Used it cause I was excited (are you still an early adopter a full year after the SXSW explosion of use?), then didn't for a few months cause I didn't really see the point, now I'm usin it again cause I've had some new local friends start following me.
Good for questions, link-sharing, Microemo bursts, etc.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 14 August 2008 13:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I have a friend who uses this to read his friends' feeds, so I basically only see it from the angle of a person who is constantly checking his phone while I'm trying to have a conversation with him. The first time I heard of Twitter was from him when I finally got exasperated with his constantly checking his phone.
Maybe I'm the one with the problem, but I can't really think of anyone in the world interesting enough for me to want updates on their activities throughout the day. I'd say the only people I could imagine wanting to twitter could be: Drug smuggler, violent prison inmate, Slash-in-his-heyday type rock star, and a dog (if they somehow managed to translate its thoughts into English text).
― rockapads, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link
don't use it, don't know anyone who does, but i check this one all the time: http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix
― Roz, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link
i very very rarely check it on my phone. does mobile use seem to be the prominent use?
― tehresa, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
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
lolI saw a couple new bluesky users with “coming here from Post, nice to see you!” as their first skeet and laughed
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Saturday, 27 April 2024 15:13 (one month ago) link
trying to DM a support account for a company and it turns out i can't unless i upgrade to twitter premium - very sad lol
― 龜, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 13:22 (two weeks ago) link
what's the deal now, you have to be mutuals to DM? explains all the funny things where people are posting complaints a lot and tagging brands until they follow back to get a support ticket going
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 14:00 (two weeks ago) link
Good thread going against claims that social media has done that much damage in our politics.
Basically did little to nothing. More evidence social media has been overhyped as a cause of our political dysfunction. https://t.co/rn4ncBnl2X pic.twitter.com/U9wvnuGR2G— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) May 13, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 20:59 (one week ago) link
I was in that study! They paid me not to use stuff. Good times.
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 21:00 (one week ago) link
I also don't think the timeframe of the study was that useful. If you weren't already in the bag for one candidate five weeks before the election, you probably weren't going to be swayed.
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 21:02 (one week ago) link
Does anybody use Telegram? in terms of breaking news etc. which Twitter feels less and less useful for
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 14:25 (one week ago) link
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:of56nmyuqzvjta7qlf7gwht6/bafkreiawr6zigxgwtvyadbhdoyshhuq7mfbs3slmy4otxvrpssgc4q3udq@jpeg
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 May 2024 02:10 (four days ago) link
Always keep learning
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Thursday, 23 May 2024 02:15 (four days ago) link
public and private thoughts and questions
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 May 2024 02:18 (four days ago) link
jfc
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 May 2024 02:20 (four days ago) link
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:of56nmyuqzvjta7qlf7gwht6/bafkreia7tus3g72txh7oqkv5ouug5sv4d3blgrmbc35knqfqamg3hbqylm@jpeg
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 May 2024 02:22 (four days ago) link
Here's a way to stop the internet having your "private thoughts and questions" STOP PUTTING THEM ALL ON THE INTERNET.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 23 May 2024 02:27 (four days ago) link
tbf you (and i!) have been on ilx for decades now
but mostly that guy is a (really rich) fucking moron
within the last couple years there was a piece by someone (maybe tom scocca?) noting that in the last 25 years there have been so many people trying to game the system that inevitably a few were going to win -- like elon buying himself the 'foundership' of tesla. jack seems like a business school study in progress, except none of his idiocy will ultimately affect him personally
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 May 2024 02:56 (four days ago) link