to be fair i will find this tweet
― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Friday, 30 March 2018 03:18 (six years ago) link
follow @msjeanrhys u won't be disappointed
― map, Saturday, 31 March 2018 08:03 (six years ago) link
https://www.fastcompany.com/40547818/did-we-create-this-monster-how-twitter-turned-toxic
For all the ways in which the Imposter Buster saga is unique, it’s also symptomatic of larger issues that have long bedeviled Twitter: abuse, the weaponizing of anonymity, bot wars, and slow-motion decision making by the people running a real-time platform. These problems have only intensified since Donald Trump became president and chose Twitter as his primary mouthpiece. The platform is now the world’s principal venue for politics and outrage, culture and conversation–the home for both #MAGA and #MeToo.
This status has helped improve the company’s fortunes. Daily usage is up a healthy 12% year over year, and Twitter reported its first-ever quarterly profit in February, capping a 12-month period during which its stock doubled. Although the company still seems unlikely ever to match Facebook’s scale and profitability, it’s not in danger of failing. The occasional cries from financial analysts for CEO Jack Dorsey to sell Twitter or from critics for him to shut it down look more and more out of step.
― maura, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 13:16 (six years ago) link
nice
― flopson, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 22:03 (six years ago) link
http://apps-of-a-feather.com/Dud
― Jeff, Friday, 6 April 2018 18:21 (six years ago) link
This is magnificent.
Lol just got blocked by Benjamin Butterworth for asking why he keeps pretending he's never done anything before pic.twitter.com/97bNBGhoN4— al (@acarapd) April 12, 2018
For context this is the dude who scammed his way on to the Young Labour Ethnic Minority board by arguing his father had dated a black woman and wrote this classic op-ed.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/labour-jeremy-corbyn-owen-smith-labour-has-an-issue-with-trolling-i-should-know-i-ve-been-at-the-a7176056.html
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Thursday, 12 April 2018 21:49 (six years ago) link
what a bizarre thread. he just does it again and again, with all manner of different things
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 12 April 2018 22:11 (six years ago) link
lmao
― flopson, Thursday, 12 April 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link
he's clearly playing the long game
― 龜, Thursday, 12 April 2018 22:19 (six years ago) link
i want to start cataloging the immediate post-viral tweets like "holy shit i didn't know this would blow up / here's a link to my patreon / tip jar etc"
― marcos, Sunday, 22 April 2018 23:57 (six years ago) link
feel like there is a good market segment we could capture. sign up now at unexpectedlyviral.comyou get a pattern, identity protection service enrollment, and a brand manager (it’s lagoon)
― mh, Monday, 23 April 2018 03:59 (six years ago) link
pattern was meant to be patreon of course
a brand manager (it’s lagoon)
lol
― you bet, nancy (map), Monday, 23 April 2018 04:10 (six years ago) link
excited about this new endeavor
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 April 2018 04:59 (six years ago) link
kanye is tweeting video clips of his laptop playing the insane dilbert man's youtube clips
what the hell world is this
― mh, Monday, 23 April 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link
ah the natural progression from world famous critical darling pop star to regressive paranoid shit poster
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 April 2018 19:40 (six years ago) link
I guess dilbert posted some video with kanye's name in the title and had some deep analysis and kanye's perpetually a sucker for paying attention to anyone talking about him
― mh, Monday, 23 April 2018 19:42 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcH3FTIW0AA8UxT.jpg:small
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
i vomited into my shirt
― Dan I., Tuesday, 1 May 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
millennials vs. baby cannons
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
Boom
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 18:02 (five years ago) link
baby cannons are actually just regular cannons cut down to that size and shape
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
Wittes rules, sorry haters
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
Lmao poor fucker
― flopson, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
No more airplane rides for you, Twitterman
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 12:38 (five years ago) link
buy inflight wifi, boom
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 15:42 (five years ago) link
deleted from my phone for the sake of sanity. and not allowing myself to look at it during work hours
― Daniel Johns Hopkins (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 16:23 (five years ago) link
i need to the same
― marcos, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 16:31 (five years ago) link
*do
there is like... nothing of value there. it brings me no meaning or happiness. it is just noise that i feel compelled to tune into sometimes
I hate that thing where I randomly start to get invested in whatever the controversy du jour is. Makes me feel like such a mark.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
i was tipped over the edge by a controversy over a passage in issa rae's 3 year old book when she says black women should date asian men - but not filipinos because they're the blacks of asia or something - which yeah obviously that's dumb as fuck and racist etc. but who the fuck cares? i certainly don't
― Daniel Johns Hopkins (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link
― marcos, Wednesday, May 2, 2018 12:31 PM (three hours ago)
you have to be judicious about what you choose to engage with! I gave up on trump news and outrage culture over a year ago and my life is better for it. there are lots of communities on twitter that make it worthwhile
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 2 May 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link
feel like kanye going maga is the biggest clusterfuck in the history of the platform and is on a very deep level 100% caused by it
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
I hate that thing where I randomly start to get invested in whatever the controversy du jour is. Makes me feel like such a mark.― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, May 2, 2018 5:31 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, May 2, 2018 5:31 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
they are talking about peas in guacamole
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
xpost i would say it's at least second to our president, but yeah, it's really messy
― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
Was about to say, gosh, bet this will be the one to make Kanye drop out of the race.
― pplains, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 20:00 (five years ago) link
saw this as a promoted tweet in my feed lol
We educate and unify #Millennials & #GenZ on the #2ndAmendment ‘s imperative role in our freedom; because before we know it, this country will be in our hands. Are you #triggered, yet? #TriggeredMillennials #2A #2ADefenders #2AShallNotBeInfringed pic.twitter.com/IHYxZhdxdK— Triggered Millennials (@TriggeredWakeUp) May 2, 2018
― marcos, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link
Watch LIVE As @KanyeWest Clarifies His 400 Years Of Slavery Comment 📡 Tune in M-F 11am-3pm central at: https://t.co/OQtch0tDED <<#AlexJonesShow #infowars 🇺🇸#USA #1A #IfSlaveryWereAChoice #WednesdayWisdomBackup Video: https://t.co/88KVJsTBwOhttps://t.co/btc54a1NGH— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) May 2, 2018
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link
― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, May 2, 2018 3:55 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― pplains, Wednesday, May 2, 2018 4:00 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
trump is bigger in "the world" but on twitter this kanye situation cuts deep man
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcNdVgvXcAEiA5g.jpg
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
― lag∞n, Wednesday, May 2, 2018 9:53 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This seems a popular opinion but it lets Kanye off the hook way too much imo. Twitter is the megaphone that Kanye picked up, and apparently millions are willing to listen. I find it hard to blame twitter - which is the absolute worst, yes, and yet - for that. In the end his stupid musings and opinions are his, not the platform's.
Whiney otm: Trump (ab)using twitter, raining down his stupidity on this platform, amplifying it, takes the cake.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
hmm seems like u guys dont really understand twitter, feel bad for u
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link
kinda dont get ppl who are like 'damn gotta get off twitter for my sanity' like what wellsprings of meaning and joy are you failing to tap into cuz you were online posting your still gonna be depressed when you log off
eric garland is like an escaped character from a delilo novel just making up shit like "provokatsiya" and posting it on the t/l, just always impressed by that dude
― (° . ° )― (Lamp), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
Enlighten us, lagoon.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link
the kanye situation is more ~twitter culture~ than trump, like hes going specifically alt right, where trump tho he is very good at tweeting basically just uses twitter as a way to broadcast his message and is culturally really "fox news", also kanye is roiling twitter more cause he crossed ideological lines (on twitter, specifically twitter ideological lines)
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 22:07 (five years ago) link
Precisely because the Kanye situation is ~more twitter culture~ makes it all the more bizarre and weird that Trump (who is *not* good at tweeting, come now, he's an illiterate monkey) ruffles feathers the way he does. Kanye just plays into the twitter game. He plays by the rules, keeps tweets nicely at about the old 140 chars. Bite-size stuff, like or RT plz. I don't see how that is - apart from very sad - in any way remarkable. Nor how the platform is somehow to blame for it, as you state.Trump abuses the platform with brash irrationality and brain-dead thought farts. He's bad at twitter, which probably makes him good at twitter. Still a huge stretch to blame twitter for both of these idiots being on it.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 22:30 (five years ago) link
everyone is dril sometimes on twitter, but kanye is definitely dril
― mh, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 22:42 (five years ago) link
true that
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 22:43 (five years ago) link
can’t even begin to tell you how good quitting twitter has been for my mental health but i guess i’m just regular depressed instead of having my depression and anxiety constantly activated by a feed of bullshit, really no difference
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 23:34 (five years ago) link