Twitter C/D

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.

in other words, fuck twitter

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my dad has a twitter. hahaha.

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

^

i'm on this now & i've tweeted twice!!!

if you want to follow me, i'm at twitter.com/[my first initial]+[my last name] - if you don't know what that is and i at least kinda sorta know you, webmail me and i'll give you the link

unfortunately, http://twitter.com/markers is not me

https://twitter.com/#!/DrPeterThraft

this is horrifyingly compelling. Also ILX is for no apparent reason on the first page of Google results for 'Peter Thraft'.

wow, so many winners on there i barely know where to start.

cheers for the new dn

"Enjoy post sex. Wipe ejaculated semen on to your partner. Massage it into her skin. Kiss her and kneed it into her buttocks"
what is this i don't even

...stare forlornly at the bedroom door as it is slammed in your face.

what do YOU do with ejaculated semen?

lizphair.wav

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

Jemima Khan otm

Jemima_Khan

Apparently @InjunctionSuper has been set up by students having a laugh. Not v funny though if you're someone's wife.
5 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Jemima_Khan

@InjunctionSuper This is NOT TRUE. I have no super injunction and I am friends with Jeremy's wife who I had dinner with last night.
5 hours ago

Jemima_Khan
I have no super injunction and I had dinner with Jeremy and his wife last night. Twitter, Stop!
5 hours ago

Jemima_Khan
OMG- Rumour that I have a super injunction preventing publication of "intimate" photos of me and Jeremy Clarkson. NOT TRUE!
5 hours ago

what the hell is a super injunction?

is it british for restraining order?

It means the press can't even mention that there is an injunction in place (I think), the rationale being (I think) that if you are, say a footballer having a fling with some minor celeb and said footballer puts gets an injunction against newspapers saying that, the mere fact of the injunction might imply guilt in some places? Typing it out now that doesn't seem right, maybe someone else can explain it better?

Is the the famously family-orientated footballer Ryan Giggs involved?

perhaps shane warne as well?

bbc interviewing one of those named on twitter on radio 5 now

my first assumption is that the people behind @injunctionsuper are just bored students making shit up - i mean why on earth would anyone believe them?

as jemima khan has pointed out, the proof she hasn't got a superinjunction is that she's actually being named everywhere.

she's volunteered the 'information' tho

xp at least some of the ones @injunctionsuper mentions are true though. and i'd have thought that papers could report her denial even if an injunction was in place - she'd have effectively trashed it herself.

i was opposed to superinjunctions but if they're keeping naked photos of jeremy clarkson out of the papers, i can see their uses.

I'd like to know who is taking out superinjuctions, then when the 'truth' comes to light I won't care at all.

my first assumption is that the people behind @injunctionsuper are just bored students making shit up - i mean why on earth would anyone believe them?

as jemima khan has pointed out, the proof she hasn't got a superinjunction is that she's actually being named everywhere.

― lex pretend, Monday, May 9, 2011 9:21 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

So Ry@n Gigg$ (<will that do) keeping quiet means...?

i had no idea who he was until someone told me about this business in the pub on fri

iirc jemima khan has taken out a superinjunction about something or other

so the british can petition the courts to have the press NOT write about something they may or may not be doing?
how unamerican

Better/worse than that - they can petition the courts to have the press NOT write about them petitioning the courts to have them NOT write about something they may or may not be doing.

hahah no wonder you guys resort to putting topless women in the inside front page to sell papers

Hi dere, Hank

so basically the default state of any given social media site is "fallen over" these days, then?

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

Norman N.
@oldmansearch
My dad is 81 years old. I'm teaching him how to use the internet. I told him twitter was how to search things on Google. These tweets are what he's searching.

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Mentions of the word "giggs" on twitter yesterday, for some reason.
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graph needs some units

I'm sorry that's as much as we can tell u.

Blocking re-tweets from certain users has immeasurably improved my twitter experience.

Why do the 'famous professional footballer' and his legal team think a US-based company with a US-based server has any obligation to comply with their wishes?

Surely his legal team are just doing to him what he was (allegedly) doing to that woman from Big Brother. I mean I presume they get paid whether or not this works or not?

I guess they make lots of money and if they happen to successfully overturn the US constitution that's kind of a bonus feather in their cap

Blocking re-tweets from certain users has immeasurably improved my twitter experience.

― colby, Sunday, 22 May 2011 00:06 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This. I only allow retweets from about 10 people now. Also, removing 3/4 of the people I was following.

Thankfully I now don't get terrible comedians cluttering it up.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13503847

It says I'm following my usual peeps.. but my homepage says I'm following no one and is showing me zero tweets. I can only see my @replies tab. Anyone else have this problem?

http://imgur.com/qVUn0

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