Tweetstorms

Anonus

What happened to, you know, blogging?

Obā-san

blogging is so two thousand and late

Anonus

maybe two thousand and late had some good ideas

Obā-san

Tamlin said:

two thousand and late

Tre

boom boom pow

lee4hmz

shocking thought: 2008 was 9 years ago

Calica

Anonus said:

What happened to, you know, blogging?

people decided they wanted people to actually read the middle parts of their thoughts

Anonus

tweetstorms are so dumb though

like you have to read these things backwards

Odradek

Writing your rant on twitter is like writing your manifesto on toilet paper

Calica

Odradek said:

Writing your rant on twitter is like writing your manifesto on toilet paper

eye-tracking studies have shown that manifestos not written on toilet paper never get read past the first two paragraphs

Odradek

Ass-tracking studies have shown that toilet paper

glennmagusharvey

smrotsteewt

Anonus

Relevant

Alduin

Tamlin said:

Tamlin said:

two thousand and late

Thanks for reminding me of that song, I really needed it.

glennmagusharvey

i've actually only ever encountered the phrase "two thousand and late" in this forum lol

i'm nineteen ninety-late i guess

Anonus

https://twitter.com/mtsw/status/870700352055554051

i wish desperately that tumblr or some other social blogging service were more mainstream because it's more wieldy than tweetstorms

Fossilmaiden

I mean, tumblr is the 49th most visited website in the world, it's pretty mainstream.

Calica

say what you will about tweetstorms, they're more wieldy than any tumblr theme that still offsets quotes

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Anonus

okay yeah point

Obā-san

Anonus said:

https://twitter.com/mtsw/status/870700352055554051

i wish desperately that tumblr or some other social blogging service were more mainstream because it's more wieldy than tweetstorms

actually this is really good, because you can just see "oh hey this is gonna be someone prattling on about some shit for too damn long" and you dont have to see the rest of it

whereas with tumblr it's like LISTEN UP, YOU SHITFUCKS, IT'S CRUCIAL THAT YOU REBLOG THIS, THIS POST I AM WRITING NOW, ABOUT THIS ISSUES. THIS IS AT LEAST A SOLID PAGE OF TEXT YOU GOTTA SCROLL THROUGH BEFORE LOOKING AT SHIT YOU CARE ABOUT, MY DUDE

Obā-san

think of tweetstorms as a sieve to catch useless garbage before it sullies your eyes

Klinotaxis

you could combine them by mandating "read more"s for more posts of more than a few lines

Obā-san

tbh if you're writing anything longer than a sentence youve fucked up

Anonus

well i liked that tweetstorm myself but still

Obā-san

i dont think ive ever seen a good opinion

i think this might mean that im a bit nuts, but it doesnt mean that im wrong

Section42L

Anonus said:

well i liked that tweetstorm myself but still

Yeah, it's not wrong. That's a huge part of the reason it left me so uncomfortable after I read it.

glennmagusharvey

Calica said:

say what you will about tweetstorms, they're more wieldy than any tumblr theme that still offsets quotes

if they offset quotes they should just stretch the page horizontally instead

after all, all these silly 16:9 screens are wasting so much screen space

Salix Babylonika

Tamlin said:

Anonus said:

https://twitter.com/mtsw/status/870700352055554051

i wish desperately that tumblr or some other social blogging service were more mainstream because it's more wieldy than tweetstorms

actually this is really good, because you can just see "oh hey this is gonna be someone prattling on about some shit for too damn long" and you dont have to see the rest of it

whereas with tumblr it's like LISTEN UP, YOU SHITFUCKS, IT'S CRUCIAL THAT YOU REBLOG THIS, THIS POST I AM WRITING NOW, ABOUT THIS ISSUES. THIS IS AT LEAST A SOLID PAGE OF TEXT YOU GOTTA SCROLL THROUGH BEFORE LOOKING AT SHIT YOU CARE ABOUT, MY DUDE

this is why I don't chain my tweets

[the actual reason is that i just forget]

lee4hmz

Twitter attracts people who like to ramble (I know because I've done it myself a lot), Tumblr attracts people who like to preach fire and brimstone (metaphorically speaking).

Salix Babylonika

I don't know about that, I've seen a lot of long posts on tumblr that are perfectly pleasant.

lee4hmz

I have, too, but it always seems like it's the angry zealots that get any attention when Tublr gets brought up.

Obā-san

i see way more angry zealots on twitter than i ever did on tumblr

Calica

i think it's about the same, actually, it's just that more of the angry zealots on twitter are adults

Obā-san

makes them worse, they should know better