i've never used tweetdeck before but my understanding is that it's suited to power users
― markers, Friday, 5 August 2011 06:37 (twelve years ago) link
i've never used tweetdeck before but my understanding is that it's suited to power usersThat's what I don't get. It's inordinately popular for a power-user app.
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 5 August 2011 06:40 (twelve years ago) link
agh formatting
It's inordinately popular for a power-user app.
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Friday, August 5, 2011 6:40 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
keep in mind how many people use twitter for marketing, and how well-suited to that task tweetdeck is
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 August 2011 06:44 (twelve years ago) link
notice in that admittedly dated table i posted that tweetdeck has, within a tenth of a percent, the highest ratio of tweets to users
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 August 2011 06:46 (twelve years ago) link
tweets per persona?
idk
v good point xxp
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 5 August 2011 06:46 (twelve years ago) link
i imagine part of td's high ratio of tweets:users comes from the user broadcasting from multiple accounts--i use 4 regularly, for instance.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 August 2011 06:49 (twelve years ago) link
wow do i sound like a blowhard
night guyz
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 August 2011 06:50 (twelve years ago) link
later
― markers, Friday, 5 August 2011 06:52 (twelve years ago) link
Why would you say the same thing from multiple what I dont even.
― Rameses Street (Trayce), Friday, 5 August 2011 06:57 (twelve years ago) link
(kids these days)
twitter web page seems to work for me now. i did try new twitter a while ago when it was optional but switched back in about an hour b/c i couldn't get with it. i still don't get why it had to change at all.
most external twitter clients are separate applications, i don't want to do that. doesn't running loads of programmes hog memory anyway?
― lex pretend, Friday, 5 August 2011 07:00 (twelve years ago) link
i have my personal acct, a dc-inside-joke parody acct (that i hate myself for having), and two accounts i run on behalf of organizations. also keep up w/my cofounder's feed while he's away & usually have a column for some conference or hashtag that's holding my interest for the moment
xp
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 August 2011 07:03 (twelve years ago) link
i usually don't open tweetdeck once i get home because it feels like work
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 August 2011 07:04 (twelve years ago) link
lol my man hoos, w/ a parody account for... a DC inside joke. texas seems so long ago.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 5 August 2011 07:05 (twelve years ago) link
i started a twitter account for an organization i was a part of in college, but besides that i've just had personal accounts iirc
― markers, Friday, 5 August 2011 07:10 (twelve years ago) link
i like this thread when it links to funny twitter accounts.
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Friday, 5 August 2011 08:48 (twelve years ago) link
Have to say @johnprescott is bringing it on Twitter on the regular; today's hashtag is #wheresthegovernment because the fuckers are all on expensive holidays while meltdown's afoot.
― murdoch most foul (suzy), Friday, 5 August 2011 09:11 (twelve years ago) link
Who does the Hulk music reviews on Twitter? I fucking love those.
― Why'd You Wanna Tweet Me So Bad? (dog latin), Friday, 5 August 2011 09:18 (twelve years ago) link
whiney does them I thought?
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Friday, 5 August 2011 09:20 (twelve years ago) link
Until recently I only really followed personal accounts as it was a useful real-time tool for keeping up with exactly what is happening, but its usefulness in that way has become severely hampered due to huge levels of overtweeting inanity from certain friends which has become increasingly irritating
I fixed the problem of people retweeting comedians but the obvious solution of 'lists' I can't really see how to apply to this problem
― lake, Friday, 5 August 2011 09:27 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like the new twitter interface would be a huge improvement if it weren't slow - like, you can actually SEE the shape of a conversation, plus images and videos (otoh i would rather just never watch videos)
i don't really understand computer performance these days though. this from 'destroy twitter', the lightweight option:
DestroyTwitter packs in a ton of features while leaving an unbelievably small footprint. How does memory usage as low as 25mb sound?
IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE USING ENOUGH MEMORY TO RUN THREE SEPARATE GAMES OF QUAKE TO LOAD A BUNCH OF 140-CHARACTER TEXT MESSAGES, WHEN DID WE ALL AGREE THIS WAS OKAY
― thomp, Friday, 5 August 2011 09:30 (twelve years ago) link
someone should code a twitter client based on the quake engine
― nh (cozen), Friday, 5 August 2011 09:35 (twelve years ago) link
i've just tried @tweetalondoncab .. no response yet tho
― Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Friday, 5 August 2011 09:38 (twelve years ago) link
The great thing about Twitter is that you can basically thread the content through your browser or phone or whatever else you're doing at the time - kind of baffled that anyone would want to actually go to the website.
― Matt DC, Friday, 5 August 2011 09:39 (twelve years ago) link
i'm fairly new to it and i go through the website. work won't let me install programs to my computer, so is there another way of integrating it?
― Why'd You Wanna Tweet Me So Bad? (dog latin), Friday, 5 August 2011 09:44 (twelve years ago) link
you can basically thread the content through your browser [...] kind of baffled that anyone would want to actually go to the website
does not compute... not a heavyweight twitterer tho
― ledge, Friday, 5 August 2011 10:18 (twelve years ago) link
he means you can download an app that sits in your browser toolbar, or an app that sits in your computer's menubar, or an app that lives on your phone, that's always updating and always available and designed just for tweets, rather than being a webpage in a browser
― Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Friday, 5 August 2011 10:20 (twelve years ago) link
you can basically thread the content through your browser
not if your browser is camino and you have mac 10.4
― lex pretend, Friday, 5 August 2011 10:22 (twelve years ago) link
comedy accounts are the worst fucking things, music hulk certainly included in that (as though the smug received wisdom of @discographies wasn't bad enough). actual professional comedians should obviously be put to death.
the funniest people on twitter for me by far are my friends alix and pip - they never make ~jokes~ as such but their tone and style is such that i'd read them tweeting about any old mundane shit (which is often exactly what they do)
― lex pretend, Friday, 5 August 2011 10:26 (twelve years ago) link
i love twitter but the worst thing about it is def when everyone seems to be trying to out-funny each other. STOP TRYING TO BE FUNNY NONE OF YOU CAN MANAGE IT.
(obviously there are exceptions but seriously they're so rare that it's better to assume you're not one of them)
― lex pretend, Friday, 5 August 2011 10:27 (twelve years ago) link
alix and pip
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Friday, 5 August 2011 10:36 (twelve years ago) link
I use Twitter for work reasons more and more, it's great for entertainment/music stories.
Generally I find personal accounts to be sort of odd, people saying v inane things and saying a lot more than they would on say, Facebook, where people post frivolous shit but at least it's one or two a day, or whatever. Also I don't really get people arranging social events and stuff on Twitter, why would you want to do this publicly and with a character limit instead of via email?
― LocalGarda, Friday, 5 August 2011 10:37 (twelve years ago) link
i have two friends whose tweets are like 50% or more about commuting
one of them is funny
― thomp, Friday, 5 August 2011 10:41 (twelve years ago) link
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Friday, 5 August 2011 10:36 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i understand the point of this post way less than any inane shit on twitter. you repeated the names of my friends, i don't get it
― lex pretend, Friday, 5 August 2011 10:45 (twelve years ago) link
They are kind of cool names, to be fair.
― Why'd You Wanna Tweet Me So Bad? (dog latin), Friday, 5 August 2011 10:46 (twelve years ago) link
brodie
Also I don't really get people arranging social events and stuff on Twitter, why would you want to do this publicly and with a character limit instead of via email?
it can be pretty useful when you're feeling vague - like, who's around in the area and wants to hang NOW - or specific about what you want to do but unsure exactly who you want to do it with. a nice way to end up hanging out with people who aren't necessarily the ones you hang out with all the time, kind of "improving" certain friendships
― lex pretend, Friday, 5 August 2011 10:47 (twelve years ago) link
most people i follow on Twitter I don't know IRL, which is the difference between Twitter and FB. More likely to organise social events on FB.
― Why'd You Wanna Tweet Me So Bad? (dog latin), Friday, 5 August 2011 10:49 (twelve years ago) link
yeah lex i just like that you have two friends named alix and pip
it sounds like the name of a comic strip!
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Friday, 5 August 2011 10:50 (twelve years ago) link
they don't know each other and are kind of polar opposites tbh
― lex pretend, Friday, 5 August 2011 10:51 (twelve years ago) link
maybe am old school (relatively) but i just like the more thoughtful blog feel of facebook, you can have a discussion there, just feels calmer and looks nicer, and so much stuff contained within the network. plus i like seeing where a link will take me before i click it.
― LocalGarda, Friday, 5 August 2011 10:51 (twelve years ago) link
I'm reading Hitch-22 and he keeps quoting the "hilarious" word subtitution games he used to play with Amis, Rushdie, Clive James et al, all of which resemble the most aggravating kind of Twitter hashtag game. "Replace 'love' with 'fuck'." Yeah brilliant, well done.
― Now he's doing horse (DL), Friday, 5 August 2011 10:52 (twelve years ago) link
"thoughtful blog feel of facebook"
???!
garda there are twitter clients that will expand shortlinks before opening them.
― Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Friday, 5 August 2011 10:55 (twelve years ago) link
those are okay to spend two minutes doing in a room generally
it's when you have to see people making 89 posts of them over two days they're annoying
on the other hand, why on earth would anyone read hitch-22
― thomp, Friday, 5 August 2011 10:55 (twelve years ago) link
compared to twitter ffs it's way more spaced out, longer posts, more discussion. people can actually speak in decent sentences.
― LocalGarda, Friday, 5 August 2011 10:56 (twelve years ago) link
on facebook you could kick a ball
― Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Friday, 5 August 2011 10:57 (twelve years ago) link
first time i've seen facebook described as "thoughtful" before - not that i haven't had the occasional good conversation there but it's not the norm.
it's just a swamp really, i use it exclusively to bitch about things i can't put on twitter (my facebook-only friends prob think i'm a lot angrier than i am, lol)
― lex pretend, Friday, 5 August 2011 10:57 (twelve years ago) link
i dunno, it depends how you use it i suppose. i just feel like things move more slowly on facebook and discussions can involve more people, and lengthier points.
― LocalGarda, Friday, 5 August 2011 10:58 (twelve years ago) link