Twitter C/D

hey thanks stet! I'll try that today.

Roffle

http://www.buzzfeed.com/provincialelitist/model-live-tweets-married-actor-trying-to-hook-up

The first thing that you might notice is that permalink URLs are now simpler: they no longer use the hashbang (#!).

#!
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rip hashbang

fuck give it back!

totally not what i thought a hashbang was.

Roffle

http://www.buzzfeed.com/provincialelitist/model-live-tweets-married-actor-trying-to-hook-up

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, June 6, 2012 4:21 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah this cracked me up

I loved the phrase "divine interception", ha

hahahaha amazing

anyone looking for a reason why twitter exists

Each week, Sweden gives its official national twitter account to a different Swedish citizen... this week it is the rather entertaining Sonja... https://twitter.com/#!/sweden

http://i.imgur.com/3LgCT.png

social media

dying

alton brown is posting cute drawings to twitter: squid, lobster godzilla, barney the dinosaur on a grill, the chairman.

F5 F5 F5 F5

lol

sucks when a celeb makes the same joke you made in a previous tweet and you look at their RTs and favs and followers vs. your RTs and favs and followers and you feel a little sad about it

eh if someone makes the same joke as you it's prob not a terribly original joke worth feeling any type of way about

but i made it first. so they're the ones being unoriginal.

starting a twitter feud is def the way to go in these situations

You gotta do the standup to get the followers.

my little brother has been laboring on this truly amazing twitter project far too long & hard to have only 18 followers-- please follow him

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNQpYz1ztx8

Why did your parents decide to have another child that is a bot. Xpost

cool tip http://kottke.org/12/07/turn-your-twitter-stream-into-your-friends-linkblog

this is punishment for me mocking ppl annoyed that gchat is down

is twitter down too my lord

Twitter is currently down for <%= reason %>.
We expect to be back in <%= deadline %>.

lmao cant even rouse the fail whale

Thanks for your patience!

aaaaaand we're back

not me :(

works for me now

oh god the olympics

Tweetbot for iOS can mute hashtags and keywords. Quiets things down quite a bit.

Oh Jeff, you're brilliant. I didn't know there was a keyword/expression mute in Tweetbot until now.

In Australia we have a "sport" called "AFL" that's basically just a lower-class version of rugby. Every week the incredibly obnoxious AFL twitter account starts a load of brand new hashtags, one for EVERY SINGLE FUCKING GAME (#aflbluestigers #afleaglesbats etc etc fucking etc). I've just created a wildcard filter (#afl*) in Tweetbot that WORKS and suddenly love the shit out of you, Jeff.

I'm very lovable.

In Australia we have a sport called footie that's basically just awesome

FIXED, CAARN THE PIES

They give you points for missing

CAAAAARN THE BLUES wot did you say AA I can't hear you over the FOOTYMAYTE

What was it this kid tweeted to Tom Daley that got him arrested, then? Did he threaten to blow him sky high? Either way, Graham Linehan's gleeful "get him banned" campaign is nagl

It was something along the lines of "You've let your dead dad down".

Oh. I see. It then escalated into tweets like "I'll stick a knife down your throat" to people who attacked him

http://liberalconspiracy.org/2012/07/31/does-tom-daleys-twitter-troll-deserve-arrest/

jesus christ I fucking hate the way Twitter scapegoats individuals sometimes, and it's even less of a good look when those individuals are CHILDREN

the kid was being a cunt but singling him out as though the problem isn't endemic makes me really uncomfortable

it's even less of a good look when those individuals are CHILDREN

see also the hunger games racist tweets. yeah they were dubious but OMG WITCH-HUNTING 12-YEAR-OLDS IS EVEN WORSE

pour encourager les autres

Well, he's 17, so not quite a child, but yes.

Sudden thought: not a big fan of people having to use real names online, but knowing people's ages might take a lot of heat out of things. Not practical, I know, but knowing someone's 17 you can kind of just put certain things in a box.

There is an awful part of me that gets a real kick out of police arresting young trolls and presumably putting the fear of God in them, but as I say, this probably an awful part of me and not to be trusted.

Yeah, fuk a troll, but looking back through last night's tweeting it was also not great the way Daley and Linehan both set their mobs on him. Of course the kid was going to escalate it from there.

I am expecting some pretty contorted thinking to arrive later to explain how Robin Hood Airport = outrageous prosecution and infringement of all we hold dear while arresting idiot teenagers = noble and just.