read yr blogs
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 03:53 (seven years ago) link
attacking the form is good, do not legitimize the form, which is annoying
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 03:55 (seven years ago) link
hes right if you think a self own and being right are the same thing
― lag∞n, Monday, December 19, 2016 8:46 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
listen for some people this is their entire brand
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 03:58 (seven years ago) link
why wld we want to be serious about tweetstorms, we arent aspiring to be weird buffoons
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 04:00 (seven years ago) link
if ur a successful tweetstormer this is a perfect opportunity to not feed the trolls and just carry on with yr life of tweestorming, its basic game theory
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 04:02 (seven years ago) link
tweetstorms dont really even bother me like theyre for sure pretty lame but defending tweetstorms is just such obvs bad manners idk
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 04:04 (seven years ago) link
u cn defend them on here its okay but not on twitter dont clutter up the feed
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 04:07 (seven years ago) link
tweetstorms can be fine even if they are often terrible just don't go announcing you are going to start one like "OK, ready everyone? Tweetstorm on x, starting now! Here goes!!!"
also the word "tweetstorm" is bad
― marcos, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 04:09 (seven years ago) link
its funny the numbering doesnt actually serve the typical purpose of numbering things its purely to signal to ppl that a tweetstorm is going down
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 04:19 (seven years ago) link
if i were jeet heer id be all
1. a few thoughts on tweetstorms2. i got a nice job off tweetstorms3. gargle deez
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 04:21 (seven years ago) link
time for some storm theory
tweet meteorology
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 05:39 (seven years ago) link
I think crazy ranting game theory guy is bad but did the twitter format right. If you're tweeting that many times in a row, it should sound like a one person conversation where you're responding to the voices in your head
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 05:41 (seven years ago) link
lol jeet fighting w ronan now he mad
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 00:51 (seven years ago) link
tucker carlson featured a tweet from my buddy regarding lena dunham on fox today lol
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 00:53 (seven years ago) link
soon the royalties will start pouring in!
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 00:59 (seven years ago) link
Ronan <3
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:01 (seven years ago) link
jeet's a lot smarter than ronan, to state the obvious
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:11 (seven years ago) link
yeah but is it the right kind of intelligence, he _did_ respond at ronan's weak jibe
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:23 (seven years ago) link
k3vin k.Posted: December 20, 2016 at 6:11:31 PMjeet's a lot smarter than ronan, to state the obvious
odd non sequitur
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:24 (seven years ago) link
where do you imagine people are when they are tweeting these storms
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:25 (seven years ago) link
ronans point was very good not weak and jeets intelligence didnt seem to really help him understand it much, prob the kind of intelligence thats better suited to musings than human interactions
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:27 (seven years ago) link
idk man i find the pile-on tiring. jeet may be a lot of things (humorless, lacking in self-awareness), but at the very least he's curious about the world around him and can think for himself. give me that over a white guy who uses "manthreading" unironically
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:28 (seven years ago) link
the man threading article was written by a woman fwiw
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:30 (seven years ago) link
if it's a bunch of people doing this it's lame, but if it truly is a bunch of people then why the hell is he wasting time responding to individuals
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:30 (seven years ago) link
manthreading has to do with your eyebrows
― Treeship, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:30 (seven years ago) link
I think they go to the last remaining bookstore in their city to browse and maybe buy a book, and then they take out their phone and then an hour or two later another shopper says "excuse me" because they are standing in front of some good books, and the twitter person is like "shit" and moves, and then realizes they are late for a thing and they have had nothing to eat since 9am
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:31 (seven years ago) link
imo twitter is an excellent platform for roasting ppl jeets doing fine he cn deal
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:33 (seven years ago) link
i think "manthreading" was funny and tongue in cheek, knowing that the people who are guilty of it would either get the simile or blow up because they're humorless
it's not like men talking over people, but it often has the same run-on nature and linking the two is funny, although that appeal is limited to people who read a zillion "mansplaining" articles
basically, gawker in-media-sphere humor
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:34 (seven years ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, December 20, 2016 8:30 PM (four minutes ago)
i read the article and it was bad
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:35 (seven years ago) link
which all the main tweetstorm ppl aspire to in that hyper-tweeting in-crowd has an intersecting set of lingo
and it's all ppl who aspire to be heard so badly
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:35 (seven years ago) link
ya it was obvs provocation targeting the humorless and pompous and anyone with any sense wldve steered clear or jsut laughed it off
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:36 (seven years ago) link
the risible portmanteaus are so tired at this point
― Treeship, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:37 (seven years ago) link
i agree jeet heer is mockable, i don't even like him that much or whatever, i just think we can do better than that attempt
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:38 (seven years ago) link
that article was just baiting MRAs. no one thinks only men use that feature of twitter.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:38 (seven years ago) link
u know whats not funny and actually terrible about twitter tho is the woman who wrote it had a ton of in earnest very nasty shit directed at her over it
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:38 (seven years ago) link
yeah but that was the evil plan of the editors of gizmodo. they used her as live bait to draw clicks. isn't so funny.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:39 (seven years ago) link
imo the best part was that a ton of tweets have been made out of this "manthreading" article, treating it as something as significance because it was a published article on a blog
if it was a series of tweets by the same writer, would anyone have noticed?
ergo maybe tweetstorms are minor compared to actual articles
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:39 (seven years ago) link
my friend is taking a comic books class in University and he has a big anthology of criticism of comic books and the introduction is written by Heer Jeet
― flopson, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:40 (seven years ago) link
― mh 😏, Tuesday, December 20, 2016 8:34 PM (four minutes ago)
it was your typical say-nothing red meat for the base, lagoon started a whole thread about this phenomenon iirc
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:40 (seven years ago) link
i never heard of this jeet but i am picturing derek jeter
― Treeship, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:41 (seven years ago) link
thats one of the funniest things abt him
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:42 (seven years ago) link
if an article gets traction its def more powerful than a tweetstorm but if u have a large twitter following yr average tweetstorm will get more eyeballs than yr average article
coincidentally derek jeter was lagoon's favorite baseball player for his favorite team the yankees
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:42 (seven years ago) link
a real class act one of a kind my captain for life
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:43 (seven years ago) link
kapow right out of the park
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:43 (seven years ago) link
he does this kind of nerdy canadian writer thing in actual publications and his aspirational career thread (lol) was publishing... a book of his tweetstorms
i was at a bookstore with two people from his town and when i pointed it out had to explain who he was because they had no idea
also he did the corporate email thing with his twitter handle so people keep screwing up his first and last name and i feel for him
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:45 (seven years ago) link
tweetstorms are good imo. big ass rectangular blocks of prose an inappropriate way to express 99% of info u read online. so many times i read and articles and the preamble was like the first 8 paragraphs and the actual new info could be expressed in a handful lines. lists, threaded tweets, hell just straight bullet point form shit
― flopson, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:45 (seven years ago) link
xp- ha i just did that
― flopson, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:46 (seven years ago) link
yeah. it's like with food. it all gets broken down into sugar eventually anyway, so i just eat refined sugar all the time.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:46 (seven years ago) link
if we want to get deep the subtext of the manthreading complaint is twitter used to be fun before it was populated with oblivious careerists
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:47 (seven years ago) link