So there's a real Nick running around somewhere? (wink wink)
― the tip of the tongue taking a trip tralalala (stevienixed), Monday, 9 March 2009 14:10 (fifteen years ago) link
This is all just too Baudrillard for me!
― the tip of the tongue taking a trip tralalala (stevienixed), Monday, 9 March 2009 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link
that is just tragic
― The number of suggest bans required to send ILXors to the corn field (stevie), Monday, 9 March 2009 16:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Just got mine! twitter.com/stevedolnack .
Alternately, twitter.com/maryhartman
― vera cheetah-lover (Stevie D), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 05:48 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 March 2009 03:03 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― one art, please (Trayce), Thursday, 12 March 2009 03:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, but with IRC or MSN or AIM you can't whore your lifecasting out to EVERYBODY!
― Nhex, Thursday, 12 March 2009 05:32 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Dances With Psychedelic Owls (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 March 2009 07:49 (fifteen years ago) link
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?"
― Cunga, Thursday, 12 March 2009 09:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Or maybe just a useful way of revealing that the most "deep" and "intriguing" people aren't all they're cracked up to be.
― Hreidarsson The Storm (Matt DC), Thursday, 12 March 2009 09:38 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Dances With Psychedelic Owls (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 March 2009 09:42 (fifteen years ago) link
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, 12 March 2009 09:56 (fifteen years ago) link
for realz? http://twitter.com/larry_david
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 12 March 2009 10:41 (fifteen years ago) link
# @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 sounds so sad but am 18 so suck ma b*ws (stevie), Thursday, 12 March 2009 12:38 (fifteen years ago) link
― 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
― s1ocki, Thursday, 12 March 2009 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― krakow, Thursday, 12 March 2009 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, there was an article and cover piece on twitter in Shortlist magazine the other week - going big time!
― krakow, Thursday, 12 March 2009 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link
<3 s1ocki
― czech blastcore and superHOOS culture (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 12 March 2009 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Cunga, Friday, 13 March 2009 00:42 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― czech blastcore and superHOOS culture (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 13 March 2009 01:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Also for people who, for some reason, can't figure out what RSS is.
― Nhex, Friday, 13 March 2009 02:22 (fifteen years ago) link
saw someone referring to the "twitterverse" today.
seriously. just don't do that.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 17:47 (fifteen years ago) link
twit-o'sphere
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 17:48 (fifteen years ago) link
twitterdom
― jel --, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link
twittertopia
twiiteronia
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 17:58 (fifteen years ago) link
"tweeps"
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link
The LA Times piece, one of many over the past few weeks, harassed me onto Twitter.
My Twitter tweets
― Gorge, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 20:29 (fifteen years ago) link
twitter more like twatter
― groovy groovy jazzy funky pounce bounce dance (special guest stars mark bronson), Wednesday, February 18, 2009 3:51 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
http://gawker.com/5175472/stephen-colbert-admits-he-has-twatted?autoplay=true
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 19 March 2009 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link
good work internet commenter
― just sayin, Thursday, 19 March 2009 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link
lol all my friends are unfollowing my ex on twitter
― 14 karat gold steen computer wizard (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 19 March 2009 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link
― James Mitchell, Friday, 20 March 2009 01:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Both Gradski and Passantino are now on Twitter - proof that it has indeed jumped the shark.
― Blancmange Is Playing At My House (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 21 March 2009 06:27 (fifteen years ago) link
would follow buttez tweets
― cathlamet wa (jergins), Saturday, 21 March 2009 06:50 (fifteen years ago) link
u can if u think u can
― Blancmange Is Playing At My House (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 21 March 2009 07:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually, I should set up a separate Butteztwitter. It would work in the format.
― Blancmange Is Playing At My House (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 21 March 2009 07:40 (fifteen years ago) link
ok, so, no one seems to know this. if you reply to someone who isn't following you, and your own twitter is locked, can they still see that reply?
― lex pretend, Friday, 27 March 2009 13:33 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah was wondering too. they probably do. otherwise aplusk isn't getting my messages. HEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP hahahah
― the tip of the tongue taking a trip tralalala (stevienixed), Friday, 27 March 2009 13:34 (fifteen years ago) link
If you reply to someone who isn't following you = they don't see it unless the click on the Replies link.
I quite like twitter.
― Orin Boyd (jel --), Friday, 27 March 2009 17:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Fake Christopher Walken is pretty fun
http://twitter.com/cwalken
― Alba, Friday, 27 March 2009 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link
^ Yes, this is brilliant.
If you reply to someone who isn't following you = they don't see it unless the click on the Replies link
If they're using TweetDeck they see it. At least, I do: I've had a couple of replies from people who've seen stuff on the public feed or via a search, and they've shown up in TD.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Friday, 27 March 2009 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, but if your twitter is locked?
― lex pretend, Friday, 27 March 2009 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
OMG...
Just downloaded TweetDeck....some dude has been spreading my Smurf joke!
"What is a smurf's least favourite email service? Gargamail"
― Orin Boyd (jel --), Friday, 27 March 2009 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Dunno! Never locked mine. I'd be surprised if it made any difference ...
... but if your updates are protected, why would someone you're not following reply to you anyway? That'd be weird.
Actually, Lex, hang on: I don't follow you, do I? (Which is an oversight on my part: a Lex Twitterfeed would be good). So let's test this out. Send me a reply to @weesimon and I'll see if I can see it. (NB: post here when you've done it! Oh, and I'm going out soon, so this isn't going to work so well if you're not about.)
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Friday, 27 March 2009 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link
but if your updates are protected, why would someone you're not following reply to you anyway? That'd be weird
Also, yes, this isn't the point: not sure why I posted this.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Friday, 27 March 2009 18:17 (fifteen years ago) link
will do this!
― lex pretend, Friday, 27 March 2009 18:19 (fifteen years ago) link
& indeed have done it
bated breath
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Friday, 27 March 2009 18:24 (fifteen years ago) link
No sign of it :(
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Friday, 27 March 2009 18:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Guess that's your answer, then. Bit crap, that.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Friday, 27 March 2009 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link