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
well we know twitter’s not cool anymore are you sure it’s a place you’d want to be
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, 14 January 2021 23:49 (three years ago) link
sorry all I’m just weary from every variety of media this month and the question posed by this thread clearly isn’t for me. I’m off
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, 14 January 2021 23:51 (three years ago) link
well yeah I don't know what cool is tbh. I'm knocking on 50 and poor as fuck, that deffo isn't cool. But anyway haven't you got some US flag nearby to get some release from?
― calzino, Thursday, 14 January 2021 23:53 (three years ago) link
Tied up leading the detail keeping Iran from assassinating any ex-Presidents IIRC
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Thursday, 14 January 2021 23:57 (three years ago) link
scene missing
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Friday, 15 January 2021 00:51 (three years ago) link
when tombot starting posting iran from the thread
― map, Friday, 15 January 2021 00:54 (three years ago) link
2005
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Friday, 15 January 2021 01:04 (three years ago) link
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, January 14, 2021 6:15 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Plaid chucks are the definition of cool iirc 😉
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 15 January 2021 02:08 (three years ago) link
Tbc when I said 2006 I meant before March.
― pomenitul, Friday, 15 January 2021 02:11 (three years ago) link
there should be an option for those who think it's still cool. it's had its ups and downs but I still think it's the only major social media platform to spawn its own art form/form of writing. I don't think Trump getting banned is any more significant than increasing the character limit to 280. I know a lot of people spend way more time on their phones and on Twitter than me, but as a casual user, I've always liked it and still do, to basically the same degree.
― flappy bird, Friday, 15 January 2021 02:12 (three years ago) link
fwiw, my bigger objection to it is just that I find it to be a miserable and harrowing place to spend time, like being in a cave full of shrieking bats. I just get into a terrible state when I'm on it, and that's why I dropped my account, and, unlike other addictive social media, never felt the urge to go back.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 15 January 2021 03:05 (three years ago) link
media twitter killed it
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 15 January 2021 03:10 (three years ago) link
"Not only was it always terrible, but Twitter and Instagram have substantially devalued the very concept of cool."
I hate the word influencer. Sickening.
― earlnash, Friday, 15 January 2021 03:22 (three years ago) link
It’s true. Coolness thrives on mystique, scarcity. Clout is the opposite and the two forms of social currency cannot coexist.
― treeship., Friday, 15 January 2021 03:58 (three years ago) link
v hard to be cool while imploring your audience to subscribe to your channel and smash that like button before playing a song you're still working on
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 15 January 2021 05:30 (three years ago) link
as long as the 'gram exists, twitter will be cool, at least in a relative sense
― cerebral halsey (rip van wanko), Friday, 15 January 2021 06:35 (three years ago) link
It has the time, it has the powerIt's yet to have its finest hour Twitter
― Mark G, Friday, 15 January 2021 07:32 (three years ago) link
Had to go w/ 2015 because of indexing, "enhancing" the algorithm, and ditching the fleeting, dissolving character all together.
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 15 January 2021 09:46 (three years ago) link
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Friday, 15 January 2021 10:15 (three years ago) link
It's nice to go into a cave full of shrieking bats, but only for a few minutes.
― flappy bird, Friday, 15 January 2021 18:34 (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