Internal "newsflash":
New earthquake in Haiti 15 minutes ago
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/3248293/New-quake-hits-haiti
Twitter can’t cope with the demand and is again ‘over capacity’
please spare a thought for Pixie Geldof in her time of need.
― what kind of present your naked body (Upt0eleven), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 12:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Thought it must be that. Heaven knows wht'll happen if there's more snow.
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 12:32 (fourteen years ago) link
just saw this on the CNN ticker. Gates joined:
http://twitter.com/BILLGATES
― kshighway (ksh), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Bill Gates: "I've got a lot to learn about Twitter but look forward to sharing more."
You're the guy who invented Windows and has more fortune than many nations on Earth. I think you can get your head around Twitter pretty quickly.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/BillGates/status/7967243245
― kshighway (ksh), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
john mayer is the best celebrity on twitter, no lie
― kshighway (ksh), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
HUMPS! http://twitter.com/DonnieWahlberg
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
How do celebrity accounts get verified? How much of a celebrity do you have to be allowed certification?
― krakow, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I love Tom Hanks. And I love that Tom Hanks ends all his twitter posts with "Hanx."
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 21 January 2010 00:21 (fourteen years ago) link
The @diditleak guy passed away last saturday and i just want internet/music people to know his story because many of us benefitted from his hard work:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2010/01/the_life_and_de.php
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 22 January 2010 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
sad story, very touching article. RIP
― p-dog, Friday, 22 January 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Good read. I do like that Jim DeRo contacted him for tips. I'm assuming he is the Chicago Sun-Times writer mentioned.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 22 January 2010 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/LoBosworth
― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 23 January 2010 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm sure someone else will have said it already on this thread, but I really appreciate Andrew WK's twitter: http://twitter.com/AndrewWK
― krakow, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
i love sarah silverman's but im a fan so no surprise there. i cant get addicted to this thing and i kind of want to. i think its all my grad school followees tweeting 10 times a day that they're reading. its like REALLY!?!?!?!
― no more springs no more summers no more falls (sunny successor), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
"PARTY TIP: Don't be a fucking wimp."
Right on AWK!
― krakow, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/ladygaga/status/8789158209
― ksh, Thursday, 11 February 2010 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
local trending topics is funny!
Trending: Seattle
#whywebrokeup#awkwardsituationGoogle BuzzAlexander McQueenV-DayiPadDouradoBill ClintonHaitiCarnaval
― DJ NAIR (tehresa), Saturday, 13 February 2010 06:10 (fourteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/PRINCE_OFFICIAL/status/8476096110
― kshighway (ksh), Monday, 15 February 2010 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
# WE ARE NOW ALMOST AT 8000 FOLLOWERS I WILL FOLLOW 5 MORE FANS RT #PRINCE IS NOW ON TWITTER FOLLOW @PRINCE_OFFICIAL about 7 hours ago from web
― stop me if you think that you've heard this (onimo), Monday, 15 February 2010 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
massive lols @ that tweet
― kshighway (ksh), Monday, 15 February 2010 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Prince's grammar is 2 perfect 4 twitter.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 08:46 (fourteen years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_iKd31qdfQM8/S4Li5qDgkEI/AAAAAAAAAdI/8X4N4-_Zd6g/s1600/chart-tweets-per-day3.png
http://blog.twitter.com/2010/02/measuring-tweets.html
50 million (non-spam) tweets per day currently.
― krakow, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 12:51 (fourteen years ago) link
And only 49,990,000 of those daily tweets are from "social media experts"/"property investment advisers".
― Goulburn Years (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 12:54 (fourteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/ConanOBrien
― ksh, Thursday, 25 February 2010 04:40 (fourteen years ago) link
this is probably better than facebook, isn't it
― with 4 magical horns & 3 figures to impale! (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img59.yfrog.com/img59/5172/tfa.png
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 14 March 2010 10:39 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/262/twitter1269452245243.png
― musically, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Every public tweet, ever, since Twitter’s inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/barackobama/status/992176676^large part of me is a bit uncomfortable about this
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
why?
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
twitter being archived is some krapp's last tape shit.and the First Twitter feels odd and flimsy
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
tl;dr
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
http://media.twitter.com/392/tweets-quotes
― ksh, Monday, 3 May 2010 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I have no idea how a hole this large could be left in a service as popular as Twitter, nor do I understand why it hasn't been shut yet. What I do understand, though, is that Oprah is following me right now, and receiving my DMs. So anyway, here's how it works:1. Open the Twitter web interface (I haven't been able to get it to work in the apps I've tried)2. Tweet "accept username", as in "accept oprah"
― James Mitchell, Monday, 10 May 2010 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
According to an e-mail we received this morning, the Twitter bug and ensuing 0 followers/0 following fiasco was inadvertently started by a Turkish fan of heavy metal band Accept. When this young man tweeted “Accept pwnz,” he found that the user @pwnz was suddenly following him.
http://mashable.com/2010/05/10/twitocalypse-heavy-metal/
― ksh, Monday, 10 May 2010 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
awesome, shit straight imploded and then reformed
― ₣õ®₭§©₤¤∵釰ƒü (forksclovetofu), Monday, 10 May 2010 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Is it worth it to be on Twitter, do you think? I'm thinking of joining again, but every time I have in the past I was on there for a really short amount of time before quitting.
― ksh, Friday, 28 May 2010 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
It's worth because you get stuff like this:
DAVID_LYNCH This weekend I hope to install three red-gloved hands.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 May 2010 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
"Worth" it? I don't think it's anything other than a fun way to kill some time, unless you're someone who needs to network with writers or comedians or fans.
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Friday, 28 May 2010 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
At work we see it as a business tool. Personally I find it a much nicer way of staying in touch with people casually than Facebook.
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 28 May 2010 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Because it's less cluttered?
― ksh, Friday, 28 May 2010 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
feministhulk HULK LOVE FOR JUDITH BUTLER WILL NOT FADE. HULK LOVE LIKE RUSHING RIVER THAT SMASH (GENDER NORMATIVE) DAMS!
― gravitational anomaly (get bent), Friday, 28 May 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Surprisingly, not a fake: http://twitter.com/george_wbush
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Following Palin, McCain, the GOP and Obama!
― i'm gonna go and talk to some food about this (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Holy shit look at how fast his followers are coming.
― i'm gonna go and talk to some food about this (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Name George Bush Fans?
― i'm gonna go and talk to some food about this (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Also here:
http://imgur.com/0sXuO.png
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Like youtube comment-level stupididty without even a video clip to watch, ugh.
― dead flower :( (Pashmina), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
In response to all that:
http://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/15274046505
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link