just dropping by to note that nickelback officially has more self-respect than twitter at this point
― Calpico Girlfriend (rushomancy), Thursday, 3 October 2019 23:33 (four years ago) link
got a tweet that’s doin numbers thx to a m@tt h RT
― flopson, Friday, 4 October 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
ilxors have great reach
― flopson, Friday, 4 October 2019 19:13 (four years ago) link
i appreciate that someone shows pity on my worst tweets but who is ka11en 1aw
― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 October 2019 03:14 (four years ago) link
for those of you in academia who also tweet - i'm tweeting about an aspect of my professional work that I've been thinking about in the context of recently published research by a colleague in my field. she is active on twitter professionally, tweets often about her research. when i give attribution to her work in my tweet, do you think it's better to 1) @ her 2) cite her w/ a link to the published paper, 3) or both? the etiquette of @ing some is not something i really understand. i want to give her credit for her work but in a way that won't annoy her, but like i could also see her being like "im on twitter why didnt you @ me"
― marcos, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
if she is active on twitter professionally, use her @
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
if you don't otherwise have a link in your tweet you can link the paper but if your tweet is mainly to link something else you can leave out the link, imo
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
thank you silby! i ended up @ and also linking :)
― marcos, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-24/twitter-analysts-don-t-see-quick-rebound-as-stock-dives-20
Twitter Inc. shares plummeted on Thursday, after the social-media company reported third-quarter results that came in well below expectations and gave an outlook that was seen as weak.The stock shed as much as 20%, erasing more than $4.5 billion from the company’s valuation. Thursday was the biggest one-day percentage loss for the stock since July 2018, and the sell-off took shares to their lowest level since March.
The stock shed as much as 20%, erasing more than $4.5 billion from the company’s valuation. Thursday was the biggest one-day percentage loss for the stock since July 2018, and the sell-off took shares to their lowest level since March.
https://i.imgur.com/jZHIE8J.jpg
it looks like 20% of all twitter accounts are going to be deleted in order to cut costs - in order to keep your account, please email me your handle and password by friday end of day, thank you
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 24 October 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
1st couple days or 2 sans Twitter I was reflexively picking up phone to check it etc. But since then I haven't even thought about it and am glad to have that time-waster out of my life.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 24 October 2019 21:24 (four years ago) link
.@jack says he'd be "very sad and depressed" if he was on his deathbed and all of Twitter was just people "dunking."— Ashley Carman (@ashleyrcarman) October 24, 2019
― j., Friday, 25 October 2019 04:57 (four years ago) link
sorry but twitter rules
― flopson, Friday, 25 October 2019 05:50 (four years ago) link
Twitter is fucking great! Soooooo much better than Facebook. The key is to not follow depressing people.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 25 October 2019 12:41 (four years ago) link
There's some sort of analogy between all my liberal friends constantly retweeting the president and Ben Shapiro, and the Pic Pedant constantly retweeting that photo of the jaguar with aquamarine airbrushed eyes.
― pplains, Friday, 25 October 2019 13:05 (four years ago) link
i've been enjoying twitter a little more lately
― marcos, Friday, 25 October 2019 13:09 (four years ago) link
I apologize, it's an ocelot, not a jaguar.
just gonna keep adding to this thread every time it shows up in my list, I sure don't think @jack sees it https://t.co/thyE2tjVcs— PicPedant (@PicPedant) October 25, 2019
― pplains, Friday, 25 October 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
I'm considering getting back into twitter. with the proviso that i would just curate the hell out of my feed so i didn't get anyone talking about trump or posting "another day on the hell site" etc.
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, 25 October 2019 16:06 (four years ago) link
I think I still have all my filters in place from the last election, which helps
― mh, Friday, 25 October 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
not sure what people are saying about politics because i have every related word muted but there's some good fried plantain memes today
― ciderpress, Friday, 25 October 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, October 25, 2019 6:06 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I dunno man... That sounds a bit like having your AA meeting in a liquor store. I don't think it can be done.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 25 October 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
haha
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, 25 October 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
you're right! one day at a time
God speed my friend :) If you pull it off I want you to show me how you did it!
(I quit twitter and it's... a great relief tbh)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 25 October 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
yeah #DeleteTwitterit's essentially socially acceptable bullying for the most part
― DT, Friday, 25 October 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
it's essentially socially acceptable bullying for the most part
u guys are in abusive relationships w your feeds. step 1 is to recognize that
― flopson, Friday, 25 October 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Saturday, 26 October 2019 14:12 (four years ago) link
It's estimated that the Gates foundation has saved 6 million lives, and this was a few years back. They've basically undone the holocaust. Yeah, I'm ok with calling him a hero, Scott.— Podracer (@StonksOnHigh) November 7, 2019
― mookieproof, Thursday, 7 November 2019 20:23 (four years ago) link
incredible
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 November 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link
loool
― flopson, Thursday, 7 November 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
all that AND he gave the world clippy
― Titanic was cliched Marxist crap. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 7 November 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
Wow what a prick
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Thursday, 7 November 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
Lol is that a reverse Godwin?
― badg, Thursday, 7 November 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
I haven’t been paying attention. Why are we supposed to be mad at Bill Gates now?
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 7 November 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
could have got more out
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 7 November 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
He apparently said he would support Trump over Warren
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 7 November 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
because no, i never want to save my documents to fucking OneDrive
― mookieproof, Thursday, 7 November 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
Gates's robber baron era has given way to his mellow philanthropic era, rather like Andrew Carnegie, after he stopped shooting his workers and started giving away libraries.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 7 November 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
bill gates has too much money, hope this helps mr. snrub; but otoh his successfully prosecuted (!) antitrust violations over bundling a shitty browser with his operating system do seem quaint in our era of feeling intense catharsis when a congresswoman speaks unusually sternly to one of the three guys who own the internet
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 7 November 2019 21:33 (four years ago) link
He apparently said he would support Trump over Warren― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, November 7, 2019 3:26 PM (forty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, November 7, 2019 3:26 PM (forty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Not exactly.
"'I’m not going to make political declarations,' Gates said. 'But I do think no matter what policy somebody has in mind … whoever I decide will have the more professional approach in the current situation, probably is the thing I will weigh the most. And I hope that the more professional candidate is an electable candidate.'"
― jaymc, Thursday, 7 November 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
I mean, the crux of what people are mad at him about is this:
"If I had to pay $20 billion, it’s fine,” Gates said. “But when you say I should pay $100 billion, then I’m starting to do a little math about what I have left over.”Sorkin asked Gates if he’d consider sitting down with the Massachusetts senator.“I’m not sure how open minded she is — or that she’d even be willing to sit down with somebody who has large amounts of money,” Gates said.
Sorkin asked Gates if he’d consider sitting down with the Massachusetts senator.
“I’m not sure how open minded she is — or that she’d even be willing to sit down with somebody who has large amounts of money,” Gates said.
― jaymc, Thursday, 7 November 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
I’m starting to do a little math about what I have left over.
yr head iirc
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 7 November 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
oh ffs
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 7 November 2019 23:35 (four years ago) link
https://live.staticflickr.com/4034/4676228175_3ec3b75b07_m.jpg“Hello citizens! Could someone explain the problem with evil billionaires? They seem fine to me, an ordinary person!”
― YouGov to see it (wins), Thursday, 7 November 2019 23:46 (four years ago) link
Hahahaha!!!
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 7 November 2019 23:48 (four years ago) link
both twitter & instagram doing this feed auto-refresh thing that i thought they killed off before because everyone hated it?
― marcos, Thursday, 21 November 2019 14:50 (four years ago) link
xp lol good username/post combo there
― jacquees, full of cobras (voodoo chili), Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
dud btw
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
i wish the emotional labor and YA clusterfucks did not invade literally all of my other internets last week including ilx but it did bc twitter's boundless suckitude draws all other internet spaces into it
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
it was p funny tho
― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 November 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
jack's moving to africa next year to get his head together and just, like, jam and shit, y'know? really just feel it
Sad to be leaving the continent…for now. Africa will define the future (especially the bitcoin one!). Not sure where yet, but I’ll be living here for 3-6 months mid 2020. Grateful I was able to experience a small part. 🌍 pic.twitter.com/9VqgbhCXWd— jack 🌍🌏🌎 (@jack) November 27, 2019
― A victim managed to capture evidence of the gimp (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 2 December 2019 13:07 (four years ago) link