A brief taxonomy of twitter profiles.

[theweaselking]

I've been spending way more time on Twitter lately than here. It's way simpler to use in small doses due to, y'know, having working mobile apps.

I'm developing a cheat sheet of twitter profile words, though: Things that users self-express in an instant as to whether or not they've got something to say worth hearing on Twitter.

Right there in the twitter bio page

Keywords:
1488, "88 in username", #WP, #WPWW, race realist, #WR, hbd, #CSA, Confederate, Southern, not-PC, Human Biodiversity: "racist and stupid"

father, Proud father: "racist, sexist, and stupid" <- SURPRISINGLY CONSISENT

PJM, PJMedia, TCOT: "racist and stupid"

Christian, Christ-follower, Follower Of Christ, Catholic: "bigoted and stupid", in increasing degrees as the keywords list from left to right. All worse if they hashtag it.

Molon Labe (or the equivalent in greek): "Racist, stupid, American, violent"
#2A: "racist, stupid, American, violent, AND ARMED".

MGTOW, egalitarian, AVFM, Techraptr, MRA, #gamergate: "misogynist".

#notyourshield: "like a kind of mega-combination of all the previous tags. Racist, stupid, misogynist, all kinds of terrible". This is a "I'm Will Shetterly"-level "block on sight" tag, which is slightly surprising given that it's a subtag of the neo-nazi assholes of "gamergate".

#atheist: "stupid". "Atheist" (no hashtag) is less immediately terrible but most often terrible.

Simpsons icon: "Stupid"

Anime icon: "Almost certainly stupid, very likely misogynist, likely racist"

"Backup account for": "I am SUCH A TERRIBLE ASSHOLE that I expect even TWITTER will ban my primary account because I'm such an egregious shithead that not even they can keep ignoring me. And I know this, and yet I'm still being an egregious shithead and depending on Twitter's incompetence."


Anyway. It's not a complete list, but it's a start.

Comments

[sleary.livejournal.com]

Accurate.

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

I don't read Twitter much; some things, like my Instagram pix, auto-post there.

Considering that some accounts are called things like "NiceWarmDump," I don't think everything there is in code.

[andrewducker]

Now you just need a spamassassin-style filter that keeps the bottom 90% of Twitter away from you...

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I'm slightly working on that.

[skiriki.livejournal.com]

Yep, depressingly accurate. What is your twitter account anyway, would follow in a snap. (@coyotedancer there, this nick was already taken by a squatter)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I hear you, @theweaselking was taken by some musician from St Louis.

[skiriki.livejournal.com]

Yah. If I get a follow message, I usually check the profile of who followed me; I don't auto-follow back. If it looks like commercial (suitably non-interesting one, I let interesting ones to follow) or some total douchenozzle, I block. Otherwise, I'll let them follow me, if they're that keenly interested about the stuff I blather. :D

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

aaaaand now that I check, the musician from St Louis dropped the nick and apparently some tween picked it up. Oh well.

[pappy-legba.livejournal.com]

I mostly listen on Twitter, to a limited number of voices-- a few techies, some local interest, some parody accounts. I will say that Twitter is very flexible in how you use it-- you can have conversations, or you can use it as a news feed. It is, thus far, shown to be the social media giant with the most consistent and least asinine editorial policy, but that's not saying much.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Well the 1488 thing isn't a Twitter-only dogwhistle thing, but it's certainly quite amazing to see how many people put it right out there.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Didn't mean to suggest it was, just that it shows up *a lot* on twitter. Some of the others are more twitter-specific, though.

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

Surprised that "father" is used by the racist. Interesting.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

"father" and "proud father" tend to be super-accurate markers for racism on twitter.

It's like the various degrees of Christian in the bio. Nothing says Catholics are more bigoted and stupid then anyone else, outside Twitter... but if your Twitter profile says "Catholic" you're almost certainly an extremely bigoted useless asshole.

It's because nobody except the extreme reactionaries puts "Catholic" in their bio.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

To be clear, with the exception of things like #1488 and #gamergate, none of these are ABSOLUTE markers. I'm sure you'll find exceptions to most of them. But they're a really nice SHORTHAND.

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

That I got. I'm still surprised declared parenthood can be a dog whistle. I guess I would have to browse the examples to see what kind of racism is prevalent among these "fathers."

[matgb]

I had to look the 1488 thing up, not one that'd crossed my radar, but yeah, most of the rest tend to light flags these days, if it matters enough to you that it's in your profile then it's probably something you take a little bit too seriously. Weird about the proud father thing, but...

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Never trust a stranger with an 88 in their twitter handle. There are, very rarely, people who picked that because they were born in 1988 (and didn't know what it meant) or they just got assigned it randomly somewhere and kept it.

Those are the exceptions.

The vast majority of people with an 88 in their handle meant it to stand in for "Heil Hitler". Some of them are neo-nazis, the rest are trolls who think that's funny, and either way they are garbage people.

[cleodhna.livejournal.com]

And there was I thinking it was some kind of hipster emoticon for 'spectacles and bow tie'.

Not really... but I didn't know what it meant. Thanks.