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My profile is showing my "last" Twitter status as an update posted two months ago. I've made plenty of updates since then...
OPEN THREAD! OMG, did you guys see Gossip Girl?
posted by Pastabagel at 2:05 PM on May 7, 2008
posted by Pastabagel at 2:05 PM on May 7, 2008
They call them fingers but I never see them fing.
Oh there they go.
posted by ALongDecember at 2:07 PM on May 7, 2008 [5 favorites]
Oh there they go.
posted by ALongDecember at 2:07 PM on May 7, 2008 [5 favorites]
Well since it's an open thread, I'm just gonna throw this out there...
I think Twitter is dumb.
Unless you get arrested by the Egyptian police. Then it comes in handy.
posted by chillmost at 2:09 PM on May 7, 2008
I think Twitter is dumb.
Unless you get arrested by the Egyptian police. Then it comes in handy.
posted by chillmost at 2:09 PM on May 7, 2008
Twitter is to the Internet what Crash Theft Auto IV is to the PS3... completely overhyped.
posted by Dave Faris at 2:11 PM on May 7, 2008
posted by Dave Faris at 2:11 PM on May 7, 2008
I spend all day reading everyone's twitters, then I input various tangible activities into a growing database. Then at night I scan the database looking for patterns.
posted by Burhanistan at 5:06 PM on May 7
I just had a depressing thought. Somewhere, someone's last communication to the world before they died was 'lol'.
posted by Pastabagel at 2:18 PM on May 7, 2008 [3 favorites]
posted by Burhanistan at 5:06 PM on May 7
I just had a depressing thought. Somewhere, someone's last communication to the world before they died was 'lol'.
posted by Pastabagel at 2:18 PM on May 7, 2008 [3 favorites]
There's already a twitter is dumb thread on the blue.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 2:19 PM on May 7, 2008
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 2:19 PM on May 7, 2008
OK, on a related note, Twitter updates immediately in my profile, but Last.FM doesn't until a couple days later. Anyone else have that happening?
posted by limeonaire at 2:28 PM on May 7, 2008
posted by limeonaire at 2:28 PM on May 7, 2008
Judging by the current incarnation's cell-phone submenu gimmick, there's a very good chance that Twitter will be an integrated feature in Grand Theft Auto V.
posted by cortex (staff) at 2:30 PM on May 7, 2008
posted by cortex (staff) at 2:30 PM on May 7, 2008
Don't cross the streams.
posted by Dave Faris at 2:33 PM on May 7, 2008
posted by Dave Faris at 2:33 PM on May 7, 2008
Twitter makes me all atwitter
Cause it's one step towards the shitter
Flitter off another bitter
Missive then some chatter chitter
We broke up, I've got the jitters
Tweeted Bud, he's quite the kidder
Lets go out - I'll text the sitter
Don't bring kids, there'd be a litter
She was all made up in glitter
At the bar and I'm the hitter
Then I hear the patter pitter
"Here's your kid." I hollered "Quitter!"
Here's the lesson, you'll be fitter:
Talk it out, be a go getter
Never should you tweet on twitter
'Less she asks you to.
posted by cashman at 2:33 PM on May 7, 2008 [1 favorite]
Cause it's one step towards the shitter
Flitter off another bitter
Missive then some chatter chitter
We broke up, I've got the jitters
Tweeted Bud, he's quite the kidder
Lets go out - I'll text the sitter
Don't bring kids, there'd be a litter
She was all made up in glitter
At the bar and I'm the hitter
Then I hear the patter pitter
"Here's your kid." I hollered "Quitter!"
Here's the lesson, you'll be fitter:
Talk it out, be a go getter
Never should you tweet on twitter
'Less she asks you to.
posted by cashman at 2:33 PM on May 7, 2008 [1 favorite]
Does Twitter work in my country?
Semi-related, my profile page used to show my facebook link. Then one day I got a message that it couldn't link to my page because the format was wrong (it wanted numbers only or something like that) and the facebook link went away, never to return.
Just wondering if something changed here, or with facebook.
posted by Fuzzy Skinner at 2:33 PM on May 7, 2008
Semi-related, my profile page used to show my facebook link. Then one day I got a message that it couldn't link to my page because the format was wrong (it wanted numbers only or something like that) and the facebook link went away, never to return.
Just wondering if something changed here, or with facebook.
posted by Fuzzy Skinner at 2:33 PM on May 7, 2008
I didn't eat breakfast this morning, so this twitter, it is useless to me.
posted by desjardins at 2:38 PM on May 7, 2008
posted by desjardins at 2:38 PM on May 7, 2008
damn, that should be funnyish in 15 minutes.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 2:50 PM on May 7, 2008
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 2:50 PM on May 7, 2008
This Twitter, it twits?
posted by WalterMitty at 3:01 PM on May 7, 2008
posted by WalterMitty at 3:01 PM on May 7, 2008
Who else wants real-time updating on the MeFi recent twitter page? Yeah!
posted by carsonb at 3:40 PM on May 7, 2008
posted by carsonb at 3:40 PM on May 7, 2008
WalterMitty: Clearly the verb form should mimic that of Twizzler.
posted by Sys Rq at 4:24 PM on May 7, 2008
posted by Sys Rq at 4:24 PM on May 7, 2008
Gee, I wish I could be super cool like all you really cool awesome Twitter hatin' snarkmeisters! Wow, gee golly, I wish I wuz superior and closeminded, jest like yew, so I could post some cool-ass snark and get my .15 secondz of fame raight here on Metahfilter!
But I'm 44, not 12, so guess I can't be like you. Too bad, so sad. Grow the fuck up already.
posted by Marie Mon Dieu at 4:58 PM on May 7, 2008
But I'm 44, not 12, so guess I can't be like you. Too bad, so sad. Grow the fuck up already.
posted by Marie Mon Dieu at 4:58 PM on May 7, 2008
I think somebody is too heavily emotionally invested in her twitter stream, is all.
posted by Dave Faris at 5:51 PM on May 7, 2008
posted by Dave Faris at 5:51 PM on May 7, 2008
damn, that should be funnyish in 15 minutes.
emphasis on the ish.
posted by dersins at 5:56 PM on May 7, 2008
emphasis on the ish.
posted by dersins at 5:56 PM on May 7, 2008
wtf. We only get .15 seconds of fame now?
I'm calling my entertainment lawyer.
posted by ODiV at 6:09 PM on May 7, 2008
I'm calling my entertainment lawyer.
posted by ODiV at 6:09 PM on May 7, 2008
LOL! Gunned down another ho!
@bloods lol fucking owned (via @theLBC)
posted by secret about box at 6:46 PM on May 7, 2008
@bloods lol fucking owned (via @theLBC)
posted by secret about box at 6:46 PM on May 7, 2008
Do you like Kipling?
I don't know, I've never Kippled.
posted by mattbucher at 6:49 PM on May 7, 2008 [1 favorite]
I don't know, I've never Kippled.
posted by mattbucher at 6:49 PM on May 7, 2008 [1 favorite]
As a Mom blogger and mother of teens, I both tweet and play Grand Theft Auto IV. I can anticipate the day when I accidentally pop a cap in another Mom on Twitter and then hotwire a car to the high school...
posted by misha at 7:33 PM on May 7, 2008
posted by misha at 7:33 PM on May 7, 2008
May that poem could have been so much better. But you have no idea how many times I came close to resetting the cooter counter. Where are we at, by the way? I feel like it's been 30 days.
posted by cashman at 7:47 PM on May 7, 2008
posted by cashman at 7:47 PM on May 7, 2008
It has not been 30 days. I keep the counter on my profile page.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 7:52 PM on May 7, 2008
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 7:52 PM on May 7, 2008
So what would change if we reach 30 days? Your profile name, your name in the podcast? You are not actually going to go to the courthouse, right?
posted by ALongDecember at 8:00 PM on May 7, 2008
posted by ALongDecember at 8:00 PM on May 7, 2008
I'm going to start sending mean MeMails to people who reset the cooter counter. And by mean, I mean ridiculous.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 8:17 PM on May 7, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 8:17 PM on May 7, 2008 [1 favorite]
It's actually quite amazing to me that we haven't hit 30 days yet.
posted by danb at 8:19 PM on May 7, 2008
posted by danb at 8:19 PM on May 7, 2008
What was that mechanic character's name on the Dukes of Hazzard? (Don't tell me! I'll put it to askme in about three weeks.)
posted by maxwelton at 8:36 PM on May 7, 2008
posted by maxwelton at 8:36 PM on May 7, 2008
It's actually quite amazing to me that we haven't hit 30 days yet.
Seriously. If I were the counter, I bet you that I'd hit it.
posted by cortex (staff) at 10:18 PM on May 7, 2008 [4 favorites]
Seriously. If I were the counter, I bet you that I'd hit it.
posted by cortex (staff) at 10:18 PM on May 7, 2008 [4 favorites]
OPEN THREAD! OMG, did you guys see Gossip Girl?
Dammit! Went out last night and haven't caught up with my illicit downloads yet. Was it as awesome as I just know it was? I mean, Michelle Trachtenberg getting her hooks into Dan when Serena is all dubious morality girl and Chuck her enabler! Genius! Best. Show. Ever.
posted by Sparx at 2:42 AM on May 8, 2008
Dammit! Went out last night and haven't caught up with my illicit downloads yet. Was it as awesome as I just know it was? I mean, Michelle Trachtenberg getting her hooks into Dan when Serena is all dubious morality girl and Chuck her enabler! Genius! Best. Show. Ever.
posted by Sparx at 2:42 AM on May 8, 2008
It's actually quite amazing to me that we haven't hit 30 days yet.
The "I've got the perfect ironic joke" guys will keep this a certainty. Thanks cortex.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 6:51 AM on May 8, 2008
The "I've got the perfect ironic joke" guys will keep this a certainty. Thanks cortex.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 6:51 AM on May 8, 2008
How do you stay up with it? Just reading comments, or do you have some sort of pb/cortex hackamariffic little HitItSignal that sounds klaxons and fires up a twirly red light and tweets "d jessamyn reset the clock lol" whenever that string hits the database? Inquiring minds want to know.
posted by middleclasstool at 7:06 AM on May 8, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by middleclasstool at 7:06 AM on May 8, 2008 [1 favorite]
(I'm hoping that it's the latter, btw, and that there are capes involved somehow. Or cortex in a unitard.)
posted by middleclasstool at 7:08 AM on May 8, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by middleclasstool at 7:08 AM on May 8, 2008 [1 favorite]
I like to imagine there's a crack team of MeFites that scours the site and flags every occurrence for her perusal.
posted by danb at 7:28 AM on May 8, 2008
posted by danb at 7:28 AM on May 8, 2008
Grow the fuck up already.
Having grown up is exactly why I'm not using Twitter.
posted by deern the headlice at 7:35 AM on May 8, 2008 [1 favorite]
Having grown up is exactly why I'm not using Twitter.
posted by deern the headlice at 7:35 AM on May 8, 2008 [1 favorite]
PLEASE STOP CALLING ME A UNITARD THX
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:41 AM on May 8, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:41 AM on May 8, 2008 [1 favorite]
Burhanistan : Then at night I scan the database looking for patterns.
Don't bother. I cracked the code a while back, and the answer is "the Rosicrucians".
I checked and then double checked my work, but I kept coming up with the same solution. Thinking I had finally broken the Grand Illuminati Unification Theory, I vetted my work prior to the great revelation-which-would-change-everything when I released it; unfortunately once I dug around enough, I found out the actual question for this answer was "What conspiracy linked organization is really difficult to spell?"
Which was considered less that awesome by the community.
posted by quin at 8:13 AM on May 8, 2008
Don't bother. I cracked the code a while back, and the answer is "the Rosicrucians".
I checked and then double checked my work, but I kept coming up with the same solution. Thinking I had finally broken the Grand Illuminati Unification Theory, I vetted my work prior to the great revelation-which-would-change-everything when I released it; unfortunately once I dug around enough, I found out the actual question for this answer was "What conspiracy linked organization is really difficult to spell?"
Which was considered less that awesome by the community.
posted by quin at 8:13 AM on May 8, 2008
The "I've got the perfect ironic joke" guys...
and girls... :P
posted by ODiV at 1:07 PM on May 8, 2008
and girls... :P
posted by ODiV at 1:07 PM on May 8, 2008
I just saw Gossip Girl and it was AWESOME. The rest of you folks talking about stuff? You keep doing that.
posted by Sparx at 1:35 PM on May 8, 2008
posted by Sparx at 1:35 PM on May 8, 2008
My lust and cheesiness, being rivals for the award of "most groanworthy" character attribute, have driven me to recklessly careen headlong past the flashing stop signs, toward that bright red brick wall, the threshold of restraint, so often that any gambling soul would bet that by now, I'd hit it.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 2:57 PM on May 8, 2008
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 2:57 PM on May 8, 2008
If it's just been twice then I'm really glad I didn't go looking through all of them. :)
posted by ODiV at 5:32 PM on May 8, 2008
posted by ODiV at 5:32 PM on May 8, 2008
One of the pitfalls of jessamyn's system is that, once someone asserts their interest in hitting it, the floor is open for others to second the motion for the rest of the day.
posted by danb at 7:12 PM on May 8, 2008
posted by danb at 7:12 PM on May 8, 2008
Have there been any I'd-hit-its that were ostensibly unintentional and unironic?
posted by dirtdirt at 9:08 AM on May 9, 2008
posted by dirtdirt at 9:08 AM on May 9, 2008
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posted by Mwongozi at 1:55 PM on May 7, 2008