Anyone else feeling overwhelmed by Anonymous on Twitter?

[Earth_First]

I support a majority of their message and past campaigns. I appriciate keeping up with them through social media however their presence on Twitter is overwhelming...it almost makes my Twitter account unreadable.

I feel like they could get away with a dozen less tweets per hour and I'd still feel updated...

Anyone else feel this way?

[MadHound]

1. No, but then again, I don't have a Twitter feed,

Something I have no need for, and am everyday I'm glad I don't get one. I find social media of that type, Twitter, Facebook, etc., nothing more than corporate driven cliques based on a middle school mentality.

Perhaps you should simply do away with Twitter, perhaps you might find real life much more interesting.

[Earth_First]

3. Thanks for your condescending response...

You could have chosen to pass this thread by.

Its a shit trend on DU lately to cut people down with opposing views on trivial items.

I really appriciate your your opinion on how drol my life must be because I am a social media user...

[MadHound]

4. You're the one who put the OP up there,

Oh woe is you, swamped by Twitter messages. You don't want them, turn off your twitter feed, pretty simple solution, and one that shouldn't call for the drama of its own thread.

[Earth_First]

8. There was no drama until you created it...

Your self importance is impressive.

Its a discussion board and I want ro discuss Anon on Twitter.

Feel free to join in. Or not.

[MadHound]

12. You're right, this is a discussion board, and I did feel free to join in the discussion.

What, you want a thread where everybody pities your poor little self? This is an open discussion, you get what comes by, deal with it.

I simply find Twitter, Facebook and the like to be rather inane. What did Zuckerburg say, he wanted to recreate the college experience online? I think he was too successful, he recreated the middle school experience online, where it is always about me, me, me. Rather narcissistic, don't you think

[Earth_First]

14. Wow.

Have a good night.

[zappaman]

15. Wow.

Someone make a boom boom in their underoos?

[Sheldon Cooper]

40. Jesus - who pissed in your wheaties?

What an obnoxious response.

[sabrina 1]

32. There is no need to cut the Twitter feed. If you are not interested in following someone

all you have to do is to delete them from your 'follow' list. Twitter, if you use it properly, is an excellent source of information. But it is up to the individual to choose what they are interested in. If you want to know what Lindsey Lohan is up to, you can do that. If you never want to hear her name again, you can do that also.

I follow people like Jeremy Scahill, Matt Taibbi, Anonymous, many of the Occupy groups around the world, (it's amazing what they are doing btw), several news media, Al Jazeera, RT, CNN just to keep up with our propaganda machine, several investigative reporters, many of the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutionaries, Michael Moore and many more people who are actually on the ground in many of the newsworthy parts of the world. Amnesty International, several Civil Liberties groups, Bradley Manning, Wikileaks and several foreign news media outlets. As a result, I get more real news in a day than I would if I watched our own MSM for over a year.

Perhaps the OP did not know that all s/he had to do was to delete anonymous from their list of followers. It's really very simple.

[msongs]

5. umm you are complaining about the social media you use lol nt

[apocalypsehow]

23. That's about all that poster's got - besides pimping for guns and NRA propaganda, that is. n/t.

[IdaBriggs]

10. Rude Reply.

Sub-context: "I don't have that problem, because I am better than you - my REAL life is interesting."

Tens of thousands of posts, former meta (aka DU complainer) TRYING to cut someone down who was talking about a source of social media information that has literally helped get the word out about people revolting against oppression AND discussing the topic of Anonymous.

Epic DU Fail Reply.

[zappaman]

17. +100 n/t

[MadHound]

18. Speaking of fail,

Not saying that I'm better than anybody else, I just find it inane that somebody is posting a thread about a social media problem, when the solution is self obvious, turn it off.

Oh, and my meta posts were few, very few and far between. I stayed out of that cesspool as much as possible.

Sorry, but I'm not impressed with social media. Zuckerburg wanted to recreate the college life experience online, he succeeded in recreating the middle school experience on line, and people have fallen for it hook, line and sinker. Talk about an epic fail.

[IdaBriggs]

22. So, you admittedly know nothing about using twitter

And rarely use Facebook, but feel well enough informed to INSULT someone who is talking about Anonymous posting too often?

You do realize that "Arab Spring" was made available to the rest of the world via Twitter, and that Anonymous is well known for their positive contribution to government transparency/accountability - neither of which is "high school gossip fodder?"

Not one of your more impressive contributions to this forum.

Apologies for remembering you as one of the Meta Vipers.

[sabrina 1]

36. Twitter will be whatever you want it to be. The Egyptian and Tunisian revolutionaries used it

so effectively to rally people from all over the world to their cause, that the dictator Mubarak shut down the internet in Egypt, the first time that has ever happened

I would not call their use of twitter 'social media' in the sense that it was more like a Global Walkie Talkie which probably saved many lives and was the place I learned that there even was a revolution happening, right from the middle of the action. Our media did not even begin to cover it until days after we learned about it on twitter. I posted a call for help here on DU from the revolutionaries when they learned that they were going to be cut off by Mubarak. The whole world learned about the blackout, ON Twitter as it happened and he was forced by worldwide outrage, to turn it on again.

It is no different than a phone, or any other means of communication. It all depends on what you use it for.

[Springslips]

25. +1

And then he calls it middle schoollish while doing the most middle school thing: butting in to a conversation on a thing he don't care about, calling people who do care about it lame, than proclaiming himself more cool because of it.

I mean, project much?

[patrice]

13. Paternalistic, elitist, proto-authoritarian bullying. You should be ashamed, but I bet you aren't.

"God" save us from what calls itself "the Left".

[MadHound]

19. Coming from you, that's a hoot!

Seriously, you are mining comedy gold with that.

[Earth_First]

20. You have absolutely derailed rhis thread...

Congratulations.

[hrmjustin]

26. Why were you so rude? Earth first just asked a question.

[Fumesucker]

38. Says someone with 33,000 plus posts on DU?

That being said, the OP does seem a bit "first world problem" ish to me.

[Historic NY]

2. Just a click away to solve the problem...

sometimes its just TMI.

[zappaman]

6. I agree with you.

I dropped them a while back because it was too much.
Funny that people, even on DU, still think twitter is "what paris hilton had for lunch" and don't realize it's a great way to get updates and news on groups or issues you care about.

[Earth_First]

16. I had a feeling I wasn't alone... nt

[sabrina 1]

35. Of course you're not alone. You should not be surprised though by those who are jumping on

the 'lets' trash Anonymous and Occupy' bandwagon. I know I am not, it is to be expected. I love Anonymous tweets and I know I am not alone either. The Right hates anonymous, and for good reason.

But if you generally like them but don't want your tweeter feed clogged, (any very active group, like Anonymous will clog your feed) then unfollow them for a while.

[Kalidurga]

7. I just feel overwhelmed by Twitter and Facebook...

so I don't go there and oddly enough I would like to, just too much though. Maybe you could do another account just for Anonymous then if you didn't feel like scrolling through hundreds of posts you could just go to your everything else account and not see Anonymous unless you were on your Anonymous only account.

[zappaman]

9. That's actually a great idea!

I have one email account that takes all the spam you get when you purchase online.
Seems to work.

[Earth_First]

11. Twitter is a great resource...

There's a bit of fact checking to do sometimes, but its great for a lot of breaking news type items...

Wisconsin and Occupy was FANTASTIC via Twitter

[onestepforward]

24. I followed a lot of Occupy on Twitter too

and it was really good.

I quit following Anonymous about 6 months ago for the same reason you said, it was just too much. I'll hear about the highlights here on DU.

Twitter is a great way to send messages for activism too. Besides complaints to various companies or people, I try to send "Thank you" to folks as well.

[Control-Z]

21. Stop following?

I've never actually made a tweet but I have two accounts and follow different accounts on each. A couple of them were overwhelming with numerous posts every day so I stopped following and just check in periodically.

It works for me. But again, I've never actually tweeted myself.

[Jamastiene]

27. You can create a list of those you are following and separate it from the main

tweets. You could do that with the posts from Anonymous and go look at them when you want to. That way your feed will be less cluttered and you can still go see everything they have said whenever you want.

Just click on the button that looks like a gear. It is at the top on the right hand side next to the blue Compose New Tweet button. Click on Lists, then Create List. Add them to it and name it whatever you want and you are done.

[hibbing]

31. Thanks for this!

Hi,
I did not know you could do this. I have some that I follow and they post too much for my liking so I unfollow and then miss some of their interesting posts. It is a fine line with some accounts, some I follow and they post 20 times a day of garbage, those are an easy decision to make to stop following, others some are good posts some are bad. I will have to mess with that to see if I can figure it out.

Peace

[Earth_First]

39. Yes, thanks for this!

I too was unaware you could do this!

Rather than cut me down you helped offer me a way to manage my newsfeed, thank you!

[Generation_Why]

28. I'm getting sick of Anonymous, period.

I've unfollowed some of their accounts...

For proliferating a lot of that paranoid nonsense about government that extremists on the right peddle most often.

[sabrina 1]

34. I love their tweets and will continue to follow them. Welcome to DU btw!

[SheilaT]

29. I gather there's no off switch for Twitter?

I'm reminded of a letter to TV Guide a good fifty years ago, where the writer was complaining about how awful some particular show was. The answer: Tell us more about your TV that gets only one channel and has no off button.

If you're overwhelmed, turn it off for a bit. Really.

[BainsBane]

30. There seems to be no off switch for Meta

Sheesh.

[sabrina 1]

33. Just delete them from your follow list. I follow anonymous and love their tweets but if you

don't want to get them, it's easy to delete them. If you need any help doing so, let me know.

[Honeycombe8]

37. Are you "following" Anonymous? I don't get ANY tweets by Anonymous. Lots of tweets from

the people I'm following. ???