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twitter is an improv game where an admissible move in a thread is to QT any tweet that has ever been tweeted in history, including but not limited to any tweet tweeted by any of the participants in the thread the comedy potential is endless and y'all sleepin smh
all you have to do is have some combination of excellent memory for old funny tweets + easy setup for searching tweets set up ye custom search engines and go forth https://t.co/JHRW9tCxEP
@Conaw @gmws82 @visakanv @ultimape @GRITCULT @KevinSimler @vgr @context_ing I do this with a custom Chrome (Brave actually) search engine. - tw searches twitter - twm searches twitter with from:malcolm_ocean pre-typed - twv searches twitter with from:visakanv (just added that last one but have been meaning to for awhile) https://t.co/PcESmEHzDk
the custom search engines really do make a gigantic difference, for me opening up twitter search on desktop takes exactly five keypresses (cmd, t, t, w, space) so i can search for tweets as fast as it occurs to me to try, on mobile i have to navigate to search and it's agonizing
@QiaochuYuan the evolution of twitter is a fucking wild tale https://t.co/kftPQanC76
@Malcolm_Ocean word yo https://t.co/ksRvgNbBB5
@QiaochuYuan I think that comment from @Conaw was incredibly visionary and also amplified the very shift he was pointing at, by causing us to recognize what was happening more clearly and explore it more consciously. (cc @visakanv) Positive feedback loops! https://t.co/1CubXqqwF2
This whole thing feels like such a lovely example of this kind of upward spiral positive feedback in the space of ideas, that Joanna Macy writes about on p99 of Mutual Causality. I mean, I had lots of examples already, but more are always welcome. https://t.co/0rdocuFwzR
