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Re: The Shit Show

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

I removed the official Twitter app from my phone a few weeks back. I was leery about the amount of extra data that could be slurped up from my device and sent back to...well, wherever. And so I reinstalled an old version of Tweetbot that I had paid for, and was really quite happy with the experience. It was a bit cumbersome, didn't give me nearly as many stats, and lacked push notifications.

But, it was helping to wean me off my constant doom-scrolling. And now that Tweetbot no longer works, I am even less inclined to reinstall Twitter on my iPhone, and I'm opening the Mastodon app more often.

Re: The Shit Show

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Post by WillPostForFood »

paulcole wrote: post #141
geerlingguy wrote: post #28

I'm still waiting to hear any kind of official word, but it looks pretty bleak. Without Tweetbot, Twitter is almost impossible to use. Checking in on https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ , the alternate UI, it's almost usable, but still missing like 8 of the most important features that made Twitter useful to me. I have been posting sometimes on Mastodon but still primarily on Twitter, waiting to see how things turned out.…

> Without Tweetbot, Twitter is almost impossible to use In what way? Don’t probably 99% of people who use Twitter not use Tweetbot (including myself)? I use the browser and/or the iPad app and don’t find anything unusable about it. What am I missing in my ignorant bliss?

How do you find your last read tweet? How do you move from phone to desktop and pick up reading where you left off? It's like, not impossible to write a novel on a typewriter, or on a pad of paper. Writers have proven that for hundreds of years. But when you snatch someone's word processor, and tell them to get the selectic out of the closet from now on, it is pretty damn annoying.

Re: The Shit Show

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Post by WillPostForFood »

harmmonica wrote: post #225
raydev wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The "For You" timeline is only for Elon The "For You" timeline is a new name for the "Home" timeline that's been around forever. And now it's easier to get to the chronological feed ("Following"), the first actual UX improvement to the site since the acquisition.

You can‘t default to the “following” tab anymore (every time you open the app it shows “for you” by default), which likely puts it in the “for Elon” camp. Or maybe there’s an even-more-buried setting to default to “following” than tapping the old (were they?) “stars”? But definitely not good UX when users have to tap “following” every time they want to only see, ya know, who they’re actually following (aka what they’…

It doesn't work that way for me (Mac/Chrome). Whatever tab I choose stays active, and persists through opening and closing tabs. Only goes back to "For You" when logging out and back in.

Re: The Shit Show

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Post by the__alchemist »

Noob question: what demographics is or was Twitter popular with? I remember is as something like the FB news feed, and used mainly by grownups, vice university students. Since then, I haven't met anyone who suggested to follow it, or encountered it outside the context of news articles (especially lately). Or the occasional link here to a long-form post split up into tweets. Is this like Whattsapp that's popular in some countries but not others? I'm in East coast USA.

Re: The Shit Show

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Post by paulcole »

WillPostForFood wrote: post #272
paulcole wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Without Tweetbot, Twitter is almost impossible to use In what way? Don’t probably 99% of people who use Twitter not use Tweetbot (including myself)? I use the browser and/or the iPad app and don’t find anything unusable about it. What am I missing in my ignorant bliss?

How do you find your last read tweet? How do you move from phone to desktop and pick up reading where you left off? It's like, not impossible to write a novel on a typewriter, or on a pad of paper. Writers have proven that for hundreds of years. But when you snatch someone's word processor, and tell them to get the selectic out of the closet from now on, it is pretty damn annoying.

> How do you find your last read tweet?

I’m not too worried about it. I just read what it shows me when I open the app or go to the site. If I’ve seen it before, I keep scrolling. When I lose interest I stop.

Re: The Shit Show

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Post by kccoder »

wyclif wrote: post #219
DonHopkins wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A billionaire attacking somebody else as "Pedo Guy" was peak hominem plus outrageous power imbalance, and the post you're replying to doesn't hold a candle to that. Plus Musk really is "a prick" "Space Karen" "King Shithead" "shitty person" "arrogant bastard" "billionaire bozo" "a clown". Truth is the best defense against libel.

Thing is, that level of invective just makes me think he's got politically motivated brainworms. In terms of performance and features, Twitter is better than it's ever been.

Using "politically motivated brainworms" multiple times in this thread seems like a politically motivated brainworm.

You don't have to be politically motivated to realize Elon is an ass.

Re: The Shit Show

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Post by mjmsmith »

bobleeswagger wrote: post #267
mjmsmith wrote: post #248

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And there it is, the inevitable "woke". Why is this hard to understand without bringing your politics into it? If you build an app that depends on an API, it really sucks if that API is taken away. But we all know it happens. Even so, most companies care enough about goodwill that they will give some advance notice so that you can prepare for it. In this case, the API was revoked with absolutely no advance warning fo…

Keep back-pedaling, you'd have supported the same actions if they were done by "the good guys" that lost control of the company. > Why is this hard to understand without bringing your politics into it? Pot, meet kettle.

I thought Dorsey was a doofus whose part-time management contributed to the utter stagnation of the product. And their API changes in 2012 were a shitty thing to do to developers, but perhaps less cowardly than the current changes.

I don't use it much these days, but hopefully it'll stick around, even if only as a Parler clone with $5B in debt, mostly populated by angry reply guys whining about wokeness. I'm sure you'll be happy there.

Re: The Shit Show

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Post by joshgachnang »

rideontime wrote: post #111
joshgachnang wrote: post #40

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Losing your business like this has to be infuriating, but that's always the risk building your business on top of someone else's business. However, the writing style completely undercuts the message with the name calling. I wonder if Craig will still pull the plug now that the API seems to be back up.

where have you heard that the API is back up for those who've been banned? only thing I've seen is that some have worked around their bans by getting new API keys

Yeah that looks like that's what it is. I can't post from the apps either.

Re: The Shit Show

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Post by Centigonal »

tptacek wrote: post #12

I think (and have been saying this a bunch lately) that he's right about ActivityPub and Mastodon, and that "a universal timeline" is actually a really good way to put words to it. I was a Mastodon hater for years, but having used it for the past month or so with an actual community of people (really: the whole community I interacted with on Twitter before), I have to admit it: the ActivityPub people were right about…

FriendFeed lives again!!

Re: The Shit Show

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Post by ryanSrich »

geerlingguy wrote: post #28

I'm still waiting to hear any kind of official word, but it looks pretty bleak. Without Tweetbot, Twitter is almost impossible to use. Checking in on https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ , the alternate UI, it's almost usable, but still missing like 8 of the most important features that made Twitter useful to me. I have been posting sometimes on Mastodon but still primarily on Twitter, waiting to see how things turned out.…

I’m reluctant to use Mastodon because I don’t see it gaining much traction outside of tech. It’s incredibly annoying to use, and the entire concept of how different servers work is far too complicated for any non-tech user. It really needs a frontend to take off that regular people can join without having to worry about getting anything setup.
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