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    Re-Tweet Redesign Helps the Rich Get Richer on Twitter

    Ellen Exploits Twitter's Lists for Fun and Profit

    Is Twitter Conspiring with Celebrities to Delete Your Mean Tweets?

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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    11/11/09

    In reply to Re-Tweet Redesign Helps the Rich Get Richer on Twitter
    Am I the only one that still hasn't seen the RT button show up? Someone said it was next to the reply button that one sees when he/she scrolls over a tweet in his/her feed, but I've not come across it. #twitter
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    Image of FaceMelter FaceMelter
    11/03/09

    In reply to Ellen Exploits Twitter's Lists for Fun and Profit
    Another example of how Twitter is ultimately headed in the same direction as MySpace. Unlike in Facebook, where user growth tends to be organic, trusted, and authentic, growth in Twitter tends to be forced through spam and shady direct marketing tactics. Eventually Twitter will be overrun with spam and noise (if it isn't already), and the company will suffer. Unless you happen to be using a 3rd party tool to read your feed, chances are it's already overrun with crap and genuine messages get pushed down out of view. The current interface for viewing tweets in Twitter is shit. UX is just another in a long list of things (e.g. systems administration) the people at Twitter have no skill in. How the fuck these guys get so much press and VC is beyond me. #ellendegeneres
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    Image of muffincupcake muffincupcake
    11/03/09

    In reply to Ellen Exploits Twitter's Lists for Fun and Profit
    Your first spam follower might seem special: "Wow this nice lady found my twitter page and she wants to read updates about my fascinating life. And she is naked."

    Then, it dawns on you that she might just be pretending to be interested in your tweets in order to get you buy whatever she might be selling. A trick!

    The second time, you know better than to follow back. So I suspect the experienced twitter users will not be too flattered by this. #ellendegeneres
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/03/09

    In reply to Ellen Exploits Twitter's Lists for Fun and Profit
    Lists are just Twitter's version of a TweetDeck Killer. One they can control and, if they had been intelligent, which they were not, monetize. #ellendegeneres
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    Image of BowlingForDollars BowlingForDollars
    11/03/09

    In reply to Ellen Exploits Twitter's Lists for Fun and Profit
    If I thought for one second it was actually Ellen following me, and not some 22 year old intern, I might be excited (and I use that term loosely.)

    When will people learn that Twitter can be kinda cool when it's quality, not quantity. #ellendegeneres
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    10/30/09

    In reply to Is Twitter Conspiring with Celebrities to Delete Your Mean Tweets?
    Well, as you all know, I'm a raging bitch. And as you may not know, the total number of tweets I've made seems to be going DOWN rather than up lately. I'd hate to be the intern assigned to "cleaning up the raincoaster stream". Augean stables, anyone? #twitter
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    10/29/09

    In reply to Is Twitter Conspiring with Celebrities to Delete Your Mean Tweets?
    Let's test it out. All one needs to do is:

    1. Make a new Twitter account (or use an already-established one),

    2. make sure it's public -- so that its tweets will show up on search.twitter.com -- and then send out several tweets,

    3. make sure that the tweets have variety: normal, trivial ones; @replies to non-famous people; nice @replies to famous people; mean @replies to famous people (to both some of the same people that some of the nice @replies were sent to and new ones); etc.,

    4. conduct a ton of different searches on search.twitter.com and track the results: search immediately after sending tweets, a couple of hours after, a day after, etc. and then see which ones a) never showed up in the search, b) showed up but then disappeared, and c) showed up and stayed,

    5. see what the results tell you about the question you're trying to answer.

    I'd be happy to test it out if you'd like me to do so. Let me know. #twitter
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    Image of narnio narnio
    10/29/09

    @mattchew03: um, what are you waiting for? why are you ASKING? #twitter
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    10/29/09

    @narnio: You have a point -- I'm on it.

    I think it'd be hilarious if I did it with either @dinalohan or @kiera_knightley. The problem, though, is that Dina technically doesn't really know how to @reply to people and Keira is too much of a snob to really bother. #twitter
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    10/29/09

    @narnio: I'll probably create a new one and not "reveal" the identity until I'm done testing it (who knows, Ev Williams could read Gawker), but I'm tempted to just use @helen_thomas. #twitter
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    Image of mbroomall002 mbroomall002
    10/29/09

    In reply to Is Twitter Conspiring with Celebrities to Delete Your Mean Tweets?
    I'll wait for Eve Plumb's reaction before commenting further.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    10/29/09

    In reply to Is Twitter Conspiring with Celebrities to Delete Your Mean Tweets?
    Well, but if Twitter drops the ball, who's going to protect me from Mickey Kaus then? Huh? The Hipster Grifter?

    Although on further reflection, I could probably get behind that plan.
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    Edited by skahammer at 10/29/09 12:42 PM skahammer was starred skahammer was unstarred
    Image of jbsacks jbsacks
    10/13/09

    In reply to The Kingmakers of Twitter Celebrity
    Was that a Fonzi look-a-like helping PeeWee?
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    Image of FaceMelter FaceMelter
    10/12/09

    In reply to The Kingmakers of Twitter Celebrity
    "... they taught him some secrets."

    Yeah, like be Pee Wee Herman.

    Did you watch Pee Wee's Playhouse? The guy was making content for the internet generation before the internet generation existed.
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    Edited by FaceMelter at 10/12/09 9:24 PM FaceMelter was starred FaceMelter was unstarred
    Image of unclevanya unclevanya
    10/12/09

    In reply to The Kingmakers of Twitter Celebrity
    We're talking Pee Wee Herman, and the internet. Without any flack's help, he would have had 40,000 followers in 48-72 hours. I hope he's not overpaying them.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    10/12/09

    @unclevanya: Yep. But @shockozulu is still shamefully undersubscribed.
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    Image of TriedandTrue TriedandTrue
    10/13/09

    @raincoaster: well that is because he generally only RTs quotes. If I wanted the Big Book of Oscar Wilde quotes, I'd go to the library.
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    Image of sparkyl sparkyl
    10/12/09

    In reply to The Kingmakers of Twitter Celebrity
    Miley got out just in time.
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    10/08/09

    In reply to Tracy Morgan Joins Medium Designed Expressly for Him
    Tracy Morgan pissing at GCT. He saw me peeking and gave me a fierce mushroom stamp. It's still stinging. The thing looked like R2D2.
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    Image of atlasfugged atlasfugged
    10/08/09

    In reply to Tracy Morgan Joins Medium Designed Expressly for Him
    I nearly spewed frappuccino on my monitor after reading that. I imagine Tracy just rolling out of bed, in nothing but tube socks, tighty-whiteys and a fat gold chain clumsily typing that out with his index fingers.
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    10/08/09

    @atlasfugged: More likely, he typed it with his darth vadar helmet.
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