Twitter C/D

ugh, the post going around about the pizza place in ohio with the owner that gave all the workers the "profit" (spoiler: it was not the profit) from the day to the workers, who then earned $78/hour for that day, leading to the conclusion that the owner could pay their workers that much every day if they really wanted to

all of that, so much of it veering toward something that is the truth, but it's all based upon shitty reporting, shitty headline writing, a screengrab of the article rather than a link to the real one, and social media.

If only someone had written some sort of theory, about labor and even maybe about value….a labor and value theory or something like that…ah! But alas! pic.twitter.com/Mjd1B3bIIs

— Middle Tennessee DSA 🌹 (@MidTNDSA) July 16, 2021

i looked at the original story to confirm that the headline was wrong. it was not the "entire day of profits", it was the entire day of revenue: sales + tips. this single paragraph tells you all you need to know to make an estimate for how much business they usually do and about how many workers they have:

On a typical Monday, they do about 100 orders. This week, they did 220 orders, which translated to over $6,000 in sales and over $1,000 in tips, all of which went back to the employees. Each worker made about $78 an hour for that shift.

why does this matter? because i've seen at least 3 people on twitter today, 2 that i know, saying this is a great example for the left, with "concrete numbers" that "prove" things bla bla bla. uggggggh, no, no. i mean, it is a good example, but it doesn't mean what you think it means, and $78/hour is

is....

is..

Trying to point that kind of error on Twitter is zero fun, partly because you look like a dick and partly out of fear of people thinking you're in favour of shitty wages. The social part of social media means it is not accuracy's friend.

the rare success story! the person I pointed it out to was very nice about it, just now! which is very rare! i was like "sorry, i feel like a wet blanket..."

because

partly because you look like a dick and partly out of fear of people thinking you're in favour of shitty wages.

this is absolutely true.

I think some Tweeters indulge a fetish by inviting public abuse.

Hey, @DoorDash, I had a really cool interaction with a Dasher yesterday. They showed how unprofessional and inconsiderate they are, and they represent your company. Top notch service. #DoorDash #delivery pic.twitter.com/ADXljOSQMj

— TanMan (@tannerburks) July 16, 2021

Tan Man

Wow, now that’s a ratio

Tan Man whole timeline is retweets of basketball clips
Seems like a bro

the tanman has predictably deleted the tweet

it blows my mind when people think the delivery person has anything to do with it. I ended up getting a wrong order last year, texted the deliverer to make sure they hadn’t accidentally dropped off the wrong bag, and they said that was the only delivery they’d picked up from that restaurant. end of interaction! absolutely nothing else has to do with them

twitter poll:

do you regularly interact with strangers?

i posted that before getting this message from twitter, lol!

https://i.imgur.com/l7vQodQ.png

i guess what set me off last night was that hannity did the bare minimum human thing and told his watchers to take COVID seriously. that led to lots of applause for hannity's noble efforts, since we should be thanking him for his transformative effects on public health

The Twitter Left+ will virtue signal the shit out of this, but @seanhannity likely saved a hundred lives tonight.

and I say: Thank You. 👏

— Dennis Herring (@dcherring) July 20, 2021

then this good guy stranger was like "hey! fuck you pramsey342!!"

Here’s a fuck you signal. Did you give a shit about the ones he’s helped kill until fifteen minutes ago?

— Peter Ramsey (@pramsey342) July 20, 2021

and that's when i leapt to the aid of good guy stranger with some personal spice to make it real for pramsey. at least, i think that's what i was doing.

do you regularly interact with strangers?

or wait, the good guy stranger was like "hey! fuck you dennis herring!"

herring breath

it sucks because i've made a couple REALLY good twitter posts during the last 2 hours, forgetting that i was still banned for another hour or so. and when you hit submit and see that you're still being punished, and you hit back and the perfect tweet isn't saved...you can see what caused 1/6. oh wait, twitter didn't ban trump until the middle of 1/6. that's the day he became president

u shd get a burner

i am going to burn the shit out of twitter once i'm back, they will regret the day

some of these unseen twitter posts, i made, also - they were life-affirming. i can't show them to you now, of course, i lost them, and to be honest i don't really remember what they were about. but i remember thinking while typing them, "you know this is kind of cool that i'm coming back to twitter in this positive way". now i remember nothing. i have no positive feelings, toward twitter or otherwise. twitter, you took away my patriotic freedom, but you also took away my freedom of liberty. and for that, i will never forget. 1 hour and it's on @jack

did you guys read about the elderly man that died of a heart attack because of swatting?

https://www.techspot.com/news/90483-grandfather-died-heart-attack-after-minors-swatted-over.html

it involves twitter, discord, and video games, of course. it's so sad.

Y'all still follow Jonathan Swift? The man who literally supports eating babies?

(some time later)

Obviously the whole time I knew he was joking but it's still not okay. Here's why [1/20]

— atrophy wife 🎀 (@zuza_real) July 21, 2021

the Topics thing is just terrible.

that's when i leapt to the aid of good guy stranger with some personal spice to make it real

btw Karl pramsey342 is one of the directors of Into The Spider-Verse, you might have been able to get a gig painting backgrounds for the sequel if jack hadn't silenced you

goddammit jack, i was trying to develop connections on social media and now this

#Bitcoin will unite a deeply divided country.

(and eventually: world)

— jack⚡️ (@jack) August 9, 2021

What a maroon

get a brane marron

Not even he has remembered to change his Pinned Tweet from April 2020. Nothing more important to communicate since then huh.

Quite interesting thread on what twitter did, or didn't do, post-Euro final.

Our data suggests that ID verification would have been unlikely to prevent the abuse from happening - as of the permanently suspended accounts, 99% of account owners were identifiable.

— Twitter UK (@TwitterUK) August 10, 2021

I've been a twitter user for years, but have been using it a lot more in the past month or so (I know, probably a bad sign) and noticed something kinda fucked up. I was wondering if any more advanced users here could help me out.

I followed someone a couple weeks ago because I really wanted to see their tweets. I was like "I like this person and want to keep on top of what they're up to." Since then, I spent way too much time on twitter and never saw any tweets from that account. Just now I remembered that I had followed them, and went to check their profile - they had been tweeting the whole time! Meanwhile, I had seen some posts in the timeline multiple times. Like as if twitter was showing them to me again because it had run out of content.

Do you have to tweak some setting on Twitter in order to see all the content from the people you follow?

There’s a little toggle (top right on my app) where you can choose for your feed to display chronological or “highlights,” might be that?

Thank you! I'll give it a shot.

bear in mind that if you switch it to chronological ('latest') it arbitrarily switches itself back every now and then ¯\(°_o)/¯

yes you want "latest tweets" rather than "home" (which shows "top tweets")

and yes you will likely have to recalibrating this, bcz as ledge says it ust loves to switch you back to " top tweets"

also they seem to have been trailing removing "latest tweets" altogether from some accounts, tho apparently if you make a fuss (tweet crossly about this copying in the machine-masters) they will reverse this

also if you have more than one account and switch between them it always defaults to home for the one yr logging into

meanwhile:

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. https://t.co/9F5862Tjnz

— Aaron Huertas (@aaronhuertas) August 9, 2021

they used to switch me back to 'top tweets' almost daily but lately they've been allowing it to stay and i've decided i'm back in team latest-tweets

same here, though I worry that's because I'm using it way more

I like the new font.

wtf is that for?!

Twitter's dumbest pundits discover the Soft Block pic.twitter.com/6fuWhH2TYn

— Jezz Effect, Legendary Edition (@Jezzerat) August 12, 2021

lol

lmao faced

unbelievable

I used @getvicarious to create and sync a list of all accounts I’m following, set that list to be reverse chron, named it “Latest” and pinned it, and now I can quickly swipe between ranked (algorithm) and all tweets as they happen

(inspired by an idea from team) pic.twitter.com/ZfSg9pGeds

— jack⚡️ (@jack) August 12, 2021

an idea from team

it's a useful metric of being/not being a cunt - you use twitter in pref to facebook? off you trot & a soldier's farewell to ye. yeah it's arbitrary & yeah well actually facebook sucks too but it mostly works, life's short.

hmmm, looks like they've finally made it where you can't click through to read full threads/replies without creating a Twitter account and logging in. that's a lot of time i won't be wasting anymore!

Try clearing your cookies. I've been dealing with that in incognito only for some reason (still get the popup in normal chrome but can just X out normally) and even then, if you open the tweet in a new tab you should be able to scroll normally. This is for PC only, I can't get it to work on mobile.

yeah go in your browser and block twitter cookies. in chrome it's like "never allow cookies from this site" or something.

in your browser *settings* i mean