Twitter C/D

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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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?

I've got it on my fake footballer account but not on my real account I don't think.

Is this a real murderer on Twitter?

Umm, probably not, no.

twitter needs to adopt ilx's bookmark function

I have that new RT feature too, what if you want to add a comment to it, how does that show up?

You can't add a comment. I mean, who would want to use Twitter for typing in messages to send to people, eh?

I have switched from "rt" to "via" to avoid this issue as much as possible.

they are kinda entering the facebook zone where they have a pretty great product & add ons are only gonna piss people off and make the site clunkier

i think the RT thing is just web-based - might be helpful when i want to RT something which is too long to fit in the original person's user name but not otherwise, but it doesn't matter cuz i RT through twitterfox anyway. jordan otm.

Five new restroom ambassadors will soon be tweeting from toilets at Times Square after beating hundreds of hopefuls for the coveted jobs.

They won a contest that included aspiring actors, students and even a businessman hoping to seed his enterprise for the jobs to greet and chat with tourists and hoards of holiday shoppers visiting the Manhattan restrooms.

Each winner will collect $10,000 for six weeks of work.

In addition to welcoming the guests, the ambassadors will comment and blog about their experience on social networking web sites Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

I think with Twitter is that you can thread it through pretty much any application you're using rather than being forced to actually access the site. That's a pretty big point of difference with Facebook and hopefully it'll stop them from fucking with it too much.

^^yeah true; i don't like the new retweet thing but it doesn't affect me as i use twitter through twitterfox anyway.

James Ward says: “I recently posted a series of tweets about the Kellogg’s Special K Mini Breaks advert. At one point in the ad a woman opens a glass-fronted cabinet (we view her from a camera inside the cabinet), and there’s a packet of Mini Breaks sitting on some sort of display stand, directed towards the camera. Which means they’re pointing towards the back of the cabinet. Who would arrange a cabinet like that? So I pointed this out on Twitter, and the following conversation ensued between Kellogg’s and myself: Kellogg’s: Let us assure you that at no time did we anticipate the glass cabinet featured in the advert causing any offence.

Me: The fact you didn’t anticipate the arrangement of the glass cabinet causing offence is indicative of the problem.

Kellogg’s: We will bear in mind your plea for us to use a non-glass fronted cabinet in TV ads going forward.

Me: Apology accepted. However, I’ll be keeping an eye on your adverts in future, and there’ll be trouble if it happens again.

Kellogg’s: We will consider ourselves told off. Thank you, James.

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film at 11

ok what's this page 1/page 2 etc bullshit?