 March 2011 12:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I had to unfollow someone whose every reply was an old-style retweet, e.g.:
Yes it is! RT @scally127 is it really warm today?!??!Not yet RT @wimblywomble Who has bought the new NME?? BIEBER inside omghaha RT @generictwat my dogs got no nose, how dose he smell terribal
― Fannypack's "Camel Toe" (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 5 March 2011 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't mind people who do the '.@' thing, but most of who I follow only do it for stuff like serious political debate that I find interesting
― emil.y, Saturday, 5 March 2011 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I refuse to @ any mention of charlie sheen
― I love priest but I've chosen maiden (Edward III), Saturday, 5 March 2011 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I've blocked @charliesheen in my client. Sick to fucking death of it.
― Fannypack's "Camel Toe" (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 5 March 2011 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
only just saw this, i kind of don't want to call anyone out by actual name :/
(apart from sady doyle)
― lex pretend, Monday, 7 March 2011 13:35 (thirteen years ago) link
its ok white people can take it, were tough
― ice cr?m, Monday, 7 March 2011 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I started following a bunch of ilxors. Anyone I missed, I'm @jxmitchell.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 14 March 2011 11:57 (thirteen years ago) link
CLASSIC
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 March 2011 12:04 (thirteen years ago) link
^^finding people living in sendai and getting to read what they're going through, just the day-to-day, trying to get by, posting pics, it's incredible
― harlan, Monday, 14 March 2011 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
really?! all this time i didn't know that!
― Background Zombie (CharlieNo4), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Overdue but glad it's up and running:
http://blog.twitter.com/2011/03/making-twitter-more-secure-https.html
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
― Background Zombie (CharlieNo4), Monday, March 14, 2011 7:11 PM (Yesterday)
yeah whoa i had always wondered why some replies showed up and others didnt
― kl0p's son (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
lots of tech ppl I follow are now signing up for identi.ca because they're pissed off with the "we'll make all the clients, thanks" Twitter steez. Website's honking, but some old Twitter clients work with it, at least.
― stet, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Common practice has become to start a tweet this way—".@charliesheen"—with the period in front of the name to make sure it's seen by everyone you want to see it.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link
xp I've had an identi.ca account for ages but never bothered using it because I don't know anyone else with one. There's an iphone app that does identi.ca but buggered if I can remember what it's called.
― Emperor Tomato Catsuuuuuuuup (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link
IDENT
― Emperor Tomato Catsuuuuuuuup (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:59 (thirteen years ago) link
lol trending
http://grab.by/9ybi
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 March 2011 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone have any clue what #photwi is supposed to mean? i'm stalking this girl and nevermind
― yeah (kelpolaris), Saturday, 19 March 2011 04:23 (thirteen years ago) link