Chronotope’s Twitter Archive

Popular Tweets

A list of popular tweets by retweets and favorites.

1. Anytime a rich person donates money, this is how you should report it. Gizmodo/1222939292227592196?s=19
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 20,825 Retweets ❤️ 84,280 Favorites 2020 Jan 30 Mood +4 🙂
2. The numbers are all fking fake, the metrics are bullshit, the agencies responsible for enforcing good practices are knowing bullshiters enforcing and profiting off all the fake numbers and none of the models make sense at scale of actual human users. nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html

   
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 3,507 Retweets ❤️ 8,798 Favorites 2018 Dec 26 Mood -5 🙁
3. Let's remember that a version of Batman exists where he would rather blow himself up than hurt some ducks.
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 2,879 Retweets ❤️ 3,859 Favorites 2016 Mar 23 Mood -2 🙁
4. As folks in some states are preparing for what to do next, please remember that the underlying technology of ad tech has been used to prosecute both doctors and those who receive abortions. motherjones.com/politics/2022/02/meet-abortion-bans-new-best-friend-your-phone/

   
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 1,977 Retweets ❤️ 3,368 Favorites 2022 May 3 Mood 0
5. People are writing long think-pieces trying to figure out wtf happened this decade. I can explain the whole decade in two photos. On the left: 2010, on the right: 2019

   
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 1,549 Retweets ❤️ 4,253 Favorites 2019 Dec 18 Mood -4 🙁
6. I do think that people are really underestimating the risk in a post-Roe world that ad tech poses to women. It isn't just Law Enforcement has an easier time accessing your phone than your home and it isn't just data brokers. States now have private-citizen bounties, remember?
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 1,409 Retweets ❤️ 4,714 Favorites 2022 May 5 Mood -3 🙁
7. This is fking terrible news for privacy in NYC curbed.com/2022/08/goodbye-metrocard-machine-friendly-interface.html

   
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 1,287 Retweets ❤️ 4,736 Favorites 2022 Sep 2 Mood -3 🙁
8. A story in two trends

   
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 1,221 Retweets ❤️ 5,369 Favorites 2020 Sep 18 Mood 0
9. So this represents a fun set of assumptions. 1. You do all your reading based on things you click on Twitter 2. Twitter tracks every single article you click on and records the full URL against your profile. 3. Retweeting unread links is very common TwitterSupport/1270783537667551233
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 372 Retweets ❤️ 608 Favorites 2020 Jun 10 Mood +4 🙂
10. …in reply to @Chronotope
    So that answers my question: yes, instead of storing metadata about links you click now Twitter stores a log that explicitly contains everything you've ever clicked, the tweet you got a link from, & precise timestamp of that click (great for deanonymizing cross site activity!)
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 361 Retweets ❤️ 402 Favorites 2020 Jun 10 Mood +4 🙂
11. The thing that most people don't seem to understand is that surveillance capitalism means that the systems of ad tech can be very good at tracking you individually, great for use by cops, pretty nifty for propoganda, and still terrible for satisfying standard marketing outcomes.
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 334 Retweets ❤️ 1,036 Favorites 2022 Sep 25 Mood +6 🙂
12. …in reply to @Chronotope
    So I ran an export of my data from Twitter and guess what! There's a new file that wasn't there in 2018 'user-link-clicks.js' which logs links I clicked on, what tweets they were in, the url those links resolve to & the time stamp of when I clicked, starting 05-13-2020.

    
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 320 Retweets ❤️ 478 Favorites 2020 Jun 10 Mood +2 🙂
13. I have some concerns about Post that are only getting deeper.
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 297 Retweets ❤️ 745 Favorites 2022 Nov 25 Mood 0
14. …in reply to @Chronotope
    OMNY is intended by the MTA to phase out Metrocard. If it does, that means a private company will have detailed travel records, linked to cellphone and credit card IDs, about the millions of New Yorkers who use subways or buses in our city...
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 277 Retweets ❤️ 887 Favorites 2022 Sep 2 Mood 0
15. I won’t bury the lede, y’all—effective today Netlify is now sponsoring full time open source development for eleven_ty! 🥳 Watch this: eleven_ty/1493284209925967872/video/1

    
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 252 Retweets ❤️ 1,234 Favorites 2022 Feb 14 Mood 0
16. …in reply to @Chronotope
    The problem isn't just that the internet is full of fakery and bullshit and bad numbers and malfunctioning metrics and bullshitters and fraudsters. The problem is that all the fake shit is layered on top of other fake shit and it just COMPOUNDS itself...
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 238 Retweets ❤️ 934 Favorites 2018 Dec 26 Mood -27 🙁
17. I don't know how to tell you this but Microsoft is cool now.
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 219 Retweets ❤️ 1,125 Favorites 2019 May 7 Mood +1 🙂
18. …in reply to @Chronotope
    In case you were interested in other useful comparisons. 14% of Ma's wealth would double the CDC's annual budget for FY2019
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 60 Retweets ❤️ 1,051 Favorites 2020 Jan 30 Mood +7 🙂
19. …in reply to @Chronotope
    whole lotta people real concerned with Jack Ma's feelings, apparently.
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 17 Retweets ❤️ 1,109 Favorites 2020 Jan 30 Mood -2 🙁