Twitter C/D

That was my guess too - those other people looked for YOU before you joined twitter!

or like one of them did

Onimo's example would make sense if it was an active account with tweets and loads of followers/followees. The suggestion in my example was a long-abandoned account (I'm new to twitter) with no tweets, no followers, and only seemed like it was created to follow a company (which has been defunct for some time).

That was my guess too - those other people looked for YOU before you joined twitter!

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:37 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark

Fastest neutrino's :)

I see what you mean, but still find it highly odd. How will people have looked for me on twitter before I was on there? I don't use my real name, nor my 'normal' e-mail address. Adn all of the above I mentioned. And yet and yet and yet...

That said, this person emailed me several years ago from what I imagined would be the address connected to their twitter account. An email that I would believe is no longer be in service as that company has been defunct for at least 2 years. My twitter account is <1 year old.

This is why I am not subscribing to the Twitter's talk of algorithms, it seems to be that it is tied to email databases (ie, requiring no algorithm). I've never "searched for friends on twitter" using any email or SNS account.

maybe they subscribe to jump databases and mix that into their algorithms

Maybe twitter is my neighbour

Like say this person in my example 2 years ago "searched for friends on twitter" several years before I opened a twitter account, my address was stored in the twitter databases. After a couple years, I open a twitter account and now that person is showing up as "someone I should know" despite us having zero connections (they are following one acct: a defunct business, and they have no followers).

Again this requires zero algorithm (it's all 1-1 db relationship) nor any triadic closure, lol.

I don't think we'll figure this one out anymore

That is my best case scenario, and somewhat unlikely.

Worst and more realistic case is they've accessed the contacts db tied to my account without my permission and are farming data while the slaves are all working.

The email address I used to sign up to twitter is a new one, created just for this purpose. It is not linked to my name, to my identity, and yada yada yada all-of-the-above, I still get these recommendations.

it seems to be that it is tied to email databases (ie, requiring no algorithm)

has it occurred to you that there might be >1 thing happening here

xp lmao wait

Worst and more realistic case is they've accessed the contacts db tied to my account without my permission

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:35 PM (9 seconds ago) Bookmark

do u srsly believe they would risk what amounts to third party authorization of access to any contact database

that would make sense:

A) if this account had relationships. it has one, a defunct company from 2 years ago.

B) if the email used to access this person's acct was active at my time of joining twitter. the email address that I imagine used to open the account is also defunct (as the acct mentions he is a scientist at the aforementioned defunct company).

seeing how A & B are both false, I think both my scenarios upthread present the best and worst.

Suffice it to say I would be surprised to see you proven correct.

Plainly I don't know how they're doing it in the cases we've outlined here, but I just don't see them making regular database breach a part of their standard operating procedure.

Well at any rate, one of my teammates recently left his post as a VP at twitter and we're all meeting this weekend. Maybe I'll get some off the record answers after a few beers.

Plz tell me you team wakeboard w/dude.

plz post otr answers

otm

The email address I used to sign up to twitter is a new one, created just for this purpose. It is not linked to my name, to my identity, and yada yada yada all-of-the-above, I still get these recommendations.

― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, September 29, 2011 3:37 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

You know what's weird? Near exact same thing w/ facebook. After I deleted my account, I booted up a skeleton account some months later just out of necessity - "like this to _____" - using a different email. It's recommending me people I fucking know! And it's a Gmail account.

Facebook are super creepy about this, though. Like, they'll recommend people who have used the same computer as you.

Wow. Yeah, I'm not one to believe privacy is an utterly sacred thing but some of this stuff vibes borderline illegal to me. What if advertisers contracted w/ Visa to keep track of what you're buying in order to advertise to you better? I'd be all for a fucking lawsuit.

hmm okay

wolfpupy >>>>> thebibandit>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>graeyalien

graeyalien needs to step up imo

The "Who to follow" section is making me ragey. More like "Who to throw down a well, so they'll never be heard from again" amirite.

just sent my 10,000th tweet

http://twitter.com/misuba/statuses/122403034939670528

so happy for you, hoos

ty

AliAlhabsi Ali Al-Habsi
Good Morning everyone.. How's everyone today?.. Now going to Australia on a very long flight

AliAlhabsi Ali Al-Habsi
Hello everyone.. Finally reached Australia after a very long flight.. :)

oh god

i was worried i wouldn't have anything to complain about now that Qwikster is no more, but lo! at the top of my Twitter timeline there's some NFL "promoted tweet" that wasn't retweeted by any of my followers, but seems to be there just because...NFL paid Twitter some money to put it there? bullshitttttttt

doctor_ass stripy hole weasel
things i wasn't expecting today: being told by John Darnielle that i tweet too much
1 minute ago

lol

bumble_bups ben errrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Darnielle.... is u followin doc ass???
12 minutes ago

woodmuffin Kim Jong-Deal
@mountain_goats you dont have to follow me just wait until @wolfpupy RTs me and then you will know i made a good one!
13 minutes ago

doctor_ass stripy hole weasel
@bumble_bups DARNIELLE... you neva told me you were FOLLOW
2 minutes

ice cr?m you neva told me you were FOLLOW

i am... FOLLOW

lol @ the fyad j0hnd crossover

Does anyone know if it's possible to do a hard return/paragraph break/carriage return on Twitter?
i.e. I want to write something in list form, so that it appears as (for example):

1. Jordy - "Dur dur d'être Bébé!"
2. Eleven Chalupas
3. "Maybe Did a Animal Help Do 9/11" by Dr. Pahl T.T. Buuseh

Rather than:

1. Jordy - "Dur dur d'être Bébé!" 2. Eleven Chalupas 3. "Maybe Did a Animal Help Do 9/11" by Dr. Pahl T.T. Buuseh

Is that do-able?

Hold "shift" down when pressing return.

I don't think that your tweet will replicate the line breaks when posted. Not sure that this is possible.

Yeah it does. Some clients display the carriage returns, some don't.

Interesting. Is it similarly possible to get other text effects (for example bold, underline, strikethrough)? Do you happen to know what browsers support it?

No rich text. All I know is some Twitter apps display line breaks. YoruFukurou (mac) does.

Hmm... thanks. I don't Tweet using any apps; I just do it on my desktop using Firefox, and it doesn't seem to work there. I have seen posts in my feed from other people with the line breaks, who must be using something app-y to post. Thanks for the tips!

Well, that's what I was saying. I use IE, and "Shift Return" does not terminate the message but inserts a line feed.

klout

lol

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