Twitter C/D

the thing about twitter is it's only really rewarding if you can bring original ideas to it, so people without original ideas see it and get confused

― steendriver dysphoria hoos (The Reverend), Thursday, May 1, 2014 8:56 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah one of the things twitter wants is for people to feel cool just following and not tweeting if they want but idk if thats ever really caught on, i dont think there are too many daily users who exhibit that behavior

this piece is kinda common sensical https://medium.com/five-hundred-words/6f3b7e9f38fa

agree w this

None of this is to say Twitter is without its challenges. From my own perspective, the product is sort of a mess of half-baked engagement experiments. But underneath that still lies a fun, powerful, and important service. They just need someone to go in there and tighten things up. To trim the fat. To say “no”.

i mean wtf is this

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmhHzi2CEAANq9x.png

yeah one of the things twitter wants is for people to feel cool just following and not tweeting if they want but idk if thats ever really caught on, i dont think there are too many daily users who exhibit that behavior

mayne not daily, but a lot of people do do this. or so i've heard.

All these people who are wringing their hands about twitter should just follow @wettbutt. That dude kills.

yeah hes the best

mayne not daily, but a lot of people do do this. or so i've heard.

― markers, Thursday, May 1, 2014 9:30 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i just wonder how many hardcore users actually take that approach, my feeling is its more those who occasionally check in for a minute or two shrug and close the tab, like to truly get that twitter drug youve got to get in there and mix it up do some RTs some @s send out some straight up tweets you know

that's a good point

send out some straight up tweets you know

― lag∞n, Thursday, May 1, 2014 1:35 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

SUTs as we call them

just out here SUTin you know

on twitter everyone says you know alot its a thing

#SUTin

i have had a twitter account for years but i have never written a single tweet, it's like a spare room with no furniture and a dead fly on the windowsill.

u must tweet, i insist

they see me SUTin
they hatin
patrollin
they tryna catch me not adding value to the platform

i'd follow estela. i'd follow hoos & lag00n too.

;)

To say “no”.

otm, as is whoever said it has been product-managed to death. I get that they're saying "yes" because lots of these things are designed to make it easier for them to make money from it, but they're going to kill it in the process.

Urgh @wetbutt

no, not @wetbutt, @wettbutt. it's different.

Oh that explains a lot

yeah one of the things twitter wants is for people to feel cool just following and not tweeting if they want but idk if thats ever really caught on, i dont think there are too many daily users who exhibit that behavior

this is me basically, i basically use it as news wire plus joke book though, very very few irl friends on it though, they're all on instagram which i'm not interested in really.

how often would you say you "check in" with yr pal twitter

oh me and the toot go way back

the extension of that is that typical user has to be ok with it being essentially non-participatory after their uncool and unfunny tweets fail to garner followers or comments or any attention at all really.

im essentially internet shy so im ok with being bad at twitter, but it'll always lag behind other services that are more flattering to the user imo.

you can gain an audience over time by interacting with others via tweeting at them

if you're not boring

and have something to say

and give people a reason to follow you

being not boring and having something to say are high bars though!

also a lot of work

its like a project

the follower count is prob twitters biggest impediment to a bigger audience, its too competitive

i've started tweeting at tech people, and it's fun to get favs and responses, but no one has followed me yet.

start w some lower tier bloggers lol

arr1ngt0n fav'd one of my tweets. aw yeah.

try responding to every tweet in your feed with something aggressively sarcastic. (i fantasize about doing this sometimes.)

wld be a good experiment

it's funny though, for all the meritocracy (and there are people who are funny to a shockingly consistent extent), there's also a lot of people with tons of followers who basically tweet every banal faux-contrarian half-thought that comes into their thread.

thread = head

things just got self-referential

lol

a lot of people have bad taste, and lot of them follow bad people.

there is a large market for bad tweets.

well this wraps up another episode of Tweet Talk. thanks to our panel of tweitirerrs.

#thx #4 having #me

Lotta ppl looking less cute now their pics're bigger

hahaha

tweet bomb

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