Twitter C/D

i enjoy my current twitter feed bubble of former SA forums jokesters and video game leftists and a couple ppl who just post architecture photos and sci-fi art. in the current climate it's really easy to end up with a feed that's like 90% politics even if that's not what you want out of the site.

truth

my feed has been bumming me out a lot. leftist twitter is bad. my professional feed stuff, which was why i first signed up for twitter in the first place, is 50% social justice wokeness competition and self-congratulating and 50% the same boring redundant shit my field has been talking about for the past 10 years. basketball twitter and local city/community stuff the only saving grace for me right now

In a way its not just twitter its everywhere! I was in Otley last week and a woman said to me "did you hear what Trump said about Comey said about Trump said about".

And its inescapable and relentless! People retweeting what other people said about Trump or someone, but even if you don't have twitter people just rebroadcast what Trump or someone else did. Why are the people of Otley or anywhere else going on about this stuff , its become impossible to get the bus without headphones!

i have 'trump' on my muted words list, it's been helpful. also 'chapo'

I didnt know you could do that, thanks!

ppl start talking unprompted abt trump mid sentence we all have trump on the brain, our nation is truly cursed

xp yeah they let you mute terms from your entire feed now, it used to just be for notifications.

i have 'trump' on my muted words list, it's been helpful. also 'chapo'

― ciderpress, Thursday, June 22, 2017 12:05 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

realized yesterday the chapo guys hardly ever talk abt the pod on their own accounts, admirable imo

yeah i even follow a couple of them despite not caring about the pod

theyre good tweeters tbqh

cld go for a little less reveling in meanness but u have to let artists art u know

sometimes they are good at twitter

hey we all cant bat 1000

whats ur handle marcos

yea the negatives are that 1) they are often dicks; 2) their jokes/digs can be bad and/or opaque; 3) their politics are "trenchant". i also don't care about the podcast fwiw it is kind of unbearable

i dont really pod but they cld learn to talk better imo

i am happy for them tho

My keyword mutes:

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wow!

Award shows, anything political, thundersnow. I can't take any of it.

i dont mute anything im in it for the whole sick hash

"icymi" is a great one

do you refuse to acknowledge anyone who doesn't call it willis tower?

i muted something once it was before twitter had the option i used a chrome plugin cant remember what it was

Yeah I hate ICYMI, because I never miss it. I saw it the first time.

lol @ bonnaroo

My mute list, in its entirety: "Ricky Gervais"

reasonable

"gentle reminder" wld be a good one

Wow Jeff YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH joeks

Funny though, without politics - or at the very least tweets about articles about politics - I'd render my own twitter experience wholly useless tbh.

I only have two ban words: starwars (from whenever the fuck the last shit film came out) and Banksy (because the number of people who think they are rt'ing Banksy while rt'ing some fan tweet thing is more annoying than Banksy at this point). Much more a people banner/muter tbh (this list runs in the dozens).

RT[^RT]+RT

I've never seen this, and have no clue what it means.

i have muted the word trump and that's it.

i am going to try to get more heavily into muting in the future

RT[^RT]+RT mutes retweet chains, which I guess isn't relevant anymore since not many people use old style RT's.

http://mutebot.info/

I use twitter strictly for professional stuff, but this joke account popped up on the periphery:

SURGEON, IDIOT: SQUATS CAUSE DIABETES
GRANDMOTHER, WISE: IF YOUR HAND IS LARGER THAN YOUR FACE YOU HAVE CANCER #IATROGENICS

— EXTREME TALEB (@untaleb) March 6, 2017

THERE'S A FINE LINE BETWEEN CHARLATANS AND TRUE INTELLECTUALS AND IT'S EXACTLY 400LBS #NOSTRAPS. STAY BARBELLED, MY FRIENDS.

— EXTREME TALEB (@untaleb) June 5, 2017

uh actually i should have posted that in the "who is @bart simpson" or whatever weird twitter thread sorry

btw who is that supposed "weird twitter" account that not the nyt profile that i've never heard of before

xp I see, Jeff. Yeah that kind of died didn't it? (I'm still using tweetbot but it's pretty much useless with all the new twitter ui changes. It can't even properly show a quoted tweet...)

I've a lot to be thankful for wrt Twitter (met my love, writing gigs etc), but I've been in Spain for two months, pretty much completely ignored twitter. And for the first time I can easily imagine it not being in my life (which sounds pathetic, but I was a 24/7 twitter junkie).

now i'm getting this 'feature' that shows me when a follow 'likes' a post. normally i didn't mind but it's showing me the same tweets over and over again, this happening to anyone else? like ya i saw that ed zitron liked that post... yesterday

^^ this shit is why the official twitter site and app have been useless for me for aeons. With tweetbot not getting with the times, I predict I'll lose my interest in the whole hellhole pretty fast.

was just speculating on twitter dot com that they mustve discovered that repeat viewings of tweets —increases engagement— or some shit, and we descend further into hell

#wearelikefrogslowlyboilingtodeathamirite

like on one level i think it's because they're just trying to shovel more Content down yer throat but i wonder if there's a secret lizard brain part that we actually use it because we just like scrolling

pull to refresh is up there with the most devious mechanisms of all time

I don't even have many followers and do minimal engagement and I'm hooked, I can't imagine how insidious it would be to have a following

i bet if u have a ton of followers it kinds sucks at lest from a replies perspective, the faves and rts r prob real good

rip my menchies

pull to refresh is up there with the most devious mechanisms of all time

― lag∞n, Thursday, June 22, 2017 6:38 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Worse, I've got auto refresh on :-/

Having a 'following' when yr not a weird twitter person/jokester is indeed insidious and, tbh, intimidating. It becomes a nuissance. My gf has 9,000 followers and she's very careful about what she says, how she says it (also to do with politics, tbh, but then everything is politics, especially on twitter). I've about 800 followers iirc but already feel inhibited at times.

Me when I tweet something and delete it 5 minutes later pic.twitter.com/jSbTQAEYaa

— la bella vita (@drugproblem) June 20, 2017