you'd need a whole load of like-minded followers and it's hard to get there. This is the key, really. Twitter got some ferocious use at wwdc, and was v. good for finding out what was giong on where, and what sessions to leave, etc, but it doesn't work so well if you've just trucked up in some random place.
There's a twitter client for iPhone that might help with that though -- it shows you all the updates from folks in your location.
― stet, Thursday, 31 July 2008 21:47 (fifteen years ago) link
this is a shame, because your minute-by-minute update from "control" was fucking genius. for the few minutes it lasted.
People were complaining!
― Alba, Thursday, 31 July 2008 22:12 (fifteen years ago) link
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1640#more-1640
as usual
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 00:50 (fifteen years ago) link
the end of twitter in the UK? er: yes, as far as i can see. i don't want to have to *look* for tweets. i want them to come to me:
Hi,I'm sending you this note because you registered a mobile device to work with Twitter over our UK number. I wanted to let you know that we are making some changes to the way SMS works on Twitter. There is some good news and some bad news.I'll start with the bad news. Beginning today, Twitter is no longer delivering outbound SMS over our UK number. If you enjoy receiving updates from Twitter via +44 762 480 1423, we are recommending that you explore some suggested alternatives.Note: You will still be able to UPDATE over our UK number.Before I go into more detail, here's a bit of good news: Twitter will be introducing several new, local SMS numbers in countries throughout Europe in the coming weeks and months. These new numbers will make Twittering more accessible for you if you've been using SMS to send long-distance updates from outside the UK.Why are we making these changes?Mobile operators in most of the world charge users to send updates. When you send one message to Twitter and we send it to ten followers, you aren't charged ten times--that's because we've been footing the bill. When we launched our free SMS service to the world, we set the clock ticking. As the service grew in popularity, so too would the price.Our challenge during this window of time was to establish relationships with mobile operators around the world such that our SMS services could become sustainable from a cost perspective. We achieved this goal in Canada, India, and the United States. We can provide full incoming and outgoing SMS service without passing along operator fees in these countries.We took a risk hoping to bring more nations onboard and more mobile operators around to our way of thinking but we've arrived at a point where the responsible thing to do is slow our costs and take a different approach. Since you probably don't live in Canada, India, or the US, we recommend receiving your Twitter updates via one of the following methods.m.twitter.com works on browser-enabled phones m.slandr.net works on browser-enabled phones TwitterMail.com works on email-enabled phones Cellity [http://bit.ly/12bw4R] works on java-enabled phones TwitterBerry [http://bit.ly/MFAfJ] works on BlackBerry phones Twitterific [http://bit.ly/1WxjwQ] works on iPhonesTwitter SMS by The NumbersIt pains us to take this measure. However, we need to avoid placing undue burden on our company and our service. Even with a limit of 250 messages received per week, it could cost Twitter about $1,000 per user, per year to send SMS outside of Canada, India, or the US. It makes more sense for us to establish fair billing arrangements with mobile operators than it does to pass these high fees on to our users.Twitter will continue to negotiate with mobile operators in Europe, Asia, China, and The Americas to forge relationships that benefit all our users. Our goal is to provide full, two-way service with Twitter via SMS to every nation in a way that is sustainable from a cost perspective. Talks with mobile companies around the world continue. In the meantime, more local numbers for updating via SMS are on the way. We'll keep you posted.Thank you for your attention, Biz Stone, Co-founder Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/biz
I'm sending you this note because you registered a mobile device to work with Twitter over our UK number. I wanted to let you know that we are making some changes to the way SMS works on Twitter. There is some good news and some bad news.
I'll start with the bad news. Beginning today, Twitter is no longer delivering outbound SMS over our UK number. If you enjoy receiving updates from Twitter via +44 762 480 1423, we are recommending that you explore some suggested alternatives.
Note: You will still be able to UPDATE over our UK number.
Before I go into more detail, here's a bit of good news: Twitter will be introducing several new, local SMS numbers in countries throughout Europe in the coming weeks and months. These new numbers will make Twittering more accessible for you if you've been using SMS to send long-distance updates from outside the UK.
Why are we making these changes?
Mobile operators in most of the world charge users to send updates. When you send one message to Twitter and we send it to ten followers, you aren't charged ten times--that's because we've been footing the bill. When we launched our free SMS service to the world, we set the clock ticking. As the service grew in popularity, so too would the price.
Our challenge during this window of time was to establish relationships with mobile operators around the world such that our SMS services could become sustainable from a cost perspective. We achieved this goal in Canada, India, and the United States. We can provide full incoming and outgoing SMS service without passing along operator fees in these countries.
We took a risk hoping to bring more nations onboard and more mobile operators around to our way of thinking but we've arrived at a point where the responsible thing to do is slow our costs and take a different approach. Since you probably don't live in Canada, India, or the US, we recommend receiving your Twitter updates via one of the following methods.
m.twitter.com works on browser-enabled phones m.slandr.net works on browser-enabled phones TwitterMail.com works on email-enabled phones Cellity [http://bit.ly/12bw4R] works on java-enabled phones TwitterBerry [http://bit.ly/MFAfJ] works on BlackBerry phones Twitterific [http://bit.ly/1WxjwQ] works on iPhones
Twitter SMS by The Numbers
It pains us to take this measure. However, we need to avoid placing undue burden on our company and our service. Even with a limit of 250 messages received per week, it could cost Twitter about $1,000 per user, per year to send SMS outside of Canada, India, or the US. It makes more sense for us to establish fair billing arrangements with mobile operators than it does to pass these high fees on to our users.
Twitter will continue to negotiate with mobile operators in Europe, Asia, China, and The Americas to forge relationships that benefit all our users. Our goal is to provide full, two-way service with Twitter via SMS to every nation in a way that is sustainable from a cost perspective. Talks with mobile companies around the world continue. In the meantime, more local numbers for updating via SMS are on the way. We'll keep you posted.
Thank you for your attention, Biz Stone, Co-founder Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/biz
― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 14 August 2008 08:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I never understood why anyone would want tweets pushed to them. I get excited when I receive a text. I don't want to find it's some spazz like me telling the world they've found an odd-coloured bogey up their nose.
― Alba, Thursday, 14 August 2008 09:21 (fifteen years ago) link
it would be nice, when the iphone's push service is switched on, if twitter would push messages down to twitterific - this would solve the 'excited when I receive a text only to find it's about a bogey' problem
― cozwn, Thursday, 14 August 2008 09:31 (fifteen years ago) link
If my phone had let me assign unique message alert tones to numbers like it does with ringtones and voice calls then the problem might have gone away.
― Alba, Thursday, 14 August 2008 09:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe the fundamental problem is that I'm not interested enough in other people.
― Alba, Thursday, 14 August 2008 09:35 (fifteen years ago) link
most of twitter is exquisitely described in metaphor by that news story about the inflatable turd named "Complex Shit" blowing away and breaking actual stuff that matters
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 14 August 2008 09:39 (fifteen years ago) link
of course being me I would say the same for pretty much everything "web 2.0"
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 14 August 2008 09:40 (fifteen years ago) link
actually, i'd follow a tombot twitter feed. furious cynicism at unexpected moments could be fun.
i guess twitterific might step up to the plate here, but then again: it can't run in the background on the iPhone, can it?
(this, incidentally, is my first ILX post from my shiny new iMac.)
― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 14 August 2008 11:28 (fifteen years ago) link
creepy
13.28 cozeny Wondering out loud what we'd need to start a UK group SMS system and take Twitter's market: Ruby developers, time, money, and Red Bull... ? 9 minutes ago from web
13.37 Hi, cozeny.
tweetsms (tweetsms) is now following your updates on Twitter.
Check out tweetsms's profile here:
http://twitter.com/tweetsms
You may follow tweetsms as well by clicking on the "follow" button.
Best, Twitter
tweetsms http://www.tweetSMS.com will be available worldwide across almost all carriers. We also plan to deploy an ad-based service for free updates. 38 minutes ago from web
@PurpleKitchen check out www.tweetsms.com about 2 hours ago from web in reply to PurpleKitchen
just uploaded http://www.tweetsms.com to help all of those international SMS users! about 2 hours ago from web
― cozwn, Thursday, 14 August 2008 12:39 (fifteen years ago) link
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
"Alternate HTML content should be placed here. This content requires the Adobe Flash Player. Get Flash"
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
its also funny behavior from "a policy wonk" because its completely vibes based, why not spend yr time advocating for real world policy that could actually help people instead, oh cause no one gives a shit, yeah its like that sometimes
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 21:30 (two weeks ago) link
its funny cause he thinks hes on some grand strategy but comes off more like hes fucked in the head
Beijer, one of the more outspoken socialist power users on Twitter, takes a cynical view of Stancil, though he notes their disagreements are primarily ideological. “The man has absolutely convinced himself that he is somehow controlling political discourse at a national level. He really thinks that his tweets set off a chain of events that ended in the population of the United States deciding that Bidenomics are working,” Beijer said. “It’s delusional, but it also betrays a staggering level of Messianic arrogance and condescension towards all the people who he thinks he’s manipulating.”
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 21:39 (two weeks ago) link
anyway hadnt thought about this guy in a while due to going off twitter, overall recommended, tho i do kind of miss checking in on sad freaks like him, he did try to go on bluesky for a while but the shtick didnt take i guess cause its not specifically designed to dredge up the most psycho bs available
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 21:43 (two weeks ago) link
stancil's shtick is incredibly dumb, he's basically constantly saying "the highly polarized positions people take online are not indicative of real life" which is mostly true. but if you keep going down that route you end up as an annoying ideology-free centrist where, again, your centrism gets narrower and narrower until you don't have constructive ideas on changing anything
you don't have to listen to all the strident people, but you do have to take into account that their opinion may be valid, even if they're quote-tweet dunking on you
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:29 (two weeks ago) link
why not spend yr time advocating for real world policy that could actually help people
this is apparently his day job, which is funny because that is an actual thing he could run on. the history of left-leaning candidates being extremely online and thinking that it'll help their campaign is not a good one
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:31 (two weeks ago) link
something funny about telling people theyre living in a not real world bubble then running for office in an extreme liberal district against a bunch of candidates with identical politics
― lag∞n, Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:37 (two weeks ago) link
what we need is a sixth candidate in this race not really a different kind of guy just a more annoying one
― lag∞n, Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:39 (two weeks ago) link
Had no idea Stancil thinks of himself as a master manipulator a la Chris Rufo (who is also delusional/bullshitting that he’s pulling society’s strings, man).
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 25 April 2024 16:55 (two weeks ago) link
idk rufos had some nice wins, ultimately its all sound and fury but as far as one guy getting inside the medias head hes done well for himself
― lag∞n, Thursday, 25 April 2024 16:59 (two weeks ago) link
yeah Rufo has been pretty successful in astroturfing at least, a lot of the anti-CRT/DEI/"Wokeness" stuff comes from him, it's not like these are issues conservatives really care about or can even define
― frogbs, Thursday, 25 April 2024 17:02 (two weeks ago) link
seeing the phrase "titan submersible implosion" and remembering how happy we all were back then
― mark s, Thursday, 25 April 2024 17:21 (two weeks ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Thursday, 25 April 2024 17:32 (two weeks ago) link
Special times
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 25 April 2024 18:19 (two weeks ago) link
“remembering how happy we all were”i wasn’t it’s against fucking policy but alsoi wasn’. shit was horrific. even if it was an underwater deservable.
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Friday, 26 April 2024 00:04 (two weeks ago) link
it’s funny because the reality of people getting crushed is sad and that kid was just there for his dad, but in the stakes of tragedies dying instantly by being crushed like a grape is not a terrible way to go, allthings considered. and the ridiculous hubris of a guy who ignored every expert taking insanely rich people in a death tube is wild
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 26 April 2024 00:07 (two weeks ago) link
so many good details in that story the video game controller every submarine person telling them to stop
― lag∞n, Friday, 26 April 2024 00:11 (two weeks ago) link
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jwc6rjltbvw2wffcxyvy44qy
― lag∞n, Friday, 26 April 2024 03:42 (two weeks ago) link
whoa utilitylimb has made me login to bluesky for the first time in foreevr
― 龜, Friday, 26 April 2024 12:23 (two weeks ago) link
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uyskqsvlhftcugfobrin5dub/bafkreidw2c2ol3zpejxjwan55d6g5xnm7oznauhnpcdtqmpgjqvif7iwte@jpeg
― lag∞n, Friday, 26 April 2024 16:15 (two weeks ago) link
🖼
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 26 April 2024 16:46 (two weeks ago) link
― 龜, Friday, April 26, 2024 7:23 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
thats awesome, every once in a while I remember there was a Lovecraftian dril account out there that just disappeared
― frogbs, Friday, 26 April 2024 16:48 (two weeks ago) link
Well, they definitionally care about them? It's being able to name them (even if the definitions are wavy) that he's done the work on - so 35 states can pass anti-CRT measures, but they can be applied on a "you know if it you see it" basis - even worse than CRT is CRT that's denying it's CRT!
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 27 April 2024 08:59 (two weeks ago) link
meanwhile elsewhere 😔
this email subject just in: "A New Chapter Begins: Post News Users Are Migrating to Spoutible"
― mark s, Saturday, 27 April 2024 09:25 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (six days 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 (six days ago) link