Hates the Infotainment
Join Date: May 2004
Location: NSA Archives
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Got Nutshell giving me a follow-quit email every morning. Seems to catch [most changes] so far. Thanks Kieran.
Another question about DM. Can you DM someone who is not following you? IOW not in the pop-up list on the DM page? Could I just go @John_Doe Yo doe what it is? And know that it will show up in that person's inbox? ...into the light of a dark black night. |
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Location: Florida
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@kk@pennytucker.social
Join Date: Jan 2005
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You can send a DM to someone who is following you, but they can't DM you back if you're not following them.
Glad you like Nutshell. It keeps me informed of who is quitting on me every day. If it's people that I want to stay around, I know that I'm doing something "wrong" Otherwise, I could care less who decides to stop following me. No more Twitter. It's Mastodon now. |
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Hates the Infotainment
Join Date: May 2004
Location: NSA Archives
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Mention tab... I've heard of this before but never actually found / seen it. Is it private or can anyone read the comments in a person's mention tab?
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Rocket Surgeon
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The Canadark
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I don't think so, but, it will appear in your timeline so it is open for the world to see.
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@kk@pennytucker.social
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Are you using Twitter.com to tweet Moogs? If so, look down the right side of the page, you'll see where it says "@Moogs" or w/e your twitter name is. That's where the mentions go. Mentions don't show up in your general timeline unless you're following the person who mentioned you.
Some clients, like Tweetie have a section marked with an "@" symbol. That's where mentions go in clients. You can search mentions for anyone by just doing a search for "@(whatevernameyouwanttosearchfor" on Twitter or even in a client. Tweetie shows a user's mentions right from their profile. Pretty cool. No more Twitter. It's Mastodon now. |
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Florida
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It's not available publicly on someone else's twitter.com page, but it is party of the API and most twitter clients allow you to read the mentions on other people's names. The same goes with their favorites, though that is available on their twitter.com page.
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Hates the Infotainment
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So it sounds like bottom line, I can't DM this person. I'll just have to reply to them in the normal flow and hope they respond. ...into the light of a dark black night. |
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@kk@pennytucker.social
Join Date: Jan 2005
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I wouldn't say I'm a Twitter genius, just that I know a lot because I spend a lot of time on Twitter.
If you don't want to use a desktop client, you should try out Seesmic Web. Much better than Twitter.com for a web based client. There are columns you can use to see your timeline, your mentions, and you could even keep up a search term in another column so that you always see what's new. It's definitely the best web based way to Tweet. And as far as DM'ing that person, if they're following you, you'll be able to, otherwise, an @ reply should be able to get their attention. No more Twitter. It's Mastodon now. |
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Hates the Infotainment
Join Date: May 2004
Location: NSA Archives
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Yah I do all my Tweets from the desktop. Don't have a smart phone so it's all the old fashioned way.
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Of course, you have to be following the people in question, and you have to have opted in to the cell phone portion of the service, and...yeah. But it's not too complicated once you figure it out! |
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@kk@pennytucker.social
Join Date: Jan 2005
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If you're using the web all of the time Moogs, definitely give Seesmic Web a look.
Seesmic Web Much better than Twitter.com. |
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Hates the Infotainment
Join Date: May 2004
Location: NSA Archives
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Two part question. Tried Seesmic in advance of asking this, and it was sort of giving me what I wanted (a long view of all my old retweets and tweets), but then it crashed Safari.
Here's my question: any app out there that makes it relatively easy to go back to the early tweets and remove mentions and RT for things no longer relevant / people who no longer follow you, etc? Seesmic's pop-up menu on each post doesn't seem to have a delete option anyway... ...into the light of a dark black night. |
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Hates the Infotainment
Join Date: May 2004
Location: NSA Archives
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Any reason why, when I woke up this morning I'm about 600 tweets short of where I was yesterday? Has this ever happened to anyone?
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@kk@pennytucker.social
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Never been short, but a few months ago, my Tweet count jumped up to like 35,000. They fixed it, but it lasted for a few days.
Just an issue with Twitter. No more Twitter. It's Mastodon now. |
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Hates the Infotainment
Join Date: May 2004
Location: NSA Archives
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OK. Was hoping that's what it was but the fact that it was less and not more, scared me a bit. Didn't see anything unusual posted recently or deleted so hopefully my acct wasn't hacked or anything. Guess Twitter is one of those services where you have to change your password once a month to be safe.
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Rocket Surgeon
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The Canadark
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So, I've been trying to use Twitter for a bit now, and I've realised today what the problem is.
I like Twitter and the basic concept. But I hate the Twitter Social Conventions. ie: I hate hashtag "games." I hate it when people tag their tweet with hashtags that no-one else is ever going to use. eg: " #iwantthem #youmightto" I hate fucking Foursquare. Which will only ever become useful should I need to assassinate one of my Twitter followees. I particularly hate "Follow Friday" which produces more garbage tweets than I can think of. I really, really hate it when people add "tw" to the start of other words in an attempt to be cutesy. eg: "Tweeple" So, I dunno. I don't really have a problem with Twitter, just the people on it. |
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@kk@pennytucker.social
Join Date: Jan 2005
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You're following the wrong people then Bryson.
For Follow Friday, I've adopted a policy of unfollowing anybody who just lists a bunch of names w/o any reasoning as to why I should be following them. The hashtags are annoying, but sometimes they're fun. Usually the same people doing it, so just unfollow thenm. The best part of Twitter is that you pick who you want to follow. If you don't like what they're doing, just unfollow. No more Twitter. It's Mastodon now. |
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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Well, it would be nothing with Kanye West's presence:
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My only question would be: is he talking about literally eating a cookie (an Oreo, some sort of Keebler variety, etc.), or is this a street/ghetto/hipster euphemism for...well, you know. Either way, the fact that he considers the shit "mad suspenseful" is kinda funny. And weird. |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Purgatory
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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I saw that the other day. In fact, that's what spurred me to go look at his Twitter page (or whatever it's called) because, believe me, there is zero reason for me to be going there otherwise.
"Let's see how goofy these things are...". Yep, pretty goofy. He's, um...quite a thing. |
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awesome Join Date: Jul 2004
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Here's an actual Kanye tweet: I think Twitter was designed specifically with me in mind just my humble opinion hahhhahaaaahaaa humble hahahahhahaahaaaa Although my favorite is "Classical music is tight yo," which I retweeted. Not, like, trying to defend Mr. West or anything. I'm not really a fan. But he didn't write the Hans Zimmer cookie thing. and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong |
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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Fair enough. I don't know how all that shit works. It sure sounded like something stupid enough for him to say.
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Rocket Surgeon
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Hates the Infotainment
Join Date: May 2004
Location: NSA Archives
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[vent]Twitter is a fucking POS sometimes. I still can't get over how incredibly unreliable their network and general data security is. Still feels like a beta.
Yesterday I lost dozens of @ mentions from business partners (at least AFAICT they're gone) and today I cleaned out less than 20 DM from my inbox and sent box and my count dropped by about 50. This is horse shit. Not hard to believe it's a company run by 24 year olds or whatever the guy is. Please guys, ramp up your systems tech, get some people in there who know how to handle this stuff and make this a real business platform for networking. Right now it's pretty close to being a joke IMO. For fun stuff, A-OK. Who cares if you lose some mentions, RT or DM. Business... this stuff is unacceptable.[/vent] ...into the light of a dark black night. |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Sorry, but I just see this as more reason that social networks should be used for socializing, not as a marketing and business platform. These kinds of sites are not utility companies, aiming for six or more nines of uptime, and they surely aren't marketed as such.
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