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Started by Barrister, November 07, 2019, 04:32:56 PM

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Habbaku

#30
April 26, 2022, 03:00:46 PM
Plausible deniability. There is almost certainly nothing positive that could come out of you getting verified.

Every day, there is a main character on Twitter. Twitter has one quest: don't be the main character. Being verified makes it more likely you'll be the main character.
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Josquius

#31
April 26, 2022, 03:28:57 PM
I have an account. Virtually never use it. The occasional drive by poking of fascists only.
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celedhring

#32
April 26, 2022, 04:21:15 PM
I have an account, I haven't posted since 2014 and I just use it to follow news/comedy accounts I like.

Valmy

#33
April 27, 2022, 08:31:07 PM
Quote from: celedhring on April 26, 2022, 04:21:15 PMI have an account, I haven't posted since 2014 and I just use it to follow news/comedy accounts I like.

Yeah you explained that when you posted in this thread back in 2019  :P
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celedhring

#34
April 28, 2022, 01:36:55 AM
Quote from: Valmy on April 27, 2022, 08:31:07 PM
Quote from: celedhring on April 26, 2022, 04:21:15 PMI have an account, I haven't posted since 2014 and I just use it to follow news/comedy accounts I like.

Yeah you explained that when you posted in this thread back in 2019  :P

Well, just updating you on the vital information that nothing has changed for me.  :P

I have lost 6 followers in these 3 years though, only 14 now  :(

Syt

#35
April 28, 2022, 02:15:45 AM
I'm at 187, up by a few since last time. Not sure why, though.
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Darth Wagtaros

#36
April 28, 2022, 08:13:57 AM
I joined to win a contest. I didn't. I don't post anything and rarely read anything except from my boss' boss so I know what he's thinking.

I think it encourages people to be trashbags to each other, and has led to these 'influencer' type shitbags getting elected to public offic.e
PDH!

ulmont

#37
April 28, 2022, 09:16:00 AM
Quote from: ulmont on November 08, 2019, 08:15:26 AMSecond all of this, except that I check in a few times daily.  I have 4 lists: people I know IRL (plus a few people like you I know only from the Internet), chess, football, and a morning shortlist of about 20 people I tend to like to read.  Anything that isn't on a list, I never see.  So it's basically like an RSS feed (remember those) of 280-character blogs.

...almost 3 years later, I never bother to even check in and only interact with twitter to click through to a link and possibly retweet it, if I see it elsewhere.

DGuller

#38
April 28, 2022, 09:28:09 AM
I just realized that lately I use Twitter as the only means to let me know when someone said or did something stupid.  Regardless of algorithm preferences, if something is stupid enough, it's going to trend.  I've long stopped following news unless the news somehow reaches me, so this and Languish is the only way for me to know.  It's probably not good to leave yourself to the whims of the algorithm like that, though.

The Minsky Moment

#39
April 28, 2022, 10:30:24 AM
I use it follow some people with interesting (for me) accounts: Caixin and Michael Pettis for China, about 10 other econ types, ISW and Ukraine War maps for the war, Bill James, Tangotiger, Sarah Langs and Joe Posnanski for baseball, Victoria 3.  I've never tweeted.
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mongers

#40
April 28, 2022, 05:32:31 PM
Back in the day it was useful for directly contacting journalism, print or news channel.

Can't say that I've used in within the last couple of years.
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jimmy olsen

#41
April 30, 2022, 05:20:30 AM
Quote from: The Brain on November 09, 2019, 05:10:29 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 09, 2019, 04:56:30 AMJoined December 2013
198 Following
30 Followers
274 Tweets

Keep it up. Hitler started with less. :)
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386 Following
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11B4V

#42
April 30, 2022, 10:41:45 AM
Yes, it's a dumpster fire
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Darth Wagtaros

#43
April 30, 2022, 11:43:23 AM
People seem to think that the stuff on Twitter is real. They are addicted to outrage and anger. 
PDH!

Eddie Teach

#44
April 30, 2022, 11:27:00 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 30, 2022, 05:20:30 AM
Quote from: The Brain on November 09, 2019, 05:10:29 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 09, 2019, 04:56:30 AMJoined December 2013
198 Following
30 Followers
274 Tweets

Keep it up. Hitler started with less. :)
Now

386 Following
73 Followers
1,440 Tweets

That's not a good k/d ratio.
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