the post that started it all https://deadspin.com/the-ratio-is-the-triple-crown-of-bad-tweets-1798441271
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 22:59 (five years ago) link
can't wait to see all this graphically represented at the twitter museum in 30 years time
― macropuente (map), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 23:23 (five years ago) link
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
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 17 March 2019 22:33 (five years ago) link
#Grateful
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 18 March 2019 00:04 (five years ago) link
I never will again!
― pplains, Monday, 18 March 2019 01:08 (five years ago) link
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
― mh, Monday, 18 March 2019 01:47 (five years ago) link
each day a new horror lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 18 March 2019 02:15 (five years ago) link
oh yeah and the guy trying to scam money off people is the son of the ayn rand foundation head dude?!?
so many levels
― mh, Monday, 18 March 2019 02:34 (five years ago) link
lol facebook is the spam mail of our generation
― John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Monday, 18 March 2019 06:35 (five years ago) link
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
― gyac, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link
twitter's innocent age ended with the horse_ebooks reveal
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 14:59 (five years ago) link
the slide into the abyss started when famous people started using twitter tbh
― mh, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 15:15 (five years ago) link
What was the horse_ebooks reveal?
― kinder, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
It was revealed that the account had been sold to buzzfeed & was being used as an art project... of some sort
― gyac, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link
the slide into the abyss started when famous people started using twitter tbhiirc 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.
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 19:23 (five years ago) link
yeah
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 19 March 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
― 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
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link
*it was sold to a guy who worked at buzzfeed fwiw iirc
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 20:02 (five years ago) link
simon hedges is the only good twitter account
― PaulDananVEVO (||||||||), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
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, 23 March 2019 07:14 (five years ago) link
Huh, I feel like Twitter has increased that for me, since it constantly reminds me that I'm not one.
― jaymc, Saturday, 23 March 2019 19:06 (five years ago) link
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
― mh, Saturday, 23 March 2019 20:11 (five years ago) link
|||||||| otm
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
― mookieproof, Saturday, 23 March 2019 20:26 (five years ago) link
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
― flopson, Saturday, 23 March 2019 20:52 (five years ago) link
― 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
― flopson, Saturday, 23 March 2019 20:53 (five years ago) link
Doing history at university and seeing the childish spats in journals did that for me.
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 23 March 2019 21:38 (five years ago) link
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
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 23 March 2019 21:45 (five years ago) link
Eh hes a rapist tho?
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 23 March 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link
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
― mh, Saturday, 23 March 2019 22:59 (five years ago) link
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
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 24 March 2019 13:52 (five years ago) link
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
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 24 March 2019 14:17 (five years ago) link
does turning off images work? stupid bitch!!!!
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 24 March 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
ilx isn't the entire internet
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 24 March 2019 15:09 (five years ago) link
I don't mind embedded tweets here, but they are uniformly awful elsewhere
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 24 March 2019 15:28 (five years ago) link
for being a quasi failing website its crazy how many places tweets show up, like news tv is 95% tweets
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 March 2019 15:42 (five years ago) link
yes those are perhaps the worst save the occasional prank tweet which seems to get past the screener/anchor with ease
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 24 March 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
all tweets are prank tweets
― mh, Sunday, 24 March 2019 16:08 (five years ago) link
― 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
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Sunday, 24 March 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
https://theoutline.com/post/7245/give-the-nobel-prize-to-dril
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link
I remember so vividly the first time I ever saw tweets on a local news program. So lazy.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 14:37 (five years ago) link
feel like @dril and @WWESubway basically justify Twitter's entire existence
― frogbs, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 14:49 (five years ago) link
i like @clipart1994bot
BBFRANK.BMF pic.twitter.com/G1MTsXRtL2— Corel Gallery 1994 (@Clipart1994bot) March 25, 2019
― maura, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 14:55 (five years ago) link
DRUG.BMF pic.twitter.com/n41tVBvwYh— Corel Gallery 1994 (@Clipart1994bot) March 25, 2019
― maura, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 14:56 (five years ago) link
I saw that one yesterday and died laughing. I am actually, literally dead.
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 15:01 (five years ago) link
very trench
― rob, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 15:09 (five years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 16:13 (five years ago) link
https://theoutline.com/post/7245/give-the-nobel-prize-to-dril?zd=1&zi=43lpmvpp
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
that piece is way too fucking online
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link
they should rename the site The Online
sorry brad online is now the only idiom we have left
― moose; squirrel (silby), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 16:40 (five years ago) link