tombreihan Stay off of Twitter, Zero Cool and Acid Burn! You guys are such assholes! about 3 hours ago via web
― p.m.s.b. (pre-mall smoke bomb) (zorn_bond.mp3), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link
#ilx hashtag for worldwide trending purposes
― krakow, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
The CEO of Twitter is a Dick.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 4 October 2010 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link
THE HOFF IS FOLLOWING ME!
― a prairie based companion (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 October 2010 19:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Tag a post with #Hoffoween & a pic of you going about your life. I will randomly pick a winner and dress as them on Halloween and tweet pics about 1 hour ago via web Retweeted by 12 people
DavidHasselhoffDavid Hasselhoff
― markers, Friday, 8 October 2010 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
woah
― make it count, son (sunny successor), Friday, 8 October 2010 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
the north korea twitter just retweeted this:
@uriminzok i can no longer endure your tweets. hopefully we shall cross paths again... perhaps when you invade me. will you, north korea?
― all the way borkt up (tpp), Thursday, 4 November 2010 10:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Twitter joke trial rejects appeal, calling the original tweet "obviously menacing". Yeesh.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 11 November 2010 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
@Ludacris see you sunday? 6:52 PM Oct 22nd via web in reply to Ludacris Retweeted by 39 people
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― markers, Thursday, 18 November 2010 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
think i asked this before but how do you sync twitter/facebook status updates
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Friday, 19 November 2010 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
What color are tennis balls? 10:09 PM Nov 23rd via web Retweeted by 39 people
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― markers, Sunday, 28 November 2010 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Not feeling Twitter anymore. The world's biggest clusterfuck.
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 28 November 2010 05:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I would love to have one less thing to check, but I feel like there's enough going on there that's at least arguably valuable to me that I have to keep checking it
― markers, Sunday, 28 November 2010 05:23 (thirteen years ago) link
retweeting makes my eyes bleed tbh
― markers, Monday, 6 December 2010 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
you can turn off retweets by specific users if you go to their page - learning this changed my life 4 real
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Monday, 6 December 2010 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, that's a good feature for sure
― markers, Monday, 6 December 2010 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
My next tweet is my 2000th and I need something witty to say...
― krakow, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 13:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Just apologize for the previous 1,999 and promise to do better in the future.
― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Friday, November 19, 2010 8:39 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark
dont do it this is so annoying
― tickle me imo (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 13:59 (thirteen years ago) link
i wanna smack people whose fb updates are stuff like "talking to @butterballs about #CIS and #VCK2009 with @nutslapper #chickendoodle"
― tickle me imo (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link
"talking to @butterballs about #CIS and #VCK2009 with @nutslapper #chickendoodle"
Hey, quit using my twitter feed as your example!
― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/#!/ABC7Stephen
― max, Friday, 17 December 2010 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
go back about 14 hours
and read thru
― max, Friday, 17 December 2010 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
xxxpost, Hey, quit using forks display names as your example!
― larry longballs money (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
max, that is amazing.
― larry longballs money (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh god, lights went out. Train totally dead. No one is telling us anything! Sitting in dark shivering. "Sartre"
― sugg knight (cozen), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
heat went out on the sunday night sleeper train i took two weeks ago. -6C inside and out. fortunately i had a 4-season sleeping bag.
― e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Friday, 17 December 2010 16:48 (thirteen years ago) link
kafka gotta be pretty mad he didn't dream up a train that stopped for a bit.
― stet, Friday, 17 December 2010 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
please can someone repurpose "sittering in the dark shivering...SARTRE" as a grocery bag rap punchline
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 17 December 2010 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
*sitting
So I am a perennial quitter/restarter of Facebook because I kind of hate it but then I like receiving notifications about events and various other opportunities. Is Twitter any less compulsive? Probably not, right? I just don't really enjoy the feeling of being *on display* all the time and wasting precious hours staring at people's profiles. Definitely don't want both Twitter and FB, but thinking of switching? Tell me, I've never really used Twitter so don't exactly get it.
― Joolia Stylez (admrl), Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
sitting in the dark shivering ... SARTREwish my life was more like Amelie's ... MONTMARTRE
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
xp Well, you're certainly not on display. Especially if you don't post stuff about yourself. I use it mostly to get a sense of the zeitgeist ... I try to follow different types of people -- journalists, scientists, celebrities, athletes, regular joes, locals, politicians, comedians, joke accounts ...
― I Am Kurious Assange (polyphonic), Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that sounds good
― Joolia Stylez (admrl), Thursday, 23 December 2010 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
:D
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Thursday, 23 December 2010 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Things I hate about FB:-The automatic assumption that if you friend someone on FB then you want to read every single thing they have to say.- The AOL-style interface and the general clutter... reading FB is like trying to watch a movie with an audience that talks out loud and won't shut up.
Things I like about Twitter:- Dozens of different clients. If you don't like the interface, try a different client. It's trivial to switch and you don't lose anything- 140 character limit. You're forced to be interesting, witty, etc. immediately. Conversely, if you're boring - I'm unfollowing. Sorry dude.- The ability to favorite a post (similar to "starring" an item in Google Reader). It's easy to come back to a post and then read the link you posted. (can't do that in FB)- Conducive to partial attention. Most of the time I'm WORKING and don't really have the time to slog through your FB bullshit. With Twitter I can "get a sense of the zeitgeist" (as polyphonic says) and easily return back to what I was doing.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 23 December 2010 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Elvis, your point about unfollowing is really important. If someone stops following you, it doesn't matter. It doesn't mean they don't want to be your friend anymore, it just means they're not interested enough in your microblog to keep reading it.
If you unfriend a farcebook user it's like you murdered their children.
― The breads are OK but the the crumpet freaks me out (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 23 December 2010 21:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Although tbh there is the occasional entitled Twitter user who takes unfollowing personally, but I think that says more about them than it does about Twitter.
― The breads are OK but the the crumpet freaks me out (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 23 December 2010 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha, sounds like Twitter might be for me.
Now what if I wanted to promote an event? Is it easy to do that? I just "tweet" about it? Can you keep lists like "Los Angeles" and so on?
― puff pastry hangman (admrl), Thursday, 23 December 2010 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes but you need to be careful. If you exist to promote events it's fine because people will follow you for that reason; if you act like a real person and suddenly spam your followers you'll lose them.
― The breads are OK but the the crumpet freaks me out (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 23 December 2010 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
ahhh, I see
― puff pastry hangman (admrl), Thursday, 23 December 2010 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
sort of sounds like it does cut out a lot of the things I hate about FB
And yeah, you can add people to lists without following them. You have an enormous degree of control over what you see and how you see it.
― The breads are OK but the the crumpet freaks me out (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 23 December 2010 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
There's no expectation of reciprocity. I follow people who follow me back, but that's only because I use Twitter for conversation, not because I'm a sad old tit who expects to be loved. If you're just promoting stuff, you don't need to follow everyone who follows you.
― The breads are OK but the the crumpet freaks me out (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 23 December 2010 21:20 (thirteen years ago) link
WHAT IS HAPPENING IN TWITTER
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 25 December 2010 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
santa broke it
― kenny noggins (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 25 December 2010 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
http://status.twitter.com/
― tl;dr swinton (suzy), Saturday, 25 December 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay, so what was this @serafinowicz tweet that has everyone so upset? It's been deleted, but apparently it involves Sarah Palin and the Pope is may or may not be libelous.
― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 26 December 2010 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Evidence mounting that it was all a hoax: http://twitter.com/#search?q=serafinowicz%20tweet
― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 26 December 2010 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link