Twitter C/D

it's even less of a good look when those individuals are CHILDREN

see also the hunger games racist tweets. yeah they were dubious but OMG WITCH-HUNTING 12-YEAR-OLDS IS EVEN WORSE

pour encourager les autres

Well, he's 17, so not quite a child, but yes.

Sudden thought: not a big fan of people having to use real names online, but knowing people's ages might take a lot of heat out of things. Not practical, I know, but knowing someone's 17 you can kind of just put certain things in a box.

There is an awful part of me that gets a real kick out of police arresting young trolls and presumably putting the fear of God in them, but as I say, this probably an awful part of me and not to be trusted.

Yeah, fuk a troll, but looking back through last night's tweeting it was also not great the way Daley and Linehan both set their mobs on him. Of course the kid was going to escalate it from there.

I am expecting some pretty contorted thinking to arrive later to explain how Robin Hood Airport = outrageous prosecution and infringement of all we hold dear while arresting idiot teenagers = noble and just.

Linehan's a fucking knob isnt he?

what does ILX think of the 100worstpeopleontwitter account/tumblr?

basically there needs to be some sort of ceremony where that kid's phone gets publicly crushed in the town square, then we can all just go home and forget about it

I don't blame Daley, that was a personal response to an insult. (Why Daley thought checking Twitter so soon after that performance - or indeed during the Olympics at all - would be a good idea, I have no clue.) Certain adults (Linehan, yeah) acting like the Twitter police is just NAGL in the extreme though.

tbh i read that Riley69s guy feed and laughed quite a bit. took me into a weird part of twitter full of preening 16 year old essex boys who take endless topless photos of themselves and have girls begging them for dickpics and stuff.

Right. And Daley's just a teen too, after all. I have no idea how some of these guys put up with the abuse they get on twitter, tbh -- the cyclists got hell at the weekend, too.

Linehan is also the one who monsters anyone for @ing him with criticism. I can see his point, and I notice less @ing of celebs these days unless they're being directly addressed, but he's sensitive to the extreme about it.

Doesn't he block people for saying mean things about him? very childish IMO

otm re weird world of teen twitter. I saw it when Sly Bailey quit as head of the Mirror and her teen kids were out there attacking all comers schmitty-style. Their @mentions were hilarious. xp

its a weird collection of snabpack-adorned boys with 130000 followers who just post jpgs about girls not texting back

I kind of love how there are so many self-contained and utterly disparate communities on Twitter which occasionally are forced into acknowledging each other in really weird ways

Doesn't he block people for saying mean things about him? very childish IMO

Tbh, I think this is fair enough. Why should people be expected to choose to subject themselves to abuse? I hardly ever attract such attention on Twitter, but when I've had it elsewhere it has really unsettled me and I'd be happy to have a way to shut it out.

What is a snabpack?

that 100 worst people on twitter thing looks like it should be on its own list, same woeful kind of tryhard humour. i'd never heard of 3/4 of those accounts. the ones about women were on some abysmal sub-passantino shit

It is D0m's site, no?

ahahahaha really?!

lol

what an irrelevance that boy is

Linehan's flown off the handle at constructive critics before, which I find petulant/nerd-turns-bully when someone has a gazillion fanboys following (see also: Dent, Grace). The one time someone went batshit insane at me on Twitter I just let her keep going and didn't reply, while being vastly entertained by her meltdown. As long as the critic isn't swearing or threatening, I'm still unsure as to whether it's ruder to @ the subject of any criticism or to instead write in such a way that you're basically talking about them behind their back.

Very cross about the Guy Adams account suspension BTW.

haha Grace Dent was the first person I ever unfollowed on Twitter (reason: too much TV tweeting. I hate TV)

As long as the critic isn't swearing or threatening, I'm still unsure as to whether it's ruder to @ the subject of any criticism or to instead write in such a way that you're basically talking about them behind their back.

no question for me - ruder to @ them if you're being negative. it's like demanding they look at your insults.

I find people hating on my thru Twitter immensely amusing tbh. the few times it's gone beyond 1-2 tweets, that's the time to block (but usually as Suzy says it's too amusing to do that)

I had a great spar with JME once (accused him of mild homophobia). Classic stuff. Culminated in JME telling me to 'go to the shop' lol.

100worst is good, and yeah, it's a passantino joint...I rate him for what it's worth.

The single best thing about NASA's Mars landing is all the incredibly clever and witty and hilarious pop culture jokes

Twitter: where everyone's a comedian

i mean that's kind of what twitter's for, it's not like you're going to say something incisive or useful or relevant in 140 characters so you might as well make a joke

theres tone of insightful relevant useful stuff on twitter and links to more, but jokes are good too, follow whoever you want, follow yr heart

Twitter is only as good as the people you follow.

i always kinda roll my eyes when people are all 'lol twitter where people talk abt their sandwiches' cause you dont have to follow those people, you can follow nobel prize winners and great journalists instead

and find out about their sandwiches

i wonder what aung san suu kyi is having for lunch today

is that one of those jokes u were talking abt

Who are these jerks who don't like sandwiches

tbf actual sandwiches are way better than tweets abt sadnwiches

living vicariously through other ppls sandwiches

maybe there just needs to be a separate joke-free twitter exclusively reserved for sandwich tweets

Haha, vice's best writer - clive martin - covers the earlier discussed weirdness of the topless 16 year old boy brigade on twitter with panache: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-hashtag-heartthrobs-of-twitter

not sure where this is going, but if hashtag/regex muting ends I'm off

summary: twitter is about to weaken/cripple third party clients

ya im curious to see how this plays out, seems like it wouldve been wiser to just make it so third party clients were forced to display all of twitters ads and couldnt serve any of their own, not sure what they gain by cutting users off from how they like to use the service, particularly considering a lot of the functionality twitter uses in its own apps originated in third party ones, i mean all of twitters apps started out as third party apps then they bought them

fortunately the tweetbot people are not too worried

seems like they should be that theyre only allowed to grow to twice their number of current users

and new services are only allowed to goto 100k

but yeah, twitter doesn't seem all that good at fostering a community. you're otm about just forcing ads, and otherwise letting people go about their business.

xxp that's definitely a worry. not sure whether it's technically anticompetitive, but it certainly hacks into what has been an open market long enough for an industry to develop.

i guess it makes sense that twitter would put limits on certain apps making use of its api, especially those that scrape huge amounts of data for analytics and stuff, not necessarily the user clients? nobody likes a fail whale

yeah but it seems to be happy with the analytics apps

from the mashable article:

Twitter is explicitly telling developers not to focus on the upper right-hand quadrant — traditional Twitter clients and syndication — and is instead urging developers to focus on other quadrants for their apps and services.

the delineation between enterprise clients and traditional clients seems a lil fuzzy