Twitter C/D

i'm bad at it but i don't envy people who are good at it. i'm happy to be i'm ignored

Twitter Sees 6% Increase In “Like” Activity After First Week Of Hearts

ugh

it's the novelty factor

people want to see what happens when they push a heart, maybe something "new"/different happens

wait a few months and check out the stats then

next they'll turn facebook into a heart

at least then it might finally bleed to death

if you click me do i not bleed

man can i just read ta-nehisi coates & jamelle bouie @ing one another about history books without seeing every civilian history bozo Joining The Party? i wish the conversation lines fenced off strangers, everybody's so awful, i know everyone is v positive about twitter engagement itt but it is craven & boring too i think

if u follow them both u shdnt have to see the randos, also they are both terrible at twitter comic book reading nerds who say shit like "awesome sauce!"

i know everyone is v positive about twitter engagement itt

― crime breeze (schlump), Wednesday, November 11, 2015 6:04 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

https://twitter.com/ShitAccount2015

they are both terrible at twitter comic book reading nerds who say shit like "awesome sauce!"

lol every time I see coates post some link to some nerd shit and just add "awesome sauce" I am like "this guy has a macarthur grant"

just goes to show u twitter is a real form

they are both terrible at twitter comic book reading nerds who say shit like "awesome sauce!

loool, so true

generally kind of annoying when you follow someone to read posts about their area of expertise but then have to subscribe to idle thoughts about their interests

cf mark s just the other day
https://twitter.com/dubdobdee/status/654279539661606912

TWITTER idea: retweets should be mouseover reveal so you can guess who retweeted soemthing before seeing

lol i'd buy that for a dollar

i started following ilx ppl and find it kind of disconcerting

Ha yeah I follow a couple and I feel like I'm eavesdropping.

Sorry

lol

haha both yr twitters are p good idk, with ilx being kinda dead its weird to see ilx-y stuff on twitter i guess

~the world moves on~

i've wondered if ilx has been kinda dead or if its just my bookmarks

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feel like a year or two ago this would have been nearly twice that on a thursday night in late fall

i said something a while back about the decline in use of the wdyll threads being a good indicator of the drift from ilx to social media and just noticed there is no november thread. boyz ii men getting ready to sing

some people are on zing instead of the site, I'm not sure if those stats are counted?

Plenty of ilx on twitter iirc

imo ilx still feels more like one of the better methods for the same ~150 people to keep talking to each other but that's kinda all it is at this point. we are definitely in metafilter land now, there has been basically no new blood for years, the 'young people' here are all in their late 20s and the 45 y/os are just busier w/ lyfe / kids / painting their garage.

children of zing

i'm taking another break from twitter and have just kinda ended up rechanneling that attention into ilx and tumblr, two (relatively) dead places

hope twitter dies soon too

imo ilx still feels more like one of the better methods for the same ~150 people to keep talking to each other

this is what the internet is for, huge swirling pools of discourse aren't fun for anybody

hope twitter dies soon too

― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, November 20, 2015 10:46 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lot of ppl seem p convinced this is happening but idk

i think those perspectives mainly focus on the business end of twitter. i personally don't see it dying soon but it really shifted in 2012-2013 from a kind of cool and fascinating thing where ppl were really funny and i felt less alone (lol) to a site of unbelievable anxiety, which has gotten way worse in the past two years, even as i followed as few ppl as possible

i mean, my own fault for being embedded in both media and music twitter

twitter def used to be more fun and funny before ppl decided it was a srs platform for expanding ones brand

i think those perspectives mainly focus on the business end of twitter. i personally don't see it dying soon

― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, November 20, 2015 10:56 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

business concerns and its health as a platform are pretty intimately connected tho

idk where ppl wld go tho

business concerns and its health as a platform are pretty intimately connected tho

oh yeah true that

twitter def used to be more fun and funny before ppl decided it was a srs platform for expanding ones brand

I realized Something Was Up with Twitter when the committee for my college reunion started collecting everyone's Twitter handles to put on a list and mine was the only one not geared towards promoting my brand/professional work. At first I was embarrassed but it quickly became hilarious as I watched white paper link after appointment announcement after newspaper article scroll by punctuated with me joking with ilxors about some terrible band/politician

lmao

lol one time i tweeted a link to something i wrote and it felt so lame

muted in tweetdeck: the phrase 'excited to announce'

I like the lag∞n brand.

It needs expanding.

Hire an intern.

accepting applications

muted in tweetdeck: the phrase 'excited to announce'

― mookieproof, Friday, November 20, 2015 11:08 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"wrote a thing"

excited to announce is def one of the primo depressing phrases online

feel like twitter gives me insight into how baked lag∞n is any particular moment, so ✓