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Re: As a conservative Twitter user sleeps, his account is hard at work

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Post by sofaofthedamned » Mon, Feb 06, 2017, 8:54 AM UTC

ci5er wrote: post #6

matthewbauer wrote: post #2

Why can't Twitter block this? It's really not much different than email spam. Twitter could pretty easily find duplicate posts and remove them. More and more, I wonder why Twitter is so popular. I never really "got it". If I want news, I can go to a news website/aggregator. If I want memes, I can go to Reddit/Tumblr. If I want to talk to friends, I can use Facebook. Twitter always just gives me a headache.

I've found Twitter feeds more timely than status-light dashboards for various online services. Partly because the users start to scream before the SREs update their blinken lights. I was vaguely interested in it (Twitter) when the Iranian purple revolution was going on, but that passed, and after that version of tweetdeck did as well, I've never been able to track topics well enough to make it more worth-while (to me…

Yeah, some online services are tardy as hell when it comes to updating their service status pages, a quick Twitter search is a great canary for any problems.

Re: As a conservative Twitter user sleeps, his account is hard at work

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Post by majewsky » Mon, Feb 06, 2017, 9:48 AM UTC

iambateman wrote: post #27

refurb wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who barely uses Twitter, how did you find the information? I'm sure there is good info out there, but it's impossible to find unless you've already subscribed to follow people.

My community Facebook group does a fantastic job at answering the regular "gunshots vs. fireworks" debate.

Is this really a regular debate in the US? I've never heard a gunshot in my life in Germany.

Re: As a conservative Twitter user sleeps, his account is hard at work

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Post by novacole » Mon, Feb 06, 2017, 1:58 PM UTC

Sounds like he's using tweetboss

Re: As a conservative Twitter user sleeps, his account is hard at work

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Post by jasonkostempski » Sat, Feb 18, 2017, 5:24 AM UTC

refurb wrote: post #26

jasonkostempski wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"If I want news, I can go to a news website/aggregator" The one time I found twitter to be far superior is when I heard gunshots outside my apartment and found the location and a pretty good understanding of what happened within a few minutes.

As someone who barely uses Twitter, how did you find the information? I'm sure there is good info out there, but it's impossible to find unless you've already subscribed to follow people.

It was 2010, I don't quite remember how I did it, but it was super easy at the time. Had something to do with location searching. It was the "Buffalo City Grill Shooting". At the time I was a heavy twitter user and it was immediately obvious how I could query the app to figure out what just happened. Now I don't even have an account so I'm not sure it's still possible.