Twitter C/D

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.

http://i.imgur.com/p1XQBFl.png

:|

its me, your beloved erstwhile ilxor elmo argonaut that spends all his time on twitter @patron_sailor, i love you all & i miss you please follow me ok

ok "beloved" is maybe a stretch but you get the idea

No "beloved" is spot on and maybe even understating it. Miss you boo

I like your tweets, keep it up

Made my return to Twitter after (1) learning how to mute people and (2) wanting to escape the raccoon shitposting

elmo is the best twitter

i always interact with elmo on twitter :)

Twitter is no good when you are a broken misanthrope, even if they made a twitter for broken misanthropes it would be equally as worthless a pile of fucking dogshite.

no I'm the best twitter elmo is second

i follow rev and lagoon, i will follow the elmo, btw my son loves your show elmo's world

elmo has v. good selfie game

true rev is all-time twitter

Twitter is no good when you are a broken misanthrope, even if they made a twitter for broken misanthropes it would be equally as worthless a pile of fucking dogshite.

― xelab, Wednesday, April 1, 2015 5:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

twitter seems quite popular with broken misanthropes fwiw!

As always @quartzcity

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

:( :( :(

Kill yrslf. No where to go from here.

harsh but fair

Due to the Nakatomi Corporation's legacy of greed around the globe, they are about to be taught a lesson in the real use of Twitter.

http://eggsbacon.co.nz/twitter_mau

Marjorie Scardino, who joined their board in Dec 2013, has made three tweets since.

https://mobile.twitter.com/marjscar/tweets

lol

lol "@TheEconomist"

I'd start a new account if I joined twitter, i think. I already have separate ones for different purposes.

Simon Amstells tweets are very, erm, informative

"hello xxxx people, thank you"

repeat.

http://www.mountainsofmouthness.com/

Replacement of Discover (which was mostly people i don't follow tweeting about things that were broadly relevant to my interests) with "tailored" hashtag sidebar is so awful. Currently have three tags about Kate Middleton, two #makeamovie... trends, and tags about the Philippines netball team / domestic Indian real estate legislation. Essentially, unless the fairly limited number of people i follow are saying anything, it's not worth using the site at all.

Hardly ever explore hashtags...its mostly ever good for keeping up with people and events.

Following a couple of campaigners, that's a whole other story but I wonder how effective these things are. Which is no reason NOT to do them of course.

Personally you get to say things in bite-sized chunks which are good to expunge off your mind. Or you can be as banal as you like. Appreciate the space.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/president-obama-joins-twitter-wave-of-hate-filled-racism-and-vitriol-ensues/article24560745/

twitter is a complete dud. i wish it would disappear. like someone said in the g&m comments, it especially tends to attract shallow commentary and encourage short attention span

But shallow commentary and short attention span are my specialties!

counterpoint: twitter is the most important invention of the 21st century

Counterpoint: Twitter is good

twitter is extremely good and cool

it especially tends to attract shallow commentary and encourage short attention span

it's true, you can't find such things anywhere else on the internet

remember 20 years ago when people complained about "soundbites" ruining culture? yeah

100 people have chosen to follow my micro-posts about turds and pee, if that isn't great i don't know what is

All I know is that thanks to Twitter, I can make whatever stupid jokes I want and Chuck D will see them.

twitter is good

it would be nice if most of it were well-intentioned, but it amplifies people's worst side

it especially tends to attract shallow commentary and encourage short attention span

it's true, you can't find such things anywhere else on the internet

― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Friday, May 22, 2015 6:46 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but the point was that twitter forces this concept, unlike, for example, this message board, which has no character limit

way too many characters around here tbh