Twitter :)

[osmosisch]

I'm @applecidermage and I completely understand if people don't want to follow me on Twitter, mostly because I am a lot more sharp-tongued and ranty on Twitter than I am here. Expect maximum feminism.

I loved those history of women's wages pages you posted! Pity you apparently have to pre-empt mockers about your reading though? I was a bit confused by that.

Anyway, I'm tribuut but don't really use twitter that much except as a content feed.

[Apple Cider]

There's quite a few people who read my Twitter only to add their really "helpful" comments - see the one guy who's takeaway from me posting pages was to mock the underlining, which was done on a bus.

[osmosisch]

I thought he made a rather civil course-correction on that one, but I don't have to deal with your replies all the time, obviously. I can imagine how someone doing that sort of thing all the time could get grating.

[Apple Cider]

It's a steady drip drip drip drip drip of comments every single day. Every day. About anything.

[Henroid]

It's always weird to find out you've been blocked by someone on Twitter. I was trying to retweet a retweet someone made, and I was notified the original poster had blocked me from viewing their tweets. Which is weird because I can't imagine how or why, we don't know each other.

 

Edit - Also, I can still see their tweets I guess if I'm following one of their followers and it gets a RT? Twitter is weird, functionally.

[Ben X]

I realised the other day that I'd previously blocked someone, and I had no idea why. They weren't gg-affiliated or anything, and I didn't even recognise them. I wonder whether they were going on about football for an entire month or something, so I blocked them with the intention to unblock later (I wasn't aware of mute until recently). Either that or I clicked it by mistake...

[N1njaSquirrel]

My twitter handle is @N1njasquirrel . I never post anything, so enjoy my feed of nothing.

 

 

Only a quarter of my Thumbs Forums twitter feed members have Manny Calavera avatars, I'm disappointed.

 

I like my poop slime! It's original!

[Apple Cider]

Oh that's you? Okay. I have to obsessively go through all new followers and read their timeline now. 

[N1njaSquirrel]

Get ready to be really bored. 

[Salacious Snake]

I've kinda gotten back into twitter after forgetting about if for a while. Follow https://twitter.com/jd_cohen for electrifying animal pictures and games talk.

 

(I was listed earlier in the thread, but my name here keeps changing.) I'm following a lot of you people!

[BusbyBerkeley]

I'm @douchetoevsky which is an internet name I've considered changing because it could give the wrong impression, but I think I still generally like it. Follow me if you want to see dumb tweets, a few OK tweets and a bunch of pictures of my face and also cats.

[ratamero]

I'm @ratamero but my feed is 99% in Portuguese (and not particularly interesting), so maybe good practice if you want to learn the language?

[mikemariano]

I don't talk about Pokémon at all so I blame all of you for this happening to me:

 

[sucks2Bme]

Everytime Apple Cider posts about something awesome she heard on Idle Thumbs on a Wednesday night I always get jealous and confused because I think you have super secret access to the casts before they go up. until I realize you are posting about old episodes.

 

 

@pzgear here which is a craptastic name but I blanked and i hatemakingusernames

[Apple Cider]

Yeah, sorry, I am doing a first listen of older episodes since I started listening when Danielle joined the show. I have no access to the secret episodes.

[chummer]

Yeah, sorry, I am doing a first listen of older episodes since I started listening when Danielle joined the show. I have no access to the secret episodes.

 

I really enjoy when you tweet about older episodes! I like being reminded of some of that stuff.

[sucks2Bme]

I really enjoy when you tweet about older episodes! I like being reminded of some of that stuff.

 

 

same here, since it makes me remember when i deep dove into the backlog to catch up. It just throws me off because I seem to always get these tweets the night before a new episode is released :-D 

[Apple Cider]

I might have to actually back up and start a tumblr or something, but Tweet sized bites tend to work.  

[dibs]

But maybe Apple Cider is getting the dishonoured episodes!

[Gerretic]

Is there a way to tell if I'm on some kind of block list, in particular any that are run by bots or something? I basically just use my Twitter account as a feed of stuff from people I enjoy and now one such person has blocked me and I don't know why! They happen to be the only person I've had an actual conversation with but it was short, pleasant, and more than 6 months ago so I can't think why I'd be getting blocked now.

[Merus]

If you know someone's subscribed to the block list, you can always check their account. For instance, if you're worried about being on the GG blocklist, @randi_ebooks is subscribed to it.

 

Thing is, though, it's not really your business who's blocking you. Blocking is for other people to curate their twitter feeds.

[Gerretic]

OK, that isn't it, then.

 

And I totally get that, and am not going to try and get unblocked anymore. I certainly don't want to bother someone who went to the trouble of blocking me, I just thought it might be a mistake.

[Apple Cider]

I block for a variety of reasons:

 

1.) Someone is bugging me

2.) Someone I don't know with a low post and follower count or objectionable content follows me

3.) Looks like a bot or a general business account spam-following me

[Twig]

Thing is, though, it's not really your business who's blocking you. Blocking is for other people to curate their twitter feeds.

Unless your only interaction with that person was a pleasant one, and you don't know what you could've done to offend, and you want to find out so you can avoid doing so in the future.

 

Basically, I disagree. There are legitimate reasons to block people, but I think there are also legitimate reasons to want to know why you were blocked.

[JonCole]

Nobody is entitled to anyone else's Twitter feed at their convenience. If you really want to know what a person who blocked you is tweeting and their account is unprotected, you can view their tweets with relative ease.

 

I use an app that filters my followers by various metrics, including tweets/day, following/followers ratio, account age, etc and I unfollow/mute/block based on internal criteria that I don't feel like telling anyone about. I use Twitter for a specific purpose and operate my account to meet those needs. I don't think this is particularly oppressive.