Twitter

[Guy Profumo]

Trending on Twitter right now

Alan Bennett

Gary Barlow


There's good news, and bad news.

[Sean of the Shed]

Trending on Twitter right now

Alan Bennett

Gary Barlow


There's good news, and bad news.

They've both died?

[Guy Profumo]

Has it all gone a little bit pear for everyone else following the "upgrade" to 280 characters?

[Snake Plissken]

Well, there is twice as much bullshit on there, if that is what you mean.

[ursus arctos]

It must be the accounts I follow, but I'm finding very few longer tweets in my feed

[Moonlight Shadow]

Just feels wrong....

[Furtho]

It must be the accounts I follow, but I'm finding very few longer tweets in my feed

Me too. Does the functionality require someone wanting to post longer tweets to do so from the website? If so, don't most people use apps which currently preclude that?

[Moonlight Shadow]

No, I can post from app, the character counter has been replaced by a little circle that fills up when you type...

[ursus arctos]

Same

[Femme Folle]

I got a new blue tick follower last night, Alfons López Tena. His profile reads: "Jurist. Spanish Judiciary Council's & Catalan Parliament's former member. Writes in @businessinsider—@InPRA—@ctxt_es—@myfairobserver—… "

I'm not sure why he thinks I'm worth following.

[Femme Folle]

Re 280 characters: As someone who has had it for longer than others, I can tell you that we have become so accustomed to mentally composing tweets to fit 140 characters, that it actually takes more effort than you think to go longer. Twitter has already trained us.

[Diable Rouge]

I got a new blue tick follower last night, Alfons López Tena. His profile reads: "Jurist. Spanish Judiciary Council's & Catalan Parliament's former member. Writes in @businessinsider—@InPRA—@ctxt_es—@myfairobserver—… "

I'm not sure why he thinks I'm worth following.

Have you been tweeting about either Barça or Joan Laporta?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catala...r_Independence

[Furtho]

No, I can post from app, the character counter has been replaced by a little circle that fills up when you type...

Looking more closely, it's like that on Tweetdeck (which I use a bit on a desktop) but Tweetbot (which I use a lot on the iPad) is still at 140 characters.

[Snake Plissken]

The Tweetbot developers said it would be there in a couple of days.

[Furtho]

It’s available now, in fact.

[Guy Profumo]

Well, there is twice as much bullshit on there, if that is what you mean.

Nah.

I found it difficult to "quote tweet" and enter replies.

[Furtho]

Yeah, that is immediately helpful.

[Gerontophile]

I think Stephen King sums it up well.

[Toby Gymshorts]

In today's "oh dear, what a shame" news, Yaxley-Lennon et al lose their verification.

Too bad, so sad.

[Gerontophile]

https://twitter.com/BuzzFeed/status/951211296778682368

[Gerontophile]

From what I can gather on Twitter, it seems that thousands of right-wing Twits are losing their followers...

Any ideas?

[SouthdownRebel]

Botmageddon

[Femme Folle]

From what I've been able to gather, Jack is cracking down on Russian bots. It's about time.

[Snake Plissken]

The most amusing thing is that these people are losing followers, yet claiming it is inhibiting their freedom of speech.

[Gerontophile]

Someone called it "The Crapture".