Twitter C/D

who is Glenn Fernet Branca on Twitter dot com

So I'm up to 47 followers, though a few may be bots. Still don't seem to be close to having any reach with my own tweets (as opposed to replies which sometimes get retweeted). Curious at what number of followers you start having decent odds that a good tweet actually spreads (assuming any of my tweets are actually any good).

How many people do you follow MA? There's this twisted logic that accounts that have lots of followers but only follow a handful themselves are seen as more attractive to follow. I didn't believe this to be true at all, but my gf showed me and it really seems to work that way (she has nearly 8000 followers and follows abt 250 herself). I was following over a 1000 accounts at one point, then agreed to put her theory to the test. I brought those 1000 down to, like, 250, having 600 followers myself. Apart from some people unfollowing me for unfollowing them (lol), I did indeed gain more followers, and faster too (770 now).

things that get more followers ime: tweeting a lot; responding to others' tweets; retweeting a lot

Yes, and having some sort of expertise/field you work in, or special interest other than lulz helps as well.

yea almost all my followers are people in my field

except for, as of this morning:

Taye Diggs (@TayeDiggs) is now following you on Twitter!

How many people do you follow MA? There's this twisted logic that accounts that have lots of followers but only follow a handful themselves are seen as more attractive to follow. I didn't believe this to be true at all, but my gf showed me and it really seems to work that way (she has nearly 8000 followers and follows abt 250 herself). I was following over a 1000 accounts at one point, then agreed to put her theory to the test. I brought those 1000 down to, like, 250, having 600 followers myself. Apart from some people unfollowing me for unfollowing them (lol), I did indeed gain more followers, and faster too (770 now).

― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, October 21, 2016 10:36 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this stuff is interesting to me, just the dynamics of all of it, especially since my non-pro account is kind of just a game

I've gotten a few follow-backs just by targeting accounts that are on the lower end for followers themselves, but that has limited benefit since if those accounts RT you it doesn't get that far

Are you tweeting with your name or anon? The former is much more appreciated for obvious reasons.

yeah my non-pro is anon. I def see the uphill battle I face with that.

twitter down?

seems like it, first it was just desktop but now it ain't working on my phone either

https://www.google.com/amp/www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/netflix-twitter-internet-down-not-working-broken-paypal-ebay-facebook-instagram-a7374506.html%3famp?client=safari

waves of cyber attacks my friends

the cyber, the things they can do with the cyber

is it a massive reach to say it was prob posters on the_d*nald

used to be when twitter was down you'd get a fail whale, now it's just timeouts

just let it die

bring back "faily" the fail whale

twitter's only usable at all anymore b/c tweetbot, if they finally choke tweetbot to death I quit twitter

Dilbert did it

haha i just sent someone a fb msg 'scott adams revenge'

(it was actually me, i hate twitter and its bad tweets)

I can't get to Twitter or the NYTimes so I have no idea what's going on

Trump's dead.

rip u beautiful boy

http://i.imgur.com/2qhCNMf.png

it's been fine for me?

down 4 me currently on both web and mobile, but was fine until a few mins ago

working all day 4 me

set my vpn to be in england and its working now, oi m8

sorted then, cheers

still issues uploading images tho

no fail whale b/c it's not a twitter problem, it's a dyndns problem. i wonder if twitter still uses the fail whale, though

they have a diff illustration w these alien robot lookin things

Try finding it maybe? Hello

helllooooo internet

i got around the dns problems by switching (for now) to opendns, which uses caching: https://blog.opendns.com/2009/04/24/smartcache-the-best-reason-yet-to-switch-to-opendns/

i sometimes like this account but this tweet and many others like it that cross the border into victim-blamey/"toughen up" are p disgusting imo

https://twitter.com/AmberALeeFrost/status/789559950691500032

ha i followed her for a min, some good tweets but def a lil too much expert syndrome of the left

its crazy how certain so many ppl can be abt whatre clearly very fluid and evolving beliefs, but then again twitter does just make everyone seem completely fn nuts

it's pretty obvious "nasty" doesn't have too carry sexist and misogynist vibes but it's often used that way and also "nasty" works really well with a reclaimed sexual image and looks good on t-shirts and obviously has done well in song

the "wow would u wear shirts that said 'retarded woman'" and it's like uh, no, but no one said that

(except janet jackson in her hit song "retarded" of course)

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

I'm not really sure what twitter drama that tweet was responding to so mb i'm lacking context (but, saying reactionary shit to counterbalance annoying ppl on twitter is dumb imo), but taken literally it sounds like she is saying, "how is being interrupted by a man calling you "such a nasty woman" while you are in a professional setting "even sexist?" (I can't think of anything more sexist) and "how sheltered would you have to be to even bat an eyelash at that?" just sounds like "toughen up"

gird yr nasty loins ppl

twitter challops basically

its crazy how certain so many ppl can be abt whatre clearly very fluid and evolving beliefs, but then again twitter does just make everyone seem completely fn nuts

― lag∞n, Friday, October 21, 2016 4:00 PM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bless you

Anyone else ever suddenly have like 1700 new spam followers overnight? No idea why or what to do with this.

weird