Twitter C/D

yeah I still think it is all weird and gross

"the microblogosphere"

http://www.the-trukstop.com/miscellaneous/socialmediacrity/warbbler.png

I use Twitter to keep up with a very small handful of friends (FreakyTrigger mob mostly) so mine is mostly a collection of stupid injokes that come to my mobile. I like that a lot, saves me having to text loads of people at once, but it freaks me out when I see random strangers following me. I have to purge my followers list about once a week.

I used to use Twitter quite a lot, but Facebook status updates reach a lot more of my friends, and I can do them from my phone as easily as a Twitter so I've kind of abandoned it

this is a shame, because your minute-by-minute update from "control" was fucking genius. for the few minutes it lasted.

you'd need a whole load of like-minded followers and it's hard to get there.
This is the key, really. Twitter got some ferocious use at wwdc, and was v. good for finding out what was giong on where, and what sessions to leave, etc, but it doesn't work so well if you've just trucked up in some random place.

There's a twitter client for iPhone that might help with that though -- it shows you all the updates from folks in your location.

this is a shame, because your minute-by-minute update from "control" was fucking genius. for the few minutes it lasted.

People were complaining!

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1640#more-1640

as usual

the end of twitter in the UK? er: yes, as far as i can see. i don't want to have to *look* for tweets. i want them to come to me:

Hi,

I'm sending you this note because you registered a mobile device
to work with Twitter over our UK number. I wanted to let you
know that we are making some changes to the way SMS works on
Twitter. There is some good news and some bad news.

I'll start with the bad news. Beginning today, Twitter is no
longer delivering outbound SMS over our UK number. If you enjoy
receiving updates from Twitter via +44 762 480 1423, we are
recommending that you explore some suggested alternatives.

Note: You will still be able to UPDATE over our UK number.

Before I go into more detail, here's a bit of good news: Twitter
will be introducing several new, local SMS numbers in countries
throughout Europe in the coming weeks and months. These new
numbers will make Twittering more accessible for you if you've
been using SMS to send long-distance updates from outside the UK.

Why are we making these changes?

Mobile operators in most of the world charge users to send
updates. When you send one message to Twitter and we send it to
ten followers, you aren't charged ten times--that's because we've
been footing the bill. When we launched our free SMS service to
the world, we set the clock ticking. As the service grew in
popularity, so too would the price.

Our challenge during this window of time was to establish
relationships with mobile operators around the world such that
our SMS services could become sustainable from a cost perspective.
We achieved this goal in Canada, India, and the United States.
We can provide full incoming and outgoing SMS service without
passing along operator fees in these countries.

We took a risk hoping to bring more nations onboard and more
mobile operators around to our way of thinking but we've arrived
at a point where the responsible thing to do is slow our costs
and take a different approach. Since you probably don't live in
Canada, India, or the US, we recommend receiving your Twitter
updates via one of the following methods.

m.twitter.com works on browser-enabled phones
m.slandr.net works on browser-enabled phones
TwitterMail.com works on email-enabled phones
Cellity [http://bit.ly/12bw4R] works on java-enabled phones
TwitterBerry [http://bit.ly/MFAfJ] works on BlackBerry phones
Twitterific [http://bit.ly/1WxjwQ] works on iPhones

Twitter SMS by The Numbers

It pains us to take this measure. However, we need to avoid
placing undue burden on our company and our service. Even with a
limit of 250 messages received per week, it could cost Twitter
about $1,000 per user, per year to send SMS outside of Canada,
India, or the US. It makes more sense for us to establish fair
billing arrangements with mobile operators than it does to pass
these high fees on to our users.

Twitter will continue to negotiate with mobile operators in
Europe, Asia, China, and The Americas to forge relationships
that benefit all our users. Our goal is to provide full, two-way
service with Twitter via SMS to every nation in a way that is
sustainable from a cost perspective. Talks with mobile companies
around the world continue. In the meantime, more local numbers
for updating via SMS are on the way. We'll keep you posted.

Thank you for your attention,
Biz Stone, Co-founder
Twitter, Inc.
http://twitter.com/biz

I never understood why anyone would want tweets pushed to them. I get excited when I receive a text. I don't want to find it's some spazz like me telling the world they've found an odd-coloured bogey up their nose.

it would be nice, when the iphone's push service is switched on, if twitter would push messages down to twitterific - this would solve the 'excited when I receive a text only to find it's about a bogey' problem

If my phone had let me assign unique message alert tones to numbers like it does with ringtones and voice calls then the problem might have gone away.

Maybe the fundamental problem is that I'm not interested enough in other people.

most of twitter is exquisitely described in metaphor by that news story about the inflatable turd named "Complex Shit" blowing away and breaking actual stuff that matters

of course being me I would say the same for pretty much everything "web 2.0"

actually, i'd follow a tombot twitter feed. furious cynicism at unexpected moments could be fun.

i guess twitterific might step up to the plate here, but then again: it can't run in the background on the iPhone, can it?

(this, incidentally, is my first ILX post from my shiny new iMac.)

creepy

13.28
cozeny Wondering out loud what we'd need to start a UK group SMS system and take Twitter's market: Ruby developers, time, money, and Red Bull... ? 9 minutes ago from web

13.37
Hi, cozeny.

tweetsms (tweetsms) is now following your updates on Twitter.

Check out tweetsms's profile here:

http://twitter.com/tweetsms

You may follow tweetsms as well by clicking on the "follow" button.

Best,
Twitter

tweetsms
http://www.tweetSMS.com will be available worldwide across almost all carriers. We also plan to deploy an ad-based service for free updates.
38 minutes ago from web

@PurpleKitchen check out www.tweetsms.com about 2 hours ago from web in reply to PurpleKitchen

just uploaded http://www.tweetsms.com to help all of those international SMS users! about 2 hours ago from web

Used it cause I was excited (are you still an early adopter a full year after the SXSW explosion of use?), then didn't for a few months cause I didn't really see the point, now I'm usin it again cause I've had some new local friends start following me.

Good for questions, link-sharing, Microemo bursts, etc.

I have a friend who uses this to read his friends' feeds, so I basically only see it from the angle of a person who is constantly checking his phone while I'm trying to have a conversation with him. The first time I heard of Twitter was from him when I finally got exasperated with his constantly checking his phone.

Maybe I'm the one with the problem, but I can't really think of anyone in the world interesting enough for me to want updates on their activities throughout the day. I'd say the only people I could imagine wanting to twitter could be: Drug smuggler, violent prison inmate, Slash-in-his-heyday type rock star, and a dog (if they somehow managed to translate its thoughts into English text).

don't use it, don't know anyone who does, but i check this one all the time: http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix

i very very rarely check it on my phone. does mobile use seem to be the prominent use?

SMS functionality seems to be its USP now that Facebook status updates have taken the mainstream microblogging space.

As I said above, people using it for pushed news bulletins and question-broadcasting rather than personal what-i'm-doing stuff is another application.

(I think you can now do Facebook by SMS in America, actually, but not here)

SMS is a fucking trilobite technology

I followed @johncleese back when his followers were in the double digits.

Seriously someone FedEx me a fucking medal already.

how the fuck are they planning to make money? Also, they could easily have charged for this in Europe, and at least started making some actual income for a change.

so: brightkite, then. anyone played about with it much? i'm not sure i can particularly be arsed, TBH.

Twinkle is useful to see if there's trouble on my tram line or the local cafe is on fire.

ON IPHONE

Brightkite seems particularly marvelous, actually. Like Twitter with upgrades.

mildly diverting for a bit

http://joshblog.net/projects/roktok/roktok.html

well, it would be if only folk would stop talking about coldplay and radiohead

oh

it combines the top artists from last.fm (coldplay, radiohead) with twitter

no potential to divert at all now

"Alternate HTML content should be placed here. This content requires the Adobe Flash Player. Get Flash"

Man I fucking hate flash

I'm on this goofy thing now:

http://twitter.com/NedRaggett

ned why are you not on the nanowrimo thread

hie thee hence

I am now following: http://twitter.com/therealbritney

so i signed up to this to follow shaq, is there anything else for me to do

tweet.

https://twitter.com/maxmaxmaxmax

^^ tweeted

i even personalized it

cool tweet max

http://www.justmusicuk.com/spweb/images/publications/medium/JM46521.jpg

thanks guys, feel free to follow me

shaq tweets a lot more than u do hoos

u personified that shit boss

ay look @ this i am following barack obama

i wonder if he tweets during cabinet meetings when he is bored, just under the desk w/ his blackberry

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:of56nmyuqzvjta7qlf7gwht6/bafkreiawr6zigxgwtvyadbhdoyshhuq7mfbs3slmy4otxvrpssgc4q3udq@jpeg

Always keep learning

public and private thoughts and questions

jfc

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:of56nmyuqzvjta7qlf7gwht6/bafkreia7tus3g72txh7oqkv5ouug5sv4d3blgrmbc35knqfqamg3hbqylm@jpeg

Here's a way to stop the internet having your "private thoughts and questions" STOP PUTTING THEM ALL ON THE INTERNET.

tbf you (and i!) have been on ilx for decades now

but mostly that guy is a (really rich) fucking moron

within the last couple years there was a piece by someone (maybe tom scocca?) noting that in the last 25 years there have been so many people trying to game the system that inevitably a few were going to win -- like elon buying himself the 'foundership' of tesla. jack seems like a business school study in progress, except none of his idiocy will ultimately affect him personally

Finally some good news:

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/x-twitter-porn-policy-update-1236023536/

Elon Musk‘s X now officially allows NSFW content on the social network formerly known as Twitter — with some restrictions.

In a recent update to its official usage policies, X says, “You may share consensually produced and distributed adult nudity or sexual behavior, provided it’s properly labeled and not prominently displayed.”

“We believe that users should be able to create, distribute and consume material related to sexual themes as long as it is consensually produced and distributed,” X says in the update, which was spotted earlier by TechCrunch. “Sexual expression, whether visual or written, can be a legitimate form of artistic expression. We believe in the autonomy of adults to engage with and create content that reflects their own beliefs, desires, and experiences, including those related to sexuality.”

who’s going to tell them

Concerning

“We believe that users should be able to create, distribute and consume material related to sexual themes as long as it is consensually produced and distributed,” X says, "but we will do fuck all to determine how the material was created or distributed, because we don't really care about that."

Musky seem to have taken away the ability to block ads from the timeline, you have to go to the ad's profile page and completely block them now.

You can still block everything except for fucking Temu.

Are you Keyboard Kitty or @TheRoaringKitty? Either way X is the cat’s meow. https://t.co/A5AoIw1S3E

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) June 4, 2024

shes still got it

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Roaring kitty is streaming on YouTube

Little feel good thread on the bad website.

Yes, her name is Nguyen Nguyen. My grade 6 classmate that sat in front of me. She never spoke to anyone. Not even the teacher. I mean, EVER. But she was brilliant & never needed help with anything. We would walk to school together, & even then—not a single word. Then one day… https://t.co/gE7AC1VFXL

— FLAWS 🇯🇲🇨🇦 (@FlawsofCouture) June 6, 2024

is there a way to view twitter threads like that one if you don't have an account?

I don't think so. Will post if there is a thread app link

After school, I stayed behind to pack up my desk—my parents were moving us to Brampton. Everyone had left but she was still at her desk. Not like her but I didn’t think anything of it until she looked at me and said “I’m going to miss you Sasha”.’🥺🥺

— FLAWS 🇯🇲🇨🇦 (@FlawsofCouture) June 6, 2024

That was my first and last time hearing her voice. I think about her often. I’ve searched for her as well, but so many ppl go by the same name. I hope you’re okay girl & I miss you too. 💕

— FLAWS 🇯🇲🇨🇦 (@FlawsofCouture) June 6, 2024

does this work?

So after y’all took this tweet to the moon and beyond…something told me to get back to the drawing board— my FACEBOOK and try again. & after hours of digging…. I thought I found her last night. She responded this morning. 🥹😭🙏🏾 And you wouldn’t believe what her career is… pic.twitter.com/Aol2O2krgi

— FLAWS 🇯🇲🇨🇦 (@FlawsofCouture) June 7, 2024

they are now friends on insta

aw that's sweet

oh god

irl tears here

that she's now a speech pathologist makes A LOT of sense

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GP5y_GoXIAEaemD?format=jpg&name=900x900

they've finally broke it

Lol

LETS GOOOO I CALLED IT https://t.co/W3LWl14lMG pic.twitter.com/AcuSbY8pEg

— Hurt CoPain (@SaeedDiCaprio) June 12, 2024

How long until someone makes a spider that records every like and there is an extension to see the like page again

you can still see the page, they just removed the tab