Twitter C/D

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tombreihan

Stay off of Twitter, Zero Cool and Acid Burn! You guys are such assholes! about 3 hours ago via web

#ilx hashtag for worldwide trending purposes

The CEO of Twitter is a Dick.

THE HOFF IS FOLLOWING ME!

Tag a post with #Hoffoween & a pic of you going about your life. I will randomly pick a winner and dress as them on Halloween and tweet pics about 1 hour ago via web Retweeted by 12 people

DavidHasselhoff
David Hasselhoff

woah

the north korea twitter just retweeted this:

@uriminzok i can no longer endure your tweets. hopefully we shall cross paths again... perhaps when you invade me. will you, north korea?

Twitter joke trial rejects appeal, calling the original tweet "obviously menacing". Yeesh.

@Ludacris see you sunday? 6:52 PM Oct 22nd via web in reply to Ludacris Retweeted by 39 people

aplusk
ashton kutcher

think i asked this before but how do you sync twitter/facebook status updates

What color are tennis balls? 10:09 PM Nov 23rd via web Retweeted by 39 people

RiversCuomo
Rivers Cuomo

Not feeling Twitter anymore. The world's biggest clusterfuck.

I would love to have one less thing to check, but I feel like there's enough going on there that's at least arguably valuable to me that I have to keep checking it

retweeting makes my eyes bleed tbh

you can turn off retweets by specific users if you go to their page - learning this changed my life 4 real

yeah, that's a good feature for sure

My next tweet is my 2000th and I need something witty to say...

Just apologize for the previous 1,999 and promise to do better in the future.

think i asked this before but how do you sync twitter/facebook status updates

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Friday, November 19, 2010 8:39 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

dont do it this is so annoying

i wanna smack people whose fb updates are stuff like "talking to @butterballs about #CIS and #VCK2009 with @nutslapper #chickendoodle"

"talking to @butterballs about #CIS and #VCK2009 with @nutslapper #chickendoodle"

Hey, quit using my twitter feed as your example!

http://twitter.com/#!/ABC7Stephen

go back about 14 hours

and read thru

xxxpost, Hey, quit using forks display names as your example!

max, that is amazing.

Oh god, lights went out. Train totally dead. No one is telling us anything! Sitting in dark shivering. "Sartre"

heat went out on the sunday night sleeper train i took two weeks ago. -6C inside and out. fortunately i had a 4-season sleeping bag.

kafka gotta be pretty mad he didn't dream up a train that stopped for a bit.

Oh god, lights went out. Train totally dead. No one is telling us anything! Sitting in dark shivering. "Sartre"

please can someone repurpose "sittering in the dark shivering...SARTRE" as a grocery bag rap punchline

*sitting

So I am a perennial quitter/restarter of Facebook because I kind of hate it but then I like receiving notifications about events and various other opportunities. Is Twitter any less compulsive? Probably not, right? I just don't really enjoy the feeling of being *on display* all the time and wasting precious hours staring at people's profiles. Definitely don't want both Twitter and FB, but thinking of switching? Tell me, I've never really used Twitter so don't exactly get it.

please can someone repurpose "sittering in the dark shivering...SARTRE" as a grocery bag rap punchline

sitting in the dark shivering ... SARTRE
wish my life was more like Amelie's ... MONTMARTRE

xp Well, you're certainly not on display. Especially if you don't post stuff about yourself. I use it mostly to get a sense of the zeitgeist ... I try to follow different types of people -- journalists, scientists, celebrities, athletes, regular joes, locals, politicians, comedians, joke accounts ...

yeah that sounds good

sitting in the dark shivering ... SARTRE
wish my life was more like Amelie's ... MONTMARTRE

:D

So I am a perennial quitter/restarter of Facebook because I kind of hate it but then I like receiving notifications about events and various other opportunities. Is Twitter any less compulsive? Probably not, right? I just don't really enjoy the feeling of being *on display* all the time and wasting precious hours staring at people's profiles. Definitely don't want both Twitter and FB, but thinking of switching? Tell me, I've never really used Twitter so don't exactly get it.

Things I hate about FB:
-The automatic assumption that if you friend someone on FB then you want to read every single thing they have to say.
- The AOL-style interface and the general clutter... reading FB is like trying to watch a movie with an audience that talks out loud and won't shut up.

Things I like about Twitter:
- Dozens of different clients. If you don't like the interface, try a different client. It's trivial to switch and you don't lose anything
- 140 character limit. You're forced to be interesting, witty, etc. immediately. Conversely, if you're boring - I'm unfollowing. Sorry dude.
- The ability to favorite a post (similar to "starring" an item in Google Reader). It's easy to come back to a post and then read the link you posted. (can't do that in FB)
- Conducive to partial attention. Most of the time I'm WORKING and don't really have the time to slog through your FB bullshit. With Twitter I can "get a sense of the zeitgeist" (as polyphonic says) and easily return back to what I was doing.

Elvis, your point about unfollowing is really important. If someone stops following you, it doesn't matter. It doesn't mean they don't want to be your friend anymore, it just means they're not interested enough in your microblog to keep reading it.

If you unfriend a farcebook user it's like you murdered their children.

Although tbh there is the occasional entitled Twitter user who takes unfollowing personally, but I think that says more about them than it does about Twitter.

Haha, sounds like Twitter might be for me.

Now what if I wanted to promote an event? Is it easy to do that? I just "tweet" about it? Can you keep lists like "Los Angeles" and so on?

Yes but you need to be careful. If you exist to promote events it's fine because people will follow you for that reason; if you act like a real person and suddenly spam your followers you'll lose them.

ahhh, I see

sort of sounds like it does cut out a lot of the things I hate about FB

And yeah, you can add people to lists without following them. You have an enormous degree of control over what you see and how you see it.

There's no expectation of reciprocity. I follow people who follow me back, but that's only because I use Twitter for conversation, not because I'm a sad old tit who expects to be loved. If you're just promoting stuff, you don't need to follow everyone who follows you.

WHAT IS HAPPENING IN TWITTER

santa broke it

http://status.twitter.com/