Those eyes. . . I just can’t say no to those eyes.
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Ug, internet sickness. I’m done with all of this crap. I need to write some code end these “services”.
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Apart from that Obama, dude. 
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Of COURSE the real reason for the meeting was about Trump’s ego. Apparently he was upset his followers count dropped when Twitter deleted thousands of bot accounts.
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Soon, a new case before SCOTUS asserting that bots are people.
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Fsck Twitter. I quit when Trump used the platform to threaten nuclear war with N. Korea and Dorsey, et al, did nothing. Maybe Jack could take a few minutes out of his next vision quest fast and figure out how to get the Nazis off his platform.
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Honestly Twitter is a good platform if you just totally disconnect politics from it. I use it to follow synthesizer manufacturers, musicians, streamers and developers and it’s fairly enjoyable without all the noise.
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Eventually it evolved to “Jack Ritter,” and then the president complimented his work on “Three’s Company.” The president later asked if he’d ever dated Chrissy.
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Only mitigating factor: Jack probably wasted 15 of those minutes trying to explain to the president how bots and fake accounts work.
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This exactly. I hear a lot about the ‘toxic atmosphere of Twitter’ but I have to assume that those people experiencing a toxic environment follow a lot of toxic people or don’t know how the basic block function works. I follow a lot of wonderful artists, musicians, smart politicians (@AOC), and cute-animal-video accounts. If people’s Twitter feed is filled with Nazis and Trump then you’re using it wrong.
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Or how to get a refund.
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I do imagine if you’re trying to actually engage in political activism (or be openly female, apparently a political act on it’s own) on Twitter, though, you will attract horrible things that are difficult to unsee. You can block, but that’s after the fact. In general, for a “civilian” you can curate yourself into a safe space, but that doesn’t make Twitter A Good Place. (and following AOC’s twitter must expose one to at least some level of second-hand-horrid…)
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This is very true. Engaging in any kind of activism in any social media space (Twitter, Facebook, Mastodon, Instagram, etc) will definitely attract the sorts of people who start with “t” and rhyme with knolls to make things nasty. I don’t engage with or click-through to view the responses on AOC’s posts, so I only see the valuable ideas and timely information she posts, not the garbage shenanigans of morons replying to it. Twitter’s like any other social media, just bigger and less filtered. If you take the time to filter it for yourself, it can be filled with art, music, and friends.
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Yeah, you should see all the flak I get for my “Black Lives Matter” posts on Gab!
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The other day I got a follow on IG from an obvious bot.shell account. I followed it back to see what would happen. More bots started following me one after another. I unfollowed the first one and then followed the most recent one. A few more bots followed me but not like before.
Then I noticed I had a message from someone I didn’t know. There was a well written message about buying follows. But then following that was… a one sided conversation. Dozens and dozens of messages that were all short vague replies to nothing. “oh cute!”, “HAHAHAHA”, “I’m sleepy”. “You’re funny.”, “I’m from India.”, and so on. It looked like the bot just barfed it’s entire dictionary into this PM I hadn’t noticed. I should have screenshot it before I declined the friendship. I didn’t realize it would delete the chat instantly.
Not sure if the two were related but it was entertaining.
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Marmalade Marauder pissed because Obama has more followers. Trump is such a weak, shallow man.
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Was a physical meeting really necessary in this day and age? Hasn’t the physical location issue been, ya know, kinda dealt with already?
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I deal with clients from all over the country on simple design projects, and basic ideas that can be communicated with a ten-word email often have to have a one-hour phone conference scheduled with a half-dozen people in attendance just to say “make our design this shade of green”. Other clients insist on flying me halfway across the country to “properly” show me their powerpoint presentation. For some people, making you come to them is part of trying to impress you with how powerful and important they are, even for something as stupid as complaining about bot purges.
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The nightmare begins when you log back on later to find a new message saying, “WHY DID YOU DELETE MY MESSAGE!!! you so cute.” 
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