"so, micro-blogging then" is one of the innocuous phrases from ilx that pops into my head the most often. so innocent
― flopson, Monday, 12 April 2021 23:43 (three years ago) link
Is there a way to get it to stop suggesting topics to me? I'm really not liking this new "feature".
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 03:14 (three years ago) link
i don’t know but believe me i’ve looked! i thought notifications were sacred!!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 06:49 (three years ago) link
it's not just notifications, they are now putting random Tweets in the timeline that relate to topics they think I might be interested in. I tried dismissing the topics, but that has led them to suggest more and more irrelevant topics instead.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 13:20 (three years ago) link
Yep, that has been my experience. Dismissing those suggested topics just sort of fires up some sort of, "welp, then I don't know what the fuck you like so I'm going to just throw everything at you" response.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 13:26 (three years ago) link
I feel like if I dismiss enough of them they will eventually just run out of topics
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 13:43 (three years ago) link
I think if you mute the phrase " suggest_activity_tweet " and/or " suggest_recycled_tweet_inline " that helps to remove most of the trash notifications you are referring to.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 13:48 (three years ago) link
niiiice
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 14:13 (three years ago) link
Excellent!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 15:00 (three years ago) link
Is this illegal?*deephacks Twitter to improve user experience*
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 16:15 (three years ago) link
I understand why Twitter wants to do this for new users, to help them bootstrap a good feed. But I don't understand why tech companies aren't treating newbies and power users differently. (I am a techie but my industry puzzles me often.)
― lukas, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 16:51 (three years ago) link
twitter doesnt have the most precise parsing of that sort of thing eg constantly suggesting i follow politicians who i just told to eat shit
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 17:45 (three years ago) link
Make sure you're in the Latest Tweets sort and not the Top Tweets sort
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Tuesday, April 13, 2021 9:48 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
btw i do this + use the "latest tweets" timeline and dont get most of the stuff people complain about itt, i do get some suggested topics but theyre in the timeline not as notifications
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link
ha, yes, I prefer latest tweets, but of course it switches back to top tweets periodically without asking
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 17:50 (three years ago) link
galaxy brain touched on this todayhttps://warzel.substack.com/p/its-not-cancel-culture-its-a-platform
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 21:03 (three years ago) link
Some people spend a lifetime trying to craft tweets that troll in the way the space/horror tweet did so effectively
― mh, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 21:33 (three years ago) link
the context collapse thing is a good point, because my first thought is "who would actually get mad at this", but you know there's some nerd or filmmaker out there who is legit "I've spent my whole life fighting the belief that horror can't be set in space and I have HAD IT"the internet is mostly made up of people who have HAD IT these days
― lukas, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 21:46 (three years ago) link
it’s just an aggressively dumb take!
you can do a desert movie or a horror movie, but horror in the desert is just a desert genre imo
― mh, Wednesday, 14 April 2021 03:21 (three years ago) link
is Dune a desert movie or a space movie?
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 15 April 2021 16:18 (three years ago) link
what if we were the aliens all along
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 15 April 2021 16:24 (three years ago) link
xp yes
― mh, Thursday, 15 April 2021 17:03 (three years ago) link
I think if you mute the phrase " suggest_activity_tweet " and/or " suggest_recycled_tweet_inline " that helps to remove most of the trash notifications you are referring to.Just checked, I had these muted already but they're still putting garbage in there.
― Scheming politicians are captivating, and it hurts (ledge), Friday, 16 April 2021 12:17 (three years ago) link
it helped with my notifications but there are still random topics in my feed
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 16 April 2021 12:23 (three years ago) link
Hilariously twitter doesn't even seem to be able to catalogue these random topics right - I just got "suggested topic: rap" and the tweet was some lefty shitposter joking that Femi's article caused Starmer's approval ratings to drop. Not every black person is a rapper, twitter.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 16 April 2021 15:51 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/VkBZYc2n/image.png
so sick of this guy, not sure if he's real or one of those AI-generated imaginary people
― ✖, Monday, 19 April 2021 22:54 (three years ago) link
im not a regular mom ceo, im a cool mom ceo
― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 19 April 2021 23:52 (three years ago) link
My favourite thing is scrolling past a load of tweets and then scrolling past exactly the same tweets again, this time with an "in case you missed it" heading at the top.
― I took drugs recently and why doesn't the UK? (ledge), Saturday, 24 April 2021 17:03 (three years ago) link
1.) Post tweet.
2.) "Oh, look! A notification of new tweets to be read."
3.) Scroll to top.
4.) It's the tweet I just posted.
I FALL FOR THIS. EVERY. TIME.
― pplains, Saturday, 24 April 2021 17:11 (three years ago) link
What type of world do we live in today, when the woke try & "cancel" Dr. Seuss, while ‘CyberPunk 2077’ is all the rage where "4 types of damage can be inflicted & resisted-Physical, Thermal, EMP & Chemical"Clearly promoting great Woke wholesome values ?? https://t.co/NLlrLaIW5s pic.twitter.com/zXLIERXLAh— Craig Kelly MP (@CraigKellyMP) April 24, 2021
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Sunday, 25 April 2021 04:20 (three years ago) link
^ shows clear symptoms entangled ganglia
― sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Sunday, 25 April 2021 04:29 (three years ago) link
https://thewire.in/tech/as-covid-19-crisis-deepens-twitter-takes-down-tweets-criticising-modi-government
Seems bad.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Sunday, 25 April 2021 05:43 (three years ago) link
Twitter’s bad but of Twitter; covid-19, and Modi, I think it’s the least bad
― Canon in Deez (silby), Sunday, 25 April 2021 15:07 (three years ago) link
"so sick of this guy, not sure if he's real or one of those AI-generated imaginary people"
That's Dan Price, CEO of payments compnay Gravity Payments that literally no serious ecommerce company uses. He got a bunch of press for lowering his pay and giving employees raises, but there have been serious questions about how true some of that was, plus, apparently he runs his company like a cult, and his ex-wife accused him of absolutely awful torture and abuse, and somehow that has been totally swept under the rug. I had to block him on linkedin in order to stop seeing his shit reposted by everyone I've ever worked with.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/dec/03/gravity-ceo-dan-price-domestic-violence-accusations
― akm, Sunday, 25 April 2021 15:59 (three years ago) link
yeah the whole thing was clearly a (successful) stunt to grant him thought leader status
― lag∞n, Sunday, 25 April 2021 16:02 (three years ago) link
Its rather surprising to me that these allegations haven't popped up again since 2015 or so. How this guy weathered metoo is beyond me. I'm automatically inclined to completely believe anything anyone says against him because look at his fucking hair and his smile.
― akm, Sunday, 25 April 2021 16:13 (three years ago) link
hes such a minor character
― lag∞n, Sunday, 25 April 2021 16:17 (three years ago) link
I see Price’s abuse brought up regularly but never with the critical mass to end him, he’s not constantly in the news so he functions like a quote a day calendar for people who read books on entrepreneurship.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Sunday, 25 April 2021 16:20 (three years ago) link
i'll take much lower pay if I don't have to make working for a shit company the core part of my identity
― devil sticks in trench coat (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 25 April 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link
meltdown may is back, baby!
― mh, Monday, 3 May 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link
who melted
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 May 2021 14:24 (two years ago) link
Details, please. Other than reading the rare thread linked here or in a news article, I've been on a Twitter hiatus for about a month. It's been surprisingly easy.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 3 May 2021 14:51 (two years ago) link
one of the only fun things left about Twitter is watching manic pmc dream girl Kristen Sinema get ratioed to hell every single time she pokes her head up
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Monday, 3 May 2021 15:02 (two years ago) link
prob wishing she had done a normal vote
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 May 2021 15:31 (two years ago) link
I don't think getting twitter pwned actually hurts any of these powerful assholes' feelings, just peasants being allowed to shout at the king from a distance. Even Trump could just breeze past the legion of sick burn replies.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Monday, 3 May 2021 15:36 (two years ago) link
she did post the picture with the fuck off ring
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 May 2021 15:36 (two years ago) link
no obvious meltdowns yet but the political dorks seem to be on a slow burn
― mh, Monday, 3 May 2021 16:55 (two years ago) link
Even Trump could just breeze past the legion of sick burn replies.
― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 3 May 2021 18:14 (two years ago) link
all evidence we have on subject suggests that no matter how grand the tweeters life they just dont like the negative replies, its human nature really
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 May 2021 18:18 (two years ago) link
I think you can cyber bully Chrissy Teigen or even a Representative but once you’re Sinema/Cruz/etc. you’ve had your soul removed to the point where regular people are ants.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Monday, 3 May 2021 18:51 (two years ago) link