Twitter C/D

I have a friend who uses this to read his friends' feeds, so I basically only see it from the angle of a person who is constantly checking his phone while I'm trying to have a conversation with him. The first time I heard of Twitter was from him when I finally got exasperated with his constantly checking his phone.

Maybe I'm the one with the problem, but I can't really think of anyone in the world interesting enough for me to want updates on their activities throughout the day. I'd say the only people I could imagine wanting to twitter could be: Drug smuggler, violent prison inmate, Slash-in-his-heyday type rock star, and a dog (if they somehow managed to translate its thoughts into English text).

don't use it, don't know anyone who does, but i check this one all the time: http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix

i very very rarely check it on my phone. does mobile use seem to be the prominent use?

SMS functionality seems to be its USP now that Facebook status updates have taken the mainstream microblogging space.

As I said above, people using it for pushed news bulletins and question-broadcasting rather than personal what-i'm-doing stuff is another application.

(I think you can now do Facebook by SMS in America, actually, but not here)

SMS is a fucking trilobite technology

I followed @johncleese back when his followers were in the double digits.

Seriously someone FedEx me a fucking medal already.

how the fuck are they planning to make money? Also, they could easily have charged for this in Europe, and at least started making some actual income for a change.

so: brightkite, then. anyone played about with it much? i'm not sure i can particularly be arsed, TBH.

Twinkle is useful to see if there's trouble on my tram line or the local cafe is on fire.

ON IPHONE

Brightkite seems particularly marvelous, actually. Like Twitter with upgrades.

mildly diverting for a bit

http://joshblog.net/projects/roktok/roktok.html

well, it would be if only folk would stop talking about coldplay and radiohead

oh

it combines the top artists from last.fm (coldplay, radiohead) with twitter

no potential to divert at all now

"Alternate HTML content should be placed here. This content requires the Adobe Flash Player. Get Flash"

Man I fucking hate flash

I'm on this goofy thing now:

http://twitter.com/NedRaggett

ned why are you not on the nanowrimo thread

hie thee hence

I am now following: http://twitter.com/therealbritney

so i signed up to this to follow shaq, is there anything else for me to do

tweet.

https://twitter.com/maxmaxmaxmax

^^ tweeted

i even personalized it

cool tweet max

http://www.justmusicuk.com/spweb/images/publications/medium/JM46521.jpg

thanks guys, feel free to follow me

shaq tweets a lot more than u do hoos

u personified that shit boss

ay look @ this i am following barack obama

i wonder if he tweets during cabinet meetings when he is bored, just under the desk w/ his blackberry

"paulson such a dik lol"

don't even know why i'm on this. oh yes, for shawn elliott. and g.fiddle. and ultragrrl. and you guys. other than that, i can't hardly tweet myself. i always seem to fuck up. and i have very little to say anyway. i r moron

LIVE THE LIFE U IMAGINED, JEEZ I SUCK AT TYPIN, LOL

http://twitter.com/mondosalvo

@Ned: twitter won't let me direct reply to you, but I'm Johnny Fever here and brasstax on Idolator.

Ah right!

just seen this:

TwitOrFit is Twitter-meets-HotOrNot
http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/12/15/twitorfit-is-twitter-meets-hotornot/

How did you score?

fyi i tweeted this morning

twitter in gmail: http://twittergadget.com/

Apparently 'twitter' means 'hermaphrodite' in German.

fyi slocki and i are tweeting with each other

just to give u all an update

Stop that, you'll go blind.

max's tweets are cool

i posted this in the other twitter thread, but I'm Tweeting 1000 record reviews in 2009: http://twitter.com/1000TimesYes

bzz bzz bzz

twitoral stimulation

bzz bzz

max i unfollowed you last night cause you hadn't updated in 4000 years

and then you go and tweet s1ocki all morning

Community notes can still bang:

"Hulk Hogan actually spends his time at the cemetery because he has been dead since July 24, 2025."

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tag yrself im "havent heard enough to say"

it always surprises me when somebody mentions Facebook. it gives me an uncanny feeling like i’m dreaming or something

A big majority of my high school friends and friends I know through music projects simply decided that Facebook was going to be Their Social Media and just stayed there. For the most part, they're all mostly Gen X and I think that after hopping from Friendster to MySpace to FB they landed there and aren't switching again. Most of their other friends are there too

I quit Facebook and Instagram today. Gave Facebook friends a heads up two weeks ago and it felt good to pull the plug. Between that and getting banned from Hoffman, my online world has shrunk quite a bit.

What finally broke me with the metaverse was the constant short videos being fed to me not only by the algorithms but my friends. It’s seeing someone’s interests get molded into a standardized format. Like how Funkopops take all of these different pop culture figures and gives them the same form. There’s a tone to so mich of the voices, it drives me nuts. The worst is a face superimposed in the corner of a pre-existing video, reacting and commenting on it. They’re tagging themselves onto someone else’s video! Ugh!!!

If ILX ever shits the bed I reckon I’ll throw the computer out.

He doesn't care. He doesn't mind. He just wants the honey. That's why they call him... The Honey Badger! pic.twitter.com/ojLRkYPQBW

— Arojinle (@arojinle1) March 1, 2026

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we made it lads

Kinda funny how a social media site went on to cook the world's brains and install a lot of these in The White House.

Why did the Roman Empire collapse? We don't know but I bet something silly like this played its part.

We posted to Twitter (now known as X) five to ten times a day in 2018. Those tweets garnered somewhere between 50 and 100 million impressions per month. By 2024, our 2,500 X posts generated around 2 million impressions each month. Last year, our 1,500 posts earned roughly 13 million impressions for the entire year. To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x

lmao

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She's doing this for free now.