Twitter

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8655

KovacsC wrote:

I can't retweet at the moment... Should I be looking at a setting somewhere?

Can you just not retweet private tweets, because I think they disabled that (for obvious reasons).

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Nov 11, 2011 12:27

It is all tweets at the moment...

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Nov 11, 2011 12:32

hold on can you see if you retweet?

waits to go to the silly corner

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8655

KovacsC wrote:

hold on can you see if you retweet?

waits to go to the silly corner

I can't see that you've retweeted anything recently.

I am a big spaz that doesn't understand twitter

Your retweets appear to be coming through fine.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

KovacsC wrote:

hold on can you see if you retweet?

Not if it's someone you follow, no.

I can see a number of RTs by you: https://twitter.com/#!/mdhalstead

Think about it. Suppose you RT something Grim... says. The whole point of the native retweet is that if I follow both Grim... and you, then I don't see the RT -- I only see Grim...'s original.

So if you follow Grim..., and you RT Grim..., then the RT is itself (often) hidden from your view because you saw the original. Some clients will show it, but many won't. Tweetbot on the iPhone, for example, doesn't show me a new entry in my timeline when I retweet someone I follow, but the tweet itself is marked by a little enclosed-arrow icon to remind me what I did.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Nov 11, 2011 12:39

Joans wrote:

KovacsC wrote:

hold on can you see if you retweet?

waits to go to the silly corner

I can't see that you've retweeted anything recently.

I am a big spaz that doesn't understand twitter

Your retweets appear to be coming through fine.

Oh well

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Nov 11, 2011 12:45

Thanks chaps

myp · **Posted:** Fri Nov 11, 2011 12:46

KovacsC wrote:

Thanks chaps

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Nov 11, 2011 12:50

I like it

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Update on the @beexgames account -- it now works again. The instructions for how to use it are below. I would encourage you to put @beexgames on SMS updates by going here and clicking the little mobile phone round button. This means you'll get an SMS whenever anyone posts things to it -- that way we can be more proactive about arranging games.

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

The @BeexGames Twitter account
We are experimenting with using this account to announce and arrange online gaming. Here's how it works:

@BeexGames follows your Twitter account (otherwise step 4 won't work, you can only send Twitter direct messages to people who follow you). If it isn't following you, let me know.
If you want to game with us, you follow the BeexGames account.
When you want to play games, use your Twitter client to send a Direct Message to BeexGames. You can do this on the Twitter website here. For example, "I want to play Gears 2 tonight, between 9pm and 11pm. Anyone up for it?" Keep it short, because it's going to put "via @yourusername" in front of it.
After a short delay (maybe 5 min), your direct message will be reposted from the BeexGames account, like this one. Hence, you have broadcasted that you want to play a game, but all the notifications come from the same Twitter account for neatness. This means we don't all need to follow each other to get new game notifications.
Non-Twitter users can still benefit from the BeexGames RSS feed here. They can't post to it, however, unless they are willing to sign up for Twitter (which takes seconds!)

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

This amuses me.

Set up a bot to correct a common spelling error. Auto-favourite all the replies.
Take a look at the favourites tab.

https://twitter.com/#!/StealthMountain

A couple I liked:

Quote:

I have guns bitch

Quote:

its krismass goe fuck urs3lf u p@th3tic l00sir

Quote:

@StealthMountain who is dis al om my case wat do u look like a stealthmoutain reveal da secrect y would u put me on yo bio u stupid aint cha

myp · **Posted:** Sat Jan 21, 2012 15:15

Amazing.

myp · **Posted:** Sat Jan 21, 2012 15:20

Quote:

no it's fucking peak dumbass look it up

Quote:

No. It's sneak peak. Stop being pretentious as fuck.

Quote:

Omg! How the hell do u find that misspelled word so many times and dicate your whole twitter life 2 correcting them?

Dimrill · **Posted:** Fri Apr 13, 2012 21:19

Calling someone a cunt on Twitter is against the law. Fucking cunts.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Fri Apr 13, 2012 21:41

Dimrill wrote:

Calling someone a cunt on Twitter is against the law. Fucking cunts.

That is ridiculous.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sun Apr 15, 2012 18:36

Ah, seems like cuntgate wasn't just about cunt. He also posted a photo of the councillor's house encouraging people to push shit through his letterbox.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Sun Apr 15, 2012 19:37

Dimrill wrote:

Ah, seems like cuntgate wasn't just about cunt. He also posted a photo of the councillor's house encouraging people to push shit through his letterbox.

I read that as 'councillor's horse', which would have been even better.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2012 0:35

JBR, I think your account's been hacked.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

He's on holiday, so probably won't notice until he gets back.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sat May 26, 2012 23:45

Russ, your bargaincomparison account's been hacked.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12338

Dimrill wrote:

Russ, your bargaincomparison account's been hacked.

thank you. I've changed the password for now and I'll deactivate it when I'm on the main computer. Thanks.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

Wullie wrote:

That dude that joked

Quote:

"Crap! Robin Hood Airport is closed. You've got a week... otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!"

has been found guilty

http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/2010/05/ ... uilty.html

And has won his appeal

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19009344

Quote:

Robin Hood Airport tweet bomb threat man wins case
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Airport tweet ruling is reserved

A man found guilty of sending a menacing tweet threatening to blow up an airport has won a challenge against his conviction.

Paul Chambers, 27, from Doncaster, who now lives in Northern Ireland, was found guilty in May 2010 of sending a "menacing electronic communication".

Mr Chambers tweeted he would blow up Robin Hood Airport in South Yorkshire when it was closed after heavy snow.

After a hearing at the High Court in London his conviction was quashed.

Mr Chambers said he had sent the tweet, which contained swear words, to his 600 followers in a moment of frustration after Robin Hood Airport, near Doncaster, was closed by snow in January 2010.
'Obvious joke'

He said he had never thought anyone would take his "silly joke" seriously.

The message Mr Chambers tweeted stated: "Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!!"

He was fined £385 and ordered to pay £600 costs after being convicted at Doncaster Magistrates' Court in May 2010.

His first appeal was dismissed by a crown court judge in November 2010, who said the electronic communication was "clearly menacing" and that airport staff were sufficiently concerned to report it.

Last month, John Cooper QC told the Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, Mr Justice Owen and Mr Justice Griffith Williams it was obvious the tweet was a joke and it was sent by someone who did not hide his identity.

It was certainly not sent in the context of terrorism and it was wrong for the crown court to make such an association, he said.

Comedians Stephen Fry and Al Murray were among those supporting Mr Chambers' case.

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Jul 27, 2012 10:21

he certainly had heavyweight backing.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Jul 27, 2012 10:32

Fucking Hell! Common sense prevails!

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12338

Very, very glad about this.

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Jul 27, 2012 17:07

Grim... wrote:

Fucking Hell! Common sense prevails!

Quite. As with the recent elctrofag-on-a-megabus clusterfuck, an example of things getting out of hand because nobody wanted to get it wrong on their watch.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:13

Daley detractor detained, dead dad's drollery demands detention

Plissken · **Posted:** Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:16

Much as I like the idea of trolls being taught that they can't hide behind a keyboard, the fact that the police had to take action yet Twitter happily shut down a journalists account for criticising NBC doesn't sit well.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:18

Plissken wrote:

Much as I like the idea of trolls being taught that they can't hide behind a keyboard, the fact that the police had to take action

Agree. It's surprising how these people don't seem to learn.

Plissken wrote:

yet Twitter happily shut down a journalists account for criticising NBC doesn't sit well.

Breach of T&Cs was the line, wasn't it? I think Twitter, as a body, was protecting itself, more than anything.

Plissken · **Posted:** Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:43

Can't sell your tweets to marketing companies if they include personally identifiable information.

romanista · **Posted:** Wed Aug 29, 2012 20:00

so just stupid question... usually when followed by bots they often had 0 tweets
but for example this guy is following me now..

https://twitter.com/HitmanAB?uid=136166 ... nid=23+112

i gues he is a bot, as why would he be following me.. i rarely tweet in english (just to give you some guys some idea that i'm still alive) ..so he probs bly is a bot.. but err, 13k followers.. all bought? how does that work? and why?

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Wed Aug 29, 2012 21:13

Dunno, but I seem to be getting followed by a lot of porn accounts recently. I don't even use my account that much.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Wed Aug 29, 2012 21:37

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

Dunno, but I seem to be getting followed by a lot of porn accounts recently. I don't even use my account that much.

That's just Meaty trying to stay in touch.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22396

I'm still on the hunt for a good Twitter client for OSX. Twitter and Twitterrific both crash at least once every couple of days. Tweetbot used to be brilliant, but the latest alpha has broken "pin to top" functionality, so every time I come back to my iMac I have hundreds of tweets to scroll through to get back to now.

Grrr...

Malabelm · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2012 13:20

Tweetbot doesn't work with TweetMarker for me at the moment, so it's completely useless. It seems okay in general, but it needs work. So I'm using Twiterrific at the moment, but dislike a lot about it.

Which brings me on to an annoyance about Twitter clients in general: when I read a mention in my main timeline, I absolutely hate having to switch to the mentions tab to stop it glowing. I want them to be marked as read as I go past.

myp · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2012 13:31

Trooper wrote:

I'm still on the hunt for a good Twitter client for OSX.

Open Safari. Type http://www.twitter.com.

That's what I do at the moment. I haven't found a decent client yet.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12338

Malabelm wrote:

Tweetbot doesn't work with TweetMarker for me at the moment, so it's completely useless. It seems okay in general, but it needs work. So I'm using Twiterrific at the moment, but dislike a lot about it.

Which brings me on to an annoyance about Twitter clients in general: when I read a mention in my main timeline, I absolutely hate having to switch to the mentions tab to stop it glowing. I want them to be marked as read as I go past.

Because they're not allowed iCloud support until the release proper, so it does say on their site that the synchronisation won't work.

Which is a shame, because there's no real point otherwise.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22396

The Last Salmon Man wrote:

Trooper wrote:

I'm still on the hunt for a good Twitter client for OSX.

Open Safari. Type http://www.twitter.com.

That's what I do at the moment. I haven't found a decent client yet.

Indeed, however I like to have it always available on a little strip on the side of my screen, and the website doesn't let you do that.

myp · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2012 13:40

Trooper wrote:

The Last Salmon Man wrote:

Trooper wrote:

I'm still on the hunt for a good Twitter client for OSX.

Open Safari. Type http://www.twitter.com.

That's what I do at the moment. I haven't found a decent client yet.

Indeed, however I like to have it always available on a little strip on the side of my screen, and the website doesn't let you do that.

Even Mountain Lion 'integration' isn't great. You can get notifications and compose tweets straight from your desktop, but click on a notification and? It opens the website in Safari. :facepalm:

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22396

Twitter for me is mostly read only, all this integration that allows me to tweet from anywhere is pretty much useless to me

I generally only tweet if i'm responding to something I have read.

Malabelm · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2012 13:50

Mr Russell wrote:

Because they're not allowed iCloud support until the release proper, so it does say on their site that the synchronisation won't work.

Which is a shame, because there's no real point otherwise.

I know about that. I mean the service TweetMarker, which came out before iCloud. It's what I've been using for ages now, but it doesn't work properly in Tweetbot for me; it'll sync to where I left off from other devices, but not sync its own position back to the service. I expect it'll be fixed at some point… it's only an alpha after all.

I don't know if iCloud will handle this better. But I like the guy behind TweetMarker enough to pay him for the service.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2012 14:21

I dislike twitter when it is used to stupidly bandwagon against Republican interests.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

MaliA wrote:

I dislike twitter when it is used to stupidly bandwagon against Republican interests.

Even when said Republican interests are mainly "lying to the voters who are too stupid to see it?"

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2012 14:37

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

MaliA wrote:

I dislike twitter when it is used to stupidly bandwagon against Republican interests.

Even when said Republican interests are mainly "lying to the voters who are too stupid to see it?"

Not going into specifics (probably lieing), but the twitter bandwagon does more harm than good, I think. I'm fairly sure I've written of this before, but new examples have come to light. I think the poltiics of twitter's users lies to the left (maybe demographics, I dunno, more research needed). Sometimes, I think the abdwaggoning of things on it are ugly and downright rude. By and large, I don't think that someone should be berated for their support of the GOP or the stupid party, not by baying hrose through 140 characters. It's inelegant. And stuff.

The most recent one being a dog that was going to be put down as it was a danger and then people were "Save Lennox the Pitbull" he didn't want to hurt anything and it's a fucking chav dog owned by a chav owner in chav town that the court and experts decided was dangerous not Leona fucking Lewis. And that poor lass who didn't know who Neil Armstrong was, or the lass (Ok, she was a dirt mackam, but that's not her fault) who asked if Wimbeldon was ehld there every year (as a matter of fact, it hasn't). And the endless pintless fucking articles newspapers churn up about it as journalism is basically for thickos nowadays, unless you write for the times which noone under the age of 30 buys.

TLDR: it's worse than Mumsnet.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

MaliA wrote:

I think the poltiics of twitter's users lies to the left (maybe demographics, I dunno, more research needed).

I think that's horseshit.

https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23tcot

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2012 14:40

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

MaliA wrote:

I think the politics of twitter's users lies to the left (maybe demographics, I dunno, more research needed).

I think that's horseshit.

https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23tcot

It's more musings, based upon things I see most. hence the "more research needed". I dunno what #tcot is.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

MaliA wrote:

It's more musings, based upon things I see most. hence the "more research needed".

And that's the problem -- selection bias.

Quote:

I dunno what #tcot is.

So click the link, then.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2012 14:41

It's for repairing minor scratches on your car.

myp · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2012 14:41

And breathe.

myp · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2012 14:43

MaliA wrote:

TLDR

You should stick to a medium that only allows you 140 characters, perhaps.

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