Twitter C/D

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.

i think it has to do with https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1537&JServSessionIdr002=xi8dv97zu3.app20a

Then why does it involve tagging random people and claiming that they are wolves?

Is "wolves" some slang like Cougar that I'm not yet aware of?

Twitter is weird. Yesterday #dontwifeher and #dontcuffhim were trending topics, both offering advice re: marrying your significant other

I like the fact that Fabolous started a trending topic of lame homophobic jokes called (iirc) #youknowyouregayif. Pretty rich from a guy whose rap name sounds like Fabulous.

if you ever want the bg on a trend I use http://whatthetrend.com/

The only Twitterer who matters to me is @Just_A_Rhino.

Um, WTF:

@twirus_uk Top5 popular people: 1 @circeplum 2 @MayorofLondon(New) 3 @scandilicious(New) 4 @MarketingUK(New) 5 @masonicboomk8(New) http://uk.twirus.com

Is this some marketing scam where they just plug your name into the 5th spot to get you to click the link?

yes

damn. for the first time in my life I thought I was actually "popular" at something. :-(

Twitter is about the triumph of humanity, not the triumph of technology.

So Biz Stone says that we need to teach people to read so they can twitter.

I want to talk about some points he made in a speech and the issue of how technology divides our consciousnesses.

So twitter is useful for news. How useful is news? News is not as useful as a book or an article. News has its place, but I'm all newsed up with too much news. News is particularly important when it can affect people directly, and twitter allows this news to propagate very quickly.

Apparently the news of the fall of Troy traveled quite fast through a long relay of torches on towers.

What kinds of communication will twitter help obsolesce? Or what kinds of communication is it helping to revive?

Twitter thrives on mobile technology, on SMS. Biz Stone gives the example of twittering about sitting in an airport lounge and getting company this way. How many twitter feeds do you have to subscribe to - do you have to put up with - to get this result? Or can you twitter the name of the lounge or some code for the lounge and then twitter will connect you with someone? Maybe that's for the future.

But I already have an unhealthy relationship with my cell phone and with my computer. I get maybe a text a day, and sometimes less, but I check my phone much more. The technology has helped to divide my consciousness. So how do people feel who are receiving regular tweets on their phones?

When someone sends a mass text it seems like noise to me and my reaction might be to feel a little annoyed with this person. Do twitter feed followers feel this way? Most of us are not organizing protests in Egypt. I've seen what passes for an average tweet.

This technology will surely become less conspicuous and more automatic in the future.

Biz Stone gives an example of someone at SXSW texting about going to a quieter bar, and his twitter followers creating a line at the suggested bar, thereby ruining his plan. As usage increases, how can phenomena like this not become the norm?

Like his example of twitter in a gas crisis: as usage increases, won't patterns of crowds return to something like they were before.

I can see the marketing potential. Advertisers used to defend advertising as something that informs people about a product, and twitter can bring this back to people who would like to be so informed.

I've forgotten some of my points. I'll stop.

cool story bro

Don't lob your ironic bros at me.

Two things I wish twitter would do, as I'm back to using the standard website:

1. Auto refresh, to update with new tweets without my having to refresh the page.

2. Auto complete when I start an @ with a list of the users that I follow and/or my followers.

I demand more functionality!

also, when visiting the webpage with images turned off, no "reply to tweet" link, which drives me nuts and forces me to write @pa.. in which case krakow's request #2 would be very handy, at least.

Waiter gets canned after Twittering about 'Hung' actress Jane Adams
http://www.thisisbrandx.com/2009/09/jane-adams-twitter.html

I wish I had representatives that would pick up my bills for me.

so i'm not even getting a fail whale, just a server error

wtf

Tracy Morgan started today and already has 17,000 some odd followers. Woah.

http://twitter.com/RealTracyMorgan

i deleted my account. am very tempted to do the same with facebook.

Twitter was in the Guardian cryptic crossword this week.

how did they describe it?

Internet feature out west gives a small laugh (6)

Along those lines anyway, nb. Twitter is not the answer.

are we up or down tbh

am very tempted to do the same with facebook.

Can you actually do this?

It's extraordinarily difficult - or at least was. My brother tried - it involved endless phone calls and even when they said they'd deleted all the information they held, it turned out that in fact they hadn't.

That's what i thought. I tried to do it once, gave up, drifted back to using it.
Giving up crystal meth would be easier.

I still love Twitter.

I'm twittering harder than ever, it's great.

Sparrows 'learn song by twitter'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8317434.stm

Fry 'may quit'. Slow news sat'dy, this
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8335793.stm

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/821832/qwitter.JPG

(the work of warren hart)

RIP big man, guess heaven needed a big crybaby who writes boring tweets

but but but how am I going to know when Stephen has a hangover now?

This could cause a rash of celebs leaving Twitterland - perhaps no more will I be regaled with Davina and Wossy's breakfast choices (All Bran and muesli respectively)

Fry 'may quit'. Slow news sat'dy, this

One of the few news stories that -- in a professional capacity -- I've ever talked down. We nibbed it, and even that was too much.

I feel very sorry for Fry -- and for the Brumplum dude against whom people started turning after the post. Both of them sounded genuinely shocked and upset in their subsequent explanations/apologies/updates. But then I guess this is one of the key problems with Twitter: every utterance, every fart, is magnified to a million times its actual significance.

We'll get used to it, I guess. What else can we do? Either way, though: it's a long way from being a forum to talk about anything that actually matters.

Ned, I "deleted" my account but then noticed it isn't really erased, so you can come back to it. It's been hard though. At times I do want to, but all in all I have to admit that I dont have the time really. And, really, I prefer being on ILX. :-)

trending topic: #thingsdarkiessay

http://twitter.com/big_ben_clock

trending topic: #thingsdarkiessay

clicked on this in horror and there were lots of (black) south africans saying it's a SA topic, and not a derogatory term there? anyone actually know whether this is true?

seems to have been removed

Was just about to post about that. It's really interesting, actually. Black South Africans started the trending topic and claim that it's not a derogatory term in South Africa and more akin to "black folks." (Whereas the derogatory term for black South Africans would be "kaffir.") More here.

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One month of Twitter hell

Ian Martin is following rightwing tweets so you don't have to

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All November, Ian Martin will be following the BNP, led by Nick Griffin, on Twitter. Photograph: Dave Thompson/PA WIRE

Most Twitter users love the site for its friendly, like-minded sense of community. Ian Martin, writer and "swearing consultant" on The Thick Of It, worries it's become a bit "mimsy". "I know lots of very funny, clever friends on Twitter and it's like a warm blanket when you open it up every morning. But it all just suddenly seemed a bit too comfortable."

So on 1 November, Martin started a month-long experiment: he unfollowed all his friends on Twitter and replaced them with a wildly different list. "I decided to follow the most hateful people I could find," he says. He has filled his feed with rightwing extremists, religious fundamentalists, gun nuts, racists and homophobes. Now, each day when he logs on, he says he is deluged with what Malcolm Tucker might call "arse plasma" from "the hideous mirrorworld of fuck" in the form of video links, sexist rants and antisemitic bile.

wow, I'm sure the results of this experiment will be truly groundbreaking.

I am so special (allegedly):

Hi there, you're part of a beta group receiving this feature, which means you may start seeing retweets in a new way. People who don't have this yet will see your retweets prefaced by "RT".

http://a3.twimg.com/a/1258420634/images/retweet/retweet-banner-example.png

You and 600,000 of the Twitterarti, Raggett!

Yeah, did anyone on ILX *not* get one of those?