http://i.imgur.com/BDdYg5c.jpg
overall the verdict is: too many tweets
― 龜, Thursday, 8 December 2016 21:53 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/tijhhv2.png
― 龜, Thursday, 8 December 2016 21:57 (seven years ago) link
On Nov. 7, the hashtag #pizzagate first appeared on Twitter. Over the next several weeks, it would be tweeted and retweeted hundreds or thousands of times each day.An oddly disproportionate share of the tweets about Pizzagate appear to have come from, of all places, the Czech Republic, Cyprus and Vietnam, said Jonathan Albright, an assistant professor of media analytics at Elon University in North Carolina. In some cases, the most avid retweeters appeared to be bots, programs designed to amplify certain news and information.“What bots are doing is really getting this thing trending on Twitter,” Albright said. “These bots are providing the online crowds that are providing legitimacy.”Online, the more something is retweeted or otherwise shared, the more prominently it appears in social media and on sites that track “trending” news. As the bots joined ordinary Twitter users in pushing out Pizzagate-related rumors, the notion spread like wildfire. Who programmed the bots to focus on that topic remains unknown.
An oddly disproportionate share of the tweets about Pizzagate appear to have come from, of all places, the Czech Republic, Cyprus and Vietnam, said Jonathan Albright, an assistant professor of media analytics at Elon University in North Carolina. In some cases, the most avid retweeters appeared to be bots, programs designed to amplify certain news and information.
“What bots are doing is really getting this thing trending on Twitter,” Albright said. “These bots are providing the online crowds that are providing legitimacy.”
Online, the more something is retweeted or otherwise shared, the more prominently it appears in social media and on sites that track “trending” news. As the bots joined ordinary Twitter users in pushing out Pizzagate-related rumors, the notion spread like wildfire. Who programmed the bots to focus on that topic remains unknown.
Is it really so hard to purge all the eggs and obvious bot accounts? What value does all that sewage bring to the business?
― El Tomboto, Friday, 9 December 2016 02:07 (seven years ago) link
Monthly active uniques
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Friday, 9 December 2016 02:08 (seven years ago) link
though it turns out you can't trade those in for dollars
germany is calling this "automated opinion shaping":
https://twitter.com/ridt/status/806958107167518720
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 9 December 2016 10:54 (seven years ago) link
silby otm except you can exchange them for $ via referrals. the volume for a particular hashtag / account / referral combo is small but with bots working on several thousand hashtags a day you can start to accumulate a critical mass. a less automated version of this is the entire basis of most online publishing. i imagine a crackdown is possible (and is happening) but i also imagine that it's an arms race that will be difficult to win.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 9 December 2016 10:59 (seven years ago) link
anton newcombe called cassandra fairbanks a cow, right here on twitter dot com
― goole, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 21:04 (seven years ago) link
those dont sound like real ppl
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 22:54 (seven years ago) link
they sound like dickens chars
― Mordy, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 23:56 (seven years ago) link
yah I feel like I have heard tangentially of one name and the other seems fake. but it could go the other way
I notably have a fictional name in the "too plausibly real" real tho
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 04:24 (seven years ago) link
Julia Ioffe has been sacked by Politico for the tweet referenced here:
https://mobile.twitter.com/leahmcelrath/status/809171829248196608
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 23:16 (seven years ago) link
to be fair, trump is probably fucking his daughter
― 龜, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 23:50 (seven years ago) link
"Gratuitous opinion had no place, anywhere, at any time"
― ogmor, Thursday, 15 December 2016 08:48 (seven years ago) link
Trump probably cool about being rumoured to be fucking his daughter tbh, as long as his daughter is widely acknowledged as hott
― Houston John (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 15 December 2016 12:35 (seven years ago) link
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/donald-trump-twitter-emoji-crooked-hillary-232647
― There shouldn't be a thread for Dennis Perrin tweets (stevie), Thursday, 15 December 2016 12:39 (seven years ago) link
that ioffe tweet was obv stupid and indecorous and in a perfect world she deserves some sort of punishment for that but probably also important to remember that the president-elect of the united states more or less rose to power saying stuff pretty similar to that
― k3vin k., Thursday, 15 December 2016 17:22 (seven years ago) link
all journalists should tweet incest jokes about the president
― flopson, Thursday, 15 December 2016 18:00 (seven years ago) link
when the president does it that means that it is not poor twitter etiquette
― Mordy, Thursday, 15 December 2016 18:23 (seven years ago) link
news org shd adopt an "anything goes" policy on twitter baby!
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2016 18:26 (seven years ago) link
imo, regardless of the example set by the president, fucking yr own daughter is poor twitter etiquette
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 15 December 2016 18:28 (seven years ago) link
Gotta wonder if a) POLITICO would've shitcanned Ioffe if she weren't already one foot out the door, and b) if Ioffe would've made that tweet if she weren't already etc. Also curious to know if there's a significant difference between the attitudes of POLITICO and The Atlantic (where Ioffe's headed) w/r/t their writers' use of social media.
― Wozniak on Kimye's Baby (jaymc), Thursday, 15 December 2016 18:39 (seven years ago) link
Matt Bruenig was fired from Demos during the primary for calling Clinton ally Neera Tanden a "scumbag" in a tweet.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 15 December 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
Which is not to say Ioffe deserved to be fired. Probably neither deserved to be fired, and probably both tweets were ill-considered.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 15 December 2016 18:47 (seven years ago) link
noo matt bruenig was given the choice to either stop constantly calling people names on twitter or be fired and he chose to be fired because being a rageball online was too dear to his heart lol
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2016 18:50 (seven years ago) link
that website drives ppl fn insane lol
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2016 18:53 (seven years ago) link
some nerd ass socialist lawyer is suddenly a wild pugilist, once he tastes blood he cant get enough and asking him to abide by any standards of decency is a violation of first amendment rights
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2016 18:55 (seven years ago) link
i mean dont get me wrong i love respect free journalism but the 140 characters makes ppl lose all perspective
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2016 18:56 (seven years ago) link
this website is a hell to me
― ciderpress, Thursday, 15 December 2016 18:57 (seven years ago) link
when im offline for a while then come back to twitter im always like wtf is this horrific shit, but then an hour im back in the groove baby!
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
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you gotta respect it he died for what he believed in
― k3vin k., Thursday, 15 December 2016 19:05 (seven years ago) link
i've thought about trimming back on people who talk about politics a lot, i'm really just on there for the poop jokes
― ciderpress, Thursday, 15 December 2016 19:07 (seven years ago) link
https://68.media.tumblr.com/606fbd6a91600577c99eea64521a199a/tumblr_oi7nqs0iJI1qa9yvvo1_1280.png
― 龜, Thursday, 15 December 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link
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tru
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2016 19:28 (seven years ago) link
current josh marshall meltdown over a gizmodo article saying tweetstorms are bad is the good twitter
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
yeah the bruenig thing was a seriously wtffff moment and went off the rails hardcore when every twitter buddy (or person who wanted to be his buddy) started hammering his perceived foes about how he, a real person with a job, was now without a job and they should die in a fire for not letting this man rage at others
― mh 😏, Thursday, 15 December 2016 19:52 (seven years ago) link
the best part was he was only writing part time while holding an actual well paying lawyer job
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2016 19:54 (seven years ago) link
can't remember, is gamergate lawyer a real lawyer now? he was married to a real lawyer, but I was thinking he got divorced and remarried or something
― mh 😏, Thursday, 15 December 2016 19:55 (seven years ago) link
fraid i missed out on that "thread"
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2016 19:56 (seven years ago) link
xp u sure about that? I thought I had seen tweets about how he had become unemployed.
tbf, I felt kind of the same way about the whole Salaita affair, like maybe he ultimately got canned because pro-Israel types were out to get him, but it's still probably a good idea for a professor to comport himself with some dignity on public social media and his tweets were bilious.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 15 December 2016 19:58 (seven years ago) link
im not positive but it is my iirc
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:01 (seven years ago) link
I mean his wife was posting "hire my husband" stuff for a while, so I figured that meant unemployed.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:06 (seven years ago) link
think he mightve lost his law job after idk? or maybe he just was looking for writing work... the brueings r lowkey shady
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:11 (seven years ago) link
his wife seems great but that time she was all 'if everyone tells husband how wonderful he is, maybe he'll come back on twitter' made me rmde
― mookieproof, Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:16 (seven years ago) link
chipper anti abortion socialist is admitly a novel approach
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:20 (seven years ago) link
isn't that all of catholic twitter or w/e
― mh 😏, Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:21 (seven years ago) link
yeah i mean i guess i just dont understand that culture
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:22 (seven years ago) link
yeah, left catholics are like that corner of the political matrix you didn't believe really existed
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:26 (seven years ago) link
left catholics are the coolest ppl imo, get me fired up
― k3vin k., Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:29 (seven years ago) link
haha nice
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:34 (seven years ago) link