Twitter C/D

one wld assume this related to some mention of tibet hong kong or taiwan

They liked the wrong tweet

luv2see #brands desperately prostrating themselves before governments on social media, very cool

just wait for govts prostrating themselves before brands, coming soon to a social medium near you! #trench

btw how the fuck can i have blocked someone's retweets on this gd piece of trash website and i still get their likes randomly dropped into my feed??

I went down the rabbit hole

apparently this is what set it off

Friends of Tibet congratulate global hotel chain #Marriott International for listing #Tibet as a country along with #HongKong and #Taiwan. pic.twitter.com/SXKWb20v3e

— Friends of Tibet (@friendsoftibet) January 9, 2018

oh snap

oops lol

the rare trifecta

this is extremely good

The Hierophant: exploration of sacred truth

TAke a look, y'all: pic.twitter.com/dY14XIlPwY

— matt 💀 lubchansky (@Lubchansky) January 16, 2018

this too https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/twitterstorm-2018?utm_term=.kybv2bbA6#.cswg7PPwY

Joanna Whatley · London, United Kingdom
But, ummm... many of these tweets are dated March 2018, which make the whole thing a scam since it’s only January. Or have I fallen into a parallel universe?

wow that's surprisingly good

"buckle up, it's time for some bayesian inference"

i did particularly lol @ that

that article is the best black mirror episode yet

staggeringly good article. sometimes buzzfeed rises above being buzzfeed.

ugh that sounds wankier than i expected it to

it sounded as wanky as i expected

amazing, including the made up tweets, twitter handles, everything spot on

i didn't even pick up on the joke til Fergus McContrary, founder of an online journal looking sceptically at facts

need a trigger warning for satire plz

Good piece!

Oh no, the liberals have been TRIGGERED again. pic.twitter.com/DXKIp1HsYv

— The Liberated Brain (@Liberated_Brain) January 18, 2018

that was pretty good

so is this but not as funny

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2018/01/12/birdcage-liners/

that guy is way more sanguine about the future than he probably should be

Well, he played a major role in the creation of Microsoft Excel.

oh so that's the guy i need to put on my death list for excel-related crimes

I’m amazed he made an argument for longer posts providing better context, made a dumb dog analogy, and then used the details of a very specific twitter meltdown (“by the time you get off the plane in Africa..”)

I’m no longer thinking of dogs at all, I’m thinking about this:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/22/pr-exec-fired-racist-tweet-aids-africa-apology

like yeah, you can fuck up context in 140 characters, but you just did it in thousands!

the best part about the buzzfeed piece is it's a sequel. apparently fergus mccontrary got fired from his columnist job.

as a guy who rage quit twitter in december this mike monterio post is..........................very relatable to me

https://medium.com/@monteiro/twitters-great-depression-4dc394ed10f4

One of the warning signs for me is when I can’t tell the difference between a big problem and a small problem. My brain stops prioritizing. Every problem comes at me at exactly the same size. This is depression taking away a major coping mechanism. And that’s exactly what was happening on Twitter. Every outrage was becoming the exact same size.

bingo

that's really a good piece

This style of political tweet-writing is so awful:

Okay, politikids. Grab thyselves a beverage and settle in.

I just careened through 180-pages of House Intel Committee testimony by Fusion GPS and it was just chockablock with tasty bits.

Let's hit the buffet.

1/

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) January 19, 2018

five tweets in and I'm still not sure if it's a parody of that style or real

subtle if parody

The Hoarse Whisperer
@HoarseWisperer
#StableGenius. I've seen this movie up close. A clinical narcissist in the White House is a profound danger which all Americans must stand and #resist.

threb/>

Curious how ILX formats this;

The Capitalist Pyramid.

👑
💪💰
🎩🎩🎩
🐷🐷🐷
📈📺📰📡📉
🐂🙈🙉🙊🐻
😌😴😄😪😑😋
👔👔👔👔👔👔
👮💂👮💂👮💂👮
🔰🔫🔰🔫🔰🔫🔰
🚧🚧🚧🚧🚧🚧🚧🚧
😮😫😓😔😞😟
😣😥😨😩😬😧😦
😡😰😮😥😵😟😤😱

(✊)

— 🌐 IPM 💯🏧💍🌈🚀🚩 (@IPM_Tweets) January 22, 2018

damn I didn't realize monkeys and large mammals were that powerful

Smiled at that twitter user choosing 🔰 to represent military when it's just a magnet that beginning drivers slap on the hoods and trunks of their cars in Japan to alert other drivers of their lack of prowess.

I think that's the badge for the cops above

The first 10 lines represent five things with two lines each

i have moved Twitter off my home screen and am loving it so far tbh

Zing is the only social app left on my home screen now

@youtubeartifact is a good bot to follow

i wanna start a twitter art history bot that posts images from this 16gb torrent of paintings that i use as my screensaver

Wow did someone scrape Artstor

This is one of worst genres of tweet.

Congrats, guys. You invented a MFing bus. https://t.co/D2QO59FGqe

— Chris Wetterich (@ChrisCinciBiz) January 26, 2018

It's a microgenre that I can't believe everyone hasn't seen by now in its many, many repeats.

whenever I see “you invented a X” I hear it as a movie title like “we bought a zoo”

(have not seen that film so not sure if this holds up)

they did buy a zoo