https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OotUsvaPSg
― ripecock (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 12:46 (thirteen years ago) link
http://scribe.thebigmoney.com/sites/default/files/Screen%20shot%202010-07-01%20at%2012.21.41%20PM.png
― ksh, Sunday, 4 July 2010 06:17 (thirteen years ago) link
had to stop following Roger Ebert, I only follow a few people and he was overwhelming the rest
― a cross between lily allen and fetal alcohol syndrome (milo z), Sunday, 4 July 2010 06:34 (thirteen years ago) link
i deleted my account, RIP
― ksh, Sunday, 4 July 2010 06:35 (thirteen years ago) link
The flurry of replies to the new, apparently real @tonyblairoffice is kind of amusing. I feel sorry for whichever underpaid intern has to sort through hundreds of 'MURDERER! WAR CRIMINAL! TERRORIST!' tweets every day.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
milo i thought the idea of lists was to get around problems like that, is it not useful
― iSleighBellsTellem (zvookster), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
@simonpegg seems to be pretending to be stuck in some kind of other dimension with @nickjfrost - I am quite amused.
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I only use Twitter on my phone, I dunno about lists and all that fancy stuff.
― a cross between lily allen and fetal alcohol syndrome (milo z), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
One of the 19 that Glenn Beck is following is Muse.
http://twitter.com/glennbeck
― Born too beguiled (DavidM), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Not enough lol in the world for that.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
He is the Bella to Rush's Edward.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
to his credit, he's following ROFLquiz too
― markers, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
god i hate twitter
― akm, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
The Iron Sheik's twitter is great.
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 23:03 (thirteen years ago) link
is this our ste?http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/aug/02/kanye-west-twitter
― cozen, Monday, 2 August 2010 13:13 (thirteen years ago) link
lol at the ellie goulding love; i feel you ste!
― 8o---e*.\\\||///.*ə---o8 (forksclovetofu), Monday, 2 August 2010 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I won't be speaking to anybody else, surprisingly not everyone wants to be famous. That's all I'm saying - peace out xabout 3 hours ago via web
ste_101steven holmes
― markers, Monday, 2 August 2010 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Just to clarify, I mean I won't be speaking to any more press/journalistsabout 3 hours ago via web
http://twitter.com/#search?q=Oxford%20Circus
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Apparently the BBC's Match Of The Day Twitter account started a rumour of a bomb on a Tube train.
Needless to say, it's a load of balls.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Is there *any* way to turn off the "who to follow" suggestions short of clicking x to all of them.
It's like every morning on twitter has turned into this depressing litany of suggestions of people who unfollowed me or otherwise just stopped being friends with me. It's like being constantly haunted by one's past social failures. Repeatedly.
― let me mansplain that to you (Masonic Boom), Monday, 9 August 2010 12:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't use the Twitter interface - I haven't seen any of these suggestions yet using Hootsuite or dabr. They might be slightly flakier than the twitter front-end but Twitter's down so often you don't really notice.
― useless chamber, Monday, 9 August 2010 12:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks to Nicole passing this along, yes!
http://blog.kitchenmage.com/2010/08/removing-twitters-recommended-user-to-follow-feature.html
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
so does anyone here actually find the ongoing "black people on twitter" journalistic conversation interesting/useful? there's yet another of these pieces on slate. i dunno how i feel.
http://www.slate.com/id/2263462
― stuckey's snackhouse (get bent), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
"jews on twitter: the virtual borscht belt"
― stuckey's snackhouse (get bent), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i would say more interesting than useful
― PLIES N THIGHS (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 05:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Way to go Slate guy for leading with two long, dry, useless graphs explaining how Twitter and hashtags works for the completely internet-unsavvy readers of Slate
― PLIES N THIGHS (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 05:33 (thirteen years ago) link
lol otm
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 11 August 2010 05:38 (thirteen years ago) link
trending right now
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h271/stckhlmcnd/tt.jpg
― diurnal eternal falafel (get bent), Sunday, 15 August 2010 01:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Tigress_Lee, the user who helped spark #wordsthatleadtotrouble, has 1,825 followers, and she's following 1,873. BigJamaal has 11,962 followers, and he's following 11,203. These patterns suggest that the black people who start these tags "are using Twitter as a social tool," Meeder says. "They're using Twitter like a public instant messenger"—using the service to talk to one another rather than broadcast a message to the world.
Wait, what? If you're following more than like 60 people, surely you're not reading your twitter at all!
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Sunday, 15 August 2010 01:57 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm following around 400 people. granted, sometimes i skim, and some of my followers don't post very much.
― diurnal eternal falafel (get bent), Sunday, 15 August 2010 02:04 (thirteen years ago) link
ugh, i mean "some of the people i follow." bleh, semantics.
― diurnal eternal falafel (get bent), Sunday, 15 August 2010 02:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I follow around 200...some people hardly post at all, or someone like Ebert posts every 5 minutes in the evenings...I think I've got it to a point where I've got a nice regular flow of tweets from a variety of people. I don't like reading streams of stuff from the same person. And I read pretty much all of it. Some of the links I may not follow.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 15 August 2010 02:09 (thirteen years ago) link
But I can't really fathom following thousands of people. Too noisy!
i actually follow a lot of the links! it's one of the things i enjoy most about twitter. it's a great/entertaining way to aggregate stuff around the web.
― diurnal eternal falafel (get bent), Sunday, 15 August 2010 02:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm slowly figuring that out...retraining myself to stop and follow the links, bc I always end up entertained or informed more than if I just flew on by.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 15 August 2010 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Sometimes I get emotional over fonts about 10 hours ago via web Retweeted by 100+ people
kanyewestKanye West
― markers, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 00:38 (thirteen years ago) link
fuck, who the hell thinks twitter is good for reporting news
― dyao, Monday, 23 August 2010 12:58 (thirteen years ago) link
But I can't really fathom following thousands of people. Too noisy!― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, August 15, 2010 2:09 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I guess this is the point of tweetdeck tho where you can parcel all the streams out into types ('friends', 'celebrities', 'sport' etc.)
― bela guolaosi (cozen), Monday, 23 August 2010 13:02 (thirteen years ago) link
not that I use tweetdeck; probably should
and the lists, too, not that i use those either. i follow 374 people, many of whom rarely/never post*, and of those who do, not all of their tweets will actually be interesting to me, so i skim them. any more and it might get a bit much (or i might just start using the lists &c). regular tweeters whose tweets actively irk me for whatever reason (like, not a hostile "i don't like this person" reason, more usually "i don't like this person's humour") or who are never interesting or useful will be the ones who get unfollowed.
*the thing is i never know whether they're on twitter reading everyone else's tweets or whether they just got bored and went away! i find this disconcerting. greg you are one of these.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 23 August 2010 13:09 (thirteen years ago) link
i can't seem to want to have a twitter of my own at all, it is weird to me as i got into so many other internet things. i do run a fake one for the irish police force tho which i can easily update. i prob should just sync my facebook with twitter.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Monday, 23 August 2010 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Hmm, I got told off for syncing Facebook with Twitter, as people using both were seeing duplicate updates.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 09:29 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/selectivetwitter - add #fb to any tweet you want to copy to Facebook instead of syncing them all.
― a harshbuzz to my manpain (onimo), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 10:08 (thirteen years ago) link
(looks a bit unreliable from the discussions but worth a try)
― a harshbuzz to my manpain (onimo), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 10:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Just experienced my first Demo Day at YC some great start ups! Check out the simplenote app! 7:42 PM Aug 24th via Twitter for iPhone Retweeted by 22 people
mrskutcherDemi Moore
― markers, Monday, 30 August 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
http://imgur.com/WBrW0.png
― James Mitchell, Saturday, 18 September 2010 09:39 (thirteen years ago) link
50cent How come a porn star can suck the hole dick anGood girl can only suck some?ok if your a good girl reading this more suck more dam it
― microtonal hall & oates (get bent), Saturday, 18 September 2010 10:04 (thirteen years ago) link
English50cent I am befuddled by the discrepancy between the skill sets of professional adult actresses and civilian women. This should be addressed.
― microtonal hall & oates (get bent), Saturday, 18 September 2010 10:05 (thirteen years ago) link
HAY GUYS. I JUST JOINED TWITTER!!!:O Follow me and ill follow you plskthxbye. @sunnyregressor
― I saw him in convulsive throws I said "I'll have one of those" (sunny successor), Monday, 20 September 2010 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link