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
How do celebrity accounts get verified? How much of a celebrity do you have to be allowed certification?
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
fail wale u_u
― ksh, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
uh, "whale" iirc
uh
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/06/500x_screen_shot_2010-06-18_at_9.27.57_am.jpg
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 18 June 2010 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
WARNING! This page informs on real world of crime and punishment. "If u can't stand the TWEET, get out of the TWITCHEN" Harry Truman #utpol about 18 hours ago via TwitBird iPhone Retweeted by 9 peopleMarkShurtleff
MarkShurtleff
― slow motion hair ruffle (onimo), Saturday, 19 June 2010 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10348685.stm
Utah firing squad death announced on Twitter
1. they still use firing squads in some states?2. fucking distasteful
― maybe it's because you're a tedious creep! (dyao), Monday, 21 June 2010 09:09 (thirteen years ago) link
1. Utah stopped using firing squads but decided that as Gardner was sentenced (in 1985) before it was eliminated that he should be executed in accordance with his original sentence. 2. otm
― slow motion hair ruffle (onimo), Monday, 21 June 2010 09:59 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm pretty sure he got to choose his method of execution and he chose firing squad (since he was still entitled to the option).
― just1n3, Monday, 21 June 2010 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Kind of wish there was a way to track who has unfollowed you -- I need to know who thinks I'm boring!
― ô_o (Nicole), Monday, 21 June 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
http://goodbyebuddy.com
― stet, Monday, 21 June 2010 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Thank you. I was hoping there was something out there that catered to paranoid narcissists like me.
― ô_o (Nicole), Monday, 21 June 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
"Harry Twuman" surely
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 June 2010 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link