Twitter C/D

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btw I'm not just talking about "clickbait" here I'm talking about the impulse people seem to have to need to have a take on every single word that comes out of Trump's mouth, while very little gets said about Hillary. I think some of it is just instinctive and internalized -- Trump is good entertainment, and everyone in journalism is, to an extent, trained to look for that, even if s/he also has higher and better aims.

but also closer races are more exciting and better for page views and drive more eyeballs so stories that humanize trump and his supporters + stories that cast suspicion [sometimes warranted, often not] on hillary are good for business

and reporters love stories

of course most of the actual non horse race trump stories remain unreported

last four posts otm

sorry I had a conf call had to exit thread briefly...

it's kind of insane what kind of criminal mastermind hill has been even as she's passing away, murdering DNC staffers and bleaching email servers and what not.

dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏)
Posted: September 16, 2016 at 12:34:43 PM
lol flopson I haven't gotten any notifications so either I commented on a dead thread or he's blocked me in some way on fb now

it was a comment about this article: http://thebaffler.com/salvos/degrasse-tyson-kriss-atheists
he somehow missed the point and was complaining that homophobic, racist evangelicals are a much bigger threat than atheists so why are you picking on atheists

lol this comment just popped up on my facebook didnt seem nearly ban worthy, just a polite reasoned argument that disagreed w him wth

@HeerJeet
1. I want to talk about why Canadian fiction has so many stories about people having sex with animals & vegetables.

what is trump is so bad, him being president actually convinces congress to roll back the legislation allowing g the president additional emergency powers to send troops

then we should be back to Moreno votes and they can just keep overriding him until he pisses himself (on a day he forgets to wear diaper)

more no votes, that is

wish people would stop mocking incontinent americans. it's a larger part of our population than people care to admit

hoping trump is so bad we just dont elect him

yah

ap lede, media may be turning a corner

WASHINGTON (AP) — After five years as the chief promoter of a lie about Barack Obama's birthplace, Donald Trump abruptly reversed course Friday and acknowledged the fact that the president was born in America. He then immediately peddled another false conspiracy.

https://twitter.com/ORTECHCanada

uh oh

"brumpbo tungus," haven't seen that in a minute

lol

https://twitter.com/ORTECHCanada/status/777908430023585792

this was me

pretty scary for those two minutes when my username was that lol

wow learn something new abt ilxors every day

i'm nazi btw

Fair to say that ORTECH Consulting did... NAZI this one coming

damn what's the delay on this thing

i think they're deleting :(

dang, didn't get the chance to follow with "Ortech did 9/11"

So far I am noticing that early twitter use feels oddly like work, where you feel this need to do things to get followers and increase your reach.

lmao

https://twitter.com/Justin__Bebis/status/777932050535944192

just had my first multiple-retweeted tweet, woot

congrats

can I give u a Twitter tip hurting... don't use hashtags unironically

never hashtag ever

cool thx

I think all the handful of times I used hashtags so far were either ironic or in response to a specific thing (i.e dumb games where you're supposed to come up with a pun) except maybe one

oh cool, first thing to have really freaked me out in a while:

https://twitter.com/gretagrain/with_replies

guy w/ 0 follows/ers tweets obsessive gnomic shit, mostly at women, also music youtubes

hope to god it's a bot.

i followed him

dear reader, i followed him

can't believe you found my second account I mentioned

ha

http://i.imgur.com/ikUKK41.png

lag∞n's feed too offensive for even the misogynists of twitter

can't see me, sorry

ah i see this fella spent a good portion of the afternoon harassing a gizmodo writer i follow with increasingly creepy stuff that i can't even begin to decode

https://twitter.com/gretagrain/status/778451158440345600

he got jams tho can he come to ilm

aw he blocked me now

so like twitter is a battery hog and it's not just my phone dying on me right?

by "twitter" do we mean their official client or

like tweetbot usually is 20-30% of my total battery usage, but it's because I'm sitting there scrolling through tweets, loading tweets, loading images, and pulling the little refresh thing all the time

^^ I've got autorefresh on.

Thing about tweetbot that does annoy me: it's always last to catch up with new features. Gif implementation took ages, and now that the 140 limit excludes links and pics it redirects me to web Twitter because it can't cope.