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In Twitter’s early days, only one celebrity could tweet at a time (2018)
- lanevorockz 5y agoWhat is Twitter ? isn't that the Hate promoting platform ? Its been nearly three years I threw it under the bus and my life improved substantially.
- kryptk 5y agoYour experience with social media largely depends on the accounts you surround yourself with. I had an identical experience to yours on Facebook, but my Twitter accounts are carefully curated by topic and their timelines are generally excellent.
- undfg 5y agoThis was true before Twitter decided to inject tweets from people you don't follow into your timeline.
- angulardragon03 5y agoTweetdeck on desktop (as well as using private lists on their mobile app) provide excellent solutions to this problem.
- gnoll_of_gozag 5y agoset to latest tweets instead of home and mute these phrases https://gist.github.com/IanColdwater/88b3341a7c4c0cf71c73ac56f9bd36ec https://gist.github.com/IanColdwater/88b3341a7c4c0cf71c73ac5...
- serf 5y agoit's a noble effort, but it misses the point. altruistic view : if you fix their service on your end, it invalidates portions of their feature A/B test -- a weaker signal means that it'll be less likely that they remove whatever feature offended you / made the service worse. pessimistic view : they won't stop being abusive to the user until the abuse shows up on their financial reports. Stop being a patron, they'll be forced to change their ways.
- mingus88 5y agoOP could be referring to the overwhelming impact of Trump on Twitter and his penchant toward bullying and violence. I don't log into Twitter. I don't "surround myself" with any accounts. Yet, the platform is inescapably branded by their inability to police their own content and I could not avoid if even when I tried.
- tuxie_ 5y agoMmmk.
- dominotw 5y ago> my life improved substantially. then Maybe it has something to do with you?
- haswell 5y agoThe impact of social media on mental health has been a topic of regular discussion. Given what we’re learning about how social media hijacks our brain’s reward systems, tends to fuel anxiety and negative thoughts about ourselves, and give the user a distorted perspective of the world around them, no, I doubt this has anything to do specifically with the parent commentor. There are dozens if not hundreds of articles that explore this [0], [1], [2], etc. - [0] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/07/how-twitter-fuels-anxiety/534021/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/07/how-t... - [1] https://www.mcleanhospital.org/essential/it-or-not-social-medias-affecting-your-mental-health https://www.mcleanhospital.org/essential/it-or-not-social-me... - [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7364393/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7364393/
- dominotw 5y ago> hijacks our brain’s reward systems, Maybe for the ppl who are not capable just blocking the offending site or unable to control themselves from eating 5 big macs with big gulp in a single sitting. Yea lets blame twitter , mcdonalds or whatever from stopping ppl from living their lives. I blocked twitter, FB ect in my router software. Whats such a big deal, i don't understand.
- haswell 5y agoFor sake of argument, let’s for a moment go with your assertion that this only impacts weak minded people (despite plenty of evidence to the contrary). What is your conclusion? “Weak minded” people don’t matter? How do you even define “weak minded”? Alcohol is extremely harmful to alcoholics. I personally don’t have an alcohol problem, but should that imply something about the experience of those who do have alcohol problems? > Yea lets blame twitter , mcdonalds or whatever from stopping ppl from living their lives. It’s funny you mention McDonald’s. Both companies literally have groups of scientists focusing on making their product as addictive as possible. We should absolutely blame these companies - the general consumer doesn’t have a chance against the growth hacking and french fry oil optimization. That doesn’t mean we don’t each have a personal responsibility to ourselves, but we should not underestimate the power of social media and junk food.
- underseacables 5y agoCould only handle “two popular” users at once, requiring manual traffic control. Slowing Twitter down might be something to consider again.
- phone8675309 5y agoTwitterāgō dēlenda est
- fernandotakai 5y agoah yes, the years when you would see the fail whale every other day. i kind of miss the old twitter days -- less politics and more... fun?
- esrauch 5y agoI only go to Twitter through links from here or reddit and I still get error pages pretty often.
- bingidingi 5y agoI’m convinced that it’s intentional to push sign up and reduce anonymous bandwidth
- setr 5y agoIf you don’t login, it seems to be guaranteed you’ll initially get a “page couldn’t load error” on browser or app, until refreshing (sometimes multiple times). At this point I’m assuming it’s intentional, since it occurs over multiple devices, browsers and probably years
- toast0 5y agoI don't think it's 100% intentional. Twitter links were working pretty well from February through May this year; which unfortunately untrained me to not click twitter links.
- toast0 5y agoThe fail whale used to come out predictably 30 minutes into an outage where I was working (no coupling between the services, just users would tweet about us being down until Twitter fell over); but eventually Twitter was able to handle it, so we had to buckle down and fix our systems too.
- LightG 5y agoCould we bring that back, please?
- ksec 5y agoI wonder with today's server / cloud resources, how far could Ruby Rails Scale on a twitter clone.