I just signed up for twitter

[dr. claw]

Aaaaaaah!

It's alive! It's alive!

 

[Flashy_McFlash]

http://twitter.com/MitchBurke/statuses/2195810454

Holy fuck this kid is going to grow up to be Stephen Harper.

KILL HIM NOW WHILE HE'S STILL YOUNG, AND IF THAT FAILS DO A SARAH CONNOR ON HIS MOM

 

[acheron]

use email to send updates to twitter if you're blocked at work! Very handy.

http://twittermsn.com

 

[Bass-Invader]

i wonder if people will stop hating on the uselessness of twitter after this whole Iran fiasco.

 

[Rajio]

but it is useless. (if you don't know how to use it)

 

[dr. claw]

@RosieDManno Hi Rosie -- voice from the past -- Marilyn Anderson retired letters editor, please follo me!

@rosiedmanno I'm told you're not the real Rosie. Prove me wrong by telling me something about my career that only you would know.

@BabySnooks: Don't be fooled by @RosieDManno, it is NOT famed Toronto journalist Rosie DiManno (see name spelling difference).

@rosiedmanno Since you are apparently a phoney Rose DiManno, I am unfollowing you right now.

 

[AshG]

i wonder if people will stop hating on the uselessness of twitter after this whole Will I aM fiasco.

so, so true.

 

[Lysistrata]

what the shit

 

[Rajio]

"tiger" from the twitter admin team is incisting that Anne M was an impersonation account.

 

[Hi i'm God]

http://ca.tech.yahoo.com/blogs/the_gadget_hound/rss/article/3656


Girl dies Tweeting in the tub

People, people, people. Web 2.0 can do a lot of things, but it doesn't change the laws of physics, particularly in regards to the transmission of electricity.

To wit: A teenage girl was discovered dead this weekend, electrocuted after dropping her laptop in the bathtub.

Why did she need a computer in the tub? So she could update Twitter. About what she was tweeting remains unclear, but it was hopefully something more meaningful than the soap she was using.

Maria Barbu, 17, of Brasov, Romania, is said to have been plugging her laptop into wall current at the time, after "the battery died during a long session on social networking site Twitter as she took a soak."

Additional details are lacking, and are unlikely to be forthcoming anytime soon. And it's unclear whether the laptop slipped from her hands or if she was so wet that the water dripping off of her closed the circuit and caused the shock.

Either way, any technology user should know by now that computers and bathrooms simply don't mix. (If you aren't worried about electrocution, think of the germs, won't you?) While GFCI circuits were designed to prevent tragedies such as the all-too-common hair-dryer-in-the-tub accident, they aren't perfect, and they aren't universal, especially overseas.

And seriously, can't Twitter wait until you get out of the bathtub?

 

[daddyiwantchocolate]

"tiger" from the twitter admin team is incisting that Anne M was an impersonation account.

Impersonation versus parody? Is the account gone now?

 

[Rajio]

Impersonation versus parody? Is the account gone now?

well i'm trying to argue that it didnt impersonate anybody since it had a unique name, made no reference to any other actual person, organization and had an abstract picture. it made no false claims in the profile.

 

[Spinsah]

well i'm trying to argue that it didnt impersonate anybody since it had a unique name, made no reference to any other actual person, organization and had an abstract picture. it made no false claims in the profile.

I just do not understand why this one was singled out especially against such arbritrary criteria. I know lil' Mitch Burke tried tattled on you, but he did the same for The 'Bridg and he's still trucking.

 

[Rajio]

yeah thats what im trying to figure out (without having the others brought down ) ... it hurts now because these last couple of weeks are a goldmine for Annie.

 

[Boss Hog]

i wonder if people will stop hating on the uselessness of twitter after this whole Iran fiasco.

would any other medium on the internet have worked too?

 

[Bass-Invader]

would any other medium on the internet have worked too?

Well I think the accessiblity of twitter to mobile phone users is what initially made it so essential to this. And likewise, since twitter lends itself to adding strangers and maintaining large follower networks, it becomes more appropriate than facebook for this sort of information flow - which is the voice of a decentralized cloud of loosely connected people.

 

[Spinsah]

would any other medium on the internet have worked too?

Not really. The Iranian security forces were blocking most email, facebook and other web traffic. Tweets kept slipping through and were the first reports in many developments in Iran over the past few weeks.

 

[Spinsah]

the voice of a decentralized cloud of loosely connected people.

well put.

 

[why not]

but twitter is trendy, and aren't we supposed to dismiss anything that's trendy?
how else will we assert our individuality?

 

[Boss Hog]

oh here comes 'king of the scene' himself.

It's also a great way to pass on disinfo considering the apparent lack of validity behind some of the accounts.

I do see its usefulness in situations like that in Iran, but I guess I'm still just not interested in the tidbits of things that may be useful here. Like who's ghosting Rosie DiManno.

 

[Flashy_McFlash]

It's okay, there's still time to make a big show of 'caving' and joining up later, like most people eventually did with Facebook.

OKAY GUYS I'VE FINALLY DONE IT, I'M ON FACEBOOK
*collective exhale*

 

[Boss Hog]

no.

 

[Rajio]

Wheres that cat-mask picture? I want to make a fake Boss Hogg account

 

[Boss Hog]

I would recommend you don't use a pic of me without my permission.

Unless it's the pig one.

 

[Caz]

I think the only thing more ridiculous than hating on twitter is taking it uber seriously.