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This is really interesting. A great tool to search geocoded tweets is the MapD Tweetmap http://www.mapd.com/demos/tweetmap http://www.mapd.com/demos/tweetmap (f

by tmostak 11y ago

This is really interesting. A great tool to search geocoded tweets is the MapD Tweetmap http://www.mapd.com/demos/tweetmap http://www.mapd.com/demos/tweetmap (full disclosure, my company). For example, here (http://bit.ly/1KIPSqh http://bit.ly/1KIPSqh) are tweets containing “seat” and “me”.

chris_wot 11y ago
Now every arsehole spammer will add the words "I'm OK me my" and when a major accident occurs the mode of transport or disaster related noun to their tweets And this is why we can't have nice things. Twitter doesn't kill spam bots fast enough and Twitter spammers and slimey SEO douchebags crap in their own backyard. No wonder Twitter is going down: between the gamergaters, doxxers, trolls, female hating mysogynists, outraged eavesdroppers, rape loving, NLP wielding pick-up artists, swot-abusers, and vapid, brain-dead, useless celebrities - how does Twitter even exist? It's truly amazing how a medium with only a 140 character limit can a. make money, b. communicate anything really worthwhile, or c. be read by anyone with any serious intent! Several years ago the criticisms were that everyone tweeted about mundane crap and it went down frequently [1], now it's being abandoned because it's no better than swimming in a sewage system [2]. 1. http://youtu.be/b5Ff2X_3P_4 http://youtu.be/b5Ff2X_3P_4 2. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/02/stephen-fry-quits-twitter-baftas http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/02/stephen-fry-quits-twi...
- girvo 11y ago
  Do you really think those (abhorrent) kinds of people make up the bulk of Twitter's voice? Because my feed certainly isn't.
  - chris_wot 11y ago
    Yup. Your feed might not be full of spam, but how are you going with searching for specific tweets? And I'm assuming you aren't a female who tweets about feminism or calls out mysogynists and who consequently gets threatened with rape or murder; you're not a woman or defending women who build or critically review games; you aren't being doxxed by gamer gaters; you aren't trying to debate a controversial issue so you aren't getting flamed or trolled; you've never quietly joked about a dongle at a tech conference and not realised you were a little bit too loud and subsequently lost your job when someone tweets your photo instead of confronting you directly or taking it to conference organisers; and lastly, you aren't a teenager being influenced by celebrities encouraging you to buy into a vapid and stupid lifestyle instead of contributing to society in some meaningful way. You live in a nice world if that's the case. Twitter is great for you, but pretty awful for everyone else. Which is great, but let's leave Twitter to this niche market and let everyone else find some other medium that isn't so corrosive for them. People of course don't leave this medium, and it beats me why.

by tmostak 11y ago

chris_wot 11y ago

Now every arsehole spammer will add the words "I'm OK me my" and when a major accident occurs the mode of transport or disaster related noun to their tweets And this is why we can't have nice things. Twitter doesn't kill spam bots fast enough and Twitter spammers and slimey SEO douchebags crap in their own backyard. No wonder Twitter is going down: between the gamergaters, doxxers, trolls, female hating mysogynists, outraged eavesdroppers, rape loving, NLP wielding pick-up artists, swot-abusers, and vapid, brain-dead, useless celebrities - how does Twitter even exist? It's truly amazing how a medium with only a 140 character limit can a. make money, b. communicate anything really worthwhile, or c. be read by anyone with any serious intent! Several years ago the criticisms were that everyone tweeted about mundane crap and it went down frequently [1], now it's being abandoned because it's no better than swimming in a sewage system [2]. 1. http://youtu.be/b5Ff2X_3P_4 http://youtu.be/b5Ff2X_3P_4 2. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/02/stephen-fry-quits-twitter-baftas http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/02/stephen-fry-quits-twi...

girvo 11y ago
Do you really think those (abhorrent) kinds of people make up the bulk of Twitter's voice? Because my feed certainly isn't.
- chris_wot 11y ago
  Yup. Your feed might not be full of spam, but how are you going with searching for specific tweets? And I'm assuming you aren't a female who tweets about feminism or calls out mysogynists and who consequently gets threatened with rape or murder; you're not a woman or defending women who build or critically review games; you aren't being doxxed by gamer gaters; you aren't trying to debate a controversial issue so you aren't getting flamed or trolled; you've never quietly joked about a dongle at a tech conference and not realised you were a little bit too loud and subsequently lost your job when someone tweets your photo instead of confronting you directly or taking it to conference organisers; and lastly, you aren't a teenager being influenced by celebrities encouraging you to buy into a vapid and stupid lifestyle instead of contributing to society in some meaningful way. You live in a nice world if that's the case. Twitter is great for you, but pretty awful for everyone else. Which is great, but let's leave Twitter to this niche market and let everyone else find some other medium that isn't so corrosive for them. People of course don't leave this medium, and it beats me why.