hell is other tweeters
― Mordy, Thursday, 26 March 2015 18:16 (nine years ago) link
as an outsider to the software industry i can confirm that scrum is a really funny word
― ciderpress, Thursday, 26 March 2015 18:18 (nine years ago) link
a fun twitter game is when you see a tweet in yr timeline from someone you don't recognize, is it jbr or some dude or haikunym
― mookieproof, Thursday, 26 March 2015 18:18 (nine years ago) link
twitter >>>>>> jira
― polyphonic, Thursday, 26 March 2015 18:20 (nine years ago) link
what the hell is a scum masterwhat is your field, marcos?
― groundless round (La Lechera), Thursday, March 26, 2015 2:09 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
jk i am not a scum master and i hope to avoid scum in my twitter venture.
i am a librarian
― marcos, Thursday, 26 March 2015 18:22 (nine years ago) link
I didn't know you were a librarian! Librarians are cool imo.
― mh, Thursday, 26 March 2015 18:26 (nine years ago) link
what's your specialty? i know lots of librarians
― groundless round (La Lechera), Thursday, 26 March 2015 18:30 (nine years ago) link
thanks mh!
ll - scholarly publishing, copyright, licensing, open access. i work at a large research university
― marcos, Thursday, 26 March 2015 18:52 (nine years ago) link
edutwitter is a rich trove of voices. It has completely changed the way I educate. Doooooo it.
― brosario nawson (m bison), Thursday, 26 March 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
how do you ignore the weight that sits on your first tweet and just post something, I am having a hard time with this tbh
― marcos, Thursday, 26 March 2015 20:28 (nine years ago) link
Don't tweet, just follow people who have 500+ followers and who you like, they have motivation enough to tweet
― 龜, Thursday, 26 March 2015 20:31 (nine years ago) link
"Hi" is a good first tweet. Or "trying out twitter" followed by six months of silence.
― mh, Thursday, 26 March 2015 20:34 (nine years ago) link
just be sure to add "#gamergate" to all your tweets or no one will see them
― Clay, Thursday, 26 March 2015 20:52 (nine years ago) link
take DJP's pointers and make jokes about #bitcoin and dudes will send you Bitcoin tips
― gr8080, Thursday, 26 March 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link
There was never this type of precious debutante angst in the days of Citizens Band radio, just "One Nine One Nine a copy and what's your handle?".
― xelab, Thursday, 26 March 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link
"this is my first tweet #gamergate #bitcoin #tcot"
^what i wld suggest to get off on the right foot
― lag∞n, Thursday, 26 March 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link
marcos if u follow me and lagoon we p much cover all the angles of twitter
― brosario nawson (m bison), Thursday, 26 March 2015 21:45 (nine years ago) link
the yin and yang of tweets
― lag∞n, Thursday, 26 March 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link
Bise I want to follow u on twitter
― Clay, Thursday, 26 March 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link
followed your advice and talked about gamergate and bitcoins and shit and now my boss blocked me thanks a lot everybody
― marcos, Thursday, 26 March 2015 23:49 (nine years ago) link
lol jk but I still haven't tweeted anything
― marcos, Thursday, 26 March 2015 23:50 (nine years ago) link
u should tweet about how nobody answers yr tweets that seems popular
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 March 2015 23:51 (nine years ago) link
tell ur boss u will only discuss work via DM
― lag∞n, Friday, 27 March 2015 00:20 (nine years ago) link
subtweet ilx
― Mordy, Friday, 27 March 2015 00:26 (nine years ago) link
uh I'm not volunteering as anyones go between with their boss how dare u
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Friday, 27 March 2015 00:27 (nine years ago) link
rude
― lag∞n, Friday, 27 March 2015 00:30 (nine years ago) link
twitter is good
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 27 March 2015 01:57 (nine years ago) link
unfollow anyone who puts 'writer' in their bio
follow Thinkers instead
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Friday, 27 March 2015 02:08 (nine years ago) link
thinkers & gurus
thinkfluenceers
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 27 March 2015 03:05 (nine years ago) link
Bise I want to follow u on twitter― Clay, Thursday, March 26, 2015 4:58 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
sure who wouldn't?
― brosario nawson (m bison), Friday, 27 March 2015 03:09 (nine years ago) link
You mean to tell me that I'm the first person since last year to use the word periscope in an ILX post?
― pplains, Saturday, 28 March 2015 16:30 (nine years ago) link
They should've called it, p'ello, I guess.
Twitter is asking me if I want to follow patton oswalt, where have I gone wrong in life to have had twitter make this suggestion to me,
Do I have to take confession, how many hail marys do I have to say
How have I sinned
― 龜, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 11:57 (nine years ago) link
you have to follow patton oswalt, sorry it is just the way of the tweet
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 12:59 (nine years ago) link
in patton all things will be forgiven or at least punished
― mh, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:19 (nine years ago) link
Yeah stop complaining and fulfill your destiny.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:22 (nine years ago) link
pattonement
― drash, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:23 (nine years ago) link
(sorry)
yaaaa
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:33 (nine years ago) link
I never got into twitter cause I had no idea what to write, ever. I admire writers in general because a blank canvas is really daunting to me.
― Evan, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:38 (nine years ago) link
use the standard joke templates
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:38 (nine years ago) link
is there a wiki for that?
― Evan, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:42 (nine years ago) link
ha prob
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:43 (nine years ago) link
you can start opinionating about things in the news but be careful to never explicitly note what you're talking about. this keeps some mystery alive for your followers who aren't reading the same things you are.
― ryan, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:43 (nine years ago) link
opinionating through standard joke format is also acceptable.
― ryan, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:44 (nine years ago) link
Just imagine you're in your forties, father of two, consistently behind one month on mortgage payments…
then suddenly, tweets like "Why didn't they call rotary phones 'digital phones' since your finger did the most work with those?" will suddenly spring to life.
― pplains, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:48 (nine years ago) link
i used to not get twitter but then i realized its function is finding random nerds with similar interests to you and outsourcing your opinions/scraping of the internet to them. i even have twitter "friends" that DM me about economics and math stuff now. weird twitter is ok but gets old, the whole (music)critic nexus of savvy young ppl making flip cultural observations is pretty horrifying, there's way too much "media criticism" in general and even a master of the form like heer jest can get annoying with that shit. the social justice stuff can be good but a lot of the star feeds are way too high frequency. following ppl who post a lot of graphs and charts is cool, like that demography guy. same for like, wildlife or nature photos. i follow a few hardline communists for some reason, one of whom is a former ilxor and mtl hipster LOL
― flopson, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 15:19 (nine years ago) link
The mute function is key I find
You gotta take your feed by the reins and curate the heck out of it
― 龜, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 15:22 (nine years ago) link