everyone should get banned from twitter
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link
in the future everyone will have 15mins of ban from twitter
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:24 (four years ago) link
wait i just searched her name in twitter -- what's the deal w her? she wrote a book about trainwrecks and then self-destructed herself?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
were through the looking glass people
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
i'll take my answer off the air
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link
this website is an open air insane asylum— Elizabeth Bruenig (@ebruenig) January 28, 2020
― jmm, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:54 (four years ago) link
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, January 28, 2020 12:37 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
do not investigate
i used to be pretty good irl friends with s@dy but she has needed to log off forever since 2010
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:55 (four years ago) link
i don't understand at all but i'm ok w that
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:58 (four years ago) link
yeah sorry i'm being obtuse and media-insider-y
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:08 (four years ago) link
I’m having a hard time remembering what the initial clusterfucks were about, but I get the impression they’re a person who has lumped criticism of work in with abuse? While criticizing others in a way that does look abusiveAlso a fair bit of the tendency to come up with takes that are completely orthogonal to what is actually going on, and taking people going “wait, what?” as a slight
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 00:15 (four years ago) link
the way I break it down is that idiot twitter people being abusive to you definitely doesn’t mean you are wrong, but it also does not mean you’re right!
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 00:22 (four years ago) link
feel like there are ppl who are internet vets that are basically numb to trifling behaviorthen there are ppl who have not experienced deep online beef and are legitimately upset and bewilderedthen there are ppl in the first category who are pretending to be in the second because it suits them
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 00:36 (four years ago) link
think you are on to something
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 00:42 (four years ago) link
is it trolling tho
― (darraghpc) vs (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 00:47 (four years ago) link
Ask Fred
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 01:20 (four years ago) link
not trolling in the trad sense, but very much in the “building a platform” sense
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 01:47 (four years ago) link
yeah trolling is for fun these ppl are marketing
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 02:10 (four years ago) link
or genuinely feel they’re taking a real stance which I sometimes detectin which case a big social media vacation is a good idea
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 02:35 (four years ago) link
that is to say Brad otm
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 02:36 (four years ago) link
yeah some of these ppl are obvs quite insane
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 02:39 (four years ago) link
tbh riling up your own emotions by pushing social media interactions until you find the right formula to get engagement is exhilarating I’ve probably done it! people have spun off sites with engagement as low as ilx by doing it! it is generally bad for you
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 02:51 (four years ago) link
yeah sorry i'm being obtuse and media-insider-y― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, January 28, 2020 3:08 PM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, January 28, 2020 3:08 PM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
twitter is like this.
today, clicking through twitter threads about politics, i came across 1.) john cusack 2.) raffi and 3.) an ilxor
― treeship., Wednesday, 29 January 2020 03:30 (four years ago) link
lmao
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 03:30 (four years ago) link
i think the platform is only fun if you have a checkmark honestly. "public" people seem to use it more, and it holds no appeal for me. even though let's be honest i would be the best tweeter of all time.
its a power user network if u dont go on it for one day its bewildering and insane
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 03:32 (four years ago) link
I follow 107 accounts at least half of which must be completely inactive about this point and disabled retweets on half the rest and it’s Good
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 03:34 (four years ago) link
turn my retweets back on coward
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 03:35 (four years ago) link
I am not at all amazed that john cusack has been shown to have mostly the right stances but be kind of ephemerally dumb and very horny based on his twitter interactionspeeling back that thin curtain is something twitter has given us. if I am on the verge of celebrity I’m going to change my name and then have one of the Gravel teens be paid to run my new account
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 03:39 (four years ago) link
john cusack has been shown to have mostly the right stances but be kind of ephemerally dumb and very horny
― babu frik fan account (mh), Tuesday, January 28, 2020 10:39 PM (thirty-nine seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
the perfect man, an inspiration
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 03:41 (four years ago) link
if i ever actually got into twitter, i could probably lose years of my life on there.
i don't understand how journalists get anything done when they tweet every 2 hours.
― treeship., Wednesday, 29 January 2020 03:50 (four years ago) link
it's engrossing and massively self-referential in the manner of like, finnegans wake, but that's why it's important to steer clear, avoid the siren's call, whatever
― treeship., Wednesday, 29 January 2020 03:52 (four years ago) link
the most insane and thrillingly dystopian part of it these days is that people are always accusing others of being russian bots or trolls spreading disinformation
― treeship., Wednesday, 29 January 2020 03:55 (four years ago) link
following/unfollowing anonymously and refraining from posting yourself is the only way to go imo
― Dan S, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 03:56 (four years ago) link
I’ve never done that fwiw xp
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 03:56 (four years ago) link
good i wldnt want you to miss the retweets
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 04:01 (four years ago) link
No I’ve def disabled your rts but I’ve never called anyone a botDon’t worry tho I click to your profile to view your RTs in batches
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 04:02 (four years ago) link
jfc
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 04:04 (four years ago) link
You were just doin a whole lot of them dude
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 04:04 (four years ago) link
thats why its important to keep them on
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 04:05 (four years ago) link
I have a family
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 04:06 (four years ago) link
lagoon is a Russian asset using retweets to undermine Hillary
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 04:08 (four years ago) link
this exchange justifies the existence of twitter imo
― majority whip, majority nae nae (m bison), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 04:09 (four years ago) link
i love that theres a million sub 100 follower accounts who tweet "say hello to your boss PUTIN" all day
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 04:11 (four years ago) link
they are humans but also in many ways they are bots which is ironic
they have ben programmed by the russians to be mad at the russians
― majority whip, majority nae nae (m bison), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 04:12 (four years ago) link
theyve hacked......themselves
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 04:14 (four years ago) link
I get the retweet as example, when someone with a lot of followers retweets weird abuse or comments going “what the heck”but at the same fine, the abusive tweeter is like some guy who has five followers, fifty tweets total, and most of them are retweets of barstool sports or perpetual harassment of some chick with an onlyfans link
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 04:31 (four years ago) link
I have a tiny number of followers that see my insanely rare tweets but they’re all irl friends, ilx people, local people I interact with on twitter, and some that I’ve branched our with on those linesif I was a brooklyn media person I’d inevitably get retweeted a couple times by a peer who had a following and pick up people, then feel the need to feed the machine and go insane
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 04:34 (four years ago) link
― treeship., Wednesday, 29 January 2020 03:55 (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
*leans in*
― (darraghpc) vs (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 08:15 (four years ago) link
Xanadu du duStately pleasure dome decreeXanadu du duSacred river sunless seaFertile ground, girdled roundBlossomed incense-bearing treeCome and dance every night, to the dulcimer lady— vote me into Aosdána u cowards (@johnorthside) January 27, 2020
― mark s, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 23:02 (four years ago) link