Twitter C/D

Sparrows 'learn song by twitter'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8317434.stm

Fry 'may quit'. Slow news sat'dy, this
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8335793.stm

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/821832/qwitter.JPG

(the work of warren hart)

RIP big man, guess heaven needed a big crybaby who writes boring tweets

but but but how am I going to know when Stephen has a hangover now?

This could cause a rash of celebs leaving Twitterland - perhaps no more will I be regaled with Davina and Wossy's breakfast choices (All Bran and muesli respectively)

Fry 'may quit'. Slow news sat'dy, this

One of the few news stories that -- in a professional capacity -- I've ever talked down. We nibbed it, and even that was too much.

I feel very sorry for Fry -- and for the Brumplum dude against whom people started turning after the post. Both of them sounded genuinely shocked and upset in their subsequent explanations/apologies/updates. But then I guess this is one of the key problems with Twitter: every utterance, every fart, is magnified to a million times its actual significance.

We'll get used to it, I guess. What else can we do? Either way, though: it's a long way from being a forum to talk about anything that actually matters.

Ned, I "deleted" my account but then noticed it isn't really erased, so you can come back to it. It's been hard though. At times I do want to, but all in all I have to admit that I dont have the time really. And, really, I prefer being on ILX. :-)

trending topic: #thingsdarkiessay

http://twitter.com/big_ben_clock

trending topic: #thingsdarkiessay

clicked on this in horror and there were lots of (black) south africans saying it's a SA topic, and not a derogatory term there? anyone actually know whether this is true?

seems to have been removed

Was just about to post about that. It's really interesting, actually. Black South Africans started the trending topic and claim that it's not a derogatory term in South Africa and more akin to "black folks." (Whereas the derogatory term for black South Africans would be "kaffir.") More here.

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One month of Twitter hell

Ian Martin is following rightwing tweets so you don't have to

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All November, Ian Martin will be following the BNP, led by Nick Griffin, on Twitter. Photograph: Dave Thompson/PA WIRE

Most Twitter users love the site for its friendly, like-minded sense of community. Ian Martin, writer and "swearing consultant" on The Thick Of It, worries it's become a bit "mimsy". "I know lots of very funny, clever friends on Twitter and it's like a warm blanket when you open it up every morning. But it all just suddenly seemed a bit too comfortable."

So on 1 November, Martin started a month-long experiment: he unfollowed all his friends on Twitter and replaced them with a wildly different list. "I decided to follow the most hateful people I could find," he says. He has filled his feed with rightwing extremists, religious fundamentalists, gun nuts, racists and homophobes. Now, each day when he logs on, he says he is deluged with what Malcolm Tucker might call "arse plasma" from "the hideous mirrorworld of fuck" in the form of video links, sexist rants and antisemitic bile.

wow, I'm sure the results of this experiment will be truly groundbreaking.

I am so special (allegedly):

Hi there, you're part of a beta group receiving this feature, which means you may start seeing retweets in a new way. People who don't have this yet will see your retweets prefaced by "RT".

http://a3.twimg.com/a/1258420634/images/retweet/retweet-banner-example.png

You and 600,000 of the Twitterarti, Raggett!

Yeah, did anyone on ILX *not* get one of those?

I've got it on my fake footballer account but not on my real account I don't think.

Is this a real murderer on Twitter?

Umm, probably not, no.

twitter needs to adopt ilx's bookmark function

I have that new RT feature too, what if you want to add a comment to it, how does that show up?

You can't add a comment. I mean, who would want to use Twitter for typing in messages to send to people, eh?

I have switched from "rt" to "via" to avoid this issue as much as possible.

they are kinda entering the facebook zone where they have a pretty great product & add ons are only gonna piss people off and make the site clunkier

i think the RT thing is just web-based - might be helpful when i want to RT something which is too long to fit in the original person's user name but not otherwise, but it doesn't matter cuz i RT through twitterfox anyway. jordan otm.

Five new restroom ambassadors will soon be tweeting from toilets at Times Square after beating hundreds of hopefuls for the coveted jobs.

They won a contest that included aspiring actors, students and even a businessman hoping to seed his enterprise for the jobs to greet and chat with tourists and hoards of holiday shoppers visiting the Manhattan restrooms.

Each winner will collect $10,000 for six weeks of work.

In addition to welcoming the guests, the ambassadors will comment and blog about their experience on social networking web sites Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

I think with Twitter is that you can thread it through pretty much any application you're using rather than being forced to actually access the site. That's a pretty big point of difference with Facebook and hopefully it'll stop them from fucking with it too much.

^^yeah true; i don't like the new retweet thing but it doesn't affect me as i use twitter through twitterfox anyway.

James Ward says: “I recently posted a series of tweets about the Kellogg’s Special K Mini Breaks advert. At one point in the ad a woman opens a glass-fronted cabinet (we view her from a camera inside the cabinet), and there’s a packet of Mini Breaks sitting on some sort of display stand, directed towards the camera. Which means they’re pointing towards the back of the cabinet. Who would arrange a cabinet like that? So I pointed this out on Twitter, and the following conversation ensued between Kellogg’s and myself: Kellogg’s: Let us assure you that at no time did we anticipate the glass cabinet featured in the advert causing any offence.

Me: The fact you didn’t anticipate the arrangement of the glass cabinet causing offence is indicative of the problem.

Kellogg’s: We will bear in mind your plea for us to use a non-glass fronted cabinet in TV ads going forward.

Me: Apology accepted. However, I’ll be keeping an eye on your adverts in future, and there’ll be trouble if it happens again.

Kellogg’s: We will consider ourselves told off. Thank you, James.

http://cdn.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/twitterbillboard.jpg

film at 11

ok what's this page 1/page 2 etc bullshit?

wait, nevermind?

"It's like Twitter, except we charge people to use it"

http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p.html

^pretty lol email exchange.

http://www.27bslash6.com/images/graph_for_simon_edhouse.gif

kinda scared of current most popular topic "#ifsantawasblack"

lots of really casual racism, if i were racist i would personally keep that shit on the dl!

but some people are okay with tweeting stuff like "#ifsantawasblack we'd all be getting AIDs for christmas" or "#ifsantawasblack hed buy all em presents wit drug money".

TweetNotebook: "lets you create a physical notebook that features a random set of your Twitter messages."

http://twitter.com/OMGFacts
started in late september. posts, more or less, snapple facts.
136K followers
this is 2009 in a nutshell

Ben Franklin did not fucking invent the rocking chair

20% self-promo
80% proud of the flyer

http://www.aprilfish.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/1000TimesYes.jpg

thats dope

jeezy snowman needs a jeezy snowman sweater

i originally told the designer to do a Rankin/Bass animated frosty in the jeezy tee, but her stylized design is like 100 times cuter and 100 times less Holl4rtr0nix OMG POP CULTURE DETRITUS HAHAHA DJ flyer

hahaha loving the truth bomb of "if i were racist i would personally keep that shit on the dl!"

looking forward to your @100timescuter twitter of kitten pix in 2010, bro

i'd probably have more followers tbh

80% proud of the flyer

Be prouder. Din is a fucking horrid font but that makes it look pretty bloody great.

Also -- in all seriousness -- there are two or three things I can pretty much guarantee I wouldn't have heard this year, or certainly wouldn't have heard as quickly, without 1000TimesYes ... so: dude, thanks.

aw, thanks man. that's why i do it :)

DonaldFagen: not currently accepting challengers for "feats of strength" (I don't wrestle with strangers) but as for the "airing of grievances", air away 6 minutes ago from web