Twitter C/D

WARNING! This page informs on real world of crime and punishment. "If u can't stand the TWEET, get out of the TWITCHEN" Harry Truman #utpol about 18 hours ago via TwitBird iPhone Retweeted by 9 people

MarkShurtleff

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10348685.stm

Utah firing squad death announced on Twitter

1. they still use firing squads in some states?
2. fucking distasteful

1. Utah stopped using firing squads but decided that as Gardner was sentenced (in 1985) before it was eliminated that he should be executed in accordance with his original sentence.
2. otm

i'm pretty sure he got to choose his method of execution and he chose firing squad (since he was still entitled to the option).

Kind of wish there was a way to track who has unfollowed you -- I need to know who thinks I'm boring!

http://goodbyebuddy.com

Thank you. I was hoping there was something out there that catered to paranoid narcissists like me.

"Harry Twuman" surely

Gardner got to request a last song to be played before he was shot. He chose Free Bird. I heard that song in a store today. Now it will always remind me of death by firing squad(whereas before it just made me want to kill myself because why still playing this?). I'm sure his victims' families enjoyed sitting through that paean to teenage angst. Back to Twitter.

If you are really that vain, from my experience Twunfollow works much more frequently than Goodbye Buddy.

Oh, Australia

http://imgur.com/7ryPR.jpg

Kind of wish there was a way to track who has unfollowed you -- I need to know who thinks I'm boring!

Qwitter works OK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OotUsvaPSg

http://scribe.thebigmoney.com/sites/default/files/Screen%20shot%202010-07-01%20at%2012.21.41%20PM.png

had to stop following Roger Ebert, I only follow a few people and he was overwhelming the rest

i deleted my account, RIP

The flurry of replies to the new, apparently real @tonyblairoffice is kind of amusing. I feel sorry for whichever underpaid intern has to sort through hundreds of 'MURDERER! WAR CRIMINAL! TERRORIST!' tweets every day.

milo i thought the idea of lists was to get around problems like that, is it not useful

@simonpegg seems to be pretending to be stuck in some kind of other dimension with @nickjfrost - I am quite amused.

I only use Twitter on my phone, I dunno about lists and all that fancy stuff.

One of the 19 that Glenn Beck is following is Muse.

http://twitter.com/glennbeck

Not enough lol in the world for that.

He is the Bella to Rush's Edward.

to his credit, he's following ROFLquiz too

god i hate twitter

The Iron Sheik's twitter is great.

is this our ste?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/aug/02/kanye-west-twitter

lol at the ellie goulding love; i feel you ste!

I won't be speaking to anybody else, surprisingly not everyone wants to be famous. That's all I'm saying - peace out x
about 3 hours ago via web

ste_101
steven holmes

Just to clarify, I mean I won't be speaking to any more press/journalists
about 3 hours ago via web

ste_101
steven holmes

http://twitter.com/#search?q=Oxford%20Circus

Apparently the BBC's Match Of The Day Twitter account started a rumour of a bomb on a Tube train.

Needless to say, it's a load of balls.

Is there *any* way to turn off the "who to follow" suggestions short of clicking x to all of them.

It's like every morning on twitter has turned into this depressing litany of suggestions of people who unfollowed me or otherwise just stopped being friends with me. It's like being constantly haunted by one's past social failures. Repeatedly.

Don't use the Twitter interface - I haven't seen any of these suggestions yet using Hootsuite or dabr. They might be slightly flakier than the twitter front-end but Twitter's down so often you don't really notice.

Is there *any* way to turn off the "who to follow" suggestions short of clicking x to all of them.

Thanks to Nicole passing this along, yes!

http://blog.kitchenmage.com/2010/08/removing-twitters-recommended-user-to-follow-feature.html

so does anyone here actually find the ongoing "black people on twitter" journalistic conversation interesting/useful? there's yet another of these pieces on slate. i dunno how i feel.

http://www.slate.com/id/2263462

"jews on twitter: the virtual borscht belt"

i would say more interesting than useful

Way to go Slate guy for leading with two long, dry, useless graphs explaining how Twitter and hashtags works for the completely internet-unsavvy readers of Slate

lol otm

trending right now

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h271/stckhlmcnd/tt.jpg

Tigress_Lee, the user who helped spark #wordsthatleadtotrouble, has 1,825 followers, and she's following 1,873. BigJamaal has 11,962 followers, and he's following 11,203. These patterns suggest that the black people who start these tags "are using Twitter as a social tool," Meeder says. "They're using Twitter like a public instant messenger"—using the service to talk to one another rather than broadcast a message to the world.

Wait, what? If you're following more than like 60 people, surely you're not reading your twitter at all!

i'm following around 400 people. granted, sometimes i skim, and some of my followers don't post very much.

ugh, i mean "some of the people i follow." bleh, semantics.

I follow around 200...some people hardly post at all, or someone like Ebert posts every 5 minutes in the evenings...I think I've got it to a point where I've got a nice regular flow of tweets from a variety of people. I don't like reading streams of stuff from the same person. And I read pretty much all of it. Some of the links I may not follow.

But I can't really fathom following thousands of people. Too noisy!

i actually follow a lot of the links! it's one of the things i enjoy most about twitter. it's a great/entertaining way to aggregate stuff around the web.

I'm slowly figuring that out...retraining myself to stop and follow the links, bc I always end up entertained or informed more than if I just flew on by.

Sometimes I get emotional over fonts about 10 hours ago via web Retweeted by 100+ people

kanyewest
Kanye West

fuck, who the hell thinks twitter is good for reporting news