My missing option was "I tweet, but I don't actually read it." Just venting spleen, usually when #RumpledThinSkin does something unusually offensive. Which reminds me. I haven't vented about the "White Power" tweet...
(Can't read it, since I block any account associated with #CheetoJesus. (Almost made a mistake of #TweetoJesus, but now I like that one.))
The cool thing about Twitter is avoiding the crowd, but following people like Mel Conway [twitter.com] (of Conway's law), or DJB [twitter.com] (working on quantum-proof encryption), or Magnus Carlsen [twitter.com] (world chess champion). You can hear from people who don't have a media spotlight, but who are more interesting than things you read on TV.
Was going to say the same thing. The missing option was, "don't have an account, don't tweet, but when I read the news, every other news story is about who said what to who on Twitter". When did this become popular, it's been at least a year now I think.
Usually these same "news" sites, put the link to the short 140c tweet, somewhere in the middle of a full page, 500 word summary of who said it, what was said, and to whom they said it and why I should be outraged. Then for some reason, said article will
Twitter will probably be written by future historians as one of the worst things to come out of the invention of the Internet. We all would have been much better off if the guy Dorsey backstabbed to take control managed to get rid of him instead and he followed his original dream of becoming a fashion designer.
The YouTube comments section somehow manages to be even more deranged than Twitter. I'm not surprised, just an observation on signal-to-diarrhea ratio.
You must be watching other movies on YT than I do. Most of the conversations I see are pretty normal. But maybe the owner of the channel cleared the comments from vomit and diarrhea before I read them.
YouTube comment sections are among the worst relative the the content being shown.
Like in all communities, shit content leads to shit comments, political content result in flame wars, and interesting content result in good comments. It is very apparent in Reddit for instance, where political subreddits are worse than 4chan (at least 4chan doesn't take itself too seriously), but others (ex: r/spacex) have a top notch community. YouTube comments are just bland, on top is usually a joke on some specific part o
I have a friend who is on Twitter, and likes to send me links to his tweets in lieu of personal messages. So - whether I care about Twitter or not, I do open those links to read. Does that count?
Also - Twitter was useful several times when I had to shame large companies into cleaning up their s-h-i-t (i.e. unlocking wrongfully locked accounts, processing refunds, things like that). It could be a powerful tool if used wisely.
That said, being on the receiving end of everyones stream of consciousness is akin t
I think that counts. I check up on a few dozen accounts of interesting people who post interesting links and comments. I don't read the comments. I don't even have twitter. So all the criticism about twitter being full of garbage doesn't affect me. Yes there is an enormous amount of garbage but I don't read the garbage. I do notice however if the accounts of the interesting people get censored with the excuse of 'fixing the garbage problem'. "Hey look, we're only fixing garbage issues" they say. To me it loo
Even if some of them are single person shops, the accounts are still their PR outlet, and nothing else. Not reall related to the actual person itself.
No reasonable mentally mature discussion is possible in 140-or-what characters.
And frankly, my personal mindset is: People who get their views from Twitter are officially refusing to be people. So I do as they wish, and treat them like swarm entities, more like limbs of a bigger body, with the PR source as its head, than indiviuals. Whatever makes them happy. I don't judge.;)
Even if some of them are single person shops, the accounts are still their PR outlet, and nothing else. Not reall related to the actual person itself.
No reasonable mentally mature discussion is possible in 140-or-what characters.
And frankly, my personal mindset is: People who get their views from Twitter are officially refusing to be people. So I do as they wish, and treat them like swarm entities, more like limbs of
No reasonable mentally mature discussion is possible in 140-or-what characters.
The challenge of trying to fit a well-worded response in 140 characters was one thing that I liked about Twitter.
The people (and, yes, they are real people) that I interactive with on Twitter these days are philosophy profs, Star Trek friends, and musicians (with small enough followings that they respond themselves).
No reasonable mentally mature discussion is possible in 140-or-what characters.
Your explanation of Twitter, is irrelevant. Twitter is nothing more than the frat boy who shows up to every party just to get drunk and "fuck shit up." You can't explain the popularity of frat boy any more than I can explain why a single blue-checked tweet has the power to cancel lives and disrupt stock markets.
No reasonable mentally mature society would have ever allowed bullshit like Twitter to elevate itself to the position it now holds. And society now worships at that bullshit-fueled altar, proving
I started on twitter when the #mtbos had a contest for math teacher types to make a video critiquing Khan Academy. #mtt2k.... I *hate* twitter chats because indeed, you can write little bumper sticker sized answers to complicated problems in 280 characters but... your crowd better already know what you mean. Sharing links to new math stuff though...
In terms of overall negative impact on the planet Twitter is worse than anything else on the internet.
Yes, ANYTHING.
Most other bad stuff is small scale impact
I voted 'No', because although I have an account, I haven't read it regularly... ever, I think. I prefer sharing with only my friends & family on Facebook, rather than interacting with random strangers.
I voted the same way; I have an account for the very rare reason I need it for a giveaway or something but almost never log into it and never actually read twitter. Not like I'm ever gonna win a giveaway anyway but there you go.
Thread started with the Erris account, and then the myCopyWrong one used to "MOD PARENT UP" shill because it's the only one not posting at -1. As for the rest of that thread, the only two people who are not twitter are tepples and willyhill.
Since then, I've joined the alleged dark side as @PinoBatch [twitter.com].
I had a theory that quantity was more important than quality on Social media. I decided to attempt to prove it.
I created a twitter identity with a specific interest, that I had some knowledge of but no real investment. (A particular type of car.) I then followed a couple of people with the same interest. I then did every google image search for anything I could find related to this vehicle, and downloaded every meme or remotely funny image I could find. I began posting up this "borrowed" content at a rate
The poll has "No" (No I'm not on Twitter), but if you are on Twitter, the next lowest usage option is "I check Twitter, but very rarely tweet, or not at all". That option implies that you do check Twitter, and to me "check" means you go out to Twitter to see if something's in your timeline.
But what if you are on Twitter but don't check it? I only use Twitter once a year or so to contact a company's support account.
I comment in other peoples tweets but, as I don't have a large fake following, I neither politicise or show pictures of my lunch! (yes, it's not just Facebook and Instagram)
I have tried creating accounts but Twitter keeps requiring a telephone number though they officially allows creation without, but they always require it for "special authentication" within a week. Not going to give them more data to track me on, and don't care enough to make an exception for that anti-democratic shitshow.
Same reason I don't even have a "fake" linkedin account. Your site isn't open to the internet? It doesn't exist. Byeeee!
Pretty sure Linkedin allowed me to create accounts with just an email account, which I can accept. I could even accept a phonenumber, but not both, which greedy twitter requires.
Yeah, me too. I tried to follow just the very few things I have interest in, but inevitably everyone on there is spewing garbage I don't care about and twitter is constantly recommending crap I don't care about.
Then they have to nerve to email me about all the things I've missed. Which I'm missing on purpose.
I've been using Usenet since 1986, but after some coaxing I set up accounts on facebook and twitter on the same day in (IIRC) 1986. I use Facebook irregularly, it's a decent way to stay in touch with far away friends. But I think I posted only one message on Twitter (or not even) and I don't follow anyone and I have yet to grok the concept underlying Twitter. I just don't get it.
I have a twitter account, for exactly one purpose.
I work in a grocery store, and there are various companies out there that still use esoteric proprietary internal codes for their product best by dates, and twitter is the single fastest way to get a response from their customer service department when you need to learn how to translate one of those codes into human readable form.
Spend an hour on hold and repeating the question over and over, or tweet @ the company, and have the answer in a few minutes. My theory is that, due to the public nature of twitter, they know they gotta get back to you before they get called out about it.
Sometimes, they even change the date format on the product to something rational in the following months.
Actually, I _HAVE_ a twitter account under my own name. I got it so that no one else would. And I use it religiously.
Oh, and by the way, I'm an atheist, so that means once a year or less. I only read it when redirected to a (usually picture a or video) from another site, and even that is less than once a week.
Not that it helps that much, but I use a separate browser for Facebook and Twitter. Track me all you want, but I normally use a different browser(s) with blocks for ads and everything else. (O
There is a huge community of information security professionals, hackers, privacy nerds and defcon attendees on twitter.
If you do quick searches for #infosec and #cybersecurity you will find everything from certification advice, to conference presentations, and leading edge security research.
For nearly 2 months now, I have appealed Twitter's blocking my account for suggesting someone harm themselves or commit suicide by rhetorically asking Rudy Whatshisface and Candace Whatshername if they cared to lead by example and kill themselves so the US economy could get going again, as others in their party were suggesting US senior citizens do. I have no intention of deleting the tweet and Twitter, apparently, has no intention of getting back to me on my appeal.
It's all just people retweeting the same news stories, some real some fake. It's been that way for years and only gotten worse, I look at it and my notifications maybe 4 times a year.
On the latest Team Human podcast, Douglas Rushkoff summed the problem with Twitter, and social media in general, up in his opening monologue quite well. The statement that stuck with me the most was (and this is in the context of having difficult discussions, such as those about race, on social media platforms):
"Relegating the future of social justice to platforms that are *fine-tuned* to provoke disagreements and to promote extremism may not be the right approach."
I'm banned from twitter so hard that if I make a new account on a burner cell phone with no records attached to me whatsoever and follow 3 of my friends, they instantly suspend my account for suspicious behavior.
Like so many others I had made an account over a decade ago but in recent years it seems to be nothing more than a politically biased echo chamber. When they announced they would be filtering/correcting words in posts that didn't agree with their San Francisco mindset it was time to deactivate. Found Parler to be a very enjoyable to use very slick app and was surprised how many had already made the move over there.
I remember Wikipedia hating on blogs. And now Reddit hating on TikTok. Somehow some people bring tribalism into social media and don't even realize it.
You can use multiple services and don't need to bash any one of the others.
I'm on twitter since June 2009 with over 71,000 tweets. I'm still using Usenet (the part with the discussions, not the pirate part). I was on IRC.
Missing option (Score:5, Funny)
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My missing option was "I tweet, but I don't actually read it." Just venting spleen, usually when #RumpledThinSkin does something unusually offensive. Which reminds me. I haven't vented about the "White Power" tweet...
(Can't read it, since I block any account associated with #CheetoJesus. (Almost made a mistake of #TweetoJesus, but now I like that one.))
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They didn't add that because whoever would consider answering in the affirmative would have too much drool pooled up in their keyboard to vote.
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Isn't that the "Yes, and I tweet all the time" option?
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No (Score:5, Insightful)
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You see a tweet in the news - then go in and look at the comments. Sometimes they can be a bit wild.
Re:No (Score:5, Funny)
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Porn stars are among the less degenerate personalities in the cesspool that is Twitter.
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Twitter has news? I thought it was just for porn star updates.
Stormy Daniels Presidential updates aside for a moment, the real problem is too many people consider Twitter as the news.
Especially these fucking idiots we call "journalists".
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Usually these same "news" sites, put the link to the short 140c tweet, somewhere in the middle of a full page, 500 word summary of who said it, what was said, and to whom they said it and why I should be outraged. Then for some reason, said article will
I don't tweet and follow only one account. (Score:3)
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I prefer the 9 o'clock gun [twitter.com] twitter account.
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What the heck?!
(to both of the aforementioned Twitter accounts)
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What the heck?!
(to both of the aforementioned Twitter accounts)
Both of those are completely meaningless to me too, but I'm not from NY or Vancouver, so I guess that makes sense.
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I prefer the 9 o'clock gun [twitter.com] twitter account.
Now that is worth following.
"Nine O'Clock Gun, now at Seven O'Clock"
What a wacky world we live in.
Centuries later (Score:1)
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The YouTube comments section somehow manages to be even more deranged than Twitter. I'm not surprised, just an observation on signal-to-diarrhea ratio.
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You must be watching other movies on YT than I do. Most of the conversations I see are pretty normal. But maybe the owner of the channel cleared the comments from vomit and diarrhea before I read them.
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The political videos is where the dumbest trolls hang out, if you're curious. something about politics brings out the worst in people.
You won't find the same level of controversy if you're watching videos of how to forge aluminum cans.
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Politics, specially modern politics rot the brain.
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Modern politics is *designed* to rot the brain.
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YouTube comment sections are among the worst relative the the content being shown.
Like in all communities, shit content leads to shit comments, political content result in flame wars, and interesting content result in good comments. It is very apparent in Reddit for instance, where political subreddits are worse than 4chan (at least 4chan doesn't take itself too seriously), but others (ex: r/spacex) have a top notch community.
YouTube comments are just bland, on top is usually a joke on some specific part o
Re: Centuries later (Score:2)
My history book from the future has a chapter called "Twitter and the collapse of civilization".
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You're all splitting hairs, social media in general is one of humanity's worst inventions.
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I do not but have a friend who does (Score:2)
I have a friend who is on Twitter, and likes to send me links to his tweets in lieu of personal messages. So - whether I care about Twitter or not, I do open those links to read. Does that count?
Also - Twitter was useful several times when I had to shame large companies into cleaning up their s-h-i-t (i.e. unlocking wrongfully locked accounts, processing refunds, things like that). It could be a powerful tool if used wisely.
That said, being on the receiving end of everyones stream of consciousness is akin t
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"friend" - There. FTFY.
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I think that counts. I check up on a few dozen accounts of interesting people who post interesting links and comments. I don't read the comments. I don't even have twitter. So all the criticism about twitter being full of garbage doesn't affect me. Yes there is an enormous amount of garbage but I don't read the garbage.
I do notice however if the accounts of the interesting people get censored with the excuse of 'fixing the garbage problem'. "Hey look, we're only fixing garbage issues" they say. To me it loo
There are no people on twitter. (Score:4, Insightful)
Only PR accounts tweet. Exclusively.
Even if some of them are single person shops, the accounts are still their PR outlet, and nothing else. Not reall related to the actual person itself.
No reasonable mentally mature discussion is possible in 140-or-what characters.
And frankly, my personal mindset is: People who get their views from Twitter are officially refusing to be people. So I do as they wish, and treat them like swarm entities, more like limbs of a bigger body, with the PR source as its head, than indiviuals. Whatever makes them happy. I don't judge. ;)
Re: There are no people on twitter. (Score:2)
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I don't judge.
Lies and deceit!
Re: There are no people on twitter. (Score:2)
O:-)
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No reasonable mentally mature discussion is possible in 140-or-what characters.
The challenge of trying to fit a well-worded response in 140 characters was one thing that I liked about Twitter.
The people (and, yes, they are real people) that I interactive with on Twitter these days are philosophy profs, Star Trek friends, and musicians (with small enough followings that they respond themselves).
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No reasonable mentally mature discussion is possible in 140-or-what characters.
Your explanation of Twitter, is irrelevant. Twitter is nothing more than the frat boy who shows up to every party just to get drunk and "fuck shit up." You can't explain the popularity of frat boy any more than I can explain why a single blue-checked tweet has the power to cancel lives and disrupt stock markets.
No reasonable mentally mature society would have ever allowed bullshit like Twitter to elevate itself to the position it now holds. And society now worships at that bullshit-fueled altar, proving
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Unpopular View, But (Score:3)
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Twitter's the best place for breaking sports news.
Not that there's much of that happening right now...
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Then again, watching sports is already pathetic, and a sign of a failed life.
Those who can, do. ;)
Those who can't, play.
Those who can't even play, spectate. From home. On their fat asses.
Find a more useful hobby, and stop wasting your life. It will result i real happiness, not just deluded happiness.
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Missing option (Score:1)
I used to tweet all the time, but swore off it last year.
Worst site on the net (Score:2)
Yes, ANYTHING.
Most other bad stuff is small scale impact
I have an account but don't use it (Score:2)
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I voted the same way; I have an account for the very rare reason I need it for a giveaway or something but almost never log into it and never actually read twitter. Not like I'm ever gonna win a giveaway anyway but there you go.
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Same. At Kubecon last year I needed it for some possible prize. Other than that, I do have one but I may have checked it once.
[John]
The twitter Monologues (Score:2)
From "The twitter Monologues" by SockDisclosure [slashdot.org]:
Since then, I've joined the alleged dark side as @PinoBatch [twitter.com].
AntiSocial media experiment. (Score:2)
I created a twitter identity with a specific interest, that I had some knowledge of but no real investment. (A particular type of car.) I then followed a couple of people with the same interest. I then did every google image search for anything I could find related to this vehicle, and downloaded every meme or remotely funny image I could find. I began posting up this "borrowed" content at a rate
Where's "on Twitter but don't use it"? (Score:2)
The poll has "No" (No I'm not on Twitter), but if you are on Twitter, the next lowest usage option is "I check Twitter, but very rarely tweet, or not at all". That option implies that you do check Twitter, and to me "check" means you go out to Twitter to see if something's in your timeline.
But what if you are on Twitter but don't check it? I only use Twitter once a year or so to contact a company's support account.
I follow many but don't tweet much. (Score:2)
I comment in other peoples tweets but, as I don't have a large fake following, I neither politicise or show pictures of my lunch! (yes, it's not just Facebook and Instagram)
If by Twitter you mean memo.cash (Score:2)
Tried but no luck (Score:2)
I have tried creating accounts but Twitter keeps requiring a telephone number though they officially allows creation without, but they always require it for "special authentication" within a week. Not going to give them more data to track me on, and don't care enough to make an exception for that anti-democratic shitshow.
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Same reason I don't even have a "fake" linkedin account. Your site isn't open to the internet? It doesn't exist. Byeeee!
Pretty sure Linkedin allowed me to create accounts with just an email account, which I can accept. I could even accept a phonenumber, but not both, which greedy twitter requires.
Barely (Score:1)
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I check twitter if I have a specific reason to.
Yeah, me too. I tried to follow just the very few things I have interest in, but inevitably everyone on there is spewing garbage I don't care about and twitter is constantly recommending crap I don't care about.
Then they have to nerve to email me about all the things I've missed. Which I'm missing on purpose.
Same date for each (Score:2)
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You assume there is something to get . . .
You assume anyone found anything to get about it . . .
You assume anyone using it actually consciously thought . . . (and not just about that)
For only one use (Score:4, Informative)
I work in a grocery store, and there are various companies out there that still use esoteric proprietary internal codes for their product best by dates, and twitter is the single fastest way to get a response from their customer service department when you need to learn how to translate one of those codes into human readable form.
Spend an hour on hold and repeating the question over and over, or tweet @ the company, and have the answer in a few minutes. My theory is that, due to the public nature of twitter, they know they gotta get back to you before they get called out about it.
Sometimes, they even change the date format on the product to something rational in the following months.
I have a Twitter account. (Score:2)
Oh, and by the way, I'm an atheist, so that means once a year or less. I only read it when redirected to a (usually picture a or video) from another site, and even that is less than once a week.
Not that it helps that much, but I use a separate browser for Facebook and Twitter. Track me all you want, but I normally use a different browser(s) with blocks for ads and everything else. (O
Maybe, Probably... (Score:1)
Obligatory... (Score:2)
Information Security post on twitter (Score:1)
If you do quick searches for #infosec and #cybersecurity you will find everything from certification advice, to conference presentations, and leading edge security research.
I am-but have been blocked (Score:1)
Yes,@koolietech (Score:1)
Twitter is where... (Score:2)
Twitter is where angry people go to out angry each other.
Yes but rarely check it (Score:2)
No, and I'm leaving social media in general. (Score:1)
On the latest Team Human podcast, Douglas Rushkoff summed the problem with Twitter, and social media in general, up in his opening monologue quite well. The statement that stuck with me the most was (and this is in the context of having difficult discussions, such as those about race, on social media platforms):
"Relegating the future of social justice to platforms that are *fine-tuned* to provoke disagreements and to promote extremism may not be the right approach."
We have allowed our entire way of communic
Banned (Score:1)
I'm banned from twitter so hard that if I make a new account on a burner cell phone with no records attached to me whatsoever and follow 3 of my friends, they instantly suspend my account for suspicious behavior.
#BALTIMORELOOTCREW #SEST
Kinda. It's just a relay of my Mastodon.social a/c (Score:2)
Made the move to Mastodon, and managed to drop a whole load of high blood presure on Twitter.
Have you heard about pclasp social media network s (Score:1)
Tried it (Score:2)
Yes, but... (Score:2)
...I only read or tweet very rarely because it's mostly inane nonsense...
Is it like a BBS? (Score:2)
Twitter is fucking cancer (Score:1)
it just empowers crazy cat ladies, who don't fucking matter.
The amount of Karens is fucking off the chart, and honestly they SHOULD be ignored, not empowered.
Nope. (Score:1)
Huffingtonpost and many other media outlets run so many stories about what's being said on twitter nobody needs to go to twitter to find out anything.
Word Policing No Thanks (Score:1)
Tribalism of social media is funny and shocking. (Score:2)
Hahaha Its shocking Q buddy (Score:1)
Can you share your (Score:1)