Twitter C/D

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This is an r/relationships post from the SA peanut gallery thread because the original was deleted. You will not regret reading this one although you might scream. 🐀🐀🐀🐀 pic.twitter.com/nIt12atnqI

— Horrendous Jake Kablooie (@JakeMHS) July 10, 2019

Plot twist: She gives birth to a mouse figurine.

— Don Zolidis (@donzolidis) July 10, 2019

Rosemary's Baby: The Squeakuel

— Hagatha the Witch (@BarbarianHag) July 10, 2019

god

i've long suspected that there's a group of people in a discord somewhere writing up all those r/relationship posts that are on the edge of believability

i finally got forced onto the new desktop layout and it just doesn't function at all, my login cookie doesn't log me in half the time i click a link to a tweet from an external site, and a bunch of former QoL features are missing or obscured like the 'translate this tweet' requires an additional click to make appear now and sometimes just doesn't appear at all

it's clearly just a half-assed port of the mobile UI

agreed it is very bad

mobile site never remembers my login when i access it via zing

i'm ok with it

you can't even scroll with the spacebar or pgdn in new desktop, what an insanely untested UI

This talking point is stupid for 2 reasons

1) “ersatz pundits” implies the bias filters for cable news pundits is somehow more legitimate & reflective of the general pop
2) no one thinks twitter is per se that influential, only that its influential to those who are influential https://t.co/pXCwHv8mkB

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) July 29, 2019

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i like tha new site its faster and not displaying follower stats on the homepage is nice, also they did away w the individual tweet page overlaying the tweeters timeline which was subject to misclicks

it still bugs out and needs to be refreshed like 30% of the time i open it, thats not very fast

tweetdeck u babies

tweetdeck not for me.

https://i.imgur.com/EPDEJ3D.jpg

i mean u can set it up with a single column of your followees and get no ads and no algorithm stuff

cn do the same on the .com w adblock

Tweetbot - now and forever.

got a promoted tweet thats a random live comment reacting to a regular season nfl game from december 2015

promoted tweets are going fn bonkers lately

i saw in settings theres something called "promoted mode"

does that just promote all your tweets as you make them while siphoning your bank account to jack's offshorte island account

somethin like that prob

lol

not displaying follower stats on the homepage is nice

― lag∞n, Saturday, August 3, 2019 10:59 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

interesting they also subtly deemphasized replying via not providing u a box to type into by default, u have to do a click to get it

also removed tweet count

i thought so too but its way up at the top for some reason

o shit well at least deemphasized it

having the chronological timeline option is good tho its lame they periodically send you back "home"

home is where the 30-50 feral hogs is

no one has made a riff on that that's funnier than the original tweet but they won't stop trying

I am waiting for the feral hogs moment to pass.

no one has made a riff on that that's funnier than the original tweet but they won't stop trying

Do people outside of Arkansas know that Jerry Jones (yes, that Jerry Jones) gave the university millions of dollars to build this insane statue of a bunch of feral hogs? pic.twitter.com/UtpE1T0Lz2

— Billy Fleming (@JooBilly) August 5, 2019

Now you all know what my timeline looks like between September and November.

30-50 million dollars

twitter hasn't been this pathetically unfunny since charlie sheen #winning

i'm glad we got to enjoy PantsBurnLegWound before this era of twitter

all memes get played out in a matter of hours nowadays

the only memes i enjoy now are the really abstruse/non sequitur gen z ones which I'm too old to get but i still laugh at

hey i have an etiquette question

i mostly use twitter to engage w/ colleagues in my profession. it's not a huge field and the subfields i work in are even smaller. about a year ago, i learned that someone who works in one of those subfields whom i don't know personally and w/ whom i have never interacted has blocked me on twitter. it's the first and as far as i know only time that someone in my field has blocked me. and while i don't know this person, we know A LOT of the same people, even quite well, and work from the same kinds of perspectives informed by the same kinds of values, which makes the professional sub-community we share even more tight-knit and connected.

at first when i realized they blocked me i just kind of shrugged my shoulders, realizing that people block other accounts for all kinds of reasons, and that this person's blocking of me may or may not have to do with me personally. even if it did, i know that person is entitled to that. what can you do, besides reflecting on possible reasons that might require some kind of rectification? and i came up a short on that.

but now i am seeing that this person is organizing a professional event next year that i would otherwise almost certainly attend - it's right in my subfield, i'll know most of the people going, i know most of the speakers. hell i'm even working on a major project overseen by the person keynoting the event. i'd even have submitted a proposal to present at the event myself but of course i missed the call for proposals deadline because i'm blocked from the person's twitter account, where they made the cfp announcement.

so what's the best way to proceed? if i attend, it feels extremely likely that i might end up in proximity to this person, and if that happens, do i just act as if i am oblivious about the block? they might not even really make the connection themselves depending on how minor or casual or automatic the reason for the block was. but who knows? and it seems like a terrible idea to say "hey i think you blocked me on twitter, but we have a lot of the same friends and colleagues and are working on the same issues, do you think it is a mistake?" when it truly might not be a mistake.

i can't help but be aware of some racialized and gendered aspects of the situation too - on one hand, i'm a colleague of color hesitating to participate in a valuable professional event because of possible hostility from an unknown white colleague, and on the other hand, it terrifies me that any interaction with this person, given the circumstances, might even faintly resemble the typical dynamic of a man expressing bitterness, contempt and entitlement after being blocked on twitter by someone who isn't a man.

id go and not mention it.

i don't know your twitter activity so it's hard to make assumptions but basically you may just have been retweeted into their timeline with an opinion they didn't like or regarding something they're actively disinterested in and maybe that's why? and it could be something innocuous

You have two options:

- Say nothing, ever.

- Email "Hi, I wish you had promoted the CfP for this on channels other than Twitter, because you have me blocked there. I would've submitted a proposal if I knew about this event on time."

Don't be coy or ask about it for any other reason. Decide whether to attend the event entirely on the merits of the event.

they easily cldve blocked u accidentally fwiw

especially via web twitter and its terrible key commands, like for instance i just added the (non)word espcailly to my computers dictionary while writing this post

thank you all, i think these are good options

most likely i'll go and won't mention it - if in fact we do meet and have a positive interaction, i suppose i could then say "hey you blocked me...."

and silby i like how you framed that second option - don't be coy but also don't speak beyond the impact it had on my awareness of this particular event

i have accidentally blocked ppl on twitter -- i would just proceed as if i didn't know about the block. if someone has a major problem w you (unlikely) they are going to have to do more to excommunicate you from the community than block you (perhaps by accident) on a social media platform.