Topic: Social Networking (Read 19102 times)

Fortinbras · « **Reply #220 on:** August 02, 2010, 06:24:52 AM »

So I hear I'm actually using my twitter account now and 100% didn't steal the -awesome suffix from Zara. There just wasn't a good way to make "Fortinbras" "flow into "twitter."

Have you enjoyed my award winning extended silences on the Brontoforumus? Prepare to be mutely observed by me on twitter now too! It's like stalking, but I do it by accident because I'm bored.

R^2 · « **Reply #221 on:** August 02, 2010, 06:58:43 AM »

I grudgingly joined Facebook but the appeal of Twitter still baffles me.

SCD · « **Reply #222 on:** August 02, 2010, 07:05:59 AM »

Twitter does well for me, as a news/blog aggregator and is more friendly than google reader to that effect.

Mine is bangdidwhat

Fortinbras · « **Reply #223 on:** August 02, 2010, 07:10:50 AM »

Running conversations with friends and interesting strangers, plus a neverending list of the little daily thoughts and interests of hugely talented, brilliant and hilarious people.

Also, novelties specific to the medium like shitmydadsays and the Fake AP Stylebook.

It's leaner than Facebook. It lacks Facebook's distinguishing characteristic, which is useless crap that I would have cared about in high school but am infuriated to be faced with as something like an adult.

Addendum: oh yeah, and whatever your "thing" is, no matter how esoteric, at least a dozen of the top people involved in that thing are on twitter, posting awesome stuff. For a fellow food person: Chris Cosentino, Rick Bayless, Grant Achatz, Michael Laiskonis, pastry chef opposite Eric Ripert at Le Bernardin, even fucking Thomas Keller.

Mongrel · « **Reply #224 on:** August 02, 2010, 07:20:12 AM »

I don't know, for the most part, I still can't read most of those feeds.

Brevity may be the soul of wit, and restrictions may breed creativity, but Twitter feeds mostly read like hieroglyphics on blasted wall fragments to me (for the most part).

Miss Cat Ears · « **Reply #225 on:** August 23, 2010, 05:23:13 AM »

Quote from: Fortinbras on August 02, 2010, 06:24:52 AM

So I hear I'm actually using my twitter account now and 100% didn't steal the -awesome suffix from Zara. There just wasn't a good way to make "Fortinbras" "flow into "twitter."

Have you enjoyed my award winning extended silences on the Brontoforumus? Prepare to be mutely observed by me on twitter now too! It's like stalking, but I do it by accident because I'm bored.

fortwitbras

Lottel · « **Reply #226 on:** November 03, 2010, 11:59:55 AM »

So I decided I can't win. I got bored and added a lot of people to my "tweet my phone" thing. Not a lot, but more than a handful.
One by one people started blowing up my phone. No tweets for a week the 20 tweets at once. It'd go back to normal than they'd blow up my phone again. To the point where I couldn't do anything because of the notifications. I'd dephone them and the next person stepped in line.
I'm dephoning all of them.

jsnlxndrlv · « **Reply #227 on:** November 16, 2010, 06:15:51 PM »

Our videographer just uploaded a video of my dad's friend's ballad-toast that he sang at our wedding. I'm a little bit appalled by how much of a "deer caught in headlights" expression I'm wearing, but otherwise this is pretty cool.

Lottel · « **Reply #228 on:** February 06, 2011, 12:56:10 PM »

During the superbowl, I got not one, not two, not three, but SEVEN twitter followers. And they may have been spam bots, but they weren't trying to sell me shit. They are just bots who want to follow people.

I checked my friends. None of them got followers during this time. I am just really popular with artificial intelligences! They must like my bad jokes.

sei · « **Reply #229 on:** February 06, 2011, 02:17:55 PM »

People follow others to try to get reciprocal follows. This is how "social media experts" try to build twitter lists/influence.

In other news, "social media experts" and non-remedial SEO more or less ruin the Internet.

Lottel · « **Reply #230 on:** February 07, 2011, 01:06:26 AM »

Holy shit. Yesterday pre-Super Bowl I had 33 people. Today I have 48. All the new people have dogs for profile pictures and talk a bit weird.

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #231 on:** February 07, 2011, 01:15:18 AM »

Quote from: Lottel on February 07, 2011, 01:06:26 AM

Holy shit. Yesterday pre-Super Bowl I had 33 people. Today I have 48. All the new people are people on Twitter

Lottel · « **Reply #232 on:** March 10, 2011, 06:45:03 PM »

What... what are they trying to say with that bottom left one?

McDohl · « **Reply #233 on:** March 10, 2011, 10:58:16 PM »

But he's not gay. No no way.

However, watching him dance will make you gay.

LaserBeing · « **Reply #234 on:** April 07, 2011, 01:51:35 PM »

oh, @languidlemur is me, by the way, in case anyone was wondering who that one guy on twitter was

Norondor · « **Reply #235 on:** April 07, 2011, 06:19:08 PM »

oh maybe we can be friends

LaserBeing · « **Reply #236 on:** April 07, 2011, 08:04:58 PM »

done and done

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #237 on:** July 05, 2011, 05:19:46 AM »

Twitter is officially the worst. It's just Emmy Cicierega, Anthony Clark and Kate Beaton talking about awesome parties half an hour away I'm not invited to.

Dooly · « **Reply #238 on:** July 05, 2011, 02:40:08 PM »

Try crashing one.

Norondor · « **Reply #239 on:** October 29, 2011, 10:52:55 PM »

i'm just gonna say if you're not following leeham right now you might as well fucking apologize because you done wrong

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