Twitter C/D

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.

nice

http://apps-of-a-feather.com/

Dud

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

what a bizarre thread. he just does it again and again, with all manner of different things

lmao

he's clearly playing the long game

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"

feel like there is a good market segment we could capture. sign up now at unexpectedlyviral.com

you get a pattern, identity protection service enrollment, and a brand manager (it’s lagoon)

pattern was meant to be patreon of course

a brand manager (it’s lagoon)

lol

excited about this new endeavor

kanye is tweeting video clips of his laptop playing the insane dilbert man's youtube clips

what the hell world is this

ah the natural progression from world famous critical darling pop star to regressive paranoid shit poster

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

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcH3FTIW0AA8UxT.jpg:small

i vomited into my shirt

millennials vs. baby cannons

Boom

baby cannons are actually just regular cannons cut down to that size and shape

Wittes rules, sorry haters

Lmao poor fucker

No more airplane rides for you, Twitterman

buy inflight wifi, boom

deleted from my phone for the sake of sanity. and not allowing myself to look at it during work hours

i need to the same

*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.

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

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

― 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

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

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

they are talking about peas in guacamole

xpost i would say it's at least second to our president, but yeah, it's really messy

Was about to say, gosh, bet this will be the one to make Kanye drop out of the race.

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

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— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) May 2, 2018

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, May 2, 2018 3:55 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Was about to say, gosh, bet this will be the one to make Kanye drop out of the race.

― 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

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcNdVgvXcAEiA5g.jpg

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, 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.

hmm seems like u guys dont really understand twitter, feel bad for u

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

Enlighten us, lagoon.

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)

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.

everyone is dril sometimes on twitter, but kanye is definitely dril

true that

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

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

unless you’re talking about people who constantly talk about quitting twitter but never do, in which case: otm

High five for logging off, I haven’t been on at all for three months and that was just a one-day check in to make sure I was in touch with some folks about my birthday party.