Twitter C/D

Hmm. I hit it once and it got rid of an annoying red number at the bottom of the screen :) I'll need to use it in practice to see if it's actually doing anything else.

http://img.slate.com/media/1/123125/123019/2207910/2219520/090617_PB_deadTwitter2.jpg

i did this last night. my first message was directed at cassie!

What is your Twitter name?

@whywontyougooutwithmecassie

Fuck's sake: I just sent an incredibly tedious @ reply in which I mentioned panini, and it's been RTd by Sandvich, which appears to be the most pointless bot ever. Twitter will eat itself ...

Major LOLs thanks to GOP Twitter users:

Earlier today, Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) put up this astonishing post on Twitter, likening the oppression of the Iranian people to the plight of House Republicans:

Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when Republicans were shut down in the House.
In the hours since, the Twitter community has responded -- with massive heckling. Here's just a small sample of some of the best ones:

ArjunJaikumar @petehoekstra i spilled some lukewarm coffee on myself just now, which is somewhat analogous to being boiled in oil

chrisbaskind @petehoekstra My neighbor stopped me to talk today. Now I know what it is like to be questioned by the Basij!

luckbfern @petehoekstra I stand in solidarity with the oppressed rich white men of Repub Party in the House. #GOPfail Allah Akbar!

aciolino @petehoekstra Today I poked my finger on a hanger. Now I know what all those aborted babies go through.

ceedub7 @petehoekstra I got a splinter in my hand today. Felt just like Jesus getting nailed to the cross.

netw3rk @petehoekstra Someone walked in on me while I was in the bathroom. Reminded me of Pearl Harbor.

MattOrtega Walked out onto Constitution Ave in D.C. and was almost hit by a taxi. Reminded me of Tienanmen Square.

tharodge @petehoekstra maybe now is a good time to reconsider whether you are ready for national politics?

TahirDuckett @petehoekstra ran through the sprinklers this morning, claimed solidarity with victims of Hurricane Katrina

paganmist @petehoekstra Had to move all my stuff to a new office w/o a corner view. Now i know what the Trail of Tears was like. #GOPfail

http://twitter.com/ballepascual

(Do not click if you hate baseball and/or music.)

will follow u

follow him wherever he may go?

baseball, dance music, tweets, hell yeah this my man

http://twitter.com/David_Miliband is pretty obviously fake but do a Google News search on Michael Jackson and Miliband to see the Guardian, Mail, Mirror, PA et al all reporting the foreign secretary's tearful tribute. Jeez.

I couldn't believe that (the reporting that is) when I saw it. Will this lead to Milband having to deny that it was his twitter but that, yes, of course, Michale Jackson, was the king of pop?

Sexyexecutive: genius.

"The wife and I have had to start putting our toothbrushes in a cup, despite having a perfectly good toothbrush holder on the wall. Madness"

haha

'I'm not gone stop, I'm gone work harder' - grammatically poor, but a great motivational message for our younger employees about dedication 4:30 AM Jun 22nd from web

Have bought Birdhouse for the iPhone. Best yet, esp. while Tweetie's search is knackered.

https://twitter.com/realnickgriffin

http://twitter.com/RealDailyMail is good too

https://twitter.com/realnickgriffin

...

something about Ann Widdecombe's basin haircut and floor-length tits. fucking hell, i think i'm about to go off

HAHAHAHAHAHA fuck me, this is genius.

(Well, OK, it's not. But it's funny as fuck.)

for whatever reason "starting the day with a lovely wank" got me laughing the most.

Yeh, I was still laughing at that one when I got to the Ann Widdecombe bit.

Le Pen walks in. i try to offer a friendly "salut", my mouth still full of circular salt-beef sandwich. it comes out as "shalom"

AH JESUS I think I've ruptured something

There's a bot that retweets anything with a swear word in it. Only surprised I hadn't been pinged earlier.

we made one

twitter.com/tenderhooksband

Am following! Hope the tour is going well. <3

<3<3<3 its going aight

i stopped following el-p. after his month long sobriety - which was rather funny - he started spewing spam tweets about his various signed artists. No thanks.

http://twitter.com/zombocom

the original site coming up on its ten year anniversary btw

oh man I remember zombo.com

I don't know why Plurk isn't more popular. It's 10x better than Twitter.

maybe cause its called "plurk"

lol I am back on twitter now

twitter.com/rodneyjgreene

htt://www.twitter.com/rodneyjgreene

fuck

http://www.twitter.com/rodneyjgreene

did y'all see this: http://twitter.com/iirc

Blatant plug - if you time it right, you can be my 200th follower. HOW EXCITING.

http://twitter.com/sickmouthy

The sausages dude mentioned upthread (http://www.twitter.com/allthesausages) still wins for sheer fucking randomness.

Do y'all think Twitter is a service that people will still be using 10 years from now?

I made it three days before deleting my account.

my friend devised this project that feeds live tweets into a text-voice translator, super-compulsive listening

http://radio.nymoon.com/tweetradio/

AKGovSarahPalin: Awesome AK night sensing summer already winding down w/fireweed near full bloom;finally sitting down to pen;listening to Big & Rich "Shuttin Detroit Down"

that sounds kinda awesome minus the big and rich although that is such a lolsome detail that i dont mind

"finally setting down to pen" = semicoherently berating ghostwriter

@zizekspeaks There is nothing sublime about being on a ship caught in a storm which threatens to drown it - only the terror of facing a painful death.

rough day i guess

@MargaretLAtwood The person using my name -- Margaret Atwood -- and my picture on Twitter is not me. Please stop imperonating me. Thanks.
5:31 PM Jul 25th from web

@MargaretLAtwood You can tell MargaretLAtwood really is me, because I made a typo -- should be "impersonating," "Imperonating" is pretending to be Evita.
5:37 PM Jul 25th from web

:D

http://www.dembot.net/images/twitter_server.png

http://www.istwitterdown.com/