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
― lumen (esby), Friday, 5 June 2020 17:16 (three years ago) link
they can't get in through the holes in the threads, those are one-way
― j., Friday, 5 June 2020 18:01 (three years ago) link
homie what set you from
― mh, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 00:19 (three years ago) link
where do you go for this circle of your closest twitter friends??
― brian emo (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 23:47 (three years ago) link
tens of thousands of tweets
My childhood is tweets upon tweets upon tweets upon tweets.
― geoffreyess, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 00:11 (three years ago) link
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
― ACABincalifornia (voodoo chili), Thursday, 11 June 2020 23:41 (three years ago) link
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, 11 June 2020 23:46 (three years ago) link
that's just what they want you to think
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 12 June 2020 00:07 (three years ago) link
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.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link
when you think about it its there own fault for tweeting
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 20:36 (three years ago) link
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!
― Alba, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link
― 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
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
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.
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 June 2020 09:58 (three years ago) link
Dick pic thing apparently a hoax, no need to be making up stuff about him, there's plenty to go on already!
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 27 June 2020 10:05 (three years ago) link
Ah right, I've fallen victim to Twittershite, curses.
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 June 2020 10:06 (three years ago) link
Ha,so glad he's gotten the heave ho from twitter,total fucking cunt
― Rik Waller-Bridge (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 27 June 2020 10:32 (three years ago) link
He's demented.
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 June 2020 10:33 (three years ago) link
Love that mumsnet terfs got mad at him for posting in their feminism forum as a man
― Rik Waller-Bridge (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 27 June 2020 10:39 (three years ago) link
It's a promising idea for a sitcom, writer has a minor disagreement on Twitter about something, obsesses about it and ends up destroying his life just because he can't bear to be wrong once. Pretty dark sitcom, in the upside the wage bill for actors would decrease as the show progressed.
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 27 June 2020 10:46 (three years ago) link
might send it to him, see what he thinks
Fucking delighted for him. He can fuck off to Parler with the rest of them.
― scampos mentis (gyac), Saturday, 27 June 2020 10:58 (three years ago) link
it is with a heavy heart that i must announce that the celebs are at it again— wint (@dril) September 24, 2014
― lag∞n, Saturday, 27 June 2020 13:45 (three years ago) link
evergreen
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 27 June 2020 13:51 (three years ago) link
is that the origin of that phrase? I love it
― kinder, Saturday, 27 June 2020 14:52 (three years ago) link
classic def
― lag∞n, Saturday, 27 June 2020 15:05 (three years ago) link
he walks right into a Wittgenstein / Diogenes combo attack pic.twitter.com/IUqLM6blJ3— Neil Sinhababu (@neilsinhababu) June 27, 2020
― lag∞n, Saturday, 27 June 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link
Ah, the good old days.
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 June 2020 18:38 (three years ago) link
flawless
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 27 June 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link
did they change what gets included in the number of RTs? i'm suddenly seeing tweets with like 5x more RTs than likes. mainly on ratio'd tweets though. it's messing up my frame of reference. this is extremely important
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Saturday, 27 June 2020 22:51 (three years ago) link
either they're now including replies to RTs as RTs or they're including quote tweets as RTs and they weren't before? that would make sense i guess
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Saturday, 27 June 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
The latter, I understand
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 27 June 2020 23:11 (three years ago) link
Any action to bring about the death of the ratio is of course good, in itself and as a step towards the death of Twitter.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 27 June 2020 23:12 (three years ago) link
...theres a new ratio in town
https://i.imgur.com/ceWsHNY.png
― lag∞n, Saturday, 27 June 2020 23:22 (three years ago) link
Damn, that’s impressive
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Saturday, 27 June 2020 23:46 (three years ago) link
actually love too log on and everyone’s talking about shredded cheese and i i have no idea why
― mookieproof, Sunday, 28 June 2020 05:57 (three years ago) link
only way my wife can eat fajitas
https://www.twitter.com/jsv4/status/1277048058275074050
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Sunday, 28 June 2020 11:15 (three years ago) link
best tex-mex in town
― below the mendoza (rip van wanko), Sunday, 28 June 2020 11:59 (three years ago) link
correct analysis:
"the ratio," in the classic sense, is a worn out cliche but ever since they started counting quote tweets youre now capable of seeing a whole new form of it pic.twitter.com/r8h0yvgyad— Rich Lather (@allahliker) June 26, 2020
― mark s, Sunday, 28 June 2020 12:32 (three years ago) link
also correct (from Billy Budd, Sailor): "Now there can exist no irritating juxtaposition of dissimilar personalities comparable to that which is possible aboard a great war-ship fully manned and at sea. There, every day among all ranks almost every man comes into more or less of contact with almost every other man. Wholly there to avoid even the sight of an aggravating object one must needs give it Jonah's toss or jump overboard himself. Imagine how all this might eventually operate on some peculiar human creature the direct reverse of a saint?"
― mark s, Sunday, 28 June 2020 12:48 (three years ago) link
wow my twitter followers have tripled in the last few months to 66 and what a result today. I just got notified that The Wankford Way has followed me back!
― calzino, Sunday, 28 June 2020 15:54 (three years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Sunday, 28 June 2020 15:57 (three years ago) link
a stranger followed me recently and then gave me an excellent mask recommendation
wonderful website
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Sunday, 28 June 2020 17:10 (three years ago) link
i met one of my academic co-authors on twitter, and a couple of my current best friends
― flopson, Sunday, 28 June 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
it's my only way to stay on top of hoos' hairstyles
― below the mendoza (rip van wanko), Sunday, 28 June 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
I met many of my curviest friends there
― covid coronenberg (wins), Sunday, 28 June 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
I went out to a bar with a friend of a friend who is very active on Twitter and he had two “twitter friends” in tow and my god was it awful.
― circa1916, Sunday, 28 June 2020 18:06 (three years ago) link
It’s weird to see actual human beings mimic a format. Like all snide, ironic quips that only they would laugh at.
― circa1916, Sunday, 28 June 2020 18:11 (three years ago) link
ive met ppl like that, i agree they are lame. all my mufos ive met up with are not like that, and are cool
― flopson, Sunday, 28 June 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
"heartbreaking" is trending on twitter; not for any one story but for like ten different stories.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 6 July 2020 02:27 (three years ago) link
Fucking HELL I'm rarely on Twitter and it's pointless enough not to really wind me up but this RS Archer Brexit shit is back once again - I thought he'd deleted his account - it's really pushing my buttons due to how utterly shit it is, not even good trolling, just fucking tedious and smug beyond belief with the O Gods and lol shoes agh I hate it
― kinder, Friday, 10 July 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link