Twitter, the site

Twitter/X as a platform: posting, followers, algorithms, moderation, archives, virality, online discourse mechanics

A topic in the tpot Community Archive, drawn from 22,852 posts.

Trusted voices in Twitter, the site

Ordered by the trust Twitter, the site's own network concentrates on each poster, most first.

  1. visakanv — trusted by 213 posters here
  2. QiaochuYuan — trusted by 193 posters here
  3. nosilverv — trusted by 199 posters here
  4. eigenrobot — trusted by 182 posters here
  5. goblinodds — trusted by 170 posters here
  6. DefenderOfBasic — trusted by 171 posters here
  7. RichDecibels — trusted by 174 posters here
  8. eshear — trusted by 179 posters here
  9. vividvoid — trusted by 169 posters here
  10. PrinceVogel — trusted by 162 posters here
  11. the_wilderless — trusted by 160 posters here
  12. michaelcurzi — trusted by 156 posters here

Top posts in Twitter, the site

Ordered by the recorded like count from the source corpus; a like is not an endorsement.

  1. i do not have anything useful or valuable to report back to you after having spent half a year off twitter. the flip side of insulating myself from a million random psychic influences was… (QiaochuYuan) — 60 likes
  2. You can be rigorous about only following a thousand lovely sensible kind people on this site, nonetheless each year about 1-2% of them will straight up go insane (visakanv) — 53 likes
  3. so about half the reason i stopped using twitter is b/c after reading scattered minds i decided i didn't want a million random psychic influences on my mind all the time. i don't intend for this to… (QiaochuYuan) — 53 likes
  4. I am absolutely begging you to read this quote and then have a long think about how you use twitter https://t.co/rjWmjV62dE (PrinceVogel) — 51 likes
  5. announcing the community archive! a quest to back up the tpot canon links in replies https://t.co/ECXdD5G2Bn (exgenesis) — 41 likes
  6. why should you request your twitter archive? what's the community archive? why upload? (request link below) https://t.co/IZGuoOVrDe (exgenesis) — 40 likes
  7. sick & tired of not being able to share links to my articles on twitter. having to share a screenshot and say "link in bio" like a goddamn porn bot enough is enough. I made a little tool to… (DefenderOfBasic) — 38 likes
  8. Twitter is like the strangest lottery in the world: you spend hours doomscrolling and then, every once in a while, there's some post so insightful it reorganizes the last 5 years of your life for you (nosilverv) — 37 likes
  9. msg from @nosilverv "…got put into Twitter jail as you might've noticed lol. Trying to get out but didn't even receive an email telling me why that I could appeal. Do you happen to know anyone that… (exgenesis) — 36 likes
  10. A proper banger tweet now gets 200-400 likes: it is elegant, aristocratic, restrained. A tweet that gets over 1,000 likes is pure opulence, catered to the infantile appetites of the mass market (vividvoid) — 36 likes
  11. this is my 250,000th tweet 🥳 there’s a lot to complain about this platform, but for me personally there’s also a lot to be grateful for. tweeting changed my life for the better in many ways. it’s… (visakanv) — 35 likes
  12. floor posting https://t.co/lVQdJeo6SY (exgenesis) — 34 likes
  13. this is what I keep saying about twitter being planetary slack. Everyone is working for the same company, just different orgs. if you can get the attention of society's middle managers, they can… (DefenderOfBasic) — 34 likes
  14. omg omg omg just in 📣, first relationship from twitter dating app!!!!!!!!! (christineist) — 33 likes
  15. each year I spend on the internet as an extremely online person makes me happier, more relaxed, more grateful, more excited, etc. they should study me in a lab tbh (visakanv) — 33 likes
  16. i hate to admit this but i dont really love tweeting the way i used to. sometimes i write out a good tweet and just delete it anyway because i just dont feel like it anymore. i'd mostly rather be… (visakanv) — 33 likes
  17. if the term "tpot" spreads far enough, used by completely unrelated groups of ppl, it will revert to its original meaning: literally "this part of twitter", whatever part of twitter OP happens to be… (mechanical_monk) — 33 likes
  18. hello i made a thing it allows you to fetch a list of someone's follows, followers, or mutuals, or combine two such lists from two users, and export the results to CSV or JSON below i'll list some… (mechanical_monk) — 32 likes
  19. My secret to Twitter is that Every time I feel that somebody has successfully dunked upon me I get up and go to the piano and play Written on the Sky by Max Richter to my unnervingly large plant… (bashu_thanks) — 32 likes
  20. Thinkwert is a top-tier misinformation *artist*, one of the best poasters of this age of twitter rn https://t.co/jxs763GtGT (visakanv) — 31 likes
  21. twitter becoming X is like Washington Square Park becoming Times Square https://t.co/AigiCQzwQZ (visakanv) — 31 likes
  22. this is gonna sound like a bit, but i'm serious: if there's one thing i suspect might be a cure to all ills, it is good reply game. i'd argue that good reply game, in le guin's sense of "love is not… (visakanv) — 31 likes
  23. I am never leaving this site https://t.co/mwAdNr9jit (visakanv) — 31 likes
  24. the site-that-was-formerly-heaven's team is under siege i have wrote to them an open letter and i am reposting here for two reasons 1. to express my best wishes for them to a broader audience 2. as… (eigenrobot) — 30 likes
  25. hi everyone. I made a chrome extension that shows you the tweets that two people have made to each other over the years. In theory this is great and lets you find great conversations of the past. In… (bashu_thanks) — 30 likes
  26. Maximally obvious and simple Twitter feature idea: “My mutuals, and their mutuals, can reply”. Couldn’t take more than a couple hours to implement. Would be very powerful for generating community… (eshear) — 30 likes
  27. As a (very small) investor in S*bSt**k maybe I should be rooting for this change. It’s the first idea I’ve seen that’s so bad that it could actually destroy Twitter. Incredible stuff. Reminds me of… (eshear) — 30 likes
  28. If you are addicted to this place anyways you may as well get good at speaking the truth. Like being in prison and getting jacked (bashu_thanks) — 29 likes
  29. like this tweet to have your profile pic put on some kind of cluster map. i don't know what the 2x2 will be if there will be one. yea the base idea is kinda overdone at this point but my execution… (visakanv) — 28 likes
  30. This part of twitter is oasis. There are norms, and not rules - and you cannot rely even on the norms. There are strange and dangerous people, there are hermits who live nearby who you may never… (PrinceVogel) — 28 likes
  31. If we are going to condemn any behavior, we should condemn bullying. In particular, the brand of bullying practiced by this mid, tryhard primadonna, @michaelcurzi. https://t.co/2EXOPpY1ft (vividvoid) — 28 likes
  32. Congratulations: you've proved I'm not an addict, but I spent three weeks without tweeting: you've set the world's sensemaking engine fifty years behind. (nosilverv) — 28 likes
  33. me: Two of my friends are coming over tomorrow to meet you 4yo: What are their names? me: Uh… *realize I only know their twitter handles* me: I actually don’t know, let me find out 4yo: ??? The… (mbateman) — 28 likes
  34. wow, a lot of guys are scared! asking "am I a simp??", "am I a reply guy?!" here's a little technique that keeps me happy and healthy on twitter: > write a reply > stop > am i saying this… (bashu_thanks) — 28 likes
  35. Sermonposting without shitposting gets you pedestalized, which is dehumanizing Shitpost too much and nobody takes you seriously, which is also kind of dehumanizing You can nerdpost forever quite… (visakanv) — 27 likes
  36. me, scrolling the timeline and seeing "ayy lmao 🌀⛵️🐉" "focus on what you want to see more of" "do 100 things" "ppl wanna be fuckable more than they wanna fuck" "joke about outcomes you want"… (visakanv) — 27 likes
  37. I would like to see a list of twitter organisers: ppl who have run a meetup primarily for twitter homies to meet each other reply with info about your event(s), eg number of people, length of time,… (RichDecibels) — 27 likes
  38. Welcome new followers. We have returned to our regularly scheduled programming where I post whatever idle thoughts or silly jokes come to mind, interspersed with occasional threads or interactive… (eshear) — 27 likes
  39. ok, so for fun i'm gonna rapid fire subtweet a bunch of you and share my real honest heartcanons with you (but not say who i'm discussing) https://t.co/cCkPpGTOjP (tasshinfogleman) — 27 likes
  40. testing this out as a pfp, thx @utsu__kun 🙏 https://t.co/QaQToDOwWg https://t.co/5QdiNVDbY4 (QiaochuYuan) — 27 likes
  41. Whew, I made an alt outside of TPOT yesterday, and it's the first time I've just rawdogged the memetic wilds since 2021. It's terrifying out there. (vividvoid) — 27 likes
  42. omg my edit blew up wth https://t.co/5vm4ORaMmX (goblinodds) — 27 likes
  43. i feel like the time is ripe for me to make a thread of people (friends, mutuals, acquaintances) who seem to be still active on here, so let's go (visakanv) — 27 likes
  44. before twitter >i want a gf who shares my niche worldview & interests >dont be a fucking retard >grow up after twitter >i want a gf who shares my niche worldview & interests… (mechanical_monk) — 27 likes
  45. if people could write a little sentence every time they follow someone about why they chose to follow them it would increase serendipity & connection on this platform 1000% (DefenderOfBasic) — 27 likes
  46. Twitter Is A Dating App For Making Friends here's some ideas about how to have fun on twitter dot com (this is the thread I will send to people on their first day here) (RichDecibels) — 26 likes
  47. there is no single "this part of twitter" there never totally was but there's even less of one now however! there are THESE PARTS of twitter fluid, overlapping, playfully aiming towards earnestness,… (Malcolm_Ocean) — 26 likes
  48. Average view to like ratio. 33:1. Approximate worth of views, a million impressions = 100 dollars. One million/33 = 30303 likes needed for 100$ of ad revenue. 100/30303 = 0.0033$ per like Like this… (PrinceVogel) — 26 likes
  49. great small accounts (<1k) nov’23 @jackfriks @stefaesthesia @triciapickren @Inkolore_ @divya_venn @moissanist @willbamberg @wipwasabhi @Benscuriosity @35gcs @alineblooms @Midwitmagnet @tangrenin… (visakanv) — 26 likes
  50. Introducing 🟢Twitter Job Board! Make a profile to market your services, showcase your skills, let people know what you're looking for, set up an apprenticeship, or post jobs you can refer for/are… (christineist) — 26 likes

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