Twitter C/D

ENBB followed me! I felt special. ;)

Lex of course I followed you! I've was reading your stuff when you were just a wee lass, remember?

Trayce, do you really know people named Fred & Sheila.

I truly wish I did ;_;

Twitter is fine in isolation however people who link Twitter to Facebook LJ et al should be rogered as above

I suppose in it's own setting it makes about as much sense as AIM or MSN. But yeah why feed it out elsewhere? Especially to blogs.

I'm just more depressed that people can't be bothered to write thoughtful coherent peices of writing any more. You do so and get tl;dr. The next generation are going to be brain-damaged monkeys who cant focus for longer than 10 seconds.

Sorry... seem to have caught a serious case of old, today.

tl;dr

also what's this 'going to be' brain-damaged monkeys

does tumblr have a character limit? what makes it different from twitter aside from images/vids being embedded instead of linked?

the double digits thing is funny.. but i think you mean triple!

how many listens do you give each album?

― s1ocki, Thursday, February 12, 2009 6:58 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I do mean triple! I didn't feel like correcting it.

I usually give them one listen. If I REALLY like something, I'll listen to it again to make sure I'm not tripping balls before I gush on it.

do you find stuff you've been 1000ing gets into your regular rotation - if you have one?

Of course.

Albums I've 1000'd that are in my reg rotation:

Zu - Carboniferous
Zombi - Spirit Animal
Dalek - Gutter Tactics
Bruce Springsteen - Working On A Dream
Antony And The Johnsons - The Crying Light
Dan Deacon - Bromst
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavillion (sorry!)
Gui Borratto - Take My Breath Away

looking forward to that dan deacon. i checked out harmonic 313 and dalek (among others) based on yr tweeding and am glad i did

tweeting makes a difference!!!

the good kind of kk vibes

"Like, what sort of role does it play in people's lives? "

If I don't tweet then I have the shakes.

Hello, I'm Nathalie a twitaholic.

Srsly just something mindless if I have ten min to lose.

does tumblr have a character limit? what makes it different from twitter aside from images/vids being embedded instead of linked?

Lack of desktop/phone push clients would be the most obvious thing; that and the fact nobody's really jumped on the bandwagon ;)

Whiney: I've just remembered that I favourited a couple of your posts because they were things I wanted to check out ... Weird Owl, Mountains, These Are Powers and Emeralds. Should start to check some of those out.

Anyway. Witterings and swearing: https://twitter.com/weesimon

twitter makes sense when i'm drunk and on public transportation at the end of the night, wanting to catalog the weirdos around me (or in my head). i've only ever sent from text though because every time i encounter the WHAT ARE YOU DOING RIGHT NOW? screen at the computer all i can think is i am sitting at a computer, reading, and isn't that fascinating

http://www.twitter.com/jelky

Your Twitter compatibility with weesimon is Medium
Followers you have in common include stevienixed, fluxion23, 1000TimesYes and NedRaggett.

Your Twitter compatibility with jelky is Low
Followers you have in common include hoosteen, tehresa and just1n3.

So, erm, if you are following someone, but they're not following you, they CAN'T read what you have written, right?

If you're set to private they cant.

If you've not blocked access and they go to your Twitter page, they can see everything.

Yeah, but why on earth would they go to my twitter page?

I wish there was a way to follow people without their knowing that you are. And also so people can't see that you are following them.

Though I'm just saying that because of the embarrassment factor... I'm sure that people would find a way to abuse that.

You could subscribe to the RSS feed on that person's page.

ilx0rz whose Twitter feeds I would read, for one reason or another:

- Abbott
- Dom
- Tombot
- Dan
- moley
- estela
- LJ

btw I have just added a metric fuckload of random people who I think are ilxors and will prob. remove them just as soon as I work out what the hell is going on. If in the meantime you find it crepey/disturbing tell me and I will gladly remove you with all speed.

There are twitter spamreaders like anywhere else. The real randoms kinda disturb me, like... hey! I'm not a celebrity. Is your life that boring that you have to follow me rambling on about gay porn and synth sequencers?

I see it as a means to having actual interesting conversations, not just following other people's lives. I'm about to ditch Stephen Fry because despite loving his work I find him distinctly boring, and the mechanics of attempting conversation with a complete stranger who has 170,000 followers is patently ridiculous (although Charlie Brooker gets to stay because he's actually worth reading).

Adam - my twitter is c h e r r y 2 0 0 0 r o o l z but I don't know how long I'll persevere with this one. On the one hand, it suits the essentially trivial nature of my thoughts. On the other hand, it's a bit of a waste of everyone's time, let's be honest.

What's yours?

I'm sorry I'm still not getting this. If you dont follow it by each others twitter web pages how do you follow each other? I feel like I'm missing something (not that I want in rly)

We're finding more and more new applications that enable us to chat the same old fart to each other.

What's yours?

― moley, Tuesday, February 17, 2009 9:45 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Vzzzbx

It's definitely a waste of time, but so's ilx to be honest. It's what fun you get out of it that counts.

Twitter seems to be gaining momentum. I need to fill a big dirty facebook-shaped hole with something; Twitter might not be it, but without trying I'll never know.

Trayce: Your 'home' page (i.e. not the one with your username in the url) contains feeds of those whom you follow. Makes sense once you actually do it.

I'm about to ditch Stephen Fry because despite loving his work I find him distinctly boring

I find him quite fun; what I can't stand is the way he's now re-Tweeting so much stuff (eg the thing about the blank profile yesterday) because so many of his followers are obviously fucking bell-ends.

From a social-psychology angle I'm fascinated by the way the 'sleb Twitterers deal with having unfettered, two-way access to their fans. Graham Linehan is a joy.

I joined this - jelbugle.

jelky fwiw i love your tweets even though i usually have no idea what you are talking baout!

i do a lot of mine from fone, too.

:)

btw I have just added a metric fuckload of random people who I think are ilxors and will prob. remove them just as soon as I work out what the hell is going on. If in the meantime you find it crepey/disturbing tell me and I will gladly remove you with all speed.

What you said.

get ready for some really exciting tweets about soup!

btw I have just added a metric fuckload of random people who I think are ilxors and will prob. remove them just as soon as I work out what the hell is going on. If in the meantime you find it crepey/disturbing tell me and I will gladly remove you with all speed.

What you said.

... and indeed what they both said.

you gotta figure random ppl are gonna follow u, part of the fun in my opinion, drill my pov into their brains

that ended grosser than intended

Yeah! Skull fuck the world!

Like any blogger who knows his site is pointless, my greatest hope is that people who follow me are as bored as I am.

okay, Graham Linehan lasted all of eight hours. Waking up to find 110 new tweets, uh, no thanks.

Ah, so that is who all these strange new people following me on twitter is! You're not strangers, you're ILX0rs.

Many of them are. I'd bet some are just random people, though.

I get spammers who don't say anything and disappear within 24 hours anyway. It's all rather creepy in that regard.

I get a little appalled when a client asks me to set up a Twitter account for him. 1) You don't need me to do that. 2) I'm not going to update the fucker, and unless you are, I can't see the point. 3) Who told you this was a fantastic new way to sell things? Because I want to sock that person in the nose.

Actually #3 is conditional -- you can sell things on Twitter, sure. If you make things. But look here client man -- you make auto parts. Trust me when I say that Twitter is not your market.

That's for RSS anyway. Jesus.

Technology is routinely fucked over by people who don't get what it's for and go misappropriating it. e.g. Facebook was for SOCIAL networking until old people en masse started hunting down their kids.