Twitter C/D

the two biggest problems i have with the ads are (1) that they're not demarcated clearly enough, so I don't know they're ads until I've already read them; (2) they're frequently for companies i wouldn't piss on, so i have go to out of my way to block them

I went to "edit profile" and it had a bunch of text under my picture, which I assume showed up if someone else viewed my profile. none of which I had entered myself. I would certainly never call myself a fan of any professional sporting team.

and yeah I don't need to see ads from fucking Taco Bell and American Express or whatever, blocking had no effect. but hey they're going public soon! IPO cash for everyone!

fuck the internet

I have never heard of that happening. Maybe you got hacked? Or maybe it was a suggested placeholder that you unwittingly accepted? That's what almost every bot's profile description looks like.

I dunno why anyone would bother hacking my account. it clearly had things in there that were extrapolated from actual data about me (ie, I live in SF, must be a Giants fan! I posted about pizza at some point, must be a pizza expert! I have mentioned my band, which has the word "rockets" in it, I must build rockets for a living!) just dumb shit I would never write

Yeah, almost all of the real spambots I've seen have that format: "Bacon lover. Moustache enthusiast. Unicyclist."

And most hacks are just opportunist hacks that take any account, not b/c you're anyone important. Not saying you're not important.

and yeah I don't need to see ads from fucking Taco Bell and American Express or whatever, blocking had no effect.

it is doubleplusannoying that accounts i block keep showing up as follow suggestions

"Bacon lover. Moustache enthusiast. Unicyclist."

i would follow this account

And most hacks are just opportunist hacks that take any account, not b/c you're anyone important. Not saying you're not important

right. I dunno, I figure if the account was hacked and people were getting spam from me I would've heard about it, but who knows. at any rate I just deactivated it, they have officially reached friendster status in the usefulness dept imho

hey shakey, it's not hacked i don't think. i just went to edit my profile and it said the exact same description. i think it's just randomly generated.

more like randumbly generated

well whatever, I don't like having random marketing demographics affixed to my identity so they can fuck right off with that shit and advertize their shitty products to someone else

glad i never got twitter, facebook is all the social media idiocracy i need. i look forward to the day it's basically a wasteland and the resulting content 77 posts.

shakey, how are you accessing it? i can't bring up anything like what mordy described in desktop browser or on ios.

I feel like the amount of ads is pretty reasonable for a website that has no other ads and is free, and the ads are far less eerie and annoying as those I see on Facebook or Amazon or other sites that use your browsing history in a more brazen manner. And I still enjoy the heck out of the site ... I keep finding cool new people to follow.

idg why you people are not using third party apps (unless you're windows users)

well I'm not on facebook either. Amazon is kind of a different deal, I kind of expect to be advertised at while I'm buying stuff

yeah I use Windows. I'm at work!

here it is for me:

http://i41.tinypic.com/20zxsib.png

wow that is the same wtf

I have a strong recollection that after one of the redesigns they tried to get people to add bio to their profile, and I think it had boilerplate info in it that you could replace or delete if you wanted to. Very easy thing to accidentally approve.

it's just weird that 3 out of the 4 things in that boilerplate are related to my actual life

*puts on tinfoil hat*

That looks like a suggestion for the 'about' field, not something that others would see?

yes i think emil.y is correct. i don't think it was approved - just a suggestion

Just going from it being greyed out, really. But I checked too, and Mordy has nothing like that written on his page. xp

Maybe you should try getting into the Giants.

or pizza

I wonder if they use the Giants because there are two popular pro sports teams with that name and it boosts their chances of being right (more so than if they used the Cardinals even).

yeah, grey text indicates it's an instruction/suggestion, and i'm not seeing it because i already have a bio

Yeah it's the same for me, it doesn't get shown to anyone

u guys shd make some cool bios for yr twitter page

I mainly use my Twitter to make dumb jokes. I would like to keep using it for that purpose but also for some professional networking too. Should I: just use my current Twitter but maybe go through and delete the rare profane joke, delete my current account and just deal with starting over from scratch, or not use Twitter for professional networking?

I wish I could have multiple accounts under the same email.

a small trick for that is registering two accounts to a gmail address with one as @gmail.com and one as @googlemail.com.

Eh it's too much of a pain in the ass to bother with separate accounts. I see there are sites that will automatically delete all your tweets before a certain date. I could do that and then reconfigure with a limited history.

not sure what industry youre in but def in journalism and tech it doesnt seem to hurt peoples carers at all to be silly on twitter

i feel like it maybe works to find the people/situations that youd vibe to on a personal level to be more yourself

Yeah. I'm more concerned about current boss/coworkers finding me and seeing how I spend my workday. Probably just paranoia.

it's easy enough to use separate accounts with tweetdeck or other apps

anyway i vote 'not use Twitter for professional networking' but i fail at modern life so

twitter is i think amazing for networking but i think much like irl more on a genuine interest level than a self consciously working it level, you can find people who are the best at what they do and doing interesting things and talk to them about it cause they love it

also just like following the writing and thinking of industry people w/o interacting w/them has obvious benifit

I wish I could have multiple accounts under the same email.

if u use gmail, you can sign up as username+whate✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧, username+whatev✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧, etc and they'll all be routed to usern✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧. it used to work on twitter but i haven't tested it lately so ymmv

oops, username+whatever at gmail.com username+whatever2 at gmail.com

Good points lagoon. I just changed my profile to include my general profession and followed a bunch of people who work in my field and seem interesting, but I am keeping my account unattached to my IRL identity for now.

yah i dont use my real name

btw hoos is tweeting from a tech conference this weekend

we shd do a kickstarter to get him a suicide bomb

maybe we all should've went

username+whatever at gmail.com username+whatever2 at gmail.com

― diamonddave85, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 04:23 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you can also do this:

diamond.dave.85 at gmail.com
diamonddave85 at gmail.com
dia.mon.dda.ve8.5 at gmail.com

google strips the full stops, treating all those as different email addresses, but they're all fed to the same inbox.

On Twitter, (and up-thread), I noticed that Mordy's Twitter profile/bio lists the ilxor.com web address. Since I don't currently have a web site or blog, would it be OK with the people of ilxor.com if I added the ilxor.com web address to my Twitter profile/bio for my @AmCuriousNJ Twitter account? I hope I'm not rude asking to do that, I don't mean to be rude. ILX is currently the only place online where I post fairly regularly (aside from Twitter).

As for my experiences with Twitter so far, FWIW: Well, I'm unimpressed with Twitter so far. It might be useful for marketing purposes but it hasn't been helpful for the mainly nonprofit animal organizations that I tweet about. Granted, I've only had my Twitter account since Sept. 19, 2013, but so far I only have 3 accounts following me: Treeship from ILX was kind to follow me (and I follow him back)), an animal organization called YouGiveGoodsAnimals ‏ @YGGLovesAnimals follows me (after I followed the organization), and the account ‏@SolFlareMusic follows me. ‏@SolFlareMusic describes itself on Twitter like this: "Sol Flare ‏ @SolFlareMusic A Melodic Electronica group based in London, with a sound in the vein of Grimes, M83 and Goldfrapp. https://soundcloud.com/solflare";. I'm not sure why this group follows me. I don't follow Sol Flare ‏back (yet). Does anyone know this group's music? Are they any good? Are they worth checking out?

Hot tip: I think my first follower was a vegan condom manufacturer who presumably followed me cos I followed the Vegan Society account. Hope they're enjoying my half-arsed stream of drone music news and Phil Collins jokes.

Does anyone have a general idea how long it usually takes for this kind of situation RE followers to 'kick in'? I mean, since Sept. 19, 2013, I've been following: several animal welfare organizations, one small business that sells vegetarian 'fake meats' (suitably enough, this small business is called FakeMeats) , and one small music distributor (Cobraside, because they have distributed some Jason Falkner in the past, and I like Jason Falkner's music and as far as I can tell, Jason himself isn't currently on Twitter), and I haven't had anyone follow me in reference to these accounts like i'll be your mraz (NickB) did with the vegan condom manufacturer presumably following him because he followed the Vegan Society account. Just for the record: That's not the reason I follow these accounts. I follow these accounts because I'm interested in them. But, I was just wondering about how long this thing usually takes, before you get additional followers like this.

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