Twitter C/D

Surely many twitters, like facebooks and myspaces, are gonna end up being fakes (for slebs I mean).

Funny, if you google "twitter fake brian eno" the top result goes to the same feed, and google reports the page title as "Twitter / Fake Brian Eno". Which doesn't mean it's fake, necessarily. But it's interesting.

Where does Twitteronia etiquette stand on the following situation:

- You follow someone who also follows you
- That person stops following you
- You DON'T REALISE and continue to (a) follow that person and (b) reply to his/her tweets

Probably a bit spod-like for ilx but I must avoid embarrassing social situations. thx

I find people who reflexively follow everyone who follows them to be the equivalent of the MySpace whore who just wants to have a lot of "Friends".

If someone who I know (or someone who knows people I know) follows me I follow back, but if it's just some random I don't.

for those of us who can't get our fill of nannerpuss from twitter, here's 10 minutes of nothing but him:

it's like the metal machine music for our times

Seeing Rove last night confirmed for me that the Twitter explosion will only occur when bogans realise omgfamous people use Twitter.

Twitter and iPhone help find lost skiier, but companion found dead

I kinda like twitter now. I am only following people I sort of know.

If anyone wants to follow me on Twitter (wherein I routinely rip off stuff I saw on ILX), I'm polyphonique there.

Yesterday an actual human being found me and started talking to me. I suppose that's the next phase.

oh and I removed those ilxors I said I would remove.

"Have you noticed that ILX posts are getting shorter and shorter, is this a side effect of Twitterisation, or is it simply the way of the internet, and soundbite culture?"

wld be fun if we were forced to do this on ilx. it'd drive nabisco away? j/k

i only do it on my iphone. find it weird to go on my imac and tweet somehow. twitter= like textmessagges evertone so it only feels right if i do it on my iphone...

AA, dude, noooooo! :-)

You're still there! Many are not but I doubt they'd care.

I WORKED IT OUT!! Twitter is exactly like Katamari!

I guess I've hopped on this bandwagon too now so http://twitter.com/barthart is anyone cares although don't expect much cause I'm actually pretty boring. lol.

awww well I like having you on there anyway! (sixredfeet is me.. but you knew that.. now everyone else does too)

plus yeah, I barely post anything of importance but I love all the web geeks constantly posting links! viva geeks!

IS TWITTER DOWN OR SOMETHING!??!?

I CAN NO LONGER SURVIVE WITHOUT IT!!!!

fake eno is having hissy fits via twitter about someone calling him fake, which he admits freely that he is, but... no, you blew it, fake eno. You were so much less boring when you said three words a day. Eno does not have hissy fits and link to gossip about them. He's too busy... I dunno. Trying to rationalize the last U2 album so he can get some sleep, or something.

Brian Eno is a fictional creation. He invented himself. (Don't ask how he did it. He will only reply with a lie. He probably believes that he is real. Sometimes, it's all he has to hang onto.) As part of this fiction there has been a need to constantly produce facts, to convince us that he actually exists, and is not, as is actually the case, a figment of our imagination, a memory implant. There are many facts, so many that we don't even suspect that they are fabricated, part of a disorientating plot to set at the centre of the history of modern music a character that does not actually exist.

tl;dr

Lololololol

I sort of hope that's a fake Alan McGee but his Twitter is strangely addictive reading.

Ewan McGregor unhappy about fake Ewan McGregor

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/mcgregor%20seeks%20to%20shut%20down%20impostor_1097176

Oh smashing, now McGee is belittling Momus with weak puns (so much material to work with - not an attempted zing, Mr Currie is quite aware if not infuriatingly knowing about putting it on display - and this is it?) and Momus has noticed.

So embarrassing you'd think it has to be fake, except dude really is quite out of his mind these days, so...

According to CMU Music, MCGee started the fight by insulting Eno's production work, and then asking him "when are you going to make a decent record again...1972 was the last one c**t".

A bit funny coming from him. But he's a lovable asshole.

That's got to be a fake Nick on Twitter but it's a real McGee (Bobby Gillespie made up the 'bogus' pun so make of that what you will).

So there's a real Nick running around somewhere? (wink wink)

This is all just too Baudrillard for me!

that is just tragic

Just got mine! twitter.com/stevedolnack .

Alternately, twitter.com/maryhartman

I'm sure there's a more "OMG!" piece of breathless Twitter evangelizing out there but this is giving me sugar shock:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/03/on-twitter-mind.html

For him, Twitter is a new way to conduct a real-time, multi-way dialogue with thousands of his colleagues and fellow netizens.

Have these people never heard of IRC or MSN or AIM, wtf?

Yeah, but with IRC or MSN or AIM you can't whore your lifecasting out to EVERYBODY!

I don't want to broadcast to everybody. In fact, I'm considering making my feed friends only. But it is nice to be able to have a conversation with a whole bunch of my friends at once without the disconserting TOO FAST TOO MANY PEOPLE TALKING AT ONCE AIM chat phenomenon which really puts me off it. I like the fact that it's *not* realtime. It happens at your own pace.

Twitter (and to a lesser extent all social networking) reminds me of this Theodore Dalrymple quote.

"No one seems to have noticed, however, that a loss of a sense of shame means a loss of privacy; a loss of privacy means a loss of intimacy; and a loss of intimacy means a loss of depth. There is, in fact, no better way to produce shallow and superficial people than to let them live their lives entirely in the open, without concealment of anything."

The idea of turning yourself into a miniature reality show star by revealing all of your little, private moments before the world is a method for shallowing even the most intriguing of people. The key to having a successful and trendy "web 2.0" site seems to start by asking yourself "What will feed into people's solipsism?"

Or maybe just a useful way of revealing that the most "deep" and "intriguing" people aren't all they're cracked up to be.

Ha ha, I never pretended to be deep or intriguing. I'm pretty honest and open that my only interests are bubblegum records, gay pr0n and drawing paisley.

Or maybe just a useful way of revealing that the most "deep" and "intriguing" people aren't all they're cracked up to be.

That's like the argument that tabloid culture is great because it proves that "celebrities and politicians are human too." To twitter is to indulge in Voltaire's secret to being a bore.

for realz? http://twitter.com/larry_david

# @tinafey I love what you're doing on SNL. Pretty good.7:26 PM Oct 8th, 2008 from web in reply to TinaFey

pritty, pritty, pritty...

That's like the argument that tabloid culture is great because it proves that "celebrities and politicians are human too." To twitter is to indulge in Voltaire's secret to being a bore.

― Cunga, Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:56 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what about to pompously lecture everyone about twitter on a message board, what's that all about

I have two running:

Personal: https://twitter.com/krakow81

Crimson Glow Photography: http://twitter.com/itsnotred

Not enough of a network of people I know, or care about, on there as yet to really make it worthwhile, but maybe it will improve.

I also use the twitter gadget for gmail mainly, rather than the actual twitter site, since my gmail is almost always running. Very handy.

Oh yeah, there was an article and cover piece on twitter in Shortlist magazine the other week - going big time!

<3 s1ocki

what about to pompously lecture everyone about twitter on a message board, what's that all about

Because having discussions with an online community about all sorts of topics is the exact same thing as spewing your ennui to the entire world at an alarming pace. No qualitative difference could hope to be discerned.

spewing your ennui to the entire world at an alarming pace.

If you seriously think this is all Twitter is about you are more hilarious than I imagined.