Twitter Followers up, Twitter Followers down….

tohaltuwi

I’ll let you know furst, tis rather tongue in cheek here. But interesting. To see the tend I post something or other, suddenly 10 new followers. And no they aren’t Porn Bots, the thingamajig has figured out my gender etc.

I’m a bit nuanced in my approach to things so it’s yes to this and no to that. After accumulating “followers” like a snowball accumulates another layer of sneachta, express another nuance, another 10 drop like leaden weights.

Discuss, me friends.

Charlo30

Ah Twitter. The answer to a question no one asked

Hamsterchops

X.

tohaltuwi

it was once a useful enough platform for quick updates, under Musk it’s turned into a complete cesspit of delusion and hatred. I still find it helpful to communicate with organisations, but my feed is increasingly drowned out by so much material I do not want to see.

I’m more nuanced and try overall not to be a rigid thinker or opinionater, but I notice you suddenly get a whole slew of new followers when certain people think your thoughts align with theirs. Then they see your thinking isn’t rigidly aligned one way or the other and some of that skew drop off like dead flies.

iamstop

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122282756#Comment_122282756

The crazy amount of Zionist propaganda that's on my feed is crazy. I've followed a few record labels and science reporting outlets. No idea where all the propaganda is coming from even when I've blocked a number of the more prominent offenders. As a result, it's no good for browsing/scrolling because it just gets me angry at the world. I can only go on it to look for something specific.

As for what I think the OPs question is about. Blame the bots.

tohaltuwi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122283712#Comment_122283712

enormous number of bots, and I find myself getting dragged down rabbit holes and getting angry and completely forgetting what I was really looking for.

On the other hand I love it for aviation & tech news, travel suggestions & tips, updates on what’s happening.

Cone to think of it now, maybe I’ll attempt to create a bot to automatically block the bots 🤔🤣 and clean up the feed.

I love a bit of light mischief and responded to Ryanair’s comment on Eamon Ryan’s departure (I’m not a supporter of him politically , though he’s a decent man) …

tohaltuwi

Looking at the Jay Slater (missing guy in Tenerife) bots, absolutely appalling spam filling up tons of space. His mother must be totally vexed if she sees that whilst looking for clues, but I imagine she has more pressing immediate comcerns atm. Have they no “bot-detection bot” that detects countless identical posts?

Go back to print or real journalism for news?

Only slightly related.

In the Irish times there is an article by Keelin Moncrieff about camping with a toddler, it's straight forward, informative and useful, no anixt, no drama, no mental health, no navel gazing it's brilliant.

Wanderer78

jesus thank god boards is pretty much as far as ive gone with social media, ive enough problems to be introducing new ones from its use, very strange medium of expression…..

tohaltuwi

I’m really too masochistic when it comes to social media, I’ve accounts everywhere.

I look at Facebook but really only to catch up with far flung relatives and friends, seeing new babies growing up, weddings, holidays. I love travel pages, an airplane reels. But really I only take a quick Look every few days.

I keep a You Tube channel where I vlog about living with MS and an ileostomy, people actually find it useful which is nice. I keep a blog on MS with a free Wordpress account.

Mastodon is a graveyard. LinkedIn is a place I visit to learn new information on science & tech as well as aviation, engineering, neuroscience. Some great resources.

I really don’t like Tik Tok, although I have an account I rarely use it. I have Instagram, I’m not really that enamoured of it, I use it mostly to catch up with news from MS Ireland.

I use Reddit the odd time, mainly answering questions about ileostomy, eg for people who are faced having one and want a bit of reassurance, plus looking around a bit st other topics to get different insights than might be found on the rather smaller circular community on Boards where I can often predict the conversations at this stage.

Twitter, the topic here, is my go-to for fast updates, but I have to confess to being dragged down rabbit holes, not contributing to vile “conversations” but finding myself fascinated by how they arise and the sociology behind it.

magicbastarder

I haven't posted to my Twitter account in about six months or more, but did find myself drawn back there during the election counts, there's nowhere that has replaced Twitter for that sort of use unfortunately.

tohaltuwi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122290720#Comment_122290720

that’s just it, it has turned into a cesspool but has replacement. The example I drew attention to has , Jay Slater, on Tenerife. His family must be distraught if they read any of the repetitive bot text. To bring this up on Twitter just enter Jay Slater in search, select “latest” an interminable array of bot text spews pointlessly forth.