OmegaSmash
Member
This is me but with all other social media as well. I'm just not that much of an interesting person so there's no real point in talking about my life in the open like that.
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Basically No One Has Joined Twitter for Months
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thechristoph
Sir!
Facebook groups are actually pretty useful. I don't connect to any friends on Facebook, but I use it to participate in a few groups.
I don't understand how you can meet people in any meaningful way in 140 characters.
LucidMomentum
Member
Good. Garbage site which has lead to a lot of awful shit lately.
Alcotholic
Banned
That would be great if Trump killed Twitter.
RiverShell
Member
What a terrible site, as soon as I signed up I got auto blocked and had to add a phone number. It's hilarious to me because the place is filled up to the brim with obvious bot accounts, and people spewing hate.
Business and science news, live world events (via trending topics) and Wario64.
I stay away from politics on that platform.
I agree with this too.
Twitter is awesome, I have two accounts.
One for the few people I know IRL that are on it, but I also follow cool people in certain industries, some funny people, and I've met some ppl thru tweeting at big accounts. My other one is for anime/art that I like.
There's a huge welcoming community on twitter for niche topics. You have to just keep at it for a bit, and you'll end up with an awesome feed following seriously funny people, content creators, speculators, etc.
For example I have a twitter bubble for Dragon Ball, and I get the fastest info from twitter, the best art, friends I've met online, and even access to DBS staff!
Obviously there's the deep dark side of twitter, but it's very easy to ignore.
Twitter is probably the best social media.
One for the few people I know IRL that are on it, but I also follow cool people in certain industries, some funny people, and I've met some ppl thru tweeting at big accounts. My other one is for anime/art that I like.
There's a huge welcoming community on twitter for niche topics. You have to just keep at it for a bit, and you'll end up with an awesome feed following seriously funny people, content creators, speculators, etc.
For example I have a twitter bubble for Dragon Ball, and I get the fastest info from twitter, the best art, friends I've met online, and even access to DBS staff!
Obviously there's the deep dark side of twitter, but it's very easy to ignore.
Twitter is probably the best social media.
I'd still be eating giant ass buttermilk waffles from there if I weren't lactose intolerant. :\\\
Zen_Arcade
Banned
What companies are you buying from who don't also use Facebook to advertise their limited products?
Prodigal Son
Member
I like it. Good way to get quick jokes off your chest
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
To be honest I never understood when Twitter launched what Twitter did that just having a public Facebook account wouldn't.
I used to love Twitter. I used it daily for several years. Not so much anymore.
The character limit just makes Twitter better. You get short communications rather than walls of text. It's easier to read and actually can make you think a little about brevity.
I met my wife on Twitter. Not kidding.
Annnnnnd this is why I stopped using it. When every 8th tweet is an ad, it's super distracting and a huge turnoff.
The character limit just makes Twitter better. You get short communications rather than walls of text. It's easier to read and actually can make you think a little about brevity.
I met my wife on Twitter. Not kidding.
Annnnnnd this is why I stopped using it. When every 8th tweet is an ad, it's super distracting and a huge turnoff.
IrishNinja
Member
it's a shame, it's my favorite social media by far - i actually learn things on there. but sometimes if i'm bored on the crapper i dive into nazi/alt-right feeds and go on a reporting fest - there's been days ive reported 20 something accounts for the most blatant racism, anti-semitism, harassment etc and i think 4 being found in violation of the rules was my record.
it's a dumb sissyphean task and i' m not gonna keep at it, but holy shit i have no idea how their criteria works at all.
it's a dumb sissyphean task and i' m not gonna keep at it, but holy shit i have no idea how their criteria works at all.
Dynamite Shikoku
Congratulations, you really deserve it!
I haven't opened my twitter in months. I used to use it a lot, but just sort of forgot about it
Mediking
Member
Same goes for Instragram. If you aren't popular...
Stuff like Snapchat is prolly the most accessible thing for people.
stan423321
Member
Twitter is good at catering to me as an actually working stuff aggregator, as with enough persistence you can force it to view basically every post of people I follow, and due to following being an unilateral relation I can follow the accounts that keep the content to spam ratio above an epsilon without any drama following. The few people I know in real life tend to use Facebook exclusively and, well... maybe it's working for their hobbies and interests. For me it doesn't. You can't beat up that filter. The fact that RL acquaintances don't actually follow me is a plus.
Now this doesn't mean that I can't imagine this stuff being done better, but the fact of the matter at the moment is, Twitter is where most of entities who I actually want to follow are. Half aren't on Google+ or RSS readers, most are on Facebook but end up getting filtered out from the feed, not to mention they tend to mix up different portions of my life, and everything else I looked upon seems to have even worse interface, image based or something like that.
If you use twitter on your phone, download Tweetbot and you don't see those ads anymore
It was $10 when I got it, but worth every penny to not see ads anymore
Twitter is awesome if you know how to use it. Tweetbot & Tweeten = ❤️
If you subject yourself to the shit that is the website, well, you have only yourself (and Twitter) to blame. Id gladly pay a reasonable subscription fee for it as long as it doesnt turn into the shithole that is Facebook. Its absolutely useless and way too convoluted for anything but private messages.
Its sad to see my favorite social platform being infested with all the scum and bots in the recent past though.
If you subject yourself to the shit that is the website, well, you have only yourself (and Twitter) to blame. Id gladly pay a reasonable subscription fee for it as long as it doesnt turn into the shithole that is Facebook. Its absolutely useless and way too convoluted for anything but private messages.
Its sad to see my favorite social platform being infested with all the scum and bots in the recent past though.
There's still ello. *echo reverberates*
stan423321
Member
You could say as well that all of them probably have a phone number, too. Userbase matters, but is not the whole deal.
For instance, as I mentioned already, Facebook will sometimes show you this sort of stuff for companies you've set to liked, but it may very well not show it and decide the fact friend of a friend changed their avatar a week ago is more important. Properly configured and maintained Twitter feed, on the other hand, WILL show you everything you ask it to show, nothing less (some things more, but in my case at least it's manageable).
Adam Sadler
Member
Yeah, I agree with this. I personally don't like Facebook ot Instagram. Is there anything currently that could replace Twitter that others think is better?
jasminlovesyoux
Banned
I've always felt like people like Twitter because they can "converse" with celebrities. Other than that it's a really poorly done social media outlet.
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
I like it. Direct and to the point. Best for breaking news and such. Depends on your interests, but for sports stuff, it's pretty much an essential.
AyaisMUsikWhore
Member
I'm feeling like I'm ready to leave too. I really enjoy the memes and the funny videos but these bots and the shit face himself using the platform to announce policy just makes me want to say fuck it and be done. It's only because my loved ones are still there...yall know who y'all are ❤️
PeskyToaster
Member
Probably why they won't purge bots. User growth and numbers would take.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
I enjoy using Twitter. Its an easy way to keep in touch with folks and has basically replaced RSS for me completely. Its great. Don't have to deal with people I don't want to talk with which is the case with Facebook.
I'm of two minds on Twitter. I use it regularly because there's great news, jokes, memes, threads, and thoughts on there but there's a lot of shit I hate too. All the ads, for one. Showing tweets out of order is another. I see stuff people retweeted entire days earlier alongside the latest tweets from my TL, it's confusing. Then there's the SAME tweets showing up on my TL over and over whenever I'm scrolling and that pisses me off. The Nazis and harassment issues are obvious.
But still, I can't imagine Twitter actually dying. It's just become so big in our cultural discourse for almost 10 years. We're at the point where even Disney movies are referencing it.
But still, I can't imagine Twitter actually dying. It's just become so big in our cultural discourse for almost 10 years. We're at the point where even Disney movies are referencing it.
Zen_Arcade
Banned
I believe you can do the same thing on Facebook. I remember options that allow you to tell Facebook what pages updates you want to see most so they'll push them to the top of your feed.
But maybe you've tried that and it doesn't work. A lot of things about how Facebook's feed works are really wonky so it wouldn't surprise me if this didn't either.
It's a shitty platform. I have a Twitter account solely because I'm a moderator on GAF. I set it up after being modded, so people could reach me if they needed to. I use it to retweet random shit and read dumb hot takes, mostly. And get called names by people who hate GAF.
I wouldn't be that sad if it ceased to exist. I think it lives right there on the cusp between being too useful to get rid of and too toxic to use.
I wouldn't be that sad if it ceased to exist. I think it lives right there on the cusp between being too useful to get rid of and too toxic to use.
PerfectFlaw
Member
Twitter is a Wario64 news feed for me. The day he outlives his usefulness is the day I uninstall.
Twitter has become something more than a social platform. I honestly don't know how I would get my daily news sources without it. Lots of quick and easy to read headlines from a huge number of sites. Throw in a few celeb and social tweets and it's perfect. No doubt the moderation needs a major re think but if you don't look for the bile it's pretty easy to avoid if you're just johnny normal.
Basoes
Member
but people love youtube
Mammoth Jones
Member
I only use Twitter to post xb1/ps4/switch screenshots and gaming memes.
Also to complain to companies.
Also to complain to companies.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
I "use" Twitter (I've basically stopped tweeting and following people and have mostly cleared out my past tweets and I've always had privacy on so I deliberately don't have any audience.) There are things that it is, comparatively speaking, the best at especially with the demise of Google Reader, but it's the best by virtue of being the only option, not because it's well executed.
digoutyoursoul
Member
I don't see how it's much different from other online social places, the narcissists, the trolls, the egos, the disingenuous, the decent, the idiots, all can found away from Twitter. I find Facebook and YouTube to be worse from personal experience.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
The difference with Facebook is that you have pretty near complete control, if you want it, to remove the things that you don't like.
digoutyoursoul
Member
Can't you do that with Twitter, mute,advanced mute, block etc?
https://support.twitter.com/articles/20175032
Not surprising. Twitter has become an absolute shitshow, and it's for factors that extend even beyond the orange cumstain we call a President.
The way the site handles abuse is horrendous, esstentially leaving the onus on users to use the block and mute buttons to try and moderate themselves. Which becomes untenable as you accumulate followers, or hell, even if you have just one tweet that catches on. Especially when you account for the persistance of people who are hellbent at arguing at anyone who disagree with their worldview.
Changing how threading/replying works has made carrying on conversations harder. It's harder to follow the flow of things, which sucks when someone is trying to read a series of related tweets.
The discover feature sucks, especially for trying to find new people to interact with.
The community is just bad. Near constant, 24/7 arguing and misery. That's not to say that's every twitter user or community; many have lovely Twitter experiences I'm sure. Even the few of my followers I still interact with are great. But the overall feel of the site has certainly become more negative, even toxic, over the years. Twitter has become probably the least "fun" of the major social networks. I'd struggle to tell someone to use it over facebook or Instagram now, which wasn't the case just 3 or 4 years ago.
The way the site handles abuse is horrendous, esstentially leaving the onus on users to use the block and mute buttons to try and moderate themselves. Which becomes untenable as you accumulate followers, or hell, even if you have just one tweet that catches on. Especially when you account for the persistance of people who are hellbent at arguing at anyone who disagree with their worldview.
Changing how threading/replying works has made carrying on conversations harder. It's harder to follow the flow of things, which sucks when someone is trying to read a series of related tweets.
The discover feature sucks, especially for trying to find new people to interact with.
The community is just bad. Near constant, 24/7 arguing and misery. That's not to say that's every twitter user or community; many have lovely Twitter experiences I'm sure. Even the few of my followers I still interact with are great. But the overall feel of the site has certainly become more negative, even toxic, over the years. Twitter has become probably the least "fun" of the major social networks. I'd struggle to tell someone to use it over facebook or Instagram now, which wasn't the case just 3 or 4 years ago.
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