TWTR?
I am so addicted to Twitter that I am no longer capable of expressing thoughts requiring more than 140 characters.
0% (0 votes)
Twitter is a great tool for hyping my books/blog/music/porn empire.
2% (1 vote)
Twitter is a great tool for keeping legions of people I don't know in the loop about what I had for breakfast.
14% (6 votes)
I follow, but I do not tweet. Ooh, Ashton had another Red Bull and Vodka
5% (2 votes)
I don't see what the big deal is, Twitter is just a blog for people with short attention spans. Get offa my lawn you kids!
44% (19 votes)
You can't spell Twitter without twit.
35% (15 votes)
Total votes: 43
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Twitter ≅ Short Attention Span Theater.
Not necessarily evil, might even have some positives. Still ...
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Hey, it was high comedy watching the Republican party convince themselves that Twitter was going to lead to a dramatic resurgence last year. That's not nothing.
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From the little I know of twitter (1. It is some sort of instant messaging system. 2. It is limited to 140 characters.) I honestly cannot conceive of a use for it. Unless you are a freak who has to know what other people are doing every second of every day.
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Hey! I actually got a chance to use the 'get off my lawn' line. Its like I grew up a little bit today.
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I follow what a few friends are up to and express random thoughts, there.
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This is pretty funny, though:
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I basically never tweet and follow only a handful of people (mostly writers). But I'm a nut for Twitterfiction. *cough shameless self-promotion cough cough*
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Fuck twitter. Who's excited for Windows 98 to come out?
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whoa, don't get carried away with your crazy Windows 98 stuff. I'm still loading software on my TRS-80 with a cassette player.
and welcome. excellent handle/ avatar!
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Thanks, Innominate One. I figured you freaks were congregating somewhere besides the H&R comment threads. Today's fundraising post alerted me to your whereabouts.
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You can put away the gun. This is a concealed carry site.
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I'm psycho, but I'm still a cop, Ridgley.
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If your spelling skills and attention to detail are any indication, you'll probably make lieutenant in no time.
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My wife claims it has uses at conferences, sort of a passive way to keep track of people for meet-ups and bulk messaging. All I use my account for is #zombiehaiku.
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Where John Stewart got his start... I remember that show.
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I see NutraSweet is over here just before me. Why are you stalking me, dude? You used Twitter to follow me, didn't you!
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So the Twitter feed #ItailianBeef really is you?
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I wanted #HotItalianSausage but that was already taken by Scott Baio, the bastard. Yeah, I'll put Charles in charge...of cleaning out Steve Smith's cage at the zoo.
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You guys aren't even talking about Twitter right. It's @HotItalianBeef--@ not #. # is a hashtag, it's for, like, convos between tweeps and stuff.
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# is a hashtag, it's for, like, convos between tweeps and stuff
Exactly. We're discussing how we track our idiotic conversations.
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By the way guys, there's a proprietary quote tag:
OPENBRACKET quote=NAME OF PERSON CLOSEBRACKET quoted text OPENBRACKET /quote CLOSEBRACKET
Just FYI...
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whoa, don't get carried away with your crazy Windows 98 stuff. I'm still loading software on my TRS-80 with a cassette player.
Wow, I thought I was the only one that remembered those. I wasn't allowed to play on the TRS-80. Instead, I had to play "Pyramid" on my CoCo. Still had the cassette player though. But man was I living large when I got the Floppy for that CoCo. We had to use a pallet jack to get it in the house but it was still sweet.
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And, so help me, I just tweeted my web-designer/developer impressions about the online subscriptions forms for Wired, Make, and Reason as I was actually remembering to subscribe and thus save myself some money over the next few years.
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I've been pondering a subscription to Make, since I can't find it at any local newsstands. Is it worth reading?
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I enjoy it, Hugh, though I'm terribly un-handy. There's occasional bits of dumb politics, but I find those easy to ignore.
As it happens, their subscription-ordering page was the best one I used that day.
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I use Twitter mostly to blurt when a crazy/stupid thought pops into my head, and there isn't a place for it on Grylliade, nor is it worth creating a thread for. However, lately I haven't had much time to do even that, and my Twitter thread has not been entertaining for at least several weeks.
However, I am blessed that the folks in my Twit-posse tend to be either writers or would-be writers or at leat tend to be much more literate and witty that the average tweeter, IMO.
Anyway, I would recommend that any of you follow these entities for nearly-guaranteed entertainment:
http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays (Last I heard, this guy actually got a deal for a TV series based on his tweets.)
http://twitter.com/fakeapstylebook (For amazing advice on writing, grammar and usage.)
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I've thought about creating a thread for one-offs called "one-offs", but wasn't sure if there was a need or how it would be received.
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I like the idea. It would be one whose central, rather than ancillary purpose would be to drift.
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You can obviously put me on the list of "jerk-offs in favor of one-offs."