do you use twitter?

yes i read twitter and tweet. i don't always read *every* tweet, because i follow somewhere around 350 people.

not on twitter but i have a lot of twitter RSS feeds in my reader. probably gonna cave in soon, though

I trade stocks and tweet my trades. I follow a few ilxors but never have any idea what they're on about.

what the fuck is twitter and what do i use it for

I follow some celebs, but nothing so compelling that I ever log in more than 1x a week.

I tweet rarely... I have 6 and am entirely unsure what audience they're directed to (I have like 3 followers, p. random people)

I used to use twitter to follow political shit 24/7 but i got a bit burned out and haven't logged on in awhile.

also there's a couple girls i stalk via twitter since it's open access, unlike faesbuk (deleted my account some time ago to give promote productivity = works)

read & tweet

y'all can follow me here http://twitter.com/#!/nicknotned

read 'em/tweet 'em

Started an account almost two years ago because my boss wanted everyone at work to follow the company account. Kept it because...I'm not sure, actually. http://twitter.com/RyanHupp

no, I find it pretty much useless

No and I don't really care for it. The only twitters I've ever seen are Ozzie Guillen and the one time some ilxor trolled Jose Canseco (which was great)

question for those not into twitter: du u use facebook?

everyone but you uses facebook

yeah, hope I havent become obnoxious w/ mentioning of it... just seems mostly to me that the status update > the tweet in most ppl's lives. i've met the occasional who literally copy & pastes into both but i could never really figure for what reason they did it in the first place.

i never do that, i make it a point to have different things in each. i don't know what exactly my guidelines are for posting in one or the other (other than length) but it is a decision i make before i write something

yeah, twitter is just a minifeed w/ fewer features. and I guess you get to pretend like you're friends w/ celebrities.

Use it to follow people I want to follow and speak to people I want to speak to. Mostly separate from every other social and internet group.

everyone but you uses facebook
― iatee, Saturday, March 5, 2011 10:59 PM (28 minutes ago)

I know of a certain goalie who refuses to get on facebook...

I don't use facebook

haha somebody I know from china just updated her status on facebook "Twitter is no more fun than Sina Microblog..."

lol sina microblog is down imo

it's pretty funny, for every major social media website outside of china there is some chinese copied equivalent that chinese users uniformly prefer

and are permitted to access by the govt

yeah, that too

I encounter a fair number of mainland students here in HK, and they make facebook and twitter accounts but then realize all of their friends are still on the chinese networks, so they always go back

Ah yeah, that'd make sense.

(at the risk of a derail, I just signed up for sina microblog but the site is crawling)

I think every non-English country has it's twitter-equivalents. I met some girls during my time in Mexico who were super super fond of this bizarre tumblr-ish thing called something like "MetroGirl" or something (in English, actually). I showed them Facebook and they were totally unimpressed... said it lacked the pizazz of customizable backgrounds and the glitter font they seemed to think excellent at conveying their emotions.

http://img-s3-01.mytextgraphics.com/sparklee/2011/03/06/b8d9e142526409636a18ee6a40add4a8.gif

Peter Fonda seems to have just joined. COME ON

http://twitter.com/#!/iamFONDA

read / tweet / don't have facebook

have a twitter/only to follow abt 3 ppl / read them, rarely post/ dont get it tbg=h

also cannot type.

no and no

Cant be bothered with it.

Thanks to that Peter Fonda link I am now following Nanci Sinatra.

Mom, Singer, Actor, Author. NRDC Activist. ACLU, SAG, AFTRA, AGVA #unionmember.

What do we think of people who follow no other users? Seems against the spirit of the thing.

you must be THIS famous etc.

The Twitter user I am thinking of is on 'our' side of the fame divide so I read it as being a bit stuck-up for someone w/ less than 300 followers.

Read and tweet. I mostly follow runners, craft beer enthusiasts, bars, and skeptics.

The Twitter user I am thinking of is on 'our' side of the fame divide so I read it as being a bit stuck-up for someone w/ less than 300 followers.

do they read @replies or hashtags?

i <3 tweets

i am currently following 494 accounts, they roughly break into these categories, most to least

news
tech/design
weirdos
sports
misc
friends

i have logged into the twittosphere
i have injected 4 tweets into the sphere so far

link

twitter kind of surprisingly suits my browsing habits/interests pretty well, whereas i've never been too into myspace/facebook/etc. and tend to just set up accounts on those kinds of sites and then only log on once or twice a month to check or respond to messages (and usually ask them to just e-mail me next time).

http://twitter.com/#!/weinventyou

i made a 77 thread for people to post their twitter accounts fyi everyone

twitter suits me really well - i follow about 120 and am followed by about 90, and a lot of them are people i know socially but don't see very often and have a lot of common interests with, so it helps me keep on top of links/news/ideas/music, without being too overwhelming or too much of a time-sink. It's the kind of phatic communication that suits me, I know what people are up to without being drained by the demand to constantly like/comment/etc.

i do have a bad habit of checking my retweets to see what kind of content is valued by my ~readership~ but tbh most of the time i'm posting youtubes of trax i like, links to politix i hate, and whinges about whatever i've reading that day.

I follow 426, and have 449 followers. I try to keep those numbers close. Not sure why buy it makes me feel better.

you shouldnt, makes you look like a bot

Maybe I am????

OMG!!

read, tweet, don't fb

idgi@twitter

These weird sheeplike people with vague user names who follow celebrities give me the creeps. I can understand if the person has something meaningful to say. Music makes sense, following actors unless they are activists is a little weird.

I also follow food trucks to get their locations every day.

You can do that? Awesome! (seriously)

don't read besides when being linked to something funny via ilx & don't tweet. should i am i missing out?

Yeah:

http://twitter.com/#!/fossfoodtrucks
http://twitter.com/#!/wherezthewagon
http://twitter.com/#!/thesouthernmac
http://twitter.com/#!/sweetridechi

Too many twitters - best reason to become suicidally depressed I've seen on the 'net in a long time.

These weird sheeplike people with vague user names who follow celebrities give me the creeps. I can understand if the person has something meaningful to say. Music makes sense, following actors unless they are activists is a little weird.

― Funye West! (u s steel), Sunday, March 6, 2011 10:43 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

iono, I like getting career updates... I started following Nathan Fillion after he bought the rights to Firefly, and Jewel Staite just sorta b/c it's somewhat amusing to me to follow a "celebrity-that-could've-been"... which she is pretty conscious of, with the occasional tweet.

Also, I can see the appeal - it IS creepy, but a lot of actor's are quote-unquote iconic b/c their personalities translate off-screen and on...it's p cool when you find that a dude types in as much exclamation points as he does in metaphorical real life.

I don't care for Sheen or Kanye... dudes I don't care for anyway. I won't follow a celebrity simply for being one.

I follow 6 bands/people and have 1 follower

sometimes i'll see some minor celebrity's name 'trending' and be like o shit did they die

the answer is always: no, they're on dancing with the stars

I pretty much only use to Twitter to constantly harass celebrities to retweet memorials to my dead grandfather

I read a friend's twitter every couple of days (which is enough to keep up with his posts) and glance at a handful of more distant acquaintances, celebs, local news sites occasionally, but just via the website. I don't have an account or use any tweet software or rss feeds or whatever.

(I guess this is "yes but only to read" but maybe no account = "no"?)

Last week I went to a presentation on the Twitter archive at the L1brary of C0ngress. Still seems to be early days in terms of the prospect of digital access.

so wait, with this tool i can send messages to celebrities?

i like how twitter is so malleable - it's easy to bend it to whatever you want it to be, there's no one singular ~twitter experience~

a lot of them are people i know socially but don't see very often and have a lot of common interests with

yeah this - it's def strengthened a lot of IRL friendships that might otherwise have been just acquaintances. actually that's true, maybe even more so, for those i don't have that many common interests with (ie wouldn't otherwise contact), but still enjoy keeping in touch with.

i started a twitter account about a year ago for professional purposes, basically it just updated automatically when i put a new post on my boring professional blog. last week i was really bored at work and i started tweeting just for fun and it turns out i'm really awesome at it. don't want to post my account here though because it's my real name. but if you know my real name you can find it. i'm REALLY GOOD at twitter.

searches frantically, NOT

lol pwn if only that exchange couldve occurred on twitter tho #regrets

btw i just looked at your twitter account and actively decided not to follow it

that was even BEFORE your harsh dis

thats cool i didnt look at yours

ok

I'm all about Twitter. Led to some good work.

I like this gal's iPhone photos more than most fashion magazines:
http://twitter.com/JessicaMichault

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aw

i don't use the twitter.

Could someone please recommend a Twitter app for Firefox or Chrome? Echofon is great for iPhone, but it sucks on FF - can't retweet with comment, keyboard shortcuts (space bar for page down for example) are disabled, and it's generally sort of clunky feeling.

Anyone?

twitica desktop is OK for chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ogndknhgkahnialefpjkhmbekkobjfkh

I like the chromed bird extension (for chrome, obv).

word, thanks.

i'm on FF ATM but i use chrome at work. i'll check those out then.

two days clean

not sure what part of the 12 steps i'm on

I still get invites. I think it's been a year since I quit (again); I can't keep up with people/twitter.

xpost did you quit or are you just not checking it? why?

what am I supposed to tweet about

get a concept

i mean my concept kinda imposed itself on me but nobody cares what i happen to be doing any given moment so its nice to just be able to use twitter when i feel like it for performance art

My answer to the thread title would have been "no"

Tweet about kittens and being hungover. That's pretty much all I do. I am so ridiculously interesting.

i do feel bad i didn't go all-in when the twitter-to-book thing was actually a thing. dr. strongo in paperback is an idea where the time has come.

a cookbook?

we expect harding hitting content

content that refuses to pull its punches

content that busts nancy kerrigan's kneecaps?

content that would break ryan kerrigan's kneecaps

I have a Twitter now

admrl what is your twitter

i am very pro-twitter

"i read twitter and tweet" sounds like a crystals lyric

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m83rcswSkU1qdli2fo1_400.png

oh jesus

since I locked down my account I'm no longer being followed by 'husband, dad, entrepreneur' types

I use Twitter a bit, er...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9zj11gf9Qk

i joined twitter today. still not sure why.

i am on twitter mainly to keep up with andy richter and his family's antics

hey say Ian, say if an ilxor wanted to follow you where abouts would he look

twitter is great, I am sure it will carve out its own eventual purpose & territory in your life

is there a list of ilxor twitter identities anywhere? it would be good to maximise my creepy following of people who don't know who i am, as it is i'm sure i follow barely a third of ilx.

we already follow each other, but for those who don't: http://shoutkey.com/camera

What's Your Twitter Username?

i would follow a merdeyeux

i only have one actual person follower, everyone else is a bot or someone that follows people they don't know to try to get a follow back

nick_fiction

I in turn would follow a schlump, and oh, I even posted in that 'What's Your Twitter Username?' thread already. But anyway, may as well advertise myself as much as possible: I'm https://twitter.com/eeeeeein

i got u

also I am down with a pact of secrecy w you & anyone else holding out for 24h trying to avoid breaking bad spoilers #basiccableshadowtwitter

my twitter is @DeepElemSnooze; I don't expect i'll post much. i just like to lurk.

but what if a product you enjoy is discontinued, or what if you wait a long time for a commercial service, in a line, you cellphone right there, the opportunity to outsource your petulant frustration to the void at hand. are you just going to let that sentiment evaporate?

i might!

@beatsvilleblog

do u use twitter?

BLOCK

oh wait, u still see that

Help...I've changed my password a bunch of time but am still mysteriously following accounts I haven't about 3 per day

Is there seriously no way to sync Twitter across devices?? it's like I'm back to having a POP email account ffs

This totally doesn't bug me for some reason

^^ Bane of my twitter existence! I use Tweetbot, and it syncs, but only in one direction: If I look at twitter on my iPad, and then go to Tweetbot on iPhone, it leaps up to where it left off. The other way around though it doesn't (this alone drives me bonkers). Let alone between different apps.

Xp

Tweetbot syncs seamlessly across all devices for me.

twitter etiquette question

earlier today, i was reading this artfc1ty morning links article. i enjoyed their second link, which was to an imgur set of photos with a really gross chair covered in Cheetos dust.

in a moment of foolishness, i decided "hey i guess i'll tweet about that gross cheetos chair".

not wanting to link to a collection of links and then have to explain that i'm talking about the second link in the collection (all in 140 characters), i decided to just link directly to the imgur photoset and then tag @artfc1ty in my tweet.

a little while later, i got a tweet from the artfc1ty senior editor saying "You are welcome for the Cheetos chair. @weinventyou". did i fuck up? was tagging their twitter handle not enough? was i supposed to link to their original collection of links and then explain that i was most interested in the second link?

OR, in a 6th-sense style twist ending, maybe she was just genuinely saying thanks for tweeting about it and tagging them? i replied to her and said that i tagged them in my tweet and that i was sorry if i made a mistake, and no response.

#cheetogate

also, but i'm assuming they found the gross cheetos photo on reddit, and of course they didn't mention that in their article, so it seems weird to avoid attribution in that way and then criticize someone else for merely tagging a twitter handle but not the full article?

someone tell me it's going to be ok

I really don't think you have anything to worry about.

*breathes out*

seriously though, that cheetos chair is gross.

i believe "hat tip" is the correct method of attribution here

yeah, i used "via".

the tweet in question: https://twitter.com/weinventyou/status/552867491786272768

Oh man, saying "via @name" is perfectly acceptable etiquette, imo. If they were being passive-aggressive rather than genuine in their tweet then fault's on them.

i'm on twitter @f1opson

twitter is definitely the best social media imo, although paradoxically the social aspect of it is probably the least appealing to me. but just as, like, an interface to the internet http://guesstheemoji-answers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/guess-the-emoji-up-108.jpg

emil.y post(-digital)

xpost

yeah, and it's possible that they were just being nice - their site featured one of my GIFs in a best GIFs of 2014 kinda article (without attribution, ironically, but it was because they just found the image via google image search) recently, and i wrote to them to say thank you and politely asked if they could add my name on there. so maybe she just recognized me and was saying "hey, thanks for tweeting about that gross cheetos chair, internet guy"

but "You are welcome for the Cheetos chair. @weinventyou" is so ambiguous! it's all about that period. and the "you are welcome".

It looks to me like a sincere "You're welcome." It sounds passive aggressive only because it's a slightly odd thing for them to be accepting thanks for.

yeah, i suppose you're right. after all these years i still have trouble detecting what is genuine and what is sarcastic on the internet. i think i'm getting worse at it, in fact.

do we even have not-irony on the internet anymore, did the internet kill sincerity

i have to admit, this twitter dashboard/analytics thing is pretty sweet. it's already led me to depressing analytical insights

https://supermute.feeltrain.com/#!

can anyone explain to me why you can't save a draft on desktop twitter.com? is there a good reason?

alternately, is there a way to save a draft on desktop twitter.com that i don't know about

my mastodon instance was down for a while and i was shook

Made the mistake of clicking on the "take a peek at our new look" button and now can't go back to the old view. New view is so clunky (when scrolling in particular) and irritating. Is there a way to revert?

good follow:

https://twitter.com/RadicalThinkerz

with the new look, i am once again asking this question:

can anyone explain to me why you can't save a draft on desktop twitter.com? is there a good reason?

alternately, is there a way to save a draft on desktop twitter.com that i don't know about

― alpine static, Wednesday, August 22, 2018 4:51 PM (ten months ago)

this shit drives me crazy.

not sure what that's about tbh

I'm not thrilled about the new interface, I wish it was more aesthetically pleasing, and it feels like it erases my own presence. I don't care about "relevant people" or "global trends" or "who to follow" and wish the whole right hand side of the screen would just disappear

I don't love it either but it's worth it to be able to easily switch accounts

It looks like the feed is ordered chronologically again? That's a big plus, to not have all that "who to follow" or "did you miss this" shit thrown in. I could easily not look at the right side of the screen. If I'd be fucked to ever use twitter again, that is.

i know i sound like a dumbass but i swear this drafts thing is gonna make me pull my hair out.

you can save drafts on the Twitter app. you can go into your drafts folder on the Twitter app.

why is this not an option (that i can find) on twitter.com

ahaaaaahahhahahahahhhhhaaaahhhhhhhhhh

What, and actually have the ability to think before one tweets?! That goes against the very idea of twitter, man!

Got banned again for telling QAnon Trump fucks they should have been aborted.

My appeal msg is unlikely to get me reinstated:

"Fuck you, you stupid pieces of shit. I have been reporting people who have dropped homophobic slurs and calling black people "animals" for fucking WEEKS and the most they've gotten is a temp ban. I say something ascerbic to Trump-following Christians and I am banned IMMEDIATELY. fuck ALL OF YOU. You have shown your bootlicking asses tonight. Fuck you QAnon loving fucks right up your asses."

Literally been reporting outright unrepentant racist homophobes for weeks with mild success, but you insult a Trump Xtian, and that's an instaban.

I slid into a local stranger's DM's today and we had a little convo and want to hang out. This is a first for me with twitter

have they made it so you *cannot* have a twitter account without an associated phone number (where you can receive a verification code)?

after a couple of months of using a new account w/ no phone attached, now i'm locked out and it's insisting on a phone number. i changed the password and ... still locked out.

every time I sign up with email only, the first time I troll someone I get a "WE SUSPECT SUSPICIOUS POOPY ACTIVITY, PLEASE VERIFY A PHONE NUMBAH" like a day later.

I just keep changing my Google Voice Number. not only does it keep your personal number out of Twitter's hands, but....hilariously, it helps you circumvent a ban every time. The phone number is the thing that helps them determine previous accounts but I've now created 5 Trump-trolling accounts.

Chefclub Network - cool follow

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FTp3ikhXwAUwrkC?format=jpg&name=900x900

that one is all-time. other dude deleted his account lmao