Twitter C/D

I've been considering burning down my entire social media presence for a couple weeks now and I finally emptied the gas can on it and threw the match on it. LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, etc. etc. Zeroed out and gone.

Genuinely feels good.

...all except for us of course ;)

i think i joined twitter in like 2011 but didn't go back until this past november right around the election. the intervening 9 months have felt like years. so many nazis.

...all except for us of course ;)

Of course because I never considered ILX to be "social media" as there's no up/down voting, liking, faving or anything that turns conversation into incentivized transactions.

Its pretty good to mix political stuff with the weirder things like dril (although that's pretty unique as its not v political - unlike @Hippo, say). Lots of funny shit comes into my TL to temper the awful news feed.

Don't think its gonna last but have a look at McDonald's Hong Kong. So good.

Twitter is not gonna last, no five years (at most). Once an extreme addict (and I know the cured seem to be the worst opponents to their former addiction) but twitter is p much dead to me. Dipped my toes into it tonight after months of absence, during a tv thing that was supposed to be bonding, but the only ppl left seem to be ppl stanning hard for the exreme right or left; no nuance whatsoever. No leverage. No attempt at discussion. Nothing. It makes me hate my friends, my ~twitter friends~, and most of all myself. Rip twitter. Its death cannot come soon enough.

There is quite a lot of nuance on twitter - and you can avoid a lot of politics if you are simply fed up of it. Film and book-twitter are pretty good.

yeah twitter is great

Film and book-twitter are pretty good.

Recommendations? I avoided Twitter until, like, two weeks ago, mostly so that I could tweet at Google and complain I did not get my hard earned free socks (long story). But then I was all, hey, I'm on twitter, what should I do? So I followed a dozen or so political things, and then ... stopped following people. Mostly because, like Facebook, I get the distinct feeling it is not showing me everything I want to see, not in order, not comprehensively, just sort of AI curated. Facebook, for example, I would peak at on my phone, think huh, then move to my computer for a better read and get different stuff. Facebook, fwiw, I need to stay in touch with certain friends and family. Twitter is more to kill time in airports and trains and stuff, but maybe I'm using it wrong? Oh, I did use it to contact the lead guitarist of the Cars with a question, and he got back to me, so maybe that makes it all worth while?

I got into it with an Oklahoma manufactured homes dealer on the Fourth of July because their home page had a photo of the Sydney Harbour Bridge during a New Years Eve fireworks display. Afterward, I was all oh yeah, this is what twitters all about.

Well I follow some film/book reviewers/webzine accounts then gradually you see some of the comments beneath and you follow those ppl too. Then, over time, after some more following/unfollowing you settle into a bunch of people although every now and then you find new voices (its akin to reading or trusting an opinion of one ilx film/book person over another although I read as much from as many people as I can). Mine tend to be London-centric but some US stuff at times comes in.

Twitter is great for killing time at airports, trains etc., while you are on the move. Its perfect for that but not only that and its ok if it only remains that.

One of my favorite Twitter users, PokemonyeWest, passed away. Mourning on the Internet is still an odd thing, even though I've been online for almost 30 years and seen a lot of deaths (of people I knew well, knew vaguely, and only knew via celebrity) over that time.

Today you are YOU! pic.twitter.com/lIebQ7TCZa

— Taye Diggs (@TayeDiggs) August 14, 2017

aw thanks taye

@BrandyLJensen gone?

i think she said she was taking a break, going through some stuff... which from the last few weeks of tweets wasn't too surprising

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIft_ZWW0AAQK4o.jpg:small

lmfao

A lot of people misunderstand free speech. e.g. it's completely legal for the government to put you in prison if you ever post an XKCD comic

— Pixelated Boat (@pixelatedboat) August 25, 2017

one of the best imo, follow that guy/gal

http://deadspin.com/the-ratio-is-the-triple-crown-of-bad-tweets-1798441271

is it possible to deactivate an account without twitter deleting your shit? (twitter say they only start to delete after 30 days but this guy's testimonial says they deleting his entire following list & other shit after day 1)

is scrambling my password the only option if i need to take indefinite break?

Ted Cruz jacking off jokes are cheering me up after a horrible day.

i'm blocked by adamjohnsonnyc? confused, isn't he like a morbsy/intercept/greenwald guy? never tweeted at him before either

sometimes people use scripts that block everyone who follows x person

i know about blocklists, not sure who triggered it though. probably roger stone

https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/Giving-you-more-characters-to-express-yourself.html

eh

no thanks

why shorter tweets are actually better (1/35)

— Mina Kimes (@minakimes) September 26, 2017

They need to increase the character limit on twitter names

Trying to find out which politicians, political advisors, journalists and commentators with big followings got 280. Anyone noticed any?

It looks like verified users got it, plebs will have to wait.

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— Mariners (@Mariners) September 27, 2017

That’s awesome though

pic.twitter.com/NxaME4QBT1

— wint (@dril) November 21, 2014

Loving the fallout of that Milo Buzzfeed piece rn. Dan Lyons runs away, comes back, says he's apologised, then:

No you didn't. https://t.co/xi7XYwTqMg

— 💀zombië queen💀 (@UnburntWitch) October 6, 2017

I'm just going to set this account public and abandon Twitter, leaving this as a monument to media bullying and malpractice.

— David Auerbach (@AuerbachKeller) October 5, 2017

he's definitely not mad

clearly did not do the things theres evidence of him doing

just added twitter.com to my ublock origin filter list. my life is already so much better. i feel so happy and relieved.

It's a good monument 2 media bullying and malpractice tbf

wtf is szechuan sauce

the sauce outrage is way funnier than the show

most/least successful product placement ever

It's a good monument 2 media bullying and malpractice tbf

― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (Bananaman Begins)

twitter is a "good monument" in the same way all those civil war statues are. monuments of this sort need to be kept way the hell away from statehouses.

max on point

http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/10/twitter-should-stop-pretending.html

can someone explain to me what verification actually is

is it just... "we have verified that this person exists"

regarding this

We’re reconsidering our verification policies. Not as high a priority as enforcement, but it’s up there

— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017

what were the verification policies before? i guess it's to verify that the account is the real person and not a faker, but why are there so many non-public figures with them

It is “this person is who they claim to be”. So initially for celebs, it quickly expanded to journalists with high self-regard, conference speakers, Nazis, etc

ah

that sounds about right