omg that second blog post is.... is...
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
shut it down folks
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
Psychoanalytically, we might infer that @hell_homer’s suffers severe cognitive dissonance over his identification with “weird twitter”.
hmm yes, i will use a big adverb to characterize this phenomenon, ahh um hmm yes ah
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
I have discovered a community of "crap blogger".
― s.clover, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
can describe jokes but does not get jokes
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
ban college kids from the internet
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
This is a blog about my technological, political, and academic interests. I am a PhD student at UC Berkeley School of Information. Since starting that program, this blog has turned into something of an open notebook.
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
i like "weird twitter" as a name
― max, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
i mean its NOT a "community" its like a... network? a territory of twitter? "weird twitter" is a better name for those things that eg "twitcrew" or "jokemen" or whatever, which imply cliques or communities
― max, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
reminds me of when music journalists, especially british ones a few years ago, called a bunch of music "new weird america"
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
well most of the original weird twitter people came from a defined community, the FYAD forum on somethingawful. since then it's obviously perpetuated into a much bigger thing though
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
'keep twitter weird' - me, when asked to comment on weird twitter
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
i just recoil at the the word weird tbh
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
for me it's more just a style of using twitter (abstract/nonsequitor/funny vs. hey check out this article on mashable)
― Anime Mann (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
people who post that way tend to want to follow people who do too, thus "crews" or networks or subcultures
― ciderpress, Wednesday, October 17, 2012 3:51 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
right but "weird twitter" i would think also includes a bunch of new people + the dada stalinists + so many bots + like nancy grace
― max, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
i'm so weird and random
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
like nancy grace is not part of "twitcrew" but she does exist in "weird twitter," thats why its more helpful to talk about it as a territory or attitude
she is a weird retwitter
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
weird twitter is usually only funny when its my friends doing it imo
stranger weird twitter is like w/e it's just a stranger spouting off
yeah anyway when you hand me a medium that forces such a tiny character limit my instinct is that its most fitting use is for jokes & nonsense - if i'm going to be saying serious stuff i want the option of having more space to elaborate
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
I just use twitter to find out and remind myself about shows that's p much it
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
now lets all go back to pasting tweets we like
sreegs @ahuj9[playing Guess Who] "Does your guy look like a fucking HIPSTER??" "Uh, no." *flips down every remaining character on the board*
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
Tech toys get played with and an academic finds significance in this shockah.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
every ischool ph.d student has to write about something before they don't get a job.
― Neutral Coliseums (Matt P), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
aimless is not weird twitter
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
i still like the term better than "youtube poop"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
regarding nancy grace and horse_ebooks, that stuff wouldn't have been considered weird until it was curated and recontextualized through RTs
― Anime Mann (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
horse_ebooks is pretty fucking strange regardless
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
if something is weird in the forest
― max, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
horse_ebooks is curated by its creators now, or at least its algorithm is a lot more sophisticated at hitting funny/meaningful fragments than it was when i started following it a couple years ago
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
i dont think most would have given horse_ebooks a second thought unless it had been framed as random absurdist poetry
― Anime Mann (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
like it used to actually just be random sentences from horse-related ebooks
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
ebook descriptions, rather
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
xp the way horse_ebooks is now, they would!
though in the past, yeah it was just your typical spambot that occasionally had funny horse-related tweets. I wonder what really happened there
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
seems like he's now generating the tweets from all sorts of ebooks but now there's someone at the helm who maybe keeps cycling through them until he finds one bizarre enough to actually tweet out?
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
yeah there are definitely different heuristics generating/selecting tweets now.. probably also involving human interaction
― Anime Mann (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
right, but i'm still convinced they're auto generated. i can't see a human coming up with some of this stuff.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
wrong
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
I made an Andrew WK generator awhile ago, but it never said anything more ridiculous than real Andrew WK.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
my bad. guess elmo knows what's really up
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
this is the oldest one i have favorited https://twitter.com/Horse_ebooks/status/44114266613231616
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
aleksy argonov
― Anime Mann (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
i wish there was a way to search individual users' twitter accounts, or jump to a certain past date
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
Twitter, Inc. doesn't want you to use their service that way: it's all about the NOW
― Anime Mann (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i understand that, but why even give the option of scrolling down forever then rather than just cutting it off after 500 tweets or whatnot
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.allmytweets.net/
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
― ciderpress, Wednesday, October 17, 2012 4:31 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
topsy.com's advanced search is pretty good
favstar works for some stuff
― max, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
awesome thanks
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link