Twitter C/D

The sausages dude mentioned upthread (http://www.twitter.com/allthesausages) still wins for sheer fucking randomness.

Do y'all think Twitter is a service that people will still be using 10 years from now?

I made it three days before deleting my account.

my friend devised this project that feeds live tweets into a text-voice translator, super-compulsive listening

http://radio.nymoon.com/tweetradio/

AKGovSarahPalin: Awesome AK night sensing summer already winding down w/fireweed near full bloom;finally sitting down to pen;listening to Big & Rich "Shuttin Detroit Down"

that sounds kinda awesome minus the big and rich although that is such a lolsome detail that i dont mind

"finally setting down to pen" = semicoherently berating ghostwriter

@zizekspeaks There is nothing sublime about being on a ship caught in a storm which threatens to drown it - only the terror of facing a painful death.

rough day i guess

@MargaretLAtwood The person using my name -- Margaret Atwood -- and my picture on Twitter is not me. Please stop imperonating me. Thanks.
5:31 PM Jul 25th from web

@MargaretLAtwood You can tell MargaretLAtwood really is me, because I made a typo -- should be "impersonating," "Imperonating" is pretending to be Evita.
5:37 PM Jul 25th from web

:D

http://www.dembot.net/images/twitter_server.png

http://www.istwitterdown.com/

i have a friend for whom twitter has become life. i can only imagine his distress at seeing that big red yes and smile.

That would be ME right now.

::gnashes teeth::

i totally misjudged my audience

Denial of service attack, apparently, also affecting facebook (like I'd care about that nonsense, tho.)

i gave up on twitter. i just post <140 chars on ilx now it seems.

hoping to find social network where i'm not unpopular one day

Twitter's outage is headline news on channel 4. Christ.

"I had to Google search Twitter to find out what was going on, when normally my Twitter feed gives me all the breaking news I need," said Alison Koski, a New York public-relations manager. She added she felt "completely lost" without Twitter.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_tec_twitter_outage

Anyone else having trouble updating their settings?

So, apparently the Twitter CEO's wife is twittering her delivery.

http://twitter.com/sara/

Dear Twitter, My water broke. It wasn't like Charlotte in Sex and the City. Now, timing contractions on an iPhone app.

about 10 hours ago from txt

quick poll: did everyone you know that has an iphone turn into a cunt when they got it?

g-kit: misjudging his audience since 2001!

huh, i was just gonna paste that in

i totally misjudged my audience

― #/.'#/'@ilikecats (g-kit), Thursday, 6 August 2009 15:28 (5 days ago) Bookmark

born in 1979 btw

Was a wild guess at your intro to ilx tbh

i knows, and most probably correct. i just wanted you to be sure that i have a longer history of this.

I believe you dude :)

@zizekspeaks

omg he's on twitter? my husband has gibson on his list. i need to add both!

I have been impersonating a fairly well-known professional in a field I know little about for several months. It was a joke at first and then it became fairly hard work, and then went back to being fun again, and then it went pretty o_O and now it's nice again and I can manage my workload now that I don't bother replying to everything I get. Relax, I'm not impersonating an oncologist or a lawyer or anything.

twitter is bullshit. useless crap. waste of time. nobody needs it. people who twitter are either brainless or they will become brainless by twittering. who cares.

Hey replace Alex' post with internet and it works just as well! ;-)

Relax, I'm not impersonating an oncologist or a lawyer or anything.

So what's it like being Perez?

Not as good as it was when I was Steve Jobs.

there's something sort of hilarious about the top-of-trending-topics "welovethenhs" hashtag being adopted by c1al1s spambots.

So, who are some of the most interesting people you follow on the Twitter?

I vote @hotdogsladies.

@mindykaling

^^

http://danzarrella.com/speaking3.jpg

sarah silverman for sure

I don't think I made it a week before deleting my account. I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything *not* being on there, really.

Or at least, not very much.

So, I have been accused by one of my best friends of using Twitter as a way to pick up 20-year-old girls with low self confidence.

He/she may have a point. Britney Fucked Vids is all over me like white on rice.

Hate to break it to you, but Britney Fucked Vids is the town bicycle of Twitteronia.

Leave Britney Fucked Bids alone

Don't judge her harshly just because her parents gave her the middle name Fucked.

i only go on because of the user 'shitmydadsays'

Can someone please explain what the #wolfwednesday tag means? I am hopeless out of touch old person. thanks.