Twitter C/D

i like twitter essays more stuff shld be written in bullet pt form imo

also i really like the thing phil elverum said about twitter, that just the mechanics of reading it mean you can say “Here, think this thought really quick”, can super directly convey something abstract in this really open context, space, people's attention span so wide & then specific. like the language part of it is really lovely, i think, to have access to this fragmentary branch of somebody's thoughts.

what the form really needs is someone really gifted at this genre: A Thread for Posting Brutally Pessimistic Quotes by Anguished Philosophers

ryan - def feel you but those ppl would be smug in any format tbrr

i like twitter essays more stuff shld be written in bullet pt form imo

― flopson, Tuesday, March 31, 2015 12:21 PM (18 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya its kinda cool how they do away with a lot of the "writing" part of writing

ps xyzzz² what's yr username

i like zany sweeping stoned polo sci grad student twitter essays too. maybe my fav form of twitter essay

are there good examples of good twitter essays or is the thing we're admiring more the being on the ground during the gettysburg address sensation, the temporality of just swimming in live content, something like the flickering cursor live-typing of '00s computer thrillers

theres something sort of sweet about watching the urban planning accounts talk to each other all day

the internet of the internet of things

i posted one in the Greece/syriza thread that is a classic imo. on my phone so I can't find it now. lots of good economics ones idk. I like herr jest

sometimes ill notice who someone i follows irl best friend is and follow them in order to eves drop on their convos is this creepy im not sure

infinite jeet

lol i have def done that

a fav recent JH one was about globe & mail, gawker, journalistic ethics

but rly flopson who is mtl hipster ex-ilx twitterer, I need to follow

ty flopson
can you summarise

knock yrselves out folks https://storify.com/JeetHeer1

are there good examples of good twitter essays or is the thing we're admiring more the being on the ground during the gettysburg address sensation, the temporality of just swimming in live content, something like the flickering cursor live-typing of '00s computer thrillers

― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, March 31, 2015 12:28 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

I generally agree re: the above on twitter essays, but the one exception is obv @pushinghoops who is a master of any medium she touches imo

wait the really wordy dude was on ilx?

commie former ilxor is j4y w4tts III https://twitter.com/jaywattsiii

join the @jacobinmag Toronto Reading Group lmao

adorno

adorn your life with lols

i am probably the worst twitter tbh

Congress, no

(what you really want)

commie former ilxor is j4y w4tts III https://twitter.com/jaywattsiii

― flopson, Tuesday, March 31, 2015 1:07 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

join the @jacobinmag Toronto Reading Group lmao

― lag∞n, Tuesday, March 31, 2015 1:10 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

Update: I followed this guy, and then muted him

u shd not be able to mute ppl u follow this goes against everything twitter stands for

Congress, no

― camp event (suzy), Tuesday, March 31, 2015 7:42 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

cnn really thirsty these days
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damn, CNN

Probably the best part about twitter is that when you're feeling sad you can go on and find other people who are also feeling sad but who have thousands or tens of thousands of more followers than you and that makes you feel better because having a lot of twitter followers is supposed to help you feel less sad but for those people it didn't work

wish you could turn people down

for what

i just mean halfway between full follow and mute, like having a volume knob for everyone that corresponds to frequency or something

u cld have a thing where for certain ppl u only see their more popular tweets

Yeah that would be a good addition

The other thing twitter needs is to incorporate favstar functionality

like facebook does? lol

twitter would be good if you could fp ppl from it

it would be really good if you could make it disappear

having lots of followers would suck

klout will send u free dog food tho

i just mean halfway between full follow and mute, like having a volume knob for everyone that corresponds to frequency or something

Muting retweets and hashtags has made the usability go way up. (Tweetbot does this, don't know about the regular twitter client)

just let it wash over u imho

ps xyzzz² what's yr username

― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

xyzzzz__, let us know yours schlump?

followed you!, & i'm filmclubbristol, i am not useful on twitter, just #fyi

& i feel like a judiciously controlled feed is probably in some ways desirable but i don't mind the sprawl, i don't think, feel like the design is compatible with a kind of human scanning frequency learned from personal ads & telephone books, & that in some ways calibrating the frequency or visibility of somebody would just deny me the simple periodic pleasure of unfollowing, something that makes me feel like i'm truly exercising control in my life, being firm, putting a foot down. it's meant to be kind of messy, i think. neil hagery just got more successfully aphoristic on twitter but for a long time he was really into the messy transparent language angle, i don't mind twitter feeling like scanning a radio dial

It totally is radio dial.

Thanks, followed back - if you all want to know my struggles in watching the world upside down (otherwise known as yoga), random lines of poetry and novels I'm reading (that I then structure into my commentaries on my reading at ILB), live Columbo commentary (Saturdays at around 12pm GMT) and re-tweeting lines from that Finnegans Wake account.

Well, then I'm yer bot.

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