Twitter C/D

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

ha, i was kinda celebrating the idea of just not reading twitter threads anymore, but i went ahead and did that, thanks y'all.

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?

― peace, man, Tuesday, August 10, 2021 8:11 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

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?

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, August 10, 2021 8:13 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Thank you! I'll give it a shot.

― peace, man, Tuesday, August 10, 2021 8:14 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

This worked so well! It doesn't help that the toggle for "Latest Tweets" just looks like a decorative little star. I have since been able to see the tweets of the person I followed*. So thank you Finefinemusic! Also seems to have had the beneficial side-effect of doing away with those irritating "Marky Ramone and Nile Rodgers liked Bette Midler's tweet" recommendations.

*Juni Ba, for the record. And it's not that he is some ultimate tweetmaster or something. It's just that he made a graphic novel I really like - Djeliya. It fucking rules.

ha, i was kinda celebrating the idea of just not reading twitter threads anymore,

oh believe me, I KNOW

i like how broken this website is, never fix it

definitely the "secret of their success" is being bad at optimizing

Glad it worked, peace, man! The icon makes me scratch my head too.

this is one of the best threads I've ever seen

Bud ... https://t.co/zzh7jzTDnO

— Soaking 🤌🏿 (@solomonmissouri) August 23, 2021

lmao you’re not kidding

Tulum??????

These people are 60% crab leg/ 30% iced coffee/ and 10% vape pen

it’s incredible

every line an instant classic

do you know what a group chat is? you better learn cause you finna be the topic

you don’t have the cholesterol to be out here

at this point i’m just going to repost every tweet in the thread is that okay

all they do is start podcast and talk about plate fixing