Twitter C/D

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

What would a followers/following management app be considered? That's pretty much the only thing I use concerning twitter that isn't on the main website. Oh, well, that and link shorteners.

seems like that would go in the dreaded consumer engagement quadrant

Some intern at Amoeba right now is going "Goddammit":

Congrats to @CocaCola_Douche who won tix to Diana Krall @hollywoodbowl! Great seats still avail on Sat 8/25!

seriously dying just thinking about the phrase "coca cola douche"

Right on up there with our beloved Lysol douche.

what was the pizza/porn star one from before? That one killed me.

yay i am so excited http://advertising.twitter.com/2012/08/interest-targeting-broaden-your-reach.html

https://twitter.com/NationalistPony

What a world.

Buttercup Dew ‏@NationalistPony
Women who read Fifty Slabs of Cunt in public are tacitly admitting feminism was always a charade to allow them to be sluts.

Buttercup Dew ‏@NationalistPony
Before I started watching My Little Pony I was spiralling into angst fuelled WN'ism, now I'm a cheerful and tongue in cheek neo-nazi.

Buttercup Dew ‏@NationalistPony
They're not negros and negroid mongrels -Just "black." Don't you dare refer to the specie and genetics underneath the skin colour.

ooooops

http://i.imgur.com/pEVOS.png

Uh...

Ervin McKinness, a 21-year-old aspiring rapper, tweeted about driving drunk at 120 mph minutes before dying in a fiery one-car crash that killed the rapper and four others.

McKinness posted the now-ominous tweets about speeding while driving drunk on the account @ink2flashyy at 1:19 a.m. on Sept. 2.

Drunk af going 120 drifting corners #FuckIt YOLO

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/13/ervin-mckinness-driving-drunk-tweet-yolo-dies-car-crash-dui-_n_1880348.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

User @hella_brad did acid and live-tweeted it, it's pretty funny.

http://storify.com/angelandaddict/brad-does-acid

surreptitiously touching all the trees on the side of the road. oops that's a lightpost. there that's a tree. I like this.

http://i.imgur.com/32oCU.png