Twitter C/D

& indeed have done it

bated breath

No sign of it :(

Guess that's your answer, then. Bit crap, that.

ah well. as expected i guess. might have to unlock, hmm

I'm surprised, actually. I thought it'd work.

Incidentally, I've just this second sent you a follow request :)

... and your reply's now come through. So that's our answer, then.

POWER FORCE TWITTER BLACK BELT?

Best tweet ever twatted:

wat button wins australia gp oh klik brits lose hour n wake up bukin kote wether sat dun she aint good now ho puk out to town troxy pete o

Twitter seems like a silly fad to me. But I am a sour-dispositioned old fogey who doesn't even carry a cell phone, so my thoughts on it are not relevant.

i finally gave up my mode of denial and am now following dina lohan. lollicious beyond belief. that woman is on a whole other planet

It's a fake account.

who gives a shit, it's awesome.

Paul Pierce is following me on Twitter. Weird.

A small hungry-looking dog has been following me, but that's only because of the bologna in my back pocket. Maybe Paul Pierce is attracted for a similar reason. But that's just a guess.

It must be the prosciutto I had at lunch.

okay here's what bugs me, maybe it's easily fixable, but certain accounts i would like to follow are 75% replies to other comments, and since i don't see the original comment there's absolutely no context and it's totally unintelligible.

― lil waynes babymama (musically), Tuesday, February 24, 2009 7:06 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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― we r from twitteronia, we connect (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, February 24, 2009 8:14 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

just to clarify, that shows me my friend's replies to other people. i want to be able to see what the other people said originally.

does anyone know why all my twitters from Jan 1 to yesterday were erased?

it is because you lied when you were seventeen

It is because @ev is in a board meeting (about 2 hours ago from txt)

Who is @ev? I saw Rainn Wilson asked him "can I go yet" and mentioned a board meeting so I thought he was an Office staffer, but your mention of him makes me think otherwise...

'NYC church tweeting the Passion of Christ'

srsly Matt DC's twitter is driving me nuts

It's really fucking annoying me as well. I'm trying to think of a way I can make it stop looping the same posts over and over again without actually deleting my account.

What the fuck? I'm intrigued.

Essentially every Twitter post I have made since about lunchtime yesterday is going out again and again and again at regular intervals, like I'm in some kind of perpetual time loop. And there appears to be no way of stopping it. I apologise to anyone who's actually following me - I am aware that what I had for dinner yesterday isn't that interesting. Especially the eighth time around.

Judging by this, it seems to be a problem with people updating from Vodafone in the UK.

you getting called a faggot was pretty interesting

;)

Ah, shit! That's absolutely fucking awful. But incredibly, incredibly amusing.

Yes a 12-year old feral hoodie type cycled up alongside me in the park, looked directly at me, said "faggot" and then cycled off. It was funny at the time but probably would not have Twittered it had I known it was going to be endlessly repeated.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH ... fuck, sorry.

URGENT: TWITTER NOW LAME

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090409.wgtaweb10/BNStory/Technology/home
http://www.slate.com/id/2215829/

I just set up a twitter account about a month ago. I'm not sure why - I don't have a mobile phone so basically all my tweets (is that the term? seriously?) are like "I'm at my computer. Doing stuff on my computer."

The other day I uploaded some photos to zenfolio, then wrote a blog entry about said photos/events, then twittered that I'd written the blog entry, then did a facebook status update to point out the twitter post...

Blogging about blogging about blogging about uploading photos. Hurrah!

I just set up a twitter account about a month ago.

That's about 1,000 years ago in Twitter terms.

whiney may have to start working weekends if he's to reach 1000 at this point

i'm catching up slowly.

i was way more behind this time last month.

URGENT: TWITTER NOW LAME

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090409.wgtaweb10/BNStory/Technology/home
http://www.slate.com/id/2215829/

― I think no pants is sexy. (Matt P), Tuesday, April 14, 2009 12:13 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

imagine those articles being recited through tears by their authors

I support 4chan and their war of terror to get to a million followers before CNN and kutcher

I support 4chan

I could never, ever type those words.

lol ashton ftw

The Slate article at least makes logical sense. The Globe & Mail article needs some sort of soothing pussy ointment, and perhaps a bag of ice.

What bugs me about Twitter, I'm starting to discover, isn't so much the form as the content. Plenty of terrific writers and thinkers have believed in the idea that any statement could be conveyed well enough in 250 words or less (140 words I'm not sure), but the problem with so much blogging and, in this case, micro-blogging is that the content is almost always mundane and ultimately worthless.

I'm reminded of Dalrymple's recent quote that "celebrity is the magic fairy dust that makes the mundane fascinating" and that "modern celebrity is the common man worshiping himself" and wonder if the recent idea people have (namely that any mundane thought or experience that they might have is ipso facto interesting to somebody or, at the very least, worthy of being shared online) is tied into concepts like the one Dalrymple mentioned.

I think that after years and years of being taught to be idolaters (or at the very least uber toleraters) of movie stars, rock stars, celebs and pop culture figures in general, people are attracted to sites that essentially let them play the vain celebrity they will, in all likelihood, never get to be otherwise. If Brad Pitt - who outside of handsome looks and light charm is essentially no different than you - can draw interest with what he had for dinner with his wife last night - why shouldn't you?! Do we not live in a democratic society? Many of the ideas behind Facebook apps - and twitter as a site - seems to be having artificial intelligence play the Access Hollywood-styled interviewer who flatters you with interest in your ennui and daily ephemera ("Hurry and compile lists of your _______. What are you doing RIGHT NOW? We're dying to know your answers!").

It's the intellectual equivalent of those tourist trap booths that, for a price, will stick your face on the cover of Time Magazine and let you keep a copy for yourself. The idea is to indulge you in a fantasy of being really important and, like many celebrities, no talent is required, we'll just skip to the part where we're interested in everything about you.

*As a disclaimer, I know that there are plenty of uses for Facebook - and even Twitter - that aren't directly related to narcissism, and that both sites (though I've not really used Twitter) can be fun. This is just pondering at a strange hour.

It's the intellectual equivalent of those tourist trap booths that, for a price, will stick your face on the cover of Time Magazine and let you keep a copy for yourself.

So is the internet. Your entire point is stuffy at best.

Nice word count, though.

Dickhead.

(Notice each of last posts will fit neatly on twitter. Also people might actually read them.)

Maybe I should just turn it into an essay entitled "But What Will Happen to Us Long-Winded Types Now That We're All Into Status Updates And Soundbites? (An Ode To No One)"

There should be a Twitter service that doesn't allow tweets with less than 140 words for that.