SMS functionality seems to be its USP now that Facebook status updates have taken the mainstream microblogging space.
As I said above, people using it for pushed news bulletins and question-broadcasting rather than personal what-i'm-doing stuff is another application.
― Alba, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link
(I think you can now do Facebook by SMS in America, actually, but not here)
― Alba, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link
SMS is a fucking trilobite technology
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I followed @johncleese back when his followers were in the double digits.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Seriously someone FedEx me a fucking medal already.
how the fuck are they planning to make money? Also, they could easily have charged for this in Europe, and at least started making some actual income for a change.
― stet, Thursday, 14 August 2008 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link
so: brightkite, then. anyone played about with it much? i'm not sure i can particularly be arsed, TBH.
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Twinkle is useful to see if there's trouble on my tram line or the local cafe is on fire.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link
ON IPHONE
Brightkite seems particularly marvelous, actually. Like Twitter with upgrades.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link
mildly diverting for a bit
http://joshblog.net/projects/roktok/roktok.html
― cozen (cozwn), Sunday, 14 September 2008 23:32 (fifteen years ago) link
well, it would be if only folk would stop talking about coldplay and radiohead
oh
it combines the top artists from last.fm (coldplay, radiohead) with twitter
no potential to divert at all now
― cozen (cozwn), Sunday, 14 September 2008 23:34 (fifteen years ago) link
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Man I fucking hate flash
― -- (stet), Sunday, 14 September 2008 23:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm on this goofy thing now:
http://twitter.com/NedRaggett
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 14 September 2008 23:50 (fifteen years ago) link
ned why are you not on the nanowrimo thread
hie thee hence
― genital grinder (roxymuzak), Monday, 15 September 2008 00:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I am now following: http://twitter.com/therealbritney
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 19 October 2008 11:27 (fifteen years ago) link
so i signed up to this to follow shaq, is there anything else for me to do
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Thursday, 27 November 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
tweet.
― jordans-menendi (tehresa), Thursday, 27 November 2008 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
https://twitter.com/maxmaxmaxmax
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Thursday, 27 November 2008 16:49 (fifteen years ago) link
^^ tweeted
i even personalized it
cool tweet max
― s1ocki, Thursday, 27 November 2008 18:12 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.justmusicuk.com/spweb/images/publications/medium/JM46521.jpg
― BIG HOOS is those british white steens (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 27 November 2008 18:15 (fifteen years ago) link
thanks guys, feel free to follow me
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Thursday, 27 November 2008 18:17 (fifteen years ago) link
shaq tweets a lot more than u do hoos
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Thursday, 27 November 2008 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link
u personified that shit boss
― BIG HOOS is those british white steens (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 27 November 2008 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link
ay look @ this i am following barack obama
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Thursday, 27 November 2008 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link
i wonder if he tweets during cabinet meetings when he is bored, just under the desk w/ his blackberry
"paulson such a dik lol"
― BIG HOOS is those british white steens (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 27 November 2008 18:23 (fifteen years ago) link
don't even know why i'm on this. oh yes, for shawn elliott. and g.fiddle. and ultragrrl. and you guys. other than that, i can't hardly tweet myself. i always seem to fuck up. and i have very little to say anyway. i r moron
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 27 November 2008 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link
LIVE THE LIFE U IMAGINED, JEEZ I SUCK AT TYPIN, LOL
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 4 December 2008 19:17 (fifteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/mondosalvo
@Ned: twitter won't let me direct reply to you, but I'm Johnny Fever here and brasstax on Idolator.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 December 2008 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Ah right!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 December 2008 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link
just seen this:
TwitOrFit is Twitter-meets-HotOrNothttp://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/12/15/twitorfit-is-twitter-meets-hotornot/
― djmartian, Monday, 15 December 2008 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link
How did you score?
― Enrique (Raw Patrick), Monday, 15 December 2008 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
fyi i tweeted this morning
― beyonc'e (max), Monday, 15 December 2008 14:23 (fifteen years ago) link
twitter in gmail: http://twittergadget.com/
― Suggesteban Buttez (jabba hands), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 03:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Apparently 'twitter' means 'hermaphrodite' in German.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 18 December 2008 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link
fyi slocki and i are tweeting with each other
― 8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Monday, 5 January 2009 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link
just to give u all an update
Stop that, you'll go blind.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 January 2009 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link
max's tweets are cool
― s1ocki, Monday, 5 January 2009 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
i posted this in the other twitter thread, but I'm Tweeting 1000 record reviews in 2009: http://twitter.com/1000TimesYes
― ㋡TM (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 5 January 2009 17:39 (fifteen years ago) link
bzz bzz bzz
twitoral stimulation
bzz bzz
― marlon brando baby tiger (elmo argonaut), Monday, 5 January 2009 18:43 (fifteen years ago) link
max i unfollowed you last night cause you hadn't updated in 4000 years
― stop HOOSing a boring tuna (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 5 January 2009 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
and then you go and tweet s1ocki all morning
i'm hurt
^ very much in bimble's character
― stop HOOSing a boring tuna (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 5 January 2009 18:46 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3295/3170355829_bb803f64ae_o.jpg
― James Mitchell, Monday, 5 January 2009 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link
oopsie
In the summer of 2023, Stancil clashed with more irony-poisoned elements of the left who were joking, in his view distastefully, about the wealthy tourists who died during the Titan submersible implosion. And for a period after the October 7 Hamas attacks, Stancil went hard after left-wing critics of Israel, myself included — though he hasn’t tweeted about the conflict at all since a few weeks before he announced his candidacy. “I kinda don’t think the organized left in America is going to survive this,” he tweeted on October 11. During our discussion, Israel was the only major topic Stancil wanted to go off the record for; on record, he simply said, “My position on the war in Gaza is that it’s horrible, and I want it to end as soon as possible.”
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 21:07 (yesterday) link
i like david klion but that piece doesnt examine what i guess is stancils core thesis that hes influencing the media and washington with his tweets, which is needless to say absurd, sure if you go around playing the victim to some boogieman left thats sabotaging an otherwise popular and successful democratic party then yeah some people will listen to you, people who already think that, because its a comforting easy thing to believe, it also happens to be completely unmoored from reality, but comforting things are generally like that
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 21:20 (yesterday) link
the idea is an old one, to the extent professional dems think about left thats what they tend to think
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 21:24 (yesterday) link
its also funny behavior from "a policy wonk" because its completely vibes based, why not spend yr time advocating for real world policy that could actually help people instead, oh cause no one gives a shit, yeah its like that sometimes
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 21:30 (yesterday) link
its funny cause he thinks hes on some grand strategy but comes off more like hes fucked in the head
Beijer, one of the more outspoken socialist power users on Twitter, takes a cynical view of Stancil, though he notes their disagreements are primarily ideological. “The man has absolutely convinced himself that he is somehow controlling political discourse at a national level. He really thinks that his tweets set off a chain of events that ended in the population of the United States deciding that Bidenomics are working,” Beijer said. “It’s delusional, but it also betrays a staggering level of Messianic arrogance and condescension towards all the people who he thinks he’s manipulating.”
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 21:39 (yesterday) link
anyway hadnt thought about this guy in a while due to going off twitter, overall recommended, tho i do kind of miss checking in on sad freaks like him, he did try to go on bluesky for a while but the shtick didnt take i guess cause its not specifically designed to dredge up the most psycho bs available
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 21:43 (yesterday) link
stancil's shtick is incredibly dumb, he's basically constantly saying "the highly polarized positions people take online are not indicative of real life" which is mostly true. but if you keep going down that route you end up as an annoying ideology-free centrist where, again, your centrism gets narrower and narrower until you don't have constructive ideas on changing anything
you don't have to listen to all the strident people, but you do have to take into account that their opinion may be valid, even if they're quote-tweet dunking on you
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:29 (two hours ago) link
why not spend yr time advocating for real world policy that could actually help people
this is apparently his day job, which is funny because that is an actual thing he could run on. the history of left-leaning candidates being extremely online and thinking that it'll help their campaign is not a good one
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:31 (two hours ago) link
something funny about telling people theyre living in a not real world bubble then running for office in an extreme liberal district against a bunch of candidates with identical politics
― lag∞n, Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:37 (two hours ago) link
what we need is a sixth candidate in this race not really a different kind of guy just a more annoying one
― lag∞n, Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:39 (one hour ago) link