Like any blogger who knows his site is pointless, my greatest hope is that people who follow me are as bored as I am.
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:05 (fifteen years ago) link
okay, Graham Linehan lasted all of eight hours. Waking up to find 110 new tweets, uh, no thanks.
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Ah, so that is who all these strange new people following me on twitter is! You're not strangers, you're ILX0rs.
― Questionable Rock-Frog (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Many of them are. I'd bet some are just random people, though.
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I get spammers who don't say anything and disappear within 24 hours anyway. It's all rather creepy in that regard.
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I get a little appalled when a client asks me to set up a Twitter account for him. 1) You don't need me to do that. 2) I'm not going to update the fucker, and unless you are, I can't see the point. 3) Who told you this was a fantastic new way to sell things? Because I want to sock that person in the nose.
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually #3 is conditional -- you can sell things on Twitter, sure. If you make things. But look here client man -- you make auto parts. Trust me when I say that Twitter is not your market.
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:42 (fifteen years ago) link
That's for RSS anyway. Jesus.
Technology is routinely fucked over by people who don't get what it's for and go misappropriating it. e.g. Facebook was for SOCIAL networking until old people en masse started hunting down their kids.
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:49 (fifteen years ago) link
And their staff.
― one art, please (Trayce), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 01:03 (fifteen years ago) link
And the people journos want to chase for a "story".
(well not old people, just people, obv)
My user name is igotabeefpastry
― i'm shy (Abbott), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 01:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Wouldn't have guessed it, for sure.
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 01:18 (fifteen years ago) link
haha
― i'm shy (Abbott), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 01:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Rah!
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 02:02 (fifteen years ago) link
If this thread turns into a thread of people talking about what they were talking about on twitter I think I might just well go shoot myself.
― one art, please (Trayce), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 02:12 (fifteen years ago) link
lol
― Jewish Lager (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 02:14 (fifteen years ago) link
abbs i am following u now btw
― its gotta be HOOSy para steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 02:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Trayce if this becomes ANYTHING like the last.fm thread forsooth I will personally firebomb ilx
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 02:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I loathe lastfm's user/artist architecture so much I didn't even want to open that thread. Glad I didn't.
― moley, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 02:50 (fifteen years ago) link
so this is the ILX twitter "backchannel" then?
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 09:34 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.theawesomefunbook.com/imagenes/big-no.jpg
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 09:46 (fifteen years ago) link
me
http://twitter.com/jordanmort
― big fatass rick ross (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 09:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm totally new to this (http://twitter.com/baaderonixxxx) but as a noob it seems this is way more geared towards web biz networking than proper social stuff.
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 10:02 (fifteen years ago) link
e.g. http://blog.mrtweet.net/what-unique-meaningful-value-have-you-gotten-out-of-twitter
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 10:07 (fifteen years ago) link
2) Valuable Business Relationships
NO NO NO NO NONO NO NONO NONONOON
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 10:11 (fifteen years ago) link
It's like passing notes in class. It's not meaningful at all, but it sure is fun.
― Questionable Rock-Frog (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 10:15 (fifteen years ago) link
You know, I'm not sure that it is.
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 10:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Er, nothing against any particular ilxors, mind, but in my week-or-so of pissfarting around with this thing I've not been particularly compelled by anything yet.
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 10:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, it's pretty reductively only as interesting as the people you follow (or, rather, as interesting as you find the people you follow to be). I guess it depends what you deem an acceptable signal-to-noise ratio: me, I enjoy skimming over the quotidian musings of other people (cf Facebook) and find some of it very entertaining, even if only for a moment or two.
But if you're expecting a non-stop open channel of wit and wisdom, Twitter is probably never going to be the place to go.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 11:01 (fifteen years ago) link
my favorite tweeter is "Brian Eno," who sends me an oblique strategy every morning.
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 11:26 (fifteen years ago) link
He just old me to breathe more deeply.
I am not going to start following any more Big Name Producers. I am not. Oh, fuck it...
― I want your Fingers and I want your Ears (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 11:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Grimly - have you given up on your desire to have them all sent to your phone as texts like the old days?
― Alba, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 11:37 (fifteen years ago) link
There are a few "brian eno"s on twitter. No idea if any of them are brian eno.
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 11:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd like an oblique strategem every morning. That I would like.
Twitter is only good if you follow people you know well enough to actually care about the tiny minutia of their lives. I'd find it intrusive to follow a stranger. (latest big crush excepted, of course.)
― I want your Fingers and I want your Ears (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 11:39 (fifteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/Brian_Eno
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 11:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Eddie Izzard gets it. He would, wouldn't he?
http://twitter.com/EddieIzzard
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 11:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I didn't realise he was where the phrase "pears can just fuck off" came from.
― ducking kiosk monkey (onimo), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 12:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Oddly, yes.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 12:11 (fifteen years ago) link
(Funny how an entire dynamic can change, though, isn't it? Twitter now is something very different to Twitter then.)
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 12:12 (fifteen years ago) link
i am hoping brian eno oblique strats will change my life, thankig u, kenan.
― class act, thanks bro (tehresa), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 13:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Dean Gaffney definitely gets it.
http://twitter.com/Dean_Gaffney
― Alba, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 13:19 (fifteen years ago) link
"my 1000th follower will get a mars bar in the post from me"
Amusingly, it's now stuck on 997.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 13:29 (fifteen years ago) link
He already ate the Mars bar, dowsn't want to own up to it
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 13:55 (fifteen years ago) link
twitter more like twatter
― groovy groovy jazzy funky pounce bounce dance (special guest stars mark bronson), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link
damnit, domain name taken by a stupid "agent"
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
a cylon agent?
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
How do I get all the twiiters I'm following to appear on one page.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link
ha, never mind. http://www.techcentral.ie/img/thumbnail%5Ccorporate%5Cold_person_computer.jpg
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link