Twitter C/D

i played it for the first time this morning

what’s the verdict I am also considering playing it

it was cool

ugh fine

ok it’s cool

it takes about two minutes to play and they only have one game a day, I can't see why it's become so big

bc u can flex on ppl wit emojis

Wordle 203 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨
🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

oh wow

Wordle 203 2/6

⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

:)

oh shit

i think i just got very lucky tbh. got a letter in the 2nd spot that could only be preceded by relatively few other letters. it's sort of the same strategy as wheel of fortune (except you don't get R S T L N E given to you)

I read an article where someone said they always use ORATE for their first guess because it has three vowels and two common consonants.

i used 'shard' to find the common consonants, suppose 'share' will be a better starting point

i find wordle a bit too easy (ive still never lost after a couple months of playing daily) so instead of optimizing my opening word i just pick the first 5-letter word that pops into my head

the challenge of wordle isn’t so much about whether you will lose but how long you will stay stumped. sometimes i just can’t think of a word with those letters for a long time. that’s the good stuff

we've been talking about it over here for quite some time
Tomtit in the tilth -- the NY TIMES SPELLING BEE thread

i love it. the best thing is it's only one a day so I'm not playing it for ages.

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

i'm just too good at this can't stop winning lebron of words

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

call me tiger words cause i got another bogey (hole in one) 😎

Not quite. Rowling's real importance lies in the fact that she was the first writer to present a world in which class and wealth mattered, some characters were poor, some were rich, and being poor was a hardship, not just a cheery sentimental thing in the scenery.

— Jeffrey Smith (@JacobKishnevi) January 7, 2022

I made a bot, let me know if this is legible or if there's any other info that would be interesting to surface https://t.co/k3rIZbk32u

— Kevin O’Connor (@gooeyblob) January 8, 2022

Wordle is a CIA op

i'm on day 8 of Wordle and haven't lost

i fully expect that i won't be playing this in 30 days but a lot of people will keep going and i can see why. i'm not really a "daily puzzle" kind of guy, although i did use to really enjoy doing crosswords with my ex when I first met them. i can see why people addicted, and wordle is nice because it only takes a couple minutes

Rowling as pioneering Dickensian author suggests the author of that tweet may be unfamiliar with the adjective

heh! what a vacuous pumper

tweeter outed himself as a Floridian, so you must forgive him, it's in his DNA

remind me never to interact with k-pop fans or even the concept of k-pop on twitter. seems like it’s a world of hurt

Haha yeah a banner day for it. Sending a letter to a record company asking them to intervene because someone on social media called an artist fuckable is admitidely endearing levels of not understanding how the world works.

ohhhh lord J-Hope please talk to this sucker cause they killing k-pop they taking the pain and struggle of life of k-pop the only thing we coulda express our minds and pain. and these suckers took it and made it look like garbage thats why we get judge so much cause these shit dont be making sence

The iOS app just started interrupting my music every time a video comes up in my feed, I don't know if they made a change or if I accidentally changed a setting. It seems that the location of the video autoplay setting has shifted quite frequently, so here's where I found it:

Settings and privacy > Accessibility, display and languages > Accessibility > Video autoplay

hitting the mute button in twitter videos has helped me with this, but I'm not on iOS

I started having this problem and googling led me to turn off Twitter’s microphone access in global settings (Privacy > Microphone) and that worked but then it started happening again so thanks for the autoplay setting tip - fingers crossed.

Would like to meet the genius that thought "most people on Twitter don't send tweets like this" would deter a single human soul from sending a single inflammatory tweet

Bart Simpson is Vancouver City Council's first public hearing speaker of 2022.

COUNCILLOR FRY: "Starting with speaker number one... JACKIN DADDYOFF. Is JACKIN DADDYOFF on the line?"

JACKIN DADDYOFF: *goes off on 3-minute Cobra Kai parody*#vanpoli #vanre pic.twitter.com/EzK1XdVEyw

— Kenneth Chan (@iamkennethchan) January 19, 2022

lmao

twitter has started to pause my music whenever i scroll past a video. might be the thing that finally gets me to quit

you can probably prevent that by disabling media autoplay in the preferences - I think it might be under energy use or some such

yeah i disabled and then re-enabled and it seems to have solved that problem.

For when you want to reply directly to a Tweet's author, we're making it easier to DM them from your timeline to start a conversation.

Now testing a DM icon on Tweets with some of you on iOS.

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) February 3, 2022

Hard to imagine this going poorly.

also this

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKygq-rXIAEbWOq?format=jpg&name=medium

ayooooooooooo, there it is

Downvotes could be good

It will be interesting to see what effect that has on popular names who draw out a lot of angry opposition

nice, taking a page from Facebook (who took a page from Reddit of course)

as if retweeting shit that makes us feel good wasn't enough, now we can downvote all the replies we don't like!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v68zYyaEmEA

Interesting! (haven’t watched it all yet). Jumped on it because I was thinking about Wordle and Information Theory just yesterday, remembering that Warren Weaver in his introductory essay to Claude Shannon’s The Mathematical Theory of Communication had said the following:

It is most interesting to note that the redundancy of English is just about 50 per cent, so that about half of the letters or words we choose in writing or speaking are under our free choice, and about half (although we are not ordinarily aware of it) are really controlled by the statistical structure of the language. Apart from more serious implications, which again we will postpone to our final discussion, it is interesting to note that a language must have at least 50 per cent of real freedom (or relative entropy) in the choice of letters if one is to be able to construct satisfactory crossword puzzles. If it has complete freedom, then every array of letters is a crossword puzzle. If it has only 20 per cent of freedom, then it would be impossible to construct crossword puzzles in such complexity and number as would make the game popular. Shannon has estimated that if the English language had only about 30 per cent redundancy, then it would be possible to construct three-dimensional crossword puzzles.

(the mathematical theory of communication has some claim to be one of the most significant books of the 20thC, and is surprisingly accessible throughout; though Shannon’s presentation of the theory is more mathematically dense, it’s not impenetrable.

that guy is a cheat! Today was my first 6/6 and I swear if that would have broken my 100% record I was ready to break down in tears. A truly pathetic state of affairs to be in but when you are already getting defeated by life, can't be losing at wordle as well.

total cheat.

getting it in six is victory from the jaws of defeat and should be celebrated. i remember getting four letters at guess three and still being on a cliff edge at six. when i got it i was like “yaaaaarghh fuck you wordle, fuck you, i’m still the best. still the best” and went and punched a wall or something.