Twitter C/D

kinda captive but kinda not? partic in 2016? in any case even if you consider that many ppl are doing other things while listening to the radio - shopping, building a house, doing the dishes, driving - there is a pretty strong case that the attention is more focused, more sustained, and results in more loyalty than scrolling past one tweet among many

i mean, you have to be listening to something in the car, radio is the default and most ppl are lazy and still in 2016 not that good at technology

also whenever i listen to the radio they just talk about twitter

there's a big wall in every room that has tweets just scrolling on by

twitter's "important/interesting tweets at the top, no chronological view of all tweets from people you follow" experiments are kind of orthagonal to radio? you get a snapshot of content from when you look at it but it's variable depending on when you happen to glance

do you guys use tweet markers or w/e that let you start reading where you left off or just dive into the recent tweets and scroll backward until you lose interest?

the default twitter client makes it basically impossible. i tried to use tweetbot but ultimately it just sucked too much

I still enjoy Twitter and am on it a lot. I just don't use the Twitter homepage or app, which both are complete crap. I want my Tl chronological, without suggestions, adds, "top tweets" and all that bullshit. Tweetbot for me on iOS and Mac.

Tweetbot remembers where I was catching up in my Tl, which works as a marker (across platforms, too).

Recently I've started deleting old convos and tweets, every week or so. I think of it as being in a bar, having a convo. If I were to go into the bar the next day my words of the day before won't still be echoing there either (one hopes). And this works for me. Do you guys delete?

I follow too many ppl to read all the tweets. just tap in, read the feed till i feel nauseous, check out what my fav accounts tweeted in the last few days. don't really care about chronological or algorithmic

tweetbot here, too. it takes a second if I've switched from phone to computer to sync where I left off but works pretty well

i make no attempt to read all the tweets lol guys embrace the cascade

or just dive into the recent tweets and scroll backward until you lose interest?

yea thats what i do

embrace the cascade

yea

there are too many tweets to read them all

I don't follow enough ppl I guess!

follow at least 700 imo

ive prob said this on here before but one thing that made twitter way better for me was i unfollowed almost all organizations and now mostly only follow actual people

i hate lists and have a second twitter account that's just to follow art collectives and music labels and stuff

it's like my professional account, if my profession was following fashion/music/deep thoughts

[thinks deeply]

now that i think abt it i use twitter for personal/joke/weirdo type stuff and simultaneously as a journo/political replacement for google reader. there's a lot of crossover but hmm

i have a feedly account and i never look at it :/

yeah I have a subscription to some google reader replacement thing and never look at that, either. idk if the moment for aggregation like that has passed because of twitter or what

twitter + too many tabs + delete the tabs w/o reading = google reader

no way i read a ton more! the rss era was great, fu @jack

I read almost all tweets. Follow 740.

i close all tabs and use Pinboard now it's working out so far

ive prob said this on here before but one thing that made twitter way better for me was i unfollowed almost all organizations and now mostly only follow actual people

― lag∞n, Monday, September 12, 2016 12:27 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

need to do this

update: my tweet's got a second win... at this rate may outpace other tweet in hours

this universal acknowledgment that nobody reads links combined with people trying to write blog posts through a series of numbered tweets (you know they're going to be good when someone drafts nothing and starts with 1/X) is really the worst

update: my tweet's got a second win... at this rate may outpace other tweet in hours

― flopson, Monday, September 12, 2016 12:39 PM (twenty-two seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya it just showed up in my tl again via adam h johnson

i strongly believe that 90% of text on internet shouldn't be written in full paragraphs prose form but are better expressed as just like, idk pullet points, like it's so annoying to read writer-ing over and over again, so tweetstorm is a welcome step towards that tho obviously really impractical and terrible in a lot of other ways

ya it just showed up in my tl again via adam h johnson

― lag∞n, Monday, September 12, 2016 12:40 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

heh i actually just unfollowed this guy (and a bunch of other left ppl who rag on HRC all day) cuz i was too stressed with the hilary pneumonia stuff yesterday

liked your tweet, makes me want to see some *enhance* on the shades, peace

ya that cru can be kinda intolerable xp

what about following famous people. what's your take on that.

xp ya just like why am i voluntarily following 6 difft versions of morbs on twitter lol

lmao you can just hear this

https://twitter.com/ofeibeaq

famous like brad pitt or famous like on3ness

what about following famous people. what's your take on that.

― goole, Monday, September 12, 2016 12:46 PM (fourteen seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk like celebrities? most arent that good at twitter but a few are, my feed is prob like 90% journalists and normal folk

what about famous/celebrity journalists

best iOS 10 feature is auto-expanding tweets if you message the url to someone

so many times wanted to bother non-twitter users w/tweets but you know they're not going to click on a url and taking a screenshot and sending is so bad

unfortunately it looks like flopson has a long way to go to catch up to the tweet stealer

i support real artists

http://j-walkblog.com/old/images/marissa5.jpg

i make no attempt to read all the tweets lol guys embrace the cascade

― lag∞n, Monday, September 12, 2016 11:20 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

expert twitterer moves

reach in hand, pull out fish

fl0pson i regret ot inform you that no t only is everybody stealing your tweet but theyre all doing better numbers than you https://twitter.com/cushbomb/status/775113931291496448

Isn't he violating twittiiquette by not doing it as a retweet or something? I find Twitter illegible so I'm not sure if I'm reading this right. Twitter is really like my rubicon whereby I cross into being an Internet old man.

Southern Brooklyn, maybe Eastern Queens. I think Trump is popular with the Russians in my neighborhood too.

no one is gonna do one with the cheney naked woman sunglasses?

fl0pson i regret ot inform you that no t only is everybody stealing your tweet but theyre all doing better numbers than you https://twitter.com/cushbomb/status/775113931291496448

― 龜, Tuesday, September 13, 2016 7:58 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol didn't even know about this one. ya im doomed. still racking up numbers tho

Southern Brooklyn, maybe Eastern Queens. I think Trump is popular with the Russians in my neighborhood too.

― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Tuesday, September 13, 2016 7:59 AM (fifty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whoops this was in the wrong thread

deleted my account last year (?) and haven't missed it at all. i do have an account sitting there, and i'm following maybe six friends and some ~brands~, but nothing compels me to open it any more unless i want to search for something that's happening (tram crash, smoke erupting from the next block etc), but even then it's just a wall of guesswork/hot takes from randoms and unrelated spam ("The Top 10 iPhone 7 Problems shittyurl.com/kwjbsf #iphone #pneumoniagate #kanye #paralympics #tramcrash #obama")

I just use it for local sports stuff + George Wallace dad jokes