Ah, so that is who all these strange new people following me on twitter is! You're not strangers, you're ILX0rs.
― Questionable Rock-Frog (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:25 (sixteen years ago)
Many of them are. I'd bet some are just random people, though.
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:30 (sixteen years ago)
I get spammers who don't say anything and disappear within 24 hours anyway. It's all rather creepy in that regard.
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:35 (sixteen years ago)
I get a little appalled when a client asks me to set up a Twitter account for him. 1) You don't need me to do that. 2) I'm not going to update the fucker, and unless you are, I can't see the point. 3) Who told you this was a fantastic new way to sell things? Because I want to sock that person in the nose.
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:40 (sixteen years ago)
Actually #3 is conditional -- you can sell things on Twitter, sure. If you make things. But look here client man -- you make auto parts. Trust me when I say that Twitter is not your market.
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:42 (sixteen years ago)
That's for RSS anyway. Jesus.
Technology is routinely fucked over by people who don't get what it's for and go misappropriating it. e.g. Facebook was for SOCIAL networking until old people en masse started hunting down their kids.
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:49 (sixteen years ago)
And their staff.
― one art, please (Trayce), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 01:03 (sixteen years ago)
And the people journos want to chase for a "story".
(well not old people, just people, obv)
My user name is igotabeefpastry
― i'm shy (Abbott), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 01:16 (sixteen years ago)
Wouldn't have guessed it, for sure.
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 01:18 (sixteen years ago)
haha
― i'm shy (Abbott), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 01:19 (sixteen years ago)
Rah!
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 02:02 (sixteen years ago)
If this thread turns into a thread of people talking about what they were talking about on twitter I think I might just well go shoot myself.
― one art, please (Trayce), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 02:12 (sixteen years ago)
lol
― Jewish Lager (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 02:14 (sixteen years ago)
abbs i am following u now btw
― its gotta be HOOSy para steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 02:14 (sixteen years ago)
Trayce if this becomes ANYTHING like the last.fm thread forsooth I will personally firebomb ilx
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 02:23 (sixteen years ago)
I loathe lastfm's user/artist architecture so much I didn't even want to open that thread. Glad I didn't.
― moley, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 02:50 (sixteen years ago)
so this is the ILX twitter "backchannel" then?
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 09:34 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.theawesomefunbook.com/imagenes/big-no.jpg
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 09:46 (sixteen years ago)
me
http://twitter.com/jordanmort
― big fatass rick ross (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 09:48 (sixteen years ago)
I'm totally new to this (http://twitter.com/baaderonixxxx) but as a noob it seems this is way more geared towards web biz networking than proper social stuff.
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 10:02 (sixteen years ago)
e.g. http://blog.mrtweet.net/what-unique-meaningful-value-have-you-gotten-out-of-twitter
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 10:07 (sixteen years ago)
2) Valuable Business Relationships
NO NO NO NO NONO NO NONO NONONOON
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 10:11 (sixteen years ago)
It's like passing notes in class. It's not meaningful at all, but it sure is fun.
― Questionable Rock-Frog (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 10:15 (sixteen years ago)
You know, I'm not sure that it is.
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 10:44 (sixteen years ago)
Er, nothing against any particular ilxors, mind, but in my week-or-so of pissfarting around with this thing I've not been particularly compelled by anything yet.
― "chinese coke prank" (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 10:45 (sixteen years ago)
Well, it's pretty reductively only as interesting as the people you follow (or, rather, as interesting as you find the people you follow to be). I guess it depends what you deem an acceptable signal-to-noise ratio: me, I enjoy skimming over the quotidian musings of other people (cf Facebook) and find some of it very entertaining, even if only for a moment or two.
But if you're expecting a non-stop open channel of wit and wisdom, Twitter is probably never going to be the place to go.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 11:01 (sixteen years ago)
my favorite tweeter is "Brian Eno," who sends me an oblique strategy every morning.
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 11:26 (sixteen years ago)
He just old me to breathe more deeply.
I am not going to start following any more Big Name Producers. I am not. Oh, fuck it...
― I want your Fingers and I want your Ears (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 11:36 (sixteen years ago)
Grimly - have you given up on your desire to have them all sent to your phone as texts like the old days?
― Alba, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 11:37 (sixteen years ago)
There are a few "brian eno"s on twitter. No idea if any of them are brian eno.
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 11:37 (sixteen years ago)
I'd like an oblique strategem every morning. That I would like.
Twitter is only good if you follow people you know well enough to actually care about the tiny minutia of their lives. I'd find it intrusive to follow a stranger. (latest big crush excepted, of course.)
― I want your Fingers and I want your Ears (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 11:39 (sixteen years ago)
http://twitter.com/Brian_Eno
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 11:43 (sixteen years ago)
Eddie Izzard gets it. He would, wouldn't he?
http://twitter.com/EddieIzzard
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 11:45 (sixteen years ago)
I didn't realise he was where the phrase "pears can just fuck off" came from.
― ducking kiosk monkey (onimo), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 12:09 (sixteen years ago)
Oddly, yes.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 12:11 (sixteen years ago)
(Funny how an entire dynamic can change, though, isn't it? Twitter now is something very different to Twitter then.)
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 12:12 (sixteen years ago)
i am hoping brian eno oblique strats will change my life, thankig u, kenan.
― class act, thanks bro (tehresa), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 13:18 (sixteen years ago)
Dean Gaffney definitely gets it.
http://twitter.com/Dean_Gaffney
― Alba, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 13:19 (sixteen years ago)
"my 1000th follower will get a mars bar in the post from me"
Amusingly, it's now stuck on 997.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 13:29 (sixteen years ago)
He already ate the Mars bar, dowsn't want to own up to it
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 13:55 (sixteen years ago)
twitter more like twatter
― groovy groovy jazzy funky pounce bounce dance (special guest stars mark bronson), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 14:51 (sixteen years ago)
damnit, domain name taken by a stupid "agent"
― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 18:30 (sixteen years ago)
a cylon agent?
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:24 (sixteen years ago)
How do I get all the twiiters I'm following to appear on one page.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:38 (sixteen years ago)
ha, never mind. http://www.techcentral.ie/img/thumbnail%5Ccorporate%5Cold_person_computer.jpg
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:45 (sixteen years ago)
I was going to say.. I just type in twitter.com and boom, there they are ;)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:46 (sixteen years ago)
http://livingromcom.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/agent_smith_poses04.jpg
― Pancakes Hackman, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:48 (sixteen years ago)