when did twitter stop being cool?

quote tweets might be the best answer, because everyone wants to dunk on dumbshits it had the effect of boosting the worst tweets

early 2009 - when a load of celebrities like Jonathan Ross suddenly started joining and going on about it

yeah i was also thinking "good" instead of "cool." idk if twitter was every really "cool," tbh

TWITTER: I don't get it

'I use myspace and del.icio.us and shit I'm not a luddite'

I knew a few people who tweeted their way into careers and big opportunities in 2011/12, so it seemed good/cool to me then. I feel like it was around 2015 that I first started hearing the performatively-bleak "this is a hell site" type rhetoric from the heavy twitter users i know, then a couple years later is when it seemed to shift into being an actually-bleak manifestation of irl depression/device addiction. So I guess I would vote for 2016.

"So, micro-bloging, then."

twitter as a whole cant really be cool (except maybe at its infancy. and even the doubtful, many old tweets are bad—a lot of the 2012 era weird twitter humour is cringey so random larfs now—and it’s likely just people who got in early claiming it was cooler before as they get old and confuse the two phenomenons) just due to its size. but it contains within it a lot of what i think of as the coolest part of the internet. the more visual platforms are hotter and more fashionable but nothing’s as funny or smart. a big platform on which to post jokes and pithy observations is an obvious thing and will survive in some form forever as a permanent part of culture imho

I knew a few people who tweeted their way into careers and big opportunities in 2011/12, so it seemed good/cool to me then

from what i can gather rubbernecking media twitter this is now the only way to break into the industry. which i could totally see ruining it for everyone in media

a lot of the 2012 era weird twitter humour is cringey so random larfs now

was true at the time too, very few of them were good

the few that were good tho were v v good

unfortunately i find your posts itt depressing flops

I basically like it btw

I knew a few people who tweeted their way into careers and big opportunities in 2011/12, so it seemed good/cool to me then

Sounds like a dystopia to me.

any time a friend of mine has more success than me its a dystopia

otm

unfortunately i find your posts itt depressing flops

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, January 14, 2021 3:16 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

my twitter feed is good! i see good stuff ever y day. can’t complain

Twitter kills Vine is the one that most annoyed me, aside from that I don't think the site is noticably any worse than it has been at any time in the half-decade I've been using it consistently, and I wasn't around much in the fun early days.

no social media platform was, is, or ever will be cool

the internet is not cool. computers can be cool. sorry i don't make the rules.

the internet is a some hellraiser cenobite puzzle box shit

Beandad

maybe it was a time/place thing and I was just the right age, but i kinda liked MySpace. it was tacky and stupid and customizable (obv problems for advertisers and dead-eyed freaks like Zucc & Jack bent on... whatever the fuck they’re bent on)

an old work friend of mine who occasionally writes about poker for B3tF4ir was an early twitter enthusiast who saw the corporate comedy crossover potential and he hired a professional comedy writer to do the Arena Flowers twitter account. He got a bit big-headed when the FT did a write up on him and I think it's been mainly downhill for him since then. I think the Arena Flowers account is still going but I'm not sure if he makes any money out of it. Before the rona he was struggling to get by and airbnb-ing the spare room in his Berlin flat

Genuinely think twitter has gotten better the last couple years. Nadir was 2015-2018 or something. Trump getting banned is def a positive also

Not only was it always terrible, but Twitter and Instagram have substantially devalued the very concept of cool.

^^^ man alive knows what's up.

man alive is the definition of cool, this is well documented

only apart from when he posts about politics where he sucks badly!

calzino, another cool poster I’ve definitely never tired of

HI DERE

lol

if that was actually funny, then I'm going back to twitter for a non-neanderlol style laughfest

well we know twitter’s not cool anymore are you sure it’s a place you’d want to be

sorry all I’m just weary from every variety of media this month and the question posed by this thread clearly isn’t for me. I’m off

well yeah I don't know what cool is tbh. I'm knocking on 50 and poor as fuck, that deffo isn't cool. But anyway haven't you got some US flag nearby to get some release from?

Tied up leading the detail keeping Iran from assassinating any ex-Presidents IIRC

scene missing

when tombot starting posting iran from the thread

2005

man alive is the definition of cool, this is well documented

― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, January 14, 2021 6:15 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Plaid chucks are the definition of cool iirc 😉

2005

Tbc when I said 2006 I meant before March.

there should be an option for those who think it's still cool. it's had its ups and downs but I still think it's the only major social media platform to spawn its own art form/form of writing. I don't think Trump getting banned is any more significant than increasing the character limit to 280. I know a lot of people spend way more time on their phones and on Twitter than me, but as a casual user, I've always liked it and still do, to basically the same degree.

fwiw, my bigger objection to it is just that I find it to be a miserable and harrowing place to spend time, like being in a cave full of shrieking bats. I just get into a terrible state when I'm on it, and that's why I dropped my account, and, unlike other addictive social media, never felt the urge to go back.

media twitter killed it

"Not only was it always terrible, but Twitter and Instagram have substantially devalued the very concept of cool."

I hate the word influencer. Sickening.

It’s true. Coolness thrives on mystique, scarcity. Clout is the opposite and the two forms of social currency cannot coexist.

v hard to be cool while imploring your audience to subscribe to your channel and smash that like button before playing a song you're still working on

as long as the 'gram exists, twitter will be cool, at least in a relative sense

It has the time, it has the power
It's yet to have its finest hour
Twitter

Had to go w/ 2015 because of indexing, "enhancing" the algorithm, and ditching the fleeting, dissolving character all together.

write in vote for whenever half of all posts in the world became reaction gifs

ILX majority otm.

twitter stopped being cool right here

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsS6UfSXYAMMvKX?format=jpg&name=medium

Trump's getting back in in 2024.

Demolition Man

People are sharing the many films Sylvester Stallone has featured in after a user asked if people could name a movie that the actor has starred in that was not from the Rocky or Rambo series

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/06/jack-dorsey-is-offering-to-sell-the-first-tweet-as-an-nft.html

poll ultimately OTM

ffs you could probably buy a set of ancient Sumerian stone tablets for that price

it seems like a great way to meet new people, talk about interesting ideas, but also be silly and have some fun once in a while. seriously considering signing up for an account and getting in on the conversation.

The thing that tells me to Login/Signup no longer seems to have an X so I can't get rid of it :(

Oh, okay. I can see if I c&p to incognito mode tab.

was 280 chars really only in 2018 it feels like it's been around much longer

imagine what tweet threads would look like if they lowered the character limit to 14

The thing that tells me to Login/Signup no longer seems to have an X so I can't get rid of it :(

― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, January 31, 2022 11:36 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

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