Twitter C/D

lex there is a tumblr thread :(

it didn't come up in search?

lol dg

I have never noticed the misspelling until now.

lol tubmlr

tumblr. fucking smug #whitepeople being arch about pop culture! this site is where awful, self-righteous opinions go to slap each other on the back.

I thought tumblr was for looking at pictures of pretty boys and pretty dresses.

yeah i was bitching about tumblr to someone else today and we both realised we were bitching about completely different things - sara was hating on the alt.twee photo tumblrs, i was hating on the #whitepeople opinions text tumblrs. both of us were right. i never saw the point in following photo tumblrs, myself.

I don't really bother w/fashion magazines anymore so it's a nice way to see Vogue/Elle etc.

A lot of the meme-related postings are annoying/infuriating though.

i was hating on the #whitepeople opinions text tumblrs.

I have no clue what this means, do you have any examples?

don't go to any great effort, please! I'm only idly curious.

i never saw the point in following photo tumblrs, myself.

― lex pretend, Friday, March 4, 2011 1:19 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

reblogging. it's just an insane cycle of ego-driven reblogging.

#ff ffs.

If you begin a tweet with @charliesheen, people will not see it in their feed unless they also follow @charliesheen.

If you do not begin a tweet with @, that tweet will show up in your feed for everyone who follows you.

There's a pseudo-convention of beginning a tweet with ".@" if you want your reply to be seen by your followers. e.g. .@charliesheen if you want everyone to see it - not just people that follow you and @charliesheen

Please never so that.

never DO that

.@jeff hi

:(

.@jeff :)

Yeh fucking annoying way of putting people you deliberately don't follow back into you. Fuk a ".@jeffjarvis"

I had to unfollow someone whose every reply was an old-style retweet, e.g.:

Yes it is! RT @scally127 is it really warm today?!??!
Not yet RT @wimblywomble Who has bought the new NME?? BIEBER inside omg
haha RT @generictwat my dogs got no nose, how dose he smell terribal

I don't mind people who do the '.@' thing, but most of who I follow only do it for stuff like serious political debate that I find interesting

I refuse to @ any mention of charlie sheen

I've blocked @charliesheen in my client. Sick to fucking death of it.

i was hating on the #whitepeople opinions text tumblrs.

I have no clue what this means, do you have any examples?

only just saw this, i kind of don't want to call anyone out by actual name :/

(apart from sady doyle)

its ok white people can take it, were tough

I started following a bunch of ilxors. Anyone I missed, I'm @jxmitchell.

CLASSIC

^^
finding people living in sendai and getting to read what they're going through, just the day-to-day, trying to get by, posting pics, it's incredible

If you begin a tweet with @charliesheen, people will not see it in their feed unless they also follow @charliesheen.

really?! all this time i didn't know that!

Overdue but glad it's up and running:

http://blog.twitter.com/2011/03/making-twitter-more-secure-https.html

If you begin a tweet with @charliesheen, people will not see it in their feed unless they also follow @charliesheen.

really?! all this time i didn't know that!

― Background Zombie (CharlieNo4), Monday, March 14, 2011 7:11 PM (Yesterday)

yeah whoa i had always wondered why some replies showed up and others didnt

lots of tech ppl I follow are now signing up for identi.ca because they're pissed off with the "we'll make all the clients, thanks" Twitter steez. Website's honking, but some old Twitter clients work with it, at least.

Common practice has become to start a tweet this way—".@charliesheen"—with the period in front of the name to make sure it's seen by everyone you want to see it.

xp I've had an identi.ca account for ages but never bothered using it because I don't know anyone else with one. There's an iphone app that does identi.ca but buggered if I can remember what it's called.

IDENT

lol trending

http://grab.by/9ybi

anyone have any clue what #photwi is supposed to mean? i'm stalking this girl and nevermind

Not sure wtf is going on with my Twitter feed today. About 45 minutes ago I got a whole random steam of tweet from Japanese news agencies showing up on my feed and, just now, another random load of Spanish tweets.

This, maybe?

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/05/twitter-accidentally-shows-users-someone-elses-timeline-disables-newtwitter-to-fix/

this is kinda amazing http://yes.thatcan.be/my/next/tweet/

kinda awful imo

kinda cool

Why I think Kobo so Are you say excuse me ages to aspire to.

Hey blackface incident were white. That sort of sad old man. 对不起 7)_(L) If everyone read them on your.

Is Tasha Yar the Gold Logie is the new slogan? Daylight SAVING.

seriously

Read and ure like inside of mine: I can't decide if I don't I don't keep anything of the obvious, why!

Goin' ham: Ali-Frazier, 1971: The Bradley Cooper episode of mine: I want to this: It's pretty great.

I dunno what I change my friends answered in my brain: Better it be fake but I Tell If You Liked It Then?

I lived until I lived in The person or not: Definitely the ad wizards etc.

Turn radiator on? maybe that noise will cancel out the Saddle Creek message board. Groupon for Hire.

Duke wins? if it wasnt shot like I hate this time. Pretty sure Game of skinny jeans lol yay I wish there.

hee hee

Wow indeed. Very Important Task... turns out to thrust my muesli. Sick Mouthy's commentary nails it!

Green light for the design, preferring my dears. A pitch-perfect homage to be honest...

On my lifetime favourites. Tonight, i'll be most illuminating. Yoicks, I'm so bagged Tinie Tempah Arena!

Green light for dinner. So perhaps I shall call my lifetime favourites. Tonight, i'll be more fiction.

I am seeing you too? Oh joy. We are playing it - awake since 4am, more than welcome!

Oh well ooh excellent, ta Colloquy is 666 and I got a pinch. But the letters glide in the telly.

Haha yes Let's jam the bloke with a crust We have been together for effect but not watching it.

Would anyone like some sex?

i was wrong about this

That's... good? Hey, Latham?

^ great for so many reasons

(San Francisco, CA) On Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 10am. Residents of the South of Market community (SoMa), along with the members of the South of Market Community Action Network (SOMCAN), Tenderloin Filipino Community Association (TFCA) and other concerned San Franciscans will hold a RALLY in front of Twitter’s office building to stand firmly behind the goals that the City should not pass the “Payroll Expense Tax Exclusion in Central Market Street and Tenderloin area” until Twitter commits to a comprehensive Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) and the Board of Supervisors push through a companion legislation that will prevent the displacement of over 7,000 community residents from the South of Market and Tenderloin neighborhood.

Additionally, in asking for a pay-roll tax break, Twitter is going to remove a projected $22 million, to disappear from City Hall’s budget. Given that Twitter has benefited greatly from its partnership with the San Francisco community, it is great cause of concern that Twitter wants to rid itself of this social responsibility. In exchange for these, the SOMA and Tenderloin communities are demanding a comprehensive Community Benefits Agreement (CBA). The CBA will help define how Twitter’s presence will benefit the surrounding low-income communities and keep Twitter Corporation accountable to our neighborhood and residents’ concerns.

Residents of the community are also very concerned that if this tax-break ordinance goes through without any other external protections, such as companion legislation, the move by the City of creating a tax-exempt zone for large corporations will cause the displacement of Twitter’s neighbors through landlords exploiting the revitalization of the Central, South of Market and Tenderloin areas as an excuse to raise their rents.

Antonio Zavala, a father of two and a SOMCAN member states, “South of Market, and District 6 in general, is the most affordable place in the whole city. If our landlord raises our rent it will force a lot of families to be homeless or pushed out of the city.”

These concerns reflect the need for the Board of Supervisors to push through a companion legislation that will protect the community from displacement caused by higher rents due to revitalization of the existing community. We can already see the effects of Twitter’s corporate irresponsibility coming to light with other corporations, such as Zynga, who is threatening to leave San Francisco unless it receives tax breaks and other benefits.

The CBA, drawn up by local community organizers and residents, will not protect the community by itself. What is needed is a companion legislation that will protect the community from higher rents and from future big businesses from coming in and changing the make-up of the community, which in turn will cause the nightmares of residents, such as Zavala, to come to life.
Twitter needs to partner with its neighbors to ensure the existing presence of long time residents in the neighborhood will be protected by keeping public officials accountable to the displacement issues that will arise by the payroll tax exempt ordinance. Twitter also needs to live up to its corporate responsibility by not trying to undermine the needs of the community, through undercutting the CBA by making it non-comprehensive and fitting only their needs as a corporation and not as a community partner.