Twitter C/D

I'm sure someone else will have said it already on this thread, but I really appreciate Andrew WK's twitter: http://twitter.com/AndrewWK

i love sarah silverman's but im a fan so no surprise there. i cant get addicted to this thing and i kind of want to. i think its all my grad school followees tweeting 10 times a day that they're reading. its like REALLY!?!?!?!

"PARTY TIP: Don't be a fucking wimp."

Right on AWK!

http://twitter.com/ladygaga/status/8789158209

local trending topics is funny!

Trending: Seattle

#whywebrokeup
#awkwardsituation
Google Buzz
Alexander McQueen
V-Day
iPad
Dourado
Bill Clinton
Haiti
Carnaval

http://twitter.com/PRINCE_OFFICIAL/status/8476096110

# WE ARE NOW ALMOST AT 8000 FOLLOWERS I WILL FOLLOW 5 MORE FANS RT #PRINCE IS NOW ON TWITTER FOLLOW @PRINCE_OFFICIAL about 7 hours ago from web

massive lols @ that tweet

Prince's grammar is 2 perfect 4 twitter.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_iKd31qdfQM8/S4Li5qDgkEI/AAAAAAAAAdI/8X4N4-_Zd6g/s1600/chart-tweets-per-day3.png

http://blog.twitter.com/2010/02/measuring-tweets.html

50 million (non-spam) tweets per day currently.

And only 49,990,000 of those daily tweets are from "social media experts"/"property investment advisers".

http://twitter.com/ConanOBrien

this is probably better than facebook, isn't it

http://img59.yfrog.com/img59/5172/tfa.png

http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/262/twitter1269452245243.png

Every public tweet, ever, since Twitter’s inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress.

http://twitter.com/barackobama/status/992176676
^large part of me is a bit uncomfortable about this

why?

twitter being archived is some krapp's last tape shit.
and the First Twitter feels odd and flimsy

tl;dr

http://media.twitter.com/392/tweets-quotes

I have no idea how a hole this large could be left in a service as popular as Twitter, nor do I understand why it hasn't been shut yet. What I do understand, though, is that Oprah is following me right now, and receiving my DMs. So anyway, here's how it works:
1. Open the Twitter web interface (I haven't been able to get it to work in the apps I've tried)
2. Tweet "accept username", as in "accept oprah"

According to an e-mail we received this morning, the Twitter bug and ensuing 0 followers/0 following fiasco was inadvertently started by a Turkish fan of heavy metal band Accept. When this young man tweeted “Accept pwnz,” he found that the user @pwnz was suddenly following him.

http://mashable.com/2010/05/10/twitocalypse-heavy-metal/

awesome, shit straight imploded and then reformed

Is it worth it to be on Twitter, do you think? I'm thinking of joining again, but every time I have in the past I was on there for a really short amount of time before quitting.

It's worth because you get stuff like this:

DAVID_LYNCH

This weekend I hope to install three red-gloved hands.

"Worth" it? I don't think it's anything other than a fun way to kill some time, unless you're someone who needs to network with writers or comedians or fans.

At work we see it as a business tool. Personally I find it a much nicer way of staying in touch with people casually than Facebook.

Because it's less cluttered?

feministhulk HULK LOVE FOR JUDITH BUTLER WILL NOT FADE. HULK LOVE LIKE RUSHING RIVER THAT SMASH (GENDER NORMATIVE) DAMS!

Surprisingly, not a fake: http://twitter.com/george_wbush

Following Palin, McCain, the GOP and Obama!

Holy shit look at how fast his followers are coming.

Name George Bush Fans?

Also here:

http://imgur.com/0sXuO.png

Like youtube comment-level stupididty without even a video clip to watch, ugh.

In response to all that:

http://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/15274046505

fail wale u_u

uh, "whale" iirc

uh

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/06/500x_screen_shot_2010-06-18_at_9.27.57_am.jpg

WARNING! This page informs on real world of crime and punishment. "If u can't stand the TWEET, get out of the TWITCHEN" Harry Truman #utpol about 18 hours ago via TwitBird iPhone Retweeted by 9 people

MarkShurtleff

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10348685.stm

Utah firing squad death announced on Twitter

1. they still use firing squads in some states?
2. fucking distasteful

1. Utah stopped using firing squads but decided that as Gardner was sentenced (in 1985) before it was eliminated that he should be executed in accordance with his original sentence.
2. otm

i'm pretty sure he got to choose his method of execution and he chose firing squad (since he was still entitled to the option).

Kind of wish there was a way to track who has unfollowed you -- I need to know who thinks I'm boring!

http://goodbyebuddy.com

Thank you. I was hoping there was something out there that catered to paranoid narcissists like me.

"Harry Twuman" surely

Gardner got to request a last song to be played before he was shot. He chose Free Bird. I heard that song in a store today. Now it will always remind me of death by firing squad(whereas before it just made me want to kill myself because why still playing this?). I'm sure his victims' families enjoyed sitting through that paean to teenage angst. Back to Twitter.

If you are really that vain, from my experience Twunfollow works much more frequently than Goodbye Buddy.