Does Oppo Tweet?

[way2blu]

Been trying out this cool new app called “twitter” to go talk about cars across the internet. I’ve been told “never tweet” and outside of cars I probably never will.

Already I’m getting funky recommendations from Twitter’s algorithm:

I have a feeling I’m not gonna find more Acura Integra spy pics if I follow Cardi B.

If you’re a user of “twitter,” I have the same handle there as I do here. Expect lots of car pics, lukewarm takes, and automotive puns.

[Cé hé sin]

@gibbsemphasis
Nope. Have an account, don't use it.

[tae]

I do tweet, but mostly about shitposts and politics; I think some oppos used to follow me but it's kind of annoying, and in spanish.

[Napoli]

@gibbsemphasis Twitter is a toxic cesspool.

[SSfancy]

@gibbsemphasis

I had Twitter.

I was on a commercial flight from ATL to DTW and noticed Jennifer Love Hewitt was a few rows ahead of me. I tossed that tidbit out in the Twitter land and immediately had a dozen followers retweeting and commenting on it.

I decided that was gross and left.

[t0ast]

@gibbsemphasis I did once, but only because my gaming chair manufacturer holds its extended warranties hostage unless you submit to the social media marketing machine.

The tweet in question was promptly deleted afterwards.

[Napoli]

@ssfancy I can’t prove it but I have a feeling the majority of people on Twitter live at home in their parents’ basement.

[ForSweden]

Someone probably has the @oppositelock1 login

[zipfuel]

I present for your consideration my Easter baking effort

Truthfully I'm not on twitter because I think it would consume dangerous amounts of my time.

[davesaddiction]

@gibbsemphasis

Lots of car industry peeps are active on the Twitter.

[bbg2d]

[way2blu]

@davesaddiction that’s what convinced me to make an account. Harboring ambitions of being a car journalist someday too does that

[Roadkilled]

@gibbsemphasis

I only use Twitter as a quick news feed. I follow NPR, the local bureau of the National Weather Service, local police and fire departments, the Washington State Patrol, and my son's school district.

Most mapping programs will tell you when a road has been closed due to an accident. The police and state patrol twitter feeds let me know when it's expected to reopen. They often give early notice of upcoming road closures for construction or other work.

The school district usually tweets school closures an hour before an email is sent out. That's useful since my son's school bus picks up at 7:10 am. I rather know of a snow day before sending my son out for a bus that isn't coming.

I generally scroll through twitter three times a day; in the morning just to get a quick update of news and traffic, midday just to keep the feed from getting too full, and late evening for more news.

I don't have Facebook and I don't watch television, so Twitter is a decent news feed. I've used it to replace the old RSS feeds.

I don't tweet and I don't follow any source that isn't related to providing reliable information. I don't get celebrities showing up in my feed and I try to keep it that way. When Twitter forces a tweet on me that I don't need, I flag it as not relevant. That's kept my feed relatively clean.

Usually, it's just stuff like this forwarded by the Washington State Patrol.

[flatisflat]

@napoli said in Does Oppo Tweet?:

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[Mr.Ontop]

@gibbsemphasis I tried it and hated it. No Tweeting for me.

[Napoli]

@flatisflat lol very true. I will say that Instagram is my happy place. My feed is anything video game, car, and F1 related. Nothing political ever pops up and I almost never see any toxic comments.

[ranwhenparked]

@gibbsemphasis Hahaha, no. Had an account for awhile, never used it, deleted it. I know Twitter is the semi official 4th branch of government these days, but I just have no desire to go on there. It's like the Starbucks of the Internet for me

[RallyDarkstrike]

I do tweet on occasion....been to busy to do it as much as I had been lately though!
https://twitter.com/RallyDarkstrike

[Mr.Ontop]

@napoli sounds like mine All car bike scooter stuff. And the occasion thing that strikes my fancy

[MisterButtercup]

@gibbsemphasis Yep! But heh, I follow you already(same name)

I follow coffee people, auto journalists, and one of the meteorologists at our local station, because his tweets are usually far more accurate than the forecasts.

It's a bit of a mixed bag, but weird car Twitter is a thing, and it's cool to see some of the stuff that has been spotted.

[ITA97]

@gibbsemphasis I'm on twitter, but only as something of a parody account. One of my favorite human beings is a lawyer who has a habit of uttering outrageous and outlandish things. Especially between beers two and three, although a #shitsagesays can happen at anytime. When it happens, the only choice is often to either walk away shaking your head, or put it on the internet out of context. The latter is more fun, so we've done it for years. The magic to shitsagesays is that it is always stripped of context (not to worry, it was always outrageous even in the original context) and only two people have the password to shitsagesays. He isn't one of them, although we offer him the the editorial discretion of very occasional veto power. It is all in good fun, and it is outrageous.

https://twitter.com/ShitSageSays

There's a lot of typos in earlier ones, but I was usually under the influence when tweeting them. Fun fact: this was responsible for my first smart phone. I was slow the the smart phone game. Originally I would have to text them to myself and then put them on the twitter page once or twice a week. Being able to post them in real time was much easier.

[pip bip]

@gibbsemphasis occasionally as well as gab, Parler, GETTR and Koo

[TheDutchTexan]

Got one, same nick. Step into it just about every day. The problem with that platform is there is no accountability. Only likes show up, no dislikes.

[GrindIntoSecond]

@gibbsemphasis I don’t get Twitter. To me, it seems like screams into a void for attention. “Hey! This Starbucks line is long! Ugh! Someone agree and care! Validate me!”

My dad was a reporter and the first person to live tweet a state execution. He was told to start tweeting. He tweeted that, and that was it.

Twitter is useless unless your citizens need direct updates to the power outage recovery.

[ITA97]

@grindintosecond Twitter proves to be exceptional in real time, raw data of events. From the Osama raid, to natural disasters, protests, you name it and anyone interested in real time data is going to keep an eye on Twitter. It was useful to me during some of our flooding in Southern NM this monsoon season. I was monitoring real-time sensor data from a bunch of sources, but people were sometimes putting things out on Twitter about property flooding faster than it was getting out on public safety emergency dispatch radio channels.