I've said it a million times before: if you have friends that actually use twitter, and they actually have a functional social life, it's insanely useful. We use it to merge up groups that are barhopping different parts of town, or I'll put a message out about how I am thinking about seeing a movie or going to the park and get a response or two. Also worked pretty well at a big concert festival -- if someone wanted to know where people were they could turn on updates or check the page, and if they left the festival for a while they could turn it off.
I do not understand nerds following what other nerds are doing, especially when they have never met them before.
― mh, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:26 (sixteen years ago) link
^ i do this but they are "art scene" friends or "social media" connections
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:26 (sixteen years ago) link
which overlap a lot
jon & mh both otm.
― Steve Shasta, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:28 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm actually finding it useful but I don't like receiving stuff on my phone.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:31 (sixteen years ago) link
problem i guess is convincing everyone i know to also use twitter then
― tissp, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link
twitter was apparently really useful during the socal fires last month afa letting friends & family know you were not dead
― El Tomboto, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I read that as "social fires" and i was like what is this Tom Wolfe shit.
― Jon Lewis, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
I can see how twittering with friends could be a source of good relevant info, but yeah the problem is how do you et everybody to start doing it and remember to check on things? also DC/NYC poses the problem of all comms being shut off for most of your travel time from one place to another
― El Tomboto, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
the so-cal fires are also a good example of how twitter posts can be more relevant in your life than any shotgun blast of media news
― El Tomboto, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i15.tinypic.com/4z41oip.png
^ fairly typical day
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
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^ well this is true for sms too
Also its kind of annoying that I can't make some stuff go to sms but not this stuff
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link
My boss was on tour running a show for a week in Ornaldo with his comedy group and his mom had a heart attack. He used twitter to coordinate with everyone.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
the sms is what makes this useful, to me. thing is, you want to make sure the signal-to-noise ratio stays up, and it never, ever will. give people a 5-digit text number and they will inevitably tlak about how they just missed the bus.
― Will M., Friday, 2 November 2007 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha Lexapro does make you yawn like crazy!
― Abbott, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link
alana post knows the truth
http://www.brianoberkirch.com/
ok look in his sidebar :(
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
whoever that guy is he sucks
― El Tomboto, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link
That was the gist of it
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link
twitter is lame
― chaki, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link
http://loldongs.org/~webs/stuff/madx-twitter-gay.png
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/chaki
:(
― chaki, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link
u can take solace in the fact he is from FUKUOKA
― tissp, Saturday, 3 November 2007 00:39 (sixteen years ago) link
fukuoka is home to the best tonkotsu ramen!!!
― Steve Shasta, Saturday, 3 November 2007 01:02 (sixteen years ago) link
very much in character
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, 3 November 2007 01:19 (sixteen years ago) link
XXXXXXX is in the kitchen making a date with this random friend of mine to do heroin tomorrow. While listening to Sea Change. 01:30 AM November 03, 2007 from txt
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 02:57 (sixteen years ago) link
JW: http://twitter.com/STEVESHASTA LP: huh. what is that? (don't laugh, i'm out of touch)
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link
i think shasta told me he twittered something today over IM
― jaxon, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Ramsay Stirling via Twitter to me
yo, i think you just got tek-SERVED!!!1!1!!
Ramsay Stirling / ramsaystirling
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 22:09 (sixteen years ago) link
lol tekserve
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 22:10 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost to myself. oh, he wasn't kidding. i found his twitter page
― jaxon, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.sheenaeaston.co.uk/tekwar.jpg
― am0n, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 22:55 (sixteen years ago) link
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YT5yCnEr8kQ
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 22:34 (sixteen years ago) link
jw microbloggin' up a storm
― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 19:15 (sixteen years ago) link
fuck u bitch
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/2/getting_fired_at_yahoo__a_twitter_log
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks to everyone sending the positive tweets.
― sleep, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 19:14 (sixteen years ago) link
fucking self-parody
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 14 February 2008 01:49 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 17 March 2008 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link
not with a bang but a twitter
― El Tomboto, Monday, 17 March 2008 22:06 (sixteen years ago) link
jw how do you get caught up actually using this stuff when you know that it is awful and dumb
or is that kind of like asking me why I drink
I like Twitter I just hate people who make videos like this and people who post snipurl.com links to Matt & Kim interviews
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 17 March 2008 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link
I HAVE UNPROTECTED MY TWITTER SO U CAN SEE HOW INTERSTING MY LIFE IS
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 20:44 (sixteen years ago) link
taifur (1 day ago) Show Hide this is incredibly stupid
― jergïns, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link
lol @ jw avatar
― dan m, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link
these people probably think those UPS commercials with that left-handed dude pretending to draw on a whiteboard with his right hand are cool
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 20:52 (sixteen years ago) link
"unfortunately, most of our lives are hidden from people who care"
^^ PRESUMPTION
― gff, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 20:52 (sixteen years ago) link
http://harrumpher.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/bikegeek.jpg
― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 11 May 2008 21:29 (fifteen years ago) link
damn dude hope u ok
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 11 May 2008 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link
cool wrist hack
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 11 May 2008 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/31/hey-twitter-i-have-a-few-questions-too/
So I have a couple of questions, too, based on a couple of discussions I’ve had with people who say they’ve seen Twitter’s architecture.- Is it true that you only have a single master MySQL server running replication to two slaves, and the architecture doesn’t auto-switch to a hot backup when the master goes down?- Do you really have a grand total of three physical database machines that are POWERING ALL OF TWITTER?- Is it true that the only way you can keep Twitter alive is to have somebody sit there and watch it constantly, and then manually switch databases over and re-build when one of the slaves fail?- Is that why most of your major outages can be traced to periods of time when former Chief Architect/server watcher Blaine Cook wasn’t there to sit and monitor the system?- Given the record-beating outages Twitter saw in May after Cook was dismissed, is anyone there capable of keeping Twitter live?- How long will it be until you are able to undo the damage Cook has caused to Twitter and the community?
- Is it true that you only have a single master MySQL server running replication to two slaves, and the architecture doesn’t auto-switch to a hot backup when the master goes down?
- Do you really have a grand total of three physical database machines that are POWERING ALL OF TWITTER?
- Is it true that the only way you can keep Twitter alive is to have somebody sit there and watch it constantly, and then manually switch databases over and re-build when one of the slaves fail?
- Is that why most of your major outages can be traced to periods of time when former Chief Architect/server watcher Blaine Cook wasn’t there to sit and monitor the system?
- Given the record-beating outages Twitter saw in May after Cook was dismissed, is anyone there capable of keeping Twitter live?
- How long will it be until you are able to undo the damage Cook has caused to Twitter and the community?
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 1 June 2008 06:13 (fifteen years ago) link
- What is Twitter for?
― max, Sunday, 1 June 2008 06:14 (fifteen years ago) link
NEVER SEND A RUBY PROGRAMMER TO DO A DBA'S WORK
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 1 June 2008 07:51 (fifteen years ago) link
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/sci-fi-7.jpg
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 9 June 2008 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/NCR_Battlespace
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 00:43 (fifteen years ago) link
http://chainsawsuit.com/comics/20080630.gif
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 19:14 (fifteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/vanband101
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
http://animalnewyork.com/news/2008/08/chinese-interrogators-to-activ.php
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.boingboing.net/images/x_2008/blogospheretweethearts2.jpg
Oh no these two prizes r off the market.
― jigglepanda.gif (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 11 October 2008 18:24 (fifteen years ago) link
hey noize.
I'm twittering 1,000 new release record reviews in 2009! Follow me if you like :D
http://twitter.com/1000TimesYes
― ㋡TM (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 5 January 2009 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Sorry. ts/dnr
― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 5 January 2009 17:39 (fifteen years ago) link
This thread is a curious relic of the pre-Shaq era.
― Jedi Mind Trick Daddy (The Reverend), Monday, 5 January 2009 19:35 (fifteen years ago) link
i hope facebook takes a hot steaming dump on twitter
― ✈ ▌▌ (sanskrit), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 21:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Facebook is gonna be toast once people stop being themselves and building the identities they desire because grandma and grandma insist on being their friends.
― merriweather post ironic (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link
omg so true!!!! any more predictions soothsayer?
― marlon brando baby tiger (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link
you can put grandma on limited profile dawgs.
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 22:41 (fifteen years ago) link
omg so true!!!! any more predictions soothsayer?― marlon brando baby tiger (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, January 6, 2009 5:34 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― marlon brando baby tiger (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, January 6, 2009 5:34 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
people will wear shoes on their hands, meatloaf will be against the law, and I suggest ban elmo argonaut.
― merriweather post very much in character pavillion (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 22:42 (fifteen years ago) link
fwiw, i don't facebook, I'm just guessing that's what will happen due to all my friends complaining about that more and more now that facebook is grandma popular
― merriweather post very much in character pavillion (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link
i doubt it dude, it seems way too built into people's lives now, as opposed to myspace, which was sort of a hobby on the side kind of deal. ppl totally structure their social lives via facebook now.
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 23:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I knew plenty of people who structured their social lives around myspace.
― permanent o_Ovolution (The Reverend), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 00:46 (fifteen years ago) link
dag whiney you don't facebook AND you don't know what a hellboy is! you are just miles ahead of all of us in this game of life dogg
― bigHOOS thundercat rapper (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 01:02 (fifteen years ago) link
ayo i'm not BRAGGIN 2009 that I'm not on Facebook, I'm just saying i think its days are probably numbered due to what my facebooky friends say
― merriweather post very much in character pavillion (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 03:03 (fifteen years ago) link
BUT PROVE ME WRONG WHEN FACEBOOK IS AROUND FOREVER HOOS
― merriweather post very much in character pavillion (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 03:04 (fifteen years ago) link
FUTURE HOOS
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 03:08 (fifteen years ago) link
BIGGER HOOS
― merriweather post very much in character pavillion (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 03:09 (fifteen years ago) link
stronger better faster hooser
― this display name has the potential to be epically sexy (tehresa), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 03:10 (fifteen years ago) link
ban me
never
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 03:11 (fifteen years ago) link
HOOSBOOK
I'm not on facebook either, but I'm always a late adopter on those type of things.
― permanent o_Ovolution (The Reverend), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 03:12 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.businessinsider.com/revision3-coo-twitters-through-home-break-in-2009-3
― WOOKIE JOHNSON (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link
chickenshit 2.0
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 20:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Swear there are times when I think I could just waltz into the Bay area and kick its ass.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Results 1 - 10 of about 55 for "twitter more like twatter". (0.09 seconds)
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Wednesday, 11 March 2009 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
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@coryischaki go to the proper discussion thread on our facebook page! And thanks! about 6 hours ago via Echofon in reply to coryischaki
― jeff, Saturday, 7 August 2010 06:02 (thirteen years ago) link
https://twitter.com/truewagner
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 17:05 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/1wgD8mt.jpeg
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 17:09 (two years ago) link
Been following him on Facebook for a while, similar deal to Obvious Plant
I want to know what the wives think about it. pic.twitter.com/TrBiC2vC7A— Alan Wagner (@truewagner) October 2, 2018
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lol genius
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
Ok, this one is my favourite
I located this by the hardware store! pic.twitter.com/EhZIDrYiLf— Alan Wagner (@truewagner) May 9, 2018
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 17:20 (two years ago) link