It always seemed like shouting in a room full of people. Any coherent thought instantly became an unreadable mess due to the post character limit. Never understood live-tweeting. You could DM some company’s support person… but why?
And I blame link shorteners’ existence on twitter, too.
To be fair, I think the company’s support person one is the only thing it was useful for. I’ve heard plenty a story of someone not being able to get proper support through the main thing they’re using, but once they tweet the company it gets fixed. Definitely shouldn’t be like that, but it is what it is.
For some people it kind of seems like just shouting at an empty room. I recently found a (now ex)friend’s Bluesky, which opened a whole can of worms.
But his whole thing was basically complaining about whatever he could with no one listening. Then complaining that no one was interacting.
It was like the equivalent of him having a stage in an empty room and just yelling about random shit. Then yelling that there’s no one else in the room. I don’t get it
i thought whatsapp would make a public version and clean up at some point but they never did
They used to Tweet.
Now they sXhit.
On Twitter Twits Tweeted Twats
On Xitter Xits are Xitting Xats
(The X is pronounced sh like ship)
No, it’s pronounced “soft”, like Zsa Zsa Gabor.
I never understood what compels people to post not-showerthoughts to the showerthoughts community.
Isn’t any thought that originates under the shower a showerthought?
No.
From this communities sidebar:
A “Showerthought” is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you’re doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- No politics
This is borderline rule 3 violation because it’s just baiting people to shit on Twitter/X for political reasons - not that it doesn’t deserve it, but that’s not what this comm is for.
But what if I hated Elon before he was involved in politics?
That is allowed and respected.
There are a million reasons to hate Musk besides political reasons
I try to be objective where I can but all of the rules have gray area so I try to err on the side of not taking things down. Little nudges from the community, like your comment here, help to shape the community so thanks for being an engaged member!
Specifically to annoy you. Enjoy!
A while ago I signed into x using a Gmail account. Mostly I was being hasty and careless. Never really used the account even. Forgot about it.
Recently I went and deleted the account, but when I log in, the first thing I see is a ridiculous antisemitic conspiracy theory.
That’s the default algorithm.
I think I understand it just fine.
Twitter is mainly mental illness.
They just fund and spread Nazi hate now, not that complicated.
Me neither. I technically had an account, but only to log in and look around. I found it most useful during things like Floyd protests and riots, for a real time news feed from people with boots on ground on what’s happening. Apart from that, it has always seemed odd and worthless.
Probably unpopular opinion: people hate “the algorithm” but you really need one for websites like Twitter; Mastodon feels absolutely dead due to lack of one. Just hashtags aren’t enough, a post looks ridiculous the more you put them.
I wish I didn’t have to use them but Reddit and Twitter are the go to for anything about local news and sports, and I occasionally see some absolutely banging content from people I’m not subscribed from their feeds.
this post could’ve been a tweet
Agree. I don’t understand following a person instead of a topic. I did follow a few bars, restaurants, etc. to see happy hours info.
Other way around for me. I only ever went on there to see artists and hobbyists and cool people do cool things. Many cool people have gone elsewhere which is nice.
It’s quite like reddit, but without threads or subs: just a nearly infinite list of comments made on anything. You only get to see what a comment (tweet) is about when there’s a tag on them or when they are a response to another tweet.
Twitter’s UX was generally better suited for some stuff like live events where you may want to see other people’s comments but only in real time - a 3 minute old tweet in this context is just useless data.
My aunt used to try to convince me to get Twitter, but she couldn’t explain what she thought I could do with Twitter that I couldn’t do with Facebook
I post post adult content and I follow other people who do the same. There are some extremely niche fetish communities there that you’ll struggle finding anywhere else. I also like that since it’s not a dedicated porn site there’s a lot of people following and messaging me with their personal profiles and getting thirsty comments from closeted gay conservatives, muslims and even extremists is quite fun.
My dad uses X and I have slowly watched his descent into madness. So whatever is done on there, it isn’t good
Masturbating their hindbrain to feel something
