Twitter C/D

Indeed

that fellow certainly gets around town

Eh, you seen one Taco Bell, you've seen them all.

Lots of buzz around a new iOS client; have forgotten its name so not that much buzz. Leaf, maybe?

they don't do polls b/c twitter doesn't provide an API hook for polls, because twitter is trying to kill the lingering 3p clients like tweetbot without outright killing them

― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 20:50 Bookmark

search is also vaguely crippled for 3ps, i forget how exactly. dont think they gave much heads up for the longer tweets either

normally have fenix on android but i'm using the official client until the latter issue is sorted - it's a lot better than it was but two clicks to get to a list and then a massive uneccessary nav bar permanently taking up the top quarter of the screen is infuriating

new fave acct https://mobile.twitter.com/naked4u2see/

― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Wednesday, September 21, 2016 10:55 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The best is this banal tweet in the middle of all the nudity

https://mobile.twitter.com/naked4u2see/status/661236375119753216

A few observations from my brief twitsperiment so far:

1) the only way to pick up followers in the beginning seems to be to reply to posters with more followers with retweetable posts. I have landed this trick twice and have a mere 22 followers.
2) but doing this takes an outsized amount of time and effort - finding the right joke right place right time right person combo.
3)I'm sure there's a point where growth could start to speed up exponentially, but only if you're really good at retweetable jokes
4) it seems really exhausting to get to even get to escape velocity
5) beyond the game of followers, it's sort of an annoying format, not that conducive to conversation compared to Facebook of even ilx, harder to read
6) the majority of people who do have a lot of followers either have some separate minor notability (journalists, comics etc) or are just really long time users
7) for the professionals, the tweets are really partly work and self promotion so there's much more incentive to put in the work
8) one thing I do think it could be really useful is for following specialized or obscure topics, like stuff beyond the same slate and salon pieces everyone already shares on Facebook

#1 I mean you cleverly reply to someone popular, they throw you a retweet; a few of their followers also retweet and this leads to a few new followers for you.

I want to follow this great experiment.

I'm pretty bad at twitter and you can count the number of non-ilx non-irl non-bot followers i have on two hands but i still have a good time on it idk. for me the purest narcissistic frisson isn't the one you get from making a good joke and getting a lot of RTs but when an account ur twitter crushing on follows u back

man alive can you not just follow your friends

I've got 2000 tweets in four years with a whopping 200 followers.id hate to be one of those nightmare people who have to create lists and stuff.

Silby, I'm doing it semi anonymously (not using rn and only mentioned it to two friends), but also not a lot of my friends tweet actively and also I find facebook's format more conducive to conversation with friends.

My most successful tweet so far is currently at three rts and 22 <3s

u have to enjoy yelling into the void is how i break it down

i've been tweeting for a few years and have only hit 22 <3s a few times, you are truly a precocious talent man alive

ugh. gl figuring out how to wield twitter like a hedge trimmer or whatever

CNBC ‏@CNBC 8m8 minutes ago
BREAKING: Twitter moving closer to sale, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google; no sale is imminent -sources http://cnb.cx/2cWsoB5

ok worst thing I have found so far is prolific arguers who write a new response every 30s, is there a way to only get tweets and not replies in your feed?

lmao google will fuck it up so bad

morbidly curious to see it

lol but what does salesforce want w twitter

Benioff probs just wants to run it as a hobby

can't wait for twitter hangouts

i've been tweeting cryptic nonsense and bad jokes since 2008 and i have a whole 116 followers for my troubles. probably a couple dozen of them are bots

u have to enjoy yelling into the void is how i break it down

― lag∞n, Thursday, September 22, 2016 11:59 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

ive also only made like 600 tweets in 8 years maybe if i tweeted 10x as much i'd have 10x as many followers regardless of the content?

I block all bots and bot-like humans that follow me, gotta keep tidy

i only block promoted tweets i dont like

i block the source of every promoted tweet i see in a quest to see more and more obscure ads as time goes on

lmao

bots don't usually follow you for more than a day

ya same w followback mongers

i block the source of every promoted tweet i see in a quest to see more and more obscure ads as time goes on

― ciderpress, Friday, 23 September 2016 16:38 (four minutes ago) Permalink

i got one from some random law firm yesterday, felt like a new level.

that was me

the most obscure one i've gotten so far was from this ladder and scaffolding company with <50 tweets/followers https://twitter.com/BadgerLadder

someone tweeted one that was just a picture of a guy with his truck like it wasnt even an add lol

i block the source of every promoted tweet i see in a quest to see more and more obscure ads as time goes on

― ciderpress, Friday, September 23, 2016 12:38 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

im gonna start doing this thx

i have never blocked anyone, feel weirdly proud of that, even tho rly nobody interacts with me

ciderpress what's ur @

its @mtlnx

I just followed you

Ah, ok. Was wondering who that was.

Feel like there's a critical moment of Twitter success where you turn off email notifications because they become too overwhelming. I have not reached that point and probably will not ever

i was touched by the fact that nicholson baker follows back.

Wall Street Journal @WSJ
Walt Disney has emerged as another potential bidder for Twitter http://on.wsj.com/2dnlrHf

lol wut

they shd srsly just sell to facebook doesnt facebook want them prob the only company that wldnt fuck it up

hope when disney buys twitter that the espn web design guys get their hands on the desktop version

plz stop trolling me thank u

back.

― Wozniak on Kimye's Baby (jaymc), Friday, September 23, 2016 10:48 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha me too