Twitter's outage is headline news on channel 4. Christ.
― Slumpman, Thursday, 6 August 2009 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
"I had to Google search Twitter to find out what was going on, when normally my Twitter feed gives me all the breaking news I need," said Alison Koski, a New York public-relations manager. She added she felt "completely lost" without Twitter.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_tec_twitter_outage
― omar little, Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone else having trouble updating their settings?
― kshighway, Sunday, 9 August 2009 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
So, apparently the Twitter CEO's wife is twittering her delivery.
http://twitter.com/sara/
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 13:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Dear Twitter, My water broke. It wasn't like Charlotte in Sex and the City. Now, timing contractions on an iPhone app.
about 10 hours ago from txt
quick poll: did everyone you know that has an iphone turn into a cunt when they got it?
― #/.'#/'@ilikecats (g-kit), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 14:20 (fourteen years ago) link
g-kit: misjudging his audience since 2001!
― stop me if you think that you've heard this (onimo), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 14:26 (fourteen years ago) link
huh, i was just gonna paste that in
i totally misjudged my audience
― #/.'#/'@ilikecats (g-kit), Thursday, 6 August 2009 15:28 (5 days ago) Bookmark
― #/.'#/'@ilikecats (g-kit), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 14:27 (fourteen years ago) link
born in 1979 btw
― #/.'#/'@ilikecats (g-kit), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Was a wild guess at your intro to ilx tbh
― stop me if you think that you've heard this (onimo), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
i knows, and most probably correct. i just wanted you to be sure that i have a longer history of this.
― #/.'#/'@ilikecats (g-kit), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I believe you dude :)
― stop me if you think that you've heard this (onimo), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
@zizekspeaks
omg he's on twitter? my husband has gibson on his list. i need to add both!
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 19:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I have been impersonating a fairly well-known professional in a field I know little about for several months. It was a joke at first and then it became fairly hard work, and then went back to being fun again, and then it went pretty o_O and now it's nice again and I can manage my workload now that I don't bother replying to everything I get. Relax, I'm not impersonating an oncologist or a lawyer or anything.
― your vah chef (fields of salmon), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
twitter is bullshit. useless crap. waste of time. nobody needs it. people who twitter are either brainless or they will become brainless by twittering. who cares.
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 19:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey replace Alex' post with internet and it works just as well! ;-)
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Relax, I'm not impersonating an oncologist or a lawyer or anything.
So what's it like being Perez?
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Not as good as it was when I was Steve Jobs.
― your vah chef (fields of salmon), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
there's something sort of hilarious about the top-of-trending-topics "welovethenhs" hashtag being adopted by c1al1s spambots.
― la belle dame sans serif (c sharp major), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link
So, who are some of the most interesting people you follow on the Twitter?
I vote @hotdogsladies.
― kshighway, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
@mindykaling
― musically, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
^^
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
http://danzarrella.com/speaking3.jpg
― kshighway, Monday, 31 August 2009 05:26 (fourteen years ago) link
sarah silverman for sure
― Hillary had Everest in his veins (sunny successor), Monday, 31 August 2009 05:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think I made it a week before deleting my account. I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything *not* being on there, really.
― kshighway, Monday, 31 August 2009 05:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Or at least, not very much.
― kshighway, Monday, 31 August 2009 05:29 (fourteen years ago) link
So, I have been accused by one of my best friends of using Twitter as a way to pick up 20-year-old girls with low self confidence.
― Don't Be A Ned Raggett (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 12:29 (fourteen years ago) link
He/she may have a point. Britney Fucked Vids is all over me like white on rice.
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 12:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Hate to break it to you, but Britney Fucked Vids is the town bicycle of Twitteronia.
― Don't Be A Ned Raggett (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 12:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Leave Britney Fucked Bids alone
― unban dictionary (blueski), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 12:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Don't judge her harshly just because her parents gave her the middle name Fucked.
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 12:55 (fourteen years ago) link
i only go on because of the user 'shitmydadsays'
― vain_bowers, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 13:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Can someone please explain what the #wolfwednesday tag means? I am hopeless out of touch old person. thanks.
― girls just wanna have mixtapes (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 12:52 (fourteen years ago) link
i think it has to do with https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1537&JServSessionIdr002=xi8dv97zu3.app20a
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 13:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Then why does it involve tagging random people and claiming that they are wolves?
― girls just wanna have mixtapes (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 13:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Is "wolves" some slang like Cougar that I'm not yet aware of?
Twitter is weird. Yesterday #dontwifeher and #dontcuffhim were trending topics, both offering advice re: marrying your significant other
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 13:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I like the fact that Fabolous started a trending topic of lame homophobic jokes called (iirc) #youknowyouregayif. Pretty rich from a guy whose rap name sounds like Fabulous.
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
if you ever want the bg on a trend I use http://whatthetrend.com/
― musically, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
The only Twitterer who matters to me is @Just_A_Rhino.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 17:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Um, WTF:
@twirus_uk Top5 popular people: 1 @circeplum 2 @MayorofLondon(New) 3 @scandilicious(New) 4 @MarketingUK(New) 5 @masonicboomk8(New) http://uk.twirus.com
Is this some marketing scam where they just plug your name into the 5th spot to get you to click the link?
― ElectroSlash (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 11:50 (fourteen years ago) link
yes
― Background Zombie (CharlieNo4), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 12:01 (fourteen years ago) link
damn. for the first time in my life I thought I was actually "popular" at something. :-(
― ElectroSlash (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 12:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Twitter is about the triumph of humanity, not the triumph of technology.
So Biz Stone says that we need to teach people to read so they can twitter.
I want to talk about some points he made in a speech and the issue of how technology divides our consciousnesses.
So twitter is useful for news. How useful is news? News is not as useful as a book or an article. News has its place, but I'm all newsed up with too much news. News is particularly important when it can affect people directly, and twitter allows this news to propagate very quickly.
Apparently the news of the fall of Troy traveled quite fast through a long relay of torches on towers.
What kinds of communication will twitter help obsolesce? Or what kinds of communication is it helping to revive?
Twitter thrives on mobile technology, on SMS. Biz Stone gives the example of twittering about sitting in an airport lounge and getting company this way. How many twitter feeds do you have to subscribe to - do you have to put up with - to get this result? Or can you twitter the name of the lounge or some code for the lounge and then twitter will connect you with someone? Maybe that's for the future.
But I already have an unhealthy relationship with my cell phone and with my computer. I get maybe a text a day, and sometimes less, but I check my phone much more. The technology has helped to divide my consciousness. So how do people feel who are receiving regular tweets on their phones?
When someone sends a mass text it seems like noise to me and my reaction might be to feel a little annoyed with this person. Do twitter feed followers feel this way? Most of us are not organizing protests in Egypt. I've seen what passes for an average tweet.
This technology will surely become less conspicuous and more automatic in the future.
Biz Stone gives an example of someone at SXSW texting about going to a quieter bar, and his twitter followers creating a line at the suggested bar, thereby ruining his plan. As usage increases, how can phenomena like this not become the norm?
Like his example of twitter in a gas crisis: as usage increases, won't patterns of crowds return to something like they were before.
I can see the marketing potential. Advertisers used to defend advertising as something that informs people about a product, and twitter can bring this back to people who would like to be so informed.
I've forgotten some of my points. I'll stop.
― bamcquern, Sunday, 27 September 2009 05:22 (fourteen years ago) link
cool story bro
― musically, Sunday, 27 September 2009 06:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Don't lob your ironic bros at me.
― bamcquern, Sunday, 27 September 2009 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Two things I wish twitter would do, as I'm back to using the standard website:
1. Auto refresh, to update with new tweets without my having to refresh the page.
2. Auto complete when I start an @ with a list of the users that I follow and/or my followers.
I demand more functionality!
― krakow, Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:14 (fourteen years ago) link
also, when visiting the webpage with images turned off, no "reply to tweet" link, which drives me nuts and forces me to write @pa.. in which case krakow's request #2 would be very handy, at least.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 28 September 2009 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Waiter gets canned after Twittering about 'Hung' actress Jane Adamshttp://www.thisisbrandx.com/2009/09/jane-adams-twitter.html
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I wish I had representatives that would pick up my bills for me.
― krakow, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link