flopson at 10:41 13 Jan 21also none of the ui features in the poll affected its quality or coolness at all, just something for people who get traumatized by website redesign to hyperventilate about. even switching to 260 characters, i had already forgotten about 140 after 2 daysI am a dork and was huffy about the switch to 260 and also got used to it in about a day, and now could not imagine having only 140 characters
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 January 2021 05:01 (three years ago) link
yeah fsr i cared about that one too at the time. i thought brevity was the soul of wit or wtv but 260 is still pretty brief and tweets are still quite witty
― flopson, Thursday, 14 January 2021 05:02 (three years ago) link
When did they fuck up the TL so you no longer were presented with things chronologically?
2014 - algorithmic feed
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 14 January 2021 05:07 (three years ago) link
what was the first threaded tweet that was like 1/ STRAP IN that might be it
― Clay, Thursday, 14 January 2021 05:07 (three years ago) link
the algorithmic feed is when it started to go downhill. before then, there was much less of the “main character” effect and the people who interacted with each other seemed to actually want to interact with each other. there was less drive-by dunking
― boz conspiracy by toby hus (voodoo chili), Thursday, 14 January 2021 05:08 (three years ago) link
also none of the ui features in the poll affected its quality or coolness at all, just something for people who get traumatized by website redesign to hyperventilate about
stars vs hearts rly did affect both quality and coolness, made losers thirsty
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 14 January 2021 05:08 (three years ago) link
2015 is when Quote Tweets were introduced, which some have pointed to as a sign of downfall.
― jaymc, Thursday, 14 January 2021 05:15 (three years ago) link
2006 and it has just continually gotten worse.
Still amazing how easy Twitter makes it to block anyone who advertises on the platform, my first instinct is to block any sponsored post and I now get almost entirely ads for Eastern European farm equipment and HIV medicine aimed at doctors.
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Thursday, 14 January 2021 05:21 (three years ago) link
when they fully b0rked 3rd party apps I had to switch to looking at it on laptop instead of phone in queue / bus / bathroom, and thus got fewer ads than ever
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 14 January 2021 05:30 (three years ago) link
Whenever that lameass “Why I Quit Spin Magazine” tweetstorm happened.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 14 January 2021 06:26 (three years ago) link
I disagree with all posters above, increase to 280 was and is bad, the witty tweets are invariably the short ones, the double-sized tweets are for people who would very visibly Rather Be Blogging (see also: 1/ STRAP IN)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 14 January 2021 19:38 (three years ago) link
2015 is when Quote Tweets were introduced
hoo boy, yeah, i voted for the right year
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 January 2021 19:41 (three years ago) link
twitter has never been cool?
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, 14 January 2021 19:45 (three years ago) link
I don’t even own a tweet
when did the blue checks start?
Yeah this. I also remember the day they introduced "liking" tweets and within hours it felt like a competition for who screams the loudest.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 14 January 2021 19:48 (three years ago) link
I think 2010 or 2011 was when "liking" tweets started. Probably 2010 so that's my vote.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 14 January 2021 19:49 (three years ago) link
i guess i keep substituting "good" for "cool" in the thread title. i remember twitter being "cool" in 2009. but also 2012 was like the peak of ppl using twitter as a platform for increasingly surreal "jokes," which felt "cool" to me at the time. the point of no return for the latter was like 2014 i think, and then the feed was consumed by the five-year-long american election
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 January 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
yeah the election was a huge turning point, I do sort of feel without any real evidence that going public was the biggest blow to coolness and goodness
― k3vin k., Thursday, 14 January 2021 19:53 (three years ago) link
quote tweets might be the best answer, because everyone wants to dunk on dumbshits it had the effect of boosting the worst tweets
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 January 2021 19:58 (three years ago) link
early 2009 - when a load of celebrities like Jonathan Ross suddenly started joining and going on about it
― Alba, Thursday, 14 January 2021 20:01 (three years ago) link
yeah i was also thinking "good" instead of "cool." idk if twitter was every really "cool," tbh
― boz conspiracy by toby hus (voodoo chili), Thursday, 14 January 2021 20:01 (three years ago) link
TWITTER: I don't get it
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 14 January 2021 20:01 (three years ago) link
'I use myspace and del.icio.us and shit I'm not a luddite'
― pomenitul, Thursday, 14 January 2021 20:03 (three years ago) link
I knew a few people who tweeted their way into careers and big opportunities in 2011/12, so it seemed good/cool to me then. I feel like it was around 2015 that I first started hearing the performatively-bleak "this is a hell site" type rhetoric from the heavy twitter users i know, then a couple years later is when it seemed to shift into being an actually-bleak manifestation of irl depression/device addiction. So I guess I would vote for 2016.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 14 January 2021 20:08 (three years ago) link
"So, micro-bloging, then."
― jaymc, Thursday, 14 January 2021 20:09 (three years ago) link
twitter as a whole cant really be cool (except maybe at its infancy. and even the doubtful, many old tweets are bad—a lot of the 2012 era weird twitter humour is cringey so random larfs now—and it’s likely just people who got in early claiming it was cooler before as they get old and confuse the two phenomenons) just due to its size. but it contains within it a lot of what i think of as the coolest part of the internet. the more visual platforms are hotter and more fashionable but nothing’s as funny or smart. a big platform on which to post jokes and pithy observations is an obvious thing and will survive in some form forever as a permanent part of culture imho
― flopson, Thursday, 14 January 2021 20:10 (three years ago) link
I knew a few people who tweeted their way into careers and big opportunities in 2011/12, so it seemed good/cool to me then
from what i can gather rubbernecking media twitter this is now the only way to break into the industry. which i could totally see ruining it for everyone in media
― flopson, Thursday, 14 January 2021 20:14 (three years ago) link
a lot of the 2012 era weird twitter humour is cringey so random larfs now
was true at the time too, very few of them were good
the few that were good tho were v v good
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 January 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
unfortunately i find your posts itt depressing flops
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 January 2021 20:16 (three years ago) link
I basically like it btw
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 14 January 2021 20:18 (three years ago) link
Sounds like a dystopia to me.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 14 January 2021 20:20 (three years ago) link
any time a friend of mine has more success than me its a dystopia
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 14 January 2021 20:23 (three years ago) link
otm
― pomenitul, Thursday, 14 January 2021 20:23 (three years ago) link
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, January 14, 2021 3:16 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
my twitter feed is good! i see good stuff ever y day. can’t complain
― flopson, Thursday, 14 January 2021 20:39 (three years ago) link
Twitter kills Vine is the one that most annoyed me, aside from that I don't think the site is noticably any worse than it has been at any time in the half-decade I've been using it consistently, and I wasn't around much in the fun early days.
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 14 January 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link
no social media platform was, is, or ever will be cool
― map, Thursday, 14 January 2021 21:11 (three years ago) link
the internet is not cool. computers can be cool. sorry i don't make the rules.
― map, Thursday, 14 January 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
the internet is a some hellraiser cenobite puzzle box shit
― brimstead, Thursday, 14 January 2021 21:23 (three years ago) link
Beandad
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 14 January 2021 21:59 (three years ago) link
maybe it was a time/place thing and I was just the right age, but i kinda liked MySpace. it was tacky and stupid and customizable (obv problems for advertisers and dead-eyed freaks like Zucc & Jack bent on... whatever the fuck they’re bent on)
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Thursday, 14 January 2021 22:16 (three years ago) link
an old work friend of mine who occasionally writes about poker for B3tF4ir was an early twitter enthusiast who saw the corporate comedy crossover potential and he hired a professional comedy writer to do the Arena Flowers twitter account. He got a bit big-headed when the FT did a write up on him and I think it's been mainly downhill for him since then. I think the Arena Flowers account is still going but I'm not sure if he makes any money out of it. Before the rona he was struggling to get by and airbnb-ing the spare room in his Berlin flat
― calzino, Thursday, 14 January 2021 22:20 (three years ago) link
Genuinely think twitter has gotten better the last couple years. Nadir was 2015-2018 or something. Trump getting banned is def a positive also
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Thursday, 14 January 2021 22:39 (three years ago) link
Not only was it always terrible, but Twitter and Instagram have substantially devalued the very concept of cool.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 14 January 2021 22:46 (three years ago) link
^^^ man alive knows what's up.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 14 January 2021 22:47 (three years ago) link
man alive is the definition of cool, this is well documented
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, 14 January 2021 23:15 (three years ago) link
only apart from when he posts about politics where he sucks badly!
― calzino, Thursday, 14 January 2021 23:18 (three years ago) link
calzino, another cool poster I’ve definitely never tired of
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, 14 January 2021 23:21 (three years ago) link
HI DERE
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 January 2021 23:25 (three years ago) link
lol
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 14 January 2021 23:28 (three years ago) link
if that was actually funny, then I'm going back to twitter for a non-neanderlol style laughfest
― calzino, Thursday, 14 January 2021 23:41 (three years ago) link
Umm ... what is an IP in the context of Disney?
― Alba, Monday, 18 January 2021 12:13 (three years ago) link
m/l: a character/concept/setting and the associated registered copyrights and trademarks
― shivers me timber (sic), Monday, 18 January 2021 12:51 (three years ago) link
Ah, OK. That’s all I know IP to mean but the context of “Disney ips are for children” threw me
― Alba, Monday, 18 January 2021 14:04 (three years ago) link
See the corporate boardroom drama ip man for a full background
― spaghetti connemara (darraghmac), Monday, 18 January 2021 15:02 (three years ago) link
^ arf
The thesis is that is is not ideal for grown-ups to have a major emotional investment in, or to build their personality around their regard for, stories about cartoon mice or space elves or superheroes.
(Especially as they do not have discrete authors, and are controlled by a company that actively cares about exploiting the reader for money 100% more than thye are interested in telling a meaningful story (via the means of financially exploited authors): the glimpse I caught of what I'm inferring Katherine's discourse to be was a sneeringly-phrased imprecation against training-wheels authors teaching themselves by making art about those characters, for fun.)
― shivers me timber (sic), Monday, 18 January 2021 20:25 (three years ago) link
realistically, in that trite punk rock, well-intentioned way, probably 2007-2008
then it turned into this ugly monster where the good people just chill on its bunions but you can still smell its stinky feet
― Punster McPunisher, Monday, 18 January 2021 20:48 (three years ago) link
Twitter fucking sucks, it has always sucked. All social media is garbage.
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Monday, 18 January 2021 21:35 (three years ago) link
The lifeblood of twitter is all about WHO is saying what and to be SOMEONE on twitter all you have to do is: whatever it takes using an insufficient amount of characters to do it. I don't trust anybody on twitter.
― Evan, Monday, 18 January 2021 22:04 (three years ago) link
Twitter is great, just don’t follow shitty people.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 12:55 (three years ago) link
Twitter is great when your pal wins a Gwyneth fanjo candle in a quiz, it explodes when lit, she sells the story to a tabloid, and the story goes viral with many, many LOLs.
― scampopo (suzy), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 13:41 (three years ago) link
If I had a nickel...
― Evan, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 15:42 (three years ago) link
I upset Ripper Owens on Twitter once
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 15:43 (three years ago) link
I noticed a few years back, in myself and others, that any assertion I made in a public online forum had a subconscious primary motivation. I'd conceive of an assertion, think it was coming from a particular place, but in retrospect, I'd be able to see the subconscious motivation for making that assertion. In certain cases, the primary motivation would be full-tilt psychological projection-- identifying a pattern of behaviour in others, publicly speaking on it, without realizing (at the time) that I was, in fact, describing my own behaviour.
Having noticed this, I became more trepidatious about making online assertions. Twitter is, I think, just the most obvious arena for this tendency to thrive. I see rich people asserting that they're poor, and accusing others of being ostentatious about their wealth. I see the smuggest individuals I've ever met accusing others of smugness.
I mean, even this post itself has to come with a disclaimer... I'm not posting this to claim that I'm "above the tendency toward psychological projection in making online assertions", just that it's kinda prevalent, a constant byproduct of being online, in my own posting and others
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 16:32 (three years ago) link
Extending generosity that they might not deserve, you could imagine that smug people are extra-sensitive to it in other people because they are trying to fight it in themselves... maybe.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 16:59 (three years ago) link
im just extra sensitive to it bc im a perfect judge of other people, nothing more to it rly
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 17:37 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 21 January 2021 00:01 (three years ago) link
never was i had myspace!
― xzanfar, Thursday, 21 January 2021 00:53 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 22 January 2021 00:01 (three years ago) link
write in vote for whenever half of all posts in the world became reaction gifs
― Clay, Friday, 22 January 2021 00:09 (three years ago) link
ILX majority otm.
― pomenitul, Friday, 22 January 2021 00:15 (three years ago) link
twitter stopped being cool right here
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsS6UfSXYAMMvKX?format=jpg&name=medium
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Friday, 22 January 2021 00:29 (three years ago) link
Trump's getting back in in 2024.
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 22 January 2021 01:28 (three years ago) link
Demolition Man
People are sharing the many films Sylvester Stallone has featured in after a user asked if people could name a movie that the actor has starred in that was not from the Rocky or Rambo series
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 05:15 (three years ago) link
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/06/jack-dorsey-is-offering-to-sell-the-first-tweet-as-an-nft.html
poll ultimately OTM
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Monday, 8 March 2021 16:51 (three years ago) link
ffs you could probably buy a set of ancient Sumerian stone tablets for that price
― calzino, Monday, 8 March 2021 16:57 (three years ago) link
it seems like a great way to meet new people, talk about interesting ideas, but also be silly and have some fun once in a while. seriously considering signing up for an account and getting in on the conversation.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 8 March 2021 16:59 (three years ago) link
The thing that tells me to Login/Signup no longer seems to have an X so I can't get rid of it :(
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 31 January 2022 16:36 (two years ago) link
Oh, okay. I can see if I c&p to incognito mode tab.
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 31 January 2022 16:39 (two years ago) link
was 280 chars really only in 2018 it feels like it's been around much longer
― ciderpress, Monday, 31 January 2022 16:41 (two years ago) link
imagine what tweet threads would look like if they lowered the character limit to 14
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Monday, 31 January 2022 16:43 (two years ago) link
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, January 31, 2022 11:36 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Delete your Twitter cookies
― ✖, Monday, 31 January 2022 20:10 (two years ago) link