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    How to Freak Out Susan Orlean

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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    08/11/09

    In reply to How to Freak Out Susan Orlean
    Perez lives in a dorm? Did Teddy get custody of his old place, or is this some twisted gay party thing?
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    08/10/09

    In reply to How to Freak Out Susan Orlean
    Sometimes I just want to drop a stack of May Sarton books on Susan Orlean's head.
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    08/10/09

    In reply to How to Freak Out Susan Orlean
    I think McCracken also said, "Losing your lunch in the bathtub is God's way of telling you everything that comes out of you is vile and always will be."
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    06/19/09

    In reply to Lance Amrstrong Denied Chance to Slam Greg LeMond, Or Story Saying He Slams Greg LeMond
    Greg LeMond is a crackpot. I'll give Lance that much.
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    02/27/09

    In reply to The Twitterati Launder Their Woes
    Nothing? Nothing on the big Unfollow All furor involving three of the biggest names on Twitter?


    Do you guys even read it anymore? Or do you just wait for these people to email you their posts?

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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    02/27/09

    @raincoaster: Tell me more! I am in the dark and unlike Ian I like this stuff.
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    03/02/09

    @Phyllis Nefler: Oh, Scoble and luc whatsisname, Loic Le Meur, Mister Le Web Conference, talked about unfollowing everyone and then cherry-picking who they'd add back. @loic did it, Scoble didn't.


    To me, it marks the end of any even theoretical premise that Twitter was classless. You could and can just @ Guy Kawasaki and he'll @ you right back; that was, as long as follow/followback was perceived as a handshake, the general assumption on Twitter. That you were at least theoretically equals.


    Once the Twitterati start pruning and making their follow/follower ratios more exclusive, it introduces a class consciousness that was not built in there, but added artificially.


    And it's completely artificial, as everyone I know is already using TweetDeck to filter their infostream anyway. There is no need NOT to follow, except to demonstrate how important you are.

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    Image of ellagood ellagood
    02/27/09

    In reply to The Twitterati Launder Their Woes
    there is a reason this function is one letter away from TWAT.
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    02/27/09

    @ellagood: John Cleese feels the same way: [www.vimeo.com]


    Though he does seem to have a Twitter. Not sure what to make of that.

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    Image of ian spiegelman ian spiegelman
    02/26/09

    In reply to The Twitterati Launder Their Woes
    I thought I already told all of you media folk to shut the fuck up. There's nothing more disgusting than people with job security glibly babbling about their jobs in a time a crisis to people who are losing jobs. Guys, we're not interested in you, and every word you utter (twitter) only makes us hate you. So shut the fuck up! You're not of the people, you're not trusted or beloved. You merely *exist* and are BARELY TOLERATED. So shut the fuck up! Please? You are the last humans anyone wants to hear from after Paris and The Post.


    Pay someone to staple your fingers together so that you cannot type in your spare time. Believe me, that's good PR advice, you out of touch freaks. STOP YOUR TWEET!

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    Image of Hockeymom Hockeymom
    02/26/09

    @ian spiegelman: The sad thing is, they only *think* they have job security.
    Trust me on this one.
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    02/26/09

    @ian spiegelman: Ian, tweets -- or twittering or whatever bird-like sound these twits make zillions of times each day -- is the source of endless entertainment for some of us. An editor of Farm and Dairy who convinces herself that anyone on God's green earth might give a cow's crap that a copy editor thinks their content should be placed behind a pay-wall is a helplessly clueless individual. Her brave exhibition of pathetic narcissism should not only be admired but cherished.
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    Image of MincnglyWhrdL'mer MincnglyWhrdL'mer
    02/26/09

    In reply to The Twitterati Launder Their Woes
    c'mon, harry crack is so not a real name. do you really think we're that dumb? you may as well be posting tweets from ivana cock, I.P. freely or amanda hugginkiss
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    02/26/09

    @Monsignor Xtravagante D'ouchestache: Sure it is. You may know his brother Phil McCracken?
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