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[marmolita]

How do people even use twitter, I've been trying for a few days and it's unreadable. I can't figure out what sort of order things are in even though I told it I want chronological order, I can't see the delineations between posts, and I can't decide if I'm supposed to retweet stuff or not because I can't see how I can use it for later reference.

What I liked best about tumblr was that my tagging system could be used so that literally years after the fact, I can easily find those terrible photosets I made of teen wolf or the marco polo gifset that was so tempting I walked into a tree while looking at it. I don't see how or if that's possible with twitter. It's definitely doable with dreamwidth, though.

Anyway, I will try to use twitter if that's where everyone goes, but man, idk if I can handle it. It's more overwhelming than tumblr was when I first got it. Anyway I'll try posting here more and try reusing my same tumblr tags I used to use for organization and we'll see?

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[arclights]

Twitter is a hot mess for me too, and I've been on it for over a year at this point. It's all right for small interactions, and it's not a bad place for artists to drop still art, but it's not at all made with any sort of archiving in mind (certainly not personal, which I vastly prefer) and it's a massive pain for trying to hold an actual conversation with anyone.

Depending on how overwhelming it is, there are a few things you can do if you poke around your settings! As soon as they let you turn off people's likes showing up on your timeline, I was all over that. Also, I don't know if they default you to the 'best tweets first' setting for new accounts, but if you go into your account settings I hiiiiiighly suggest turning that off so that your timeline is chronological -- the best tweets first thing tends to hide a lot of stuff you probably want to see if you're following people.

It's still a mess, but that might make things a bit easier, at least. Fortunately, I don't really think people are going to stick with twitter as a main platform any more than it has been? It's pretty probably going to be pillowfort if they get their shit together, and if not, then here (fingers and toes crossed).

[marmolita]

Thanks for the suggestions! Glad to know I'm not the only one. I just made my pillowfort account, username marmolita!