In pretty much every case it’s a new invention/technology. I’m the case of “Organic Pools?? No dummy that’s a pond” a few people explained how it was an actual thing in the replies but were ignored.
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Friday, 26 January 2018 21:54 (six years ago) link
*In the case of
imo the progenitor was uber or whatever actually proposing a very large carpool that went along a set route and they did, in fact, reinvent the idea of a bus route
any further references are just joking off of that, pretty sure the one you linked is a self-driving bus
― mh, Friday, 26 January 2018 22:03 (six years ago) link
i invent a bus every day
― flopson, Saturday, 27 January 2018 06:51 (six years ago) link
there was a startup in boston that was essentially a “reinvention” of buses - the only differences were the avoidance of lower income areas and the smaller vehicles. (and the price of course.) i would think that silicon valley’s sheltered boy geniuses “reinventing” services that they refused to use because they didn’t want to get poor on them would be more annoying than the tweets about them but i guess ymmv
― maura, Saturday, 27 January 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
yuuuuuup
― mh, Saturday, 27 January 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
i disregard all accounts that don't list the owner's favorite sports teams in the bio
― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 January 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link
yeah that's a pretty good indicator. even worse is a team's record as display name
― k3vin k., Saturday, 27 January 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link
if someones not a dad and a thinkfluencer frankly ive got no time for em
― lag∞n, Saturday, 27 January 2018 20:09 (six years ago) link
oh so that's the guy i need to put on my death list for excel-related crimes
― grim-n-gritty hooty reboot (bizarro gazzara)
for real what is with constantly converting my numbers to scientific notation CUT IT THE FUCK OUT
sorry i don't have anything to say about twitter beyond "it sucks"
― Arnold Schoenberg Steals (rushomancy), Saturday, 27 January 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
it sucks but its so good
― k3vin k., Saturday, 27 January 2018 20:28 (six years ago) link
Surprised this story hadn't been added here yet
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/social-media-bots.html
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 January 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
Needless to say, read it; Twitter's hardly the only one with the issue but they're the understandable focus.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 January 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
it would suck to have your name/photos repurposed by a bot, but for the rest of it i don't really care
if you or your late-capitalist economic system are 'influenced' by numbers of followers and retweets, fake accounts are merely a symptom
― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 January 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link
It's less that they're the symptom, more that the thirst for them is.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 January 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link
I’d like to buy about 10 followers.
― Jeff, Saturday, 27 January 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link
i made abot but it got banned https://twitter.com/trending_mishap
― lag∞n, Saturday, 27 January 2018 22:56 (six years ago) link
lol noo
― flopson, Saturday, 27 January 2018 23:06 (six years ago) link
John Leguizamo? lol
― calstars, Saturday, 27 January 2018 23:15 (six years ago) link
Illigit Leguizamo
Breaking: Congressman told woman he would report her to Capitol Police if she exposed his secret sex life pic.twitter.com/32aZMNCrhH— Trending Mishap (@trending_mishap) November 23, 2017
― lag∞n, Saturday, 27 January 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link
― k3vin k.
i feel the same way about crystal meth
or maybe just the crystal method, i always get those two confused
― Arnold Schoenberg Steals (rushomancy), Saturday, 27 January 2018 23:30 (six years ago) link
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