Right, bastards, I have got a Twitter account
Could someone please a) explain what I ought to now do with the bloody thing, and b) give me some tips on not being swamped with garbage? Thanks, or as I probably ought to say now, #thanks@, or something.
a) ignore when anyone "adds" you, unless they're someone you already respect. Check the box that makes sure you don't get bothered by emails from people who "add" you.
ReplyDeleteb) "add" anyone who responds to you with something interesting, un-troll-y and un-spam-bot-y.
c) ignore the fact that you've been added by a thousand people who are assortedly dickwads and Viagra sellers (yes, quite), because you don't ever need to worry about that unless you fancy a Quixotic crusade to mark them all as spam.
e) ?
f) profit.
d) also ?
ReplyDeleteblimey, comments links on the actual posts. Once more the all-conquering force of dsquared beats down some intransigent technology.
ReplyDelete@dsquared is a "Christian, wife, mom, business owner", which probably takes at least the bronze medal position in a "person least like dsquared" competition.
Not being swamped with garbage: follow people you know (or know of), and give it a bit of time before abandoning the whole concept as a ridiculous way to discover when celebrities are on the bog or similar. It's strangely compelling to get the daily insight. Try posting minutiae about your thoughts, a bit. You want to reveal slightly more than you think you do, I'd suggest. And it has the beautiful property of giving you a way to express an idea without having to actually flesh it out in detail, meaning that at some future point when someone brings up a new political theory you can say "ah, but that's what I meant in this tweet here, but I never got around to filling in the detail". It's good for people who don't always get around to writing up short thorts in more detail, not that I know anyone like that.
(captcha: gotcher, which I suppose I could trick up into some pithy comment about how you've now been captured by the twitterati if I only had 140 characters in which to do so. Welcome to the New World Order.)
a) Download secondary software rather than using twitter.com
ReplyDeleteb) Don't login drunk
You should start by telling us what it is called :)
ReplyDeleteAgreed with Stuart; you should enforce your own standards for "is this twitter account I am following sufficiently interesting to read". I think you'll be particularly good at driveby bons mots, which is all it's really good for.
So far nobody has given me the advice "don't immediately pick a fight with David Aaronovitch", which I am taking as an implicit green light.
ReplyDelete@dd - you might even get around to accepting your invite to @secrettwitterproject!
ReplyDelete@what? #ohyes, I @think I #@remember what you #mean. this is more fun than I thought it would be!
ReplyDeletehaha i went across to add you, only to discover the #failwhale of twitter overcapacity, i assume bcz everyone else went across to add you at the same time
ReplyDeleteDD: so... what's the account?
ReplyDeleteIt's not too difficult to find if you know the name of this blog.
ReplyDeleteI use CrowdLens (crowdlens.com) to read posts in chronological order.
ReplyDeleteNever be afraid to just skip whole swaths of unread posts. Twitter is not for extremely urgent news.
dsquared is a NYC dog lovers' group.
ReplyDeleteI have been through every permutation of dsquared, d-squared, d_squared, economics, and sleep deprived and have yet to find you.
you need to add the word "digest" and you'll be away.
ReplyDeleteIn related news, the brief experiment with giving a fuck what John Rentoul has to say is not off to a promising start.
Is this a test? Because I am failing it.
ReplyDeletei didnt think it was but apparently it's confusing everyone apart from a few generic viagra wholesalers. it's dsquareddigest, possibly with a @ somewhere in there.
ReplyDeleteYou'll either get bored within a week, or an addict, fired from your job, divorced, with pot noodle stains on your wife-beater t-shirt in a bedsit in Finsbury Park, but with 10,000 followers hanging onto every word.
ReplyDeleteyour avatar has turned into a question mark in a square that usually means bad image link
ReplyDeleteThis may of course be a gag I'm missing...