Twitter C/D

At least now you do have some concerns

I complained about a costcutter on twitter because they were charging £5 for a little bag of penne, since then their social media person has been asking me which one it was, but I just wanted to whinge, not to snitch, so am ignoring it.

switching on and off the algorithm taught me that the difference between 'latest tweets' and algo is minimal. also, if u folllow ppl from the uk or australia, the algo shows you their best tweets in the morning

their social media person has been asking me which one it was, but I just wanted to whinge, not to snitch

@Tesco am no a grass

— Nina Bibs (@ninabibs_gla) March 23, 2015

Any time you make a mistake on this platform, you can at least take solace in the fact that you didn't try to explain MLK Jr. to... MLK III pic.twitter.com/uUhnPFAPdt

— Jason Bailey (@jasondashbailey) May 29, 2020

There is a thing going on right now where kpop fans flood racist hashtags with their ubiquitous "kpop stars dancing" gifs.

https://news.avclub.com/k-pop-fans-are-now-hard-at-work-commandeering-racist-ha-1843880487

Now please tell me if I'm wrong here, but doesn't flooding a hashtag actually make it trend? So what they are doing is actually bumping racist hashtags AND subjecting us to more of those inexplicable gifs? Am I wrong about this or is it actually as stupid as I think?

I still use the website and have set it to show Berlin trends and saw WhiteLivesMatter at the top of that list earlier - didn't actually click it just assumed it was 20% bot stampede and 80% horrified reaction.

That's the one. 100% kpop dancing gifs. What is the point? Why is it there?

individually people are pretty dumb, together they are infinitely so

no they aren't

image spamming trolls is a time-honoured internet tradition

I get image spamming, but when it amplifies a racist hashtag then surely it's counterproductive.

? The hashtag was already beginning to trend. That's why the kpop trolls intervened.

was it though? it suddenly appeared right at the top of my trending topics and was already full of the gifs. I guess perhaps it was pushed up there by bots or w/e in one location, then the flooding made it trend everywhere.

It's not trending for me, but "BlueLivesMatters" is

yeah, it's gone for me too now

if u dont like the kpop fans flooding racist websites, they took a whole police snitch app down btw, then you have to fight me and im gonna dance on yr ass like bts

Flooding a hashtag with posts that have nothing to do with the hashtag is just fighting fire with fire, it’s a known troll farm tactic and is also used by psyops pros (OK, same diff)

Or all those black squares under #blacklivesmatter.

i'm willing to stipulate that k-pop fans know much more about social media algorithms than we do

they are battle tested

this is really up there with "our juggalo comrades are a strong and necessary flank in the fight against fascism"

Aren’t they?

I wasn't citing that in disapproval :)

So what they are doing is actually bumping racist hashtags AND subjecting us to more of those inexplicable gifs?

the posts get promoted, they make less sense (and clog up the space for anyone interested in making functional use of the hashtag), fewer people who see them mimic the behavior or redirect it into their own networks - it's like gresham's law but for when you actually want the good money to be driven out by the bad

so Twitter puts the little blue notification for on the app icon if there are any new tweets in your timeline, huh. that's helpful

do you have any new tweets right now

I would like for there to be a blue notification dot on the little birdie icon when someone has replied to me or rt me, only then

the kpop kids have shown us all how to harness the forces of stan culture for good:

OPERATION #BLUEFALL.
8AM PST.

FUCK THAT PRIDEFALL SHIT, LETS TAKE IT & MAKE IT MORAL. THIS PRIDE MONTH. LETS FUCKING GO.

RT & QUOTE WITH YOUR LOCAL @‘S. WE ARE BLUEING OUT THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA WITH THEIR OFFICERS BRUTALITY.

LOS ANGELES:@MayorOfLA @LAPDHQ @LAPDChiefMoore pic.twitter.com/tAApz35WwN

— elijah daniel (@elijahdaniel) June 4, 2020

ARIANA GRADE STANS, 1D STANS, BARBZ. I SUMMON YOU TO COME TOGETHER FOR #BLUEFALL https://t.co/5gIF5p9z43

— elijah daniel (@elijahdaniel) June 4, 2020

https://i.imgur.com/NVXPWO3.png

it's a lifestyle

twidder

dud

classic now for constantly fucking w trump

I liked a tweet a couple of weeks ago & it is having significant good irl consequences so I'm all mixed up about it.

you guys it's so much worse than any of us thought... I clicked a tweet in a thread and swear to god it took me to a place with many more tweets... tens of thousands of tweets, and each one more horrifying than the last. a veritable living nightmare. i fear that with these reserves at hand, tweets will soon outnumber posts by an insurmountable margin

they can't get in through the holes in the threads, those are one-way

homie what set you from

where do you go for this circle of your closest twitter friends??

tens of thousands of tweets

My childhood is tweets upon tweets upon tweets upon tweets.

a thread

A friend who’s fully into the covid conspiracies sent me this post that says Captain America predicted the coronavirus outbreak in 2011, and while its obviously bs, I started fixating on that circled image on the right. pic.twitter.com/N4XywDTZEx

— William Mullally 🚮 (@whmullally) June 11, 2020

I'll make out just fine if this is so, but can you not play embedded Twitter videos on ILX or third-party sites now, or is there a glitch in my browser? I can still play YouTubes.

that's just what they want you to think

I understand OPs not liking to be tagged in threaded replies that aren't directed at them, but get annoyed that this is perpetually framed as a rudeness/etiquette issue as opposed to a shitty interface issue.

when you think about it its there own fault for tweeting

I realise Twitter world cups are anathema to some, but in July, Tom Ewing will be running one on tracks from 1990 and is looking for nominations this week. Here's the current list of nominations:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1nbefrL-HIkjF0KvPU0ziJddlnx-eEcgAwkliyiiYH8Y/edit?usp=sharing

If any of you are into such things, bung @peoples_pop a tweet with a couple of nominations. Only one of them can be a UK Top 40 hit, but neither has to be. Dance music and hiphop very under-represented at the moment!

I'll make out just fine if this is so, but can you not play embedded Twitter videos on ILX or third-party sites now, or is there a glitch in my browser? I can still play YouTubes.

― clemenza, Thursday, June 11, 2020 6:46 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

this has also happened to me. i only ever see twitter videos here tho (twitter anything really) so i thought it was maybe an ilx thing but idk

Linehan banned from Twitter, goes whining to Mumsnet at 3am and gets TERFed off there too...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/graham-linehans-glinner-twitter-account-22261495

... and, as if that wasn't enough, there's women popping up now saying he's been sending them dick pics. He's lost it.

Dick pic thing apparently a hoax, no need to be making up stuff about him, there's plenty to go on already!

Ah right, I've fallen victim to Twittershite, curses.