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
Gardner got to request a last song to be played before he was shot. He chose Free Bird. I heard that song in a store today. Now it will always remind me of death by firing squad(whereas before it just made me want to kill myself because why still playing this?). I'm sure his victims' families enjoyed sitting through that paean to teenage angst. Back to Twitter.
― soviet, Monday, 21 June 2010 23:43 (thirteen years ago) link
If you are really that vain, from my experience Twunfollow works much more frequently than Goodbye Buddy.
― litel, Tuesday, 22 June 2010 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, Australia
http://imgur.com/7ryPR.jpg
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 23 June 2010 10:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Qwitter works OK.
― Pies and Whispers (get bent), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 10:47 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OotUsvaPSg
― ripecock (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 12:46 (thirteen years ago) link
http://scribe.thebigmoney.com/sites/default/files/Screen%20shot%202010-07-01%20at%2012.21.41%20PM.png
― ksh, Sunday, 4 July 2010 06:17 (thirteen years ago) link
had to stop following Roger Ebert, I only follow a few people and he was overwhelming the rest
― a cross between lily allen and fetal alcohol syndrome (milo z), Sunday, 4 July 2010 06:34 (thirteen years ago) link
i deleted my account, RIP
― ksh, Sunday, 4 July 2010 06:35 (thirteen years ago) link
The flurry of replies to the new, apparently real @tonyblairoffice is kind of amusing. I feel sorry for whichever underpaid intern has to sort through hundreds of 'MURDERER! WAR CRIMINAL! TERRORIST!' tweets every day.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
milo i thought the idea of lists was to get around problems like that, is it not useful
― iSleighBellsTellem (zvookster), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
@simonpegg seems to be pretending to be stuck in some kind of other dimension with @nickjfrost - I am quite amused.
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I only use Twitter on my phone, I dunno about lists and all that fancy stuff.
― a cross between lily allen and fetal alcohol syndrome (milo z), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
One of the 19 that Glenn Beck is following is Muse.
http://twitter.com/glennbeck
― Born too beguiled (DavidM), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Not enough lol in the world for that.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
He is the Bella to Rush's Edward.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
to his credit, he's following ROFLquiz too
― markers, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
god i hate twitter
― akm, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
The Iron Sheik's twitter is great.
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 23:03 (thirteen years ago) link
is this our ste?http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/aug/02/kanye-west-twitter
― cozen, Monday, 2 August 2010 13:13 (thirteen years ago) link
lol at the ellie goulding love; i feel you ste!
― 8o---e*.\\\||///.*ə---o8 (forksclovetofu), Monday, 2 August 2010 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I won't be speaking to anybody else, surprisingly not everyone wants to be famous. That's all I'm saying - peace out xabout 3 hours ago via web
ste_101steven holmes
― markers, Monday, 2 August 2010 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Just to clarify, I mean I won't be speaking to any more press/journalistsabout 3 hours ago via web
http://twitter.com/#search?q=Oxford%20Circus
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Apparently the BBC's Match Of The Day Twitter account started a rumour of a bomb on a Tube train.
Needless to say, it's a load of balls.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Is there *any* way to turn off the "who to follow" suggestions short of clicking x to all of them.
It's like every morning on twitter has turned into this depressing litany of suggestions of people who unfollowed me or otherwise just stopped being friends with me. It's like being constantly haunted by one's past social failures. Repeatedly.
― let me mansplain that to you (Masonic Boom), Monday, 9 August 2010 12:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't use the Twitter interface - I haven't seen any of these suggestions yet using Hootsuite or dabr. They might be slightly flakier than the twitter front-end but Twitter's down so often you don't really notice.
― useless chamber, Monday, 9 August 2010 12:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks to Nicole passing this along, yes!
http://blog.kitchenmage.com/2010/08/removing-twitters-recommended-user-to-follow-feature.html
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
so does anyone here actually find the ongoing "black people on twitter" journalistic conversation interesting/useful? there's yet another of these pieces on slate. i dunno how i feel.
http://www.slate.com/id/2263462
― stuckey's snackhouse (get bent), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
"jews on twitter: the virtual borscht belt"
― stuckey's snackhouse (get bent), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link