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
just seen this:
TwitOrFit is Twitter-meets-HotOrNothttp://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/12/15/twitorfit-is-twitter-meets-hotornot/
― djmartian, Monday, 15 December 2008 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link
How did you score?
― Enrique (Raw Patrick), Monday, 15 December 2008 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
fyi i tweeted this morning
― beyonc'e (max), Monday, 15 December 2008 14:23 (fifteen years ago) link
twitter in gmail: http://twittergadget.com/
― Suggesteban Buttez (jabba hands), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 03:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Apparently 'twitter' means 'hermaphrodite' in German.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 18 December 2008 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link
eventually TikTok and Fanduel will be one app and there will be no apps after that
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 15 April 2024 04:45 (one week ago) link
How many album titles beginning with 'N' can you name?
― Ethinically Ambigaus (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 15 April 2024 09:04 (one week ago) link
Nebraska - Bruce Springsten
Never mind...
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Monday, 15 April 2024 09:18 (one week ago) link
didn't they debunk the liver king as being on roids?
― 龜, Monday, 15 April 2024 11:30 (one week ago) link
he was (is?) on ten thousand dollars of steroids a month, idk how much steroids cost but that seems like a lot
― lag∞n, Monday, 15 April 2024 12:10 (one week ago) link
yea I'm pretty sure it's impossible to look like that otherwise
― frogbs, Monday, 15 April 2024 12:43 (one week ago) link
no you just need to eat more raw liver
― 龜, Monday, 15 April 2024 12:48 (one week ago) link
you can only aspire to liver prince until he dies from causes unrelated to liver
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 15 April 2024 13:59 (one week ago) link
skips leg days
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Monday, 15 April 2024 14:03 (one week ago) link
Something I've noticed is that there will be tweets w numbers of "Views" listed as being in the tens or h a hundreds of thousands (or more), but which have only a handful (if that) of likes and/or replies. Seems slightly off...
― dell (del), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 04:20 (one week ago) link
two accounts, one is mostly indie games and trains but i must've clicked on something recently because I'm also getting posts from every London museum and library and walking tour and university now
the other account, music and friends, is now 90% Arabic, which i can't read, pages and pages of it. and it's just random Arabic stuff too, weddings and cars, lots of the war obv, but also recipes and pop videos and fashion.
oh, those algorithms...
― koogs, Saturday, 20 April 2024 07:52 (five days ago) link
still doing it. the only odd thing i can see is
Languages: "English, No linguistic content, Estonian"
― koogs, Saturday, 20 April 2024 20:00 (five days ago) link
David Klion profiles Will Stancil:https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/will-stancil-twitter-mn-house-candidate.html
― jaymc, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 20:50 (yesterday) link
lmao
The way people talk about Will Stancil you think they’d never seen an annoying moron before.— ettingermentum🥥🌴 (@ettingermentum) December 14, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 21:04 (yesterday) link
oopsie
In the summer of 2023, Stancil clashed with more irony-poisoned elements of the left who were joking, in his view distastefully, about the wealthy tourists who died during the Titan submersible implosion. And for a period after the October 7 Hamas attacks, Stancil went hard after left-wing critics of Israel, myself included — though he hasn’t tweeted about the conflict at all since a few weeks before he announced his candidacy. “I kinda don’t think the organized left in America is going to survive this,” he tweeted on October 11. During our discussion, Israel was the only major topic Stancil wanted to go off the record for; on record, he simply said, “My position on the war in Gaza is that it’s horrible, and I want it to end as soon as possible.”
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 21:07 (yesterday) link
i like david klion but that piece doesnt examine what i guess is stancils core thesis that hes influencing the media and washington with his tweets, which is needless to say absurd, sure if you go around playing the victim to some boogieman left thats sabotaging an otherwise popular and successful democratic party then yeah some people will listen to you, people who already think that, because its a comforting easy thing to believe, it also happens to be completely unmoored from reality, but comforting things are generally like that
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 21:20 (yesterday) link
the idea is an old one, to the extent professional dems think about left thats what they tend to think
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 21:24 (yesterday) 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 (yesterday) 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 (yesterday) 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 (yesterday) link