Twitter C/D

the number of replies dwarfs the number of likes and retweets, indicating the tweet has said something exceptionally dumb or wrong and everyone is falling over backward to point that out

I think the examples cited became less-ratioed after the article, but M-W is on it: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/words-were-watching-ratio-ratioed-ratioing

the post that started it all https://deadspin.com/the-ratio-is-the-triple-crown-of-bad-tweets-1798441271

can't wait to see all this graphically represented at the twitter museum in 30 years time

Just spent the last hour with my arms wrapped around my giant 6’ 4” 17-year-old son.
No phones, no words... just silence, breathing, bonding.
Best hour I’ve had in ages.#Grateful

— Billy Baldwin (@BillyBaldwin) March 16, 2019

#Grateful

I never will again!

I guess there are a couple articles from a few years back, but some weird meme cult has been adding friends/infiltrating in the electronic music scene and this thread has been wild all afternoon:

Somebody in a cult just added me on Facebook and immediately asked for some money. What the hell is going on.

— 🥀⛓ 𝖍𝖊 𝖛𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖓𝖈𝖎𝖆 ⛓🥀 (@HE_VALENCIA) March 17, 2019

each day a new horror lol

oh yeah and the guy trying to scam money off people is the son of the ayn rand foundation head dude?!?

so many levels

lol facebook is the spam mail of our generation

I'm writing "a thing" about how Twitter used to be very, very different, and would welcome your memories. Mine are shot to shit.

— Caitlin Moran (@caitlinmoran) March 18, 2019

The slide into the abyss started when the non-famous started to join in. Slowly this website became filled with anonymous accounts screeching away like baboons, most of them didn't even have columns to link to or careers to promote. They were just saying things for the hell of it

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) March 19, 2019

twitter's innocent age ended with the horse_ebooks reveal

the slide into the abyss started when famous people started using twitter tbh

What was the horse_ebooks reveal?

It was revealed that the account had been sold to buzzfeed & was being used as an art project... of some sort

the slide into the abyss started when famous people started using twitter tbh

iirc it was specifically when non-famous people realised famous people were using it and created accounts just to endlessly tweet their idols without ever getting a single reply.

in that tiny moment between famous people being there and non-famous people piling in, the famous people had the opportunity to just be people, and it was actually really nice.

yeah

It was revealed that the account had been sold to buzzfeed & was being used as an art project... of some sort

― gyac, Tuesday, March 19, 2019 2:53 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

funny thing was a lot of ppl speculated that the account had changed hands and gone from bot to scripted and even identified the exact post where it happened way before the reveal, which is just the kind of insanity that makes the site good lol

*it was sold to a guy who worked at buzzfeed fwiw iirc

simon hedges is the only good twitter account

one thing twitter has actually been good for: disabusing me of any residual inferiority complex I had towards certain groups of people, particularly academics, lawyers and high profile journalists

Huh, I feel like Twitter has increased that for me, since it constantly reminds me that I'm not one.

the gentle dignity of maintaining a minimal public presence as a relatively intelligent person, instead of the outsized public presence of a Dershowitz or Stephens that reveals yourself to be as dumb as the next guy

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Getting rid of the electoral college also means creating a system where this map isn’t enough to elect a Republican. pic.twitter.com/oYTlcxstAB

— Matt Lewis (@mattklewis) March 22, 2019

Twitter isn’t Hell... stop being so annoying. I’m having a great time. If you’re not having fun then log off stupid bitch!!!!! It’s always an option!!!!!!!!!!

— Christin Bailey (@hexprax) March 23, 2019

one thing twitter has actually been good for: disabusing me of any residual inferiority complex I had towards certain groups of people, particularly academics, lawyers and high profile journalists

― PaulDananVEVO (||||||||), Saturday, March 23, 2019 3:14 AM (thirteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

academics being just as dumb as the rest of us as soon as you step a centimeter outside their area of expertise was a great revelation ya

Doing history at university and seeing the childish spats in journals did that for me.

many xp but I got "scammed" by the Ayn Rand cult son dude, as in, we are FB friends, he asked me for a hand-out, I gave it to him, I don't care if he's in a cult, I hope he's doing OK

Eh hes a rapist tho?

for sure, no guilt about giving anyone a few bucks! but having known what I know now, probably not going to give that guy anything

guy really networked like crazy, I have shared fb friends with him, too

i have become obsessed with this account

I am no Bot ... am as real as it gets... hater are going to hate... I love my country and our freedom!!! pic.twitter.com/Z0JUZRXeC9

— VP (@anete75323905) March 24, 2019

Twitter isn’t Hell... stop being so annoying. I’m having a great time. If you’re not having fun then log off stupid bitch!!!!! It’s always an option!!!!!!!!!!

i did log off! however people are still embedding tweets

does turning off images work? stupid bitch!!!!

ilx isn't the entire internet

I don't mind embedded tweets here, but they are uniformly awful elsewhere

for being a quasi failing website its crazy how many places tweets show up, like news tv is 95% tweets

yes those are perhaps the worst save the occasional prank tweet which seems to get past the screener/anchor with ease

all tweets are prank tweets

does turning off images work? stupid bitch!!!!

― rip van wanko

no, it doesn't, i literally used my ad-blocker to block everything from twitter and they still show up as quoted inline text

i don't know what else to do at this point

https://theoutline.com/post/7245/give-the-nobel-prize-to-dril

I remember so vividly the first time I ever saw tweets on a local news program. So lazy.

feel like @dril and @WWESubway basically justify Twitter's entire existence

i like @clipart1994bot

BBFRANK.BMF pic.twitter.com/G1MTsXRtL2

— Corel Gallery 1994 (@Clipart1994bot) March 25, 2019

DRUG.BMF pic.twitter.com/n41tVBvwYh

— Corel Gallery 1994 (@Clipart1994bot) March 25, 2019

I saw that one yesterday and died laughing. I am actually, literally dead.

very trench

CNBC, retweeting year-old articles for the rage clicks

Here's a budget breakdown of a couple that makes $500,000 a year and still feels average. https://t.co/mauqIGvcRw pic.twitter.com/eh7xBwvMV1

— CNBC (@CNBC) March 26, 2019

https://theoutline.com/post/7245/give-the-nobel-prize-to-dril?zd=1&zi=43lpmvpp

that piece is way too fucking online