couple of weeks on from getting twitter off my homescreen and i do not miss it at all
every now and again i'll follow a link to read some post or thread and i get a "yikes" feeling pretty quick and do an exaggerated frowny raised-eyebrows tip-toe out of there
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 1 February 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link
fucks up with twitter lately, my timeline is so screwy. Seeing lots of missing tweets that were there earlier and really old tweets pop up. This has been happening for about a month here and there. Anyone else?
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Friday, 2 February 2018 19:09 (six years ago) link
It's bound to be that way if you use the official app or web-twitter. It's gone haywire.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 2 February 2018 19:13 (six years ago) link
yeah it really dropped off a cliff recently
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 2 February 2018 19:23 (six years ago) link
came back to look at twitter via web page after being completely off it for about half a year.
either twitter is completely fucking insane now or my metabolism for hot take intake has dropped to healthy levels or both
the site is like the movie 28 Days Later
― barreras, Friday, 2 February 2018 21:49 (six years ago) link
they're screwing with the algorithmic ways to keep people on longer and it's messing up everything
― maura, Friday, 2 February 2018 21:57 (six years ago) link
Memes in 2010 vs memes in 2018 pic.twitter.com/opisoQuvNz— sacreDan (@Danceive) February 1, 2018
― mh, Friday, 2 February 2018 21:58 (six years ago) link
People I follow keep getting spontaneously unfollowed without me wAnting to.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:58 (six years ago) link
― maura, Friday, February 2, 2018 4:57 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's interesting because, for me at least, there are some really basic aspects of their ui they could change to keep me on way longer. for example, it's constantly trying to get me (in some cases forcing me) to scroll back up to most recent tweets, even if i've been away from twitter for a while and would have hours of old tweets to read. once i'm back at the top, i read the new tweets, then close
― flopson, Monday, 5 February 2018 00:10 (six years ago) link
I don’t think I’ve looked at twitter in the official client or on the web for more than a minute at a time foreverit’s all tweetbot on my phone
― mh, Monday, 5 February 2018 00:15 (six years ago) link
Seriously.
― Jeff, Monday, 5 February 2018 00:21 (six years ago) link
i don’t want any twitter apps on my phone at all so
― maura, Monday, 5 February 2018 14:14 (six years ago) link
^ gets it
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 5 February 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
I heart u all but I don't really want a notification that 7 of u have liked a post by someone I don't follow. Is there a way to switch this new 'feature' off? Notifications settings offers some choices but not this.
― Jeff W, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
i really hate it and i keep clicking 'show me less of this' to no avail
― maura, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:50 (six years ago) link
heres mw twitter setup: tweetdeck on my laptop, no twitter on my flip phone, best of both worlds
― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
I wanna create a thread called #GifHistory. Send a gif that you want to know the backstory to and we'll try to find the original video.First up: pic.twitter.com/KyFAw3Co3N— Matthew A. Cherry (@MatthewACherry) February 9, 2018
― mookieproof, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:04 (six years ago) link
this is the most useful thing i've seen on twitter in years
― maura, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:16 (six years ago) link
I saw someone say that the key to twitter is to mute people the second they annoy you in any way. I think there might be something to that.
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link
u cld just unfollow
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:19 (six years ago) link
enh I don't follow people that bug me, but this seems to be a problem many other people have. (occasionally people I follow do RT annoying accounts, though)
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 19:23 (six years ago) link
muting keywords is good for me
I think I still have all my election 2016 keywords muted lol
― mh, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
Same.
― Jeff, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
unfollowing sometimes makes people fucking crazy. blocking too. that's why muting is the way to go
― maura, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
(occasionally people I follow do RT annoying accounts, though)
You can prevent a specific account's retweets from showing in your feed
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 9 February 2018 19:29 (six years ago) link
I turned off all the follow notifications! I think I went through a while back to stop a few advertising bots from following me, but other than that I pay no attention to who has followed/unfollowed
― mh, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:29 (six years ago) link
The corollary is to mute people as soon as YOU annoy THEM in any way. That leaves them screaming into the void.
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Friday, 9 February 2018 19:29 (six years ago) link
Ironically one of the best phrases to mute is "echo chamber"
― scrüt (wins), Friday, 9 February 2018 19:30 (six years ago) link
That's a tweet
the only reason to check unfollowers is if you want to be upset
― mookieproof, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:33 (six years ago) link
wait people check that stuff? lord. no. never.
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 19:34 (six years ago) link
I sometimes like to think nobody can see my tweets and it's like yelling out the back door of my home when I have an idea
― mh, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:35 (six years ago) link
i don't even know how to check that. but maura otm sometimes you unfollow and people are @ing you like 20 minutes later??
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 9 February 2018 19:36 (six years ago) link
― maura, Friday, February 9, 2018 2:27 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
whenever ppl unfollow me im all it mustve been the constant stream of bad tweets, on a side note with twitter being so algorithmic and showing so many tweets from ppl you dont follow and so forth i wonder if it affects the feed differently to mute or unfollow, soft block is always also an option too less likely to get caught than the straight unfollow but if you are oh boy, u can try to blame the unfollow bug i guess but idk if ppl are still falling for that
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link
how do you even know tho??
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 9 February 2018 19:39 (six years ago) link
just when u go to their profile to look at all their tweets and the follows you badge isnt there, tho some ppl prob use an app which is psychotic
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link
sometimes its a blessing tho when you notice a mutual unfollowed you cause you wanted to unfollow them but were too polite
pretty sure there's at least one third party site/app that takes a snapshot of your followers on either an interval or when you check it, and says "this person added, these people left"
pretty insane
― mh, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:42 (six years ago) link
I use muting like a timeout. Tweetbot can do 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, forever. Say @brokentoothfacebluewhat won’t shut up about daylight saving time, I mute them for a week. Especially if I generally like them otherwise.
― Jeff, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:49 (six years ago) link
daylight savings time is an important topic tho
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link
some ppl are bad at discussing it properly
― mh, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:53 (six years ago) link
its important to engage with voices across the ideological spectrum
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
what if they have the exact same views as me but say them real bad
― mh, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
wld recommend a soft block
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:56 (six years ago) link
Of course, on twitter dot com this would be responded to with:
irONICallY oNE of ThE BESt phRaSEs to muTE is 'EChO cHAmbER'
https://images.complex.com/complex/images/c_limit,w_680/fl_lossy,pg_1,q_auto/bujewhyvyyg08gjksyqh/spongebob
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
Haha that's a classic response I wouldn't see it tho
― scrüt (wins), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
tfw your owned
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 February 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
https://splinternews.com/twitter-has-an-astroturfing-tool-and-they-wont-tell-us-1822772766
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:51 (six years ago) link
https://github.com/orakaro/rainbowstream
kind of fun, just watching tweets
― mh, Monday, 12 February 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, February 9, 2018 2:37 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
a former co-worker of mine who i'm p friendly with (we aren't direct friends but share a lot of friends and always chat when we see each other) likes my tweets but doesn't follow me. absolutely psychotic
― flopson, Monday, 12 February 2018 23:45 (six years ago) link