TWITTER: I don't get it

web 2.0 is a mess

I'M GONNA MICROBLOG THE SHIT OUT OF THIS

Today
Jon updated Twitter. 1:17am

RESULT: DISAPPOINTING

starting twitter is like staring into a big empty void

jon i'm following you because i i knew you'd be all over this and i need something to validate the time it took to sign up and install twitterific

I've said it a million times before: if you have friends that actually use twitter, and they actually have a functional social life, it's insanely useful. We use it to merge up groups that are barhopping different parts of town, or I'll put a message out about how I am thinking about seeing a movie or going to the park and get a response or two. Also worked pretty well at a big concert festival -- if someone wanted to know where people were they could turn on updates or check the page, and if they left the festival for a while they could turn it off.

I do not understand nerds following what other nerds are doing, especially when they have never met them before.

I do not understand nerds following what other nerds are doing, especially when they have never met them before.

^ i do this but they are "art scene" friends or "social media" connections

which overlap a lot

jon & mh both otm.

I'm actually finding it useful but I don't like receiving stuff on my phone.

problem i guess is convincing everyone i know to also use twitter then

twitter was apparently really useful during the socal fires last month afa letting friends & family know you were not dead

I read that as "social fires" and i was like what is this Tom Wolfe shit.

I can see how twittering with friends could be a source of good relevant info, but yeah the problem is how do you et everybody to start doing it and remember to check on things? also DC/NYC poses the problem of all comms being shut off for most of your travel time from one place to another

the so-cal fires are also a good example of how twitter posts can be more relevant in your life than any shotgun blast of media news

http://i15.tinypic.com/4z41oip.png

^ fairly typical day

I can see how twittering with friends could be a source of good relevant info, but yeah the problem is how do you et everybody to start doing it and remember to check on things? also DC/NYC poses the problem of all comms being shut off for most of your travel time from one place to another

-- El Tomboto, Friday, November 2, 2007 12:39 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^ well this is true for sms too

Also its kind of annoying that I can't make some stuff go to sms but not this stuff

My boss was on tour running a show for a week in Ornaldo with his comedy group and his mom had a heart attack. He used twitter to coordinate with everyone.

the sms is what makes this useful, to me. thing is, you want to make sure the signal-to-noise ratio stays up, and it never, ever will. give people a 5-digit text number and they will inevitably tlak about how they just missed the bus.

Haha Lexapro does make you yawn like crazy!

alana post knows the truth

http://www.brianoberkirch.com/

ok look in his sidebar :(

whoever that guy is he sucks

That was the gist of it

twitter is lame

http://loldongs.org/~webs/stuff/madx-twitter-gay.png

http://twitter.com/chaki

:(

u can take solace in the fact he is from FUKUOKA

u can take solace in the fact he is from FUKUOKA

fukuoka is home to the best tonkotsu ramen!!!

very much in character

XXXXXXX is in the kitchen making a date with this random friend of mine to do heroin tomorrow. While listening to Sea Change.
01:30 AM November 03, 2007 from txt

JW: http://twitter.com/STEVESHASTA
LP: huh. what is that? (don't laugh, i'm out of touch)

i think shasta told me he twittered something today over IM

Ramsay Stirling via Twitter to me

yo, i think you just got tek-SERVED!!!1!1!!

Ramsay Stirling / ramsaystirling

lol tekserve

xpost to myself. oh, he wasn't kidding. i found his twitter page

http://www.sheenaeaston.co.uk/tekwar.jpg

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YT5yCnEr8kQ

jw microbloggin' up a storm

fuck u bitch

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/2/getting_fired_at_yahoo__a_twitter_log

Thanks to everyone sending the positive tweets.

fucking self-parody

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP

not with a bang but a twitter

jw how do you get caught up actually using this stuff when you know that it is awful and dumb

or is that kind of like asking me why I drink

I like Twitter I just hate people who make videos like this and people who post snipurl.com links to Matt & Kim interviews

I HAVE UNPROTECTED MY TWITTER SO U CAN SEE HOW INTERSTING MY LIFE IS

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this is incredibly stupid

lol @ jw avatar

I like Twitter I just hate people who make videos like this and people who post snipurl.com links to Matt & Kim interviews

these people probably think those UPS commercials with that left-handed dude pretending to draw on a whiteboard with his right hand are cool

"unfortunately, most of our lives are hidden from people who care"

^^ PRESUMPTION

misquoted:

"unfortunately, most of our day-to-day lives are hidden from people who care"

even better

these people probably think those UPS commercials with that left-handed dude pretending to draw on a whiteboard with his right hand are cool

can i find this on youtube lol

My Twitter is about my empire of failed dreams like the unloved Sun machine in my living room

oh man, you bought that and then never did anything with it?

sad

I have a DVD burner now but I don't have a monitor and don't feel like trying to install solaris with a DLP projector as the monitor.

is that seriously the kind of stuff you twitt

is that the correct verb

Perhaps you meant noun :(

If you are curious about my twitter I'm sure you could find it

fuck that have you seen the internet? I'm not going out there just looking for random stuff, I'd get myself thrown in jail

never did start that tumblelog either

perhaps we need a catchall web 2.0 bitch thread

140 characters or less, sir

I'm listening to Yello with cool dreamhouse

http://garyvaynerchuk.com/2008/03/19/my-120-garyvee-talks-about-colorwar2008/

guys i just started one so borad ;_;

will surely go onto my scrap heap of unused 'social networking tools'

waht is name?

it is a boring saturday night.

http://twitter.com/hoosteen

big tweetstalkin

aka the tweetstalker?

ohhhh lord 2pac big please talk to this sucker cause they killing twitter they taking the pain and struggle of life of twitter the only thing we coulda express our minds and pain. and these suckers took it and made it look like garbage thats why we get judge so much cause these shit dont be making sence

big hoos u are a tweeting machine!

Hoos can you tell me what you are doing right now? Twitter is not responding.

I have cut back on the Tweeting! Do u see

I am but a new tweeter trying to find the proper balance

what was that other thing somebody posted? that was not as content-heavy as blogs but not as content-lite as twitter?

http://www.tumblr.com/

http://streem.us/

http://www.soup.io/

the internet has been unreliable today. I assume this is due to me being offsite at a conference!

Sorry everybody!

the thing about twitter that really keeps me away is the fact that they're called "tweets" ew so gross.

http://www.livejournal.com/

On one side you've got privacy advocates scared of The Man knowing everyone's business, and on the other you've got HI DERE I AM IN DA BATH MY DOODLE IS FLOATIN.

i support liveblogging all floatin doodles

17:47 MY DO0DLE IT IS STIL FLOATIN
17:48 UH OH BUBBLES

17:50 LOL I USE MY COPUTER IN THE BATH LOL
19:41 AT DAVE'S HOUSE
19:42 GOIN TO BUY NEW COMPTUER

One of the challenges some of us face as we try and introduce our friends and family to some of the new Web 2.0 applications is a very large brick wall. My best friend is insistent in her belief that “Twitter is gay” and refuses to report anything other than reports on a fictional cat named Tubby. But for many of us, we are slowly getting through.

some guy on another board had a great summarization of web 2.0:

HEY THE LOGOS HAVE SHADOWS UNDERNEATH ITS WEB 2.0

shadows vs. glossy reflections

We have to chase people down for doing this with our logo and mark

CUZ OF SHADOWS THERE ARE NOW 2 WEBS

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2008/20080423.jpg

Glad to see penny arcade is riding the cusp of emerging trends

ahaha

does estela twitt?

http://twitter.com/iron0012

is this one of u

"Okay poop is coming out" is my favorite phrase of the day.

did anyone post the story about the guy who got out of jail in egypt because he twittered "arrested"?

one of my contacts twittered that story

UH OH!!! this just popped up on my screen!

Oh noes! @Wizardishungry just broke his wrist riding his bike over the Wiliamsburg bridge.

confirm/deny

jumping his bike over the Williamsburg gorge?

i love that j03 twittered this right away

^^^ sick googleproofing imo

http://harrumpher.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/bikegeek.jpg

damn dude hope u ok

cool wrist hack

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/31/hey-twitter-i-have-a-few-questions-too/

So I have a couple of questions, too, based on a couple of discussions I’ve had with people who say they’ve seen Twitter’s architecture.

- Is it true that you only have a single master MySQL server running replication to two slaves, and the architecture doesn’t auto-switch to a hot backup when the master goes down?

- Do you really have a grand total of three physical database machines that are POWERING ALL OF TWITTER?

- Is it true that the only way you can keep Twitter alive is to have somebody sit there and watch it constantly, and then manually switch databases over and re-build when one of the slaves fail?

- Is that why most of your major outages can be traced to periods of time when former Chief Architect/server watcher Blaine Cook wasn’t there to sit and monitor the system?

- Given the record-beating outages Twitter saw in May after Cook was dismissed, is anyone there capable of keeping Twitter live?

- How long will it be until you are able to undo the damage Cook has caused to Twitter and the community?

- What is Twitter for?

NEVER SEND A RUBY PROGRAMMER TO DO A DBA'S WORK

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/sci-fi-7.jpg

http://twitter.com/NCR_Battlespace

http://chainsawsuit.com/comics/20080630.gif

http://twitter.com/vanband101

http://animalnewyork.com/news/2008/08/chinese-interrogators-to-activ.php

http://www.boingboing.net/images/x_2008/blogospheretweethearts2.jpg

Oh no these two prizes r off the market.

hey noize.

I'm twittering 1,000 new release record reviews in 2009! Follow me if you like :D

http://twitter.com/1000TimesYes

Sorry. ts/dnr

This thread is a curious relic of the pre-Shaq era.

i hope facebook takes a hot steaming dump on twitter

Facebook is gonna be toast once people stop being themselves and building the identities they desire because grandma and grandma insist on being their friends.

omg so true!!!! any more predictions soothsayer?

you can put grandma on limited profile dawgs.

omg so true!!!! any more predictions soothsayer?

― marlon brando baby tiger (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, January 6, 2009 5:34 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

people will wear shoes on their hands, meatloaf will be against the law, and I suggest ban elmo argonaut.

fwiw, i don't facebook, I'm just guessing that's what will happen due to all my friends complaining about that more and more now that facebook is grandma popular

i doubt it dude, it seems way too built into people's lives now, as opposed to myspace, which was sort of a hobby on the side kind of deal. ppl totally structure their social lives via facebook now.

I knew plenty of people who structured their social lives around myspace.

dag whiney you don't facebook AND you don't know what a hellboy is! you are just miles ahead of all of us in this game of life dogg

ayo i'm not BRAGGIN 2009 that I'm not on Facebook, I'm just saying i think its days are probably numbered due to what my facebooky friends say

BUT PROVE ME WRONG WHEN FACEBOOK IS AROUND FOREVER HOOS

FUTURE HOOS

BIGGER HOOS

stronger better faster hooser

ban me

never

HOOSBOOK

I'm not on facebook either, but I'm always a late adopter on those type of things.

http://www.businessinsider.com/revision3-coo-twitters-through-home-break-in-2009-3

chickenshit 2.0

Swear there are times when I think I could just waltz into the Bay area and kick its ass.

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@coryischaki go to the proper discussion thread on our facebook page! And thanks! about 6 hours ago via Echofon in reply to coryischaki

https://twitter.com/truewagner

https://i.imgur.com/1wgD8mt.jpeg

Been following him on Facebook for a while, similar deal to Obvious Plant

I want to know what the wives think about it. pic.twitter.com/TrBiC2vC7A

— Alan Wagner (@truewagner) October 2, 2018

lol genius

Ok, this one is my favourite

I located this by the hardware store! pic.twitter.com/EhZIDrYiLf

— Alan Wagner (@truewagner) May 9, 2018