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    The Twitterati Drink Alone, or with Jenny 8. Lee

    Huffington Post Bidding On Local News Site?

    The Twitterati Are Not as Awesome as They Think They Are

    The Twitterati Say Far Too Much

    "And then I thought, 'Blue sneakers, why not?'"

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    03/12/09

    In reply to The Twitterati Drink Alone, or with Jenny 8. Lee
    My adoration of Jenny 8 continues unabated.


    It's just an eccentricity of mine. I beg your indulgence.

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    03/11/09

    In reply to The Twitterati Drink Alone, or with Jenny 8. Lee
    Why don't these people just text their twitter things?!? I have a blackberry but I don't have twitterberry. IT'S NOT THAT DIFFICULT.
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    Image of Owen Thomas Owen Thomas
    03/11/09

    @Molly Holly: Apparently HootSuite is the way to go. I mean, if the former CEO of AOL uses it ...
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    03/12/09

    @Owen Thomas: HootSuite is what you use when you want to make sure your posts go out when the maximum number of people will be listening. It's the best scheduling app there is, but if you're actually involved in the conversation on Twitter it doesn't add anything.


    I love Power Twitter, but I think it needs a mainframe to bring it up to speed.

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    03/11/09

    In reply to The Twitterati Drink Alone, or with Jenny 8. Lee
    Sorry but that just makes me want a Kindle more. I'm sad and eat alone all the time and I hate getting food all over my books.
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    03/11/09

    @apocalypse-nowish: But it would be OK to get food all over your Kindle? Sounds worse.
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    02/24/09

    In reply to Huffington Post Bidding On Local News Site?
    I have NEVER heard of them and am once again confused as hell as to how something like this or even Facebook, Gawker, etc. makes money.
    Does anyone actually READ ads on these web sites. No one I know has purchased something because they were on a web site and an ad enticed them...
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    02/24/09

    @BooWahBabe: Ssshhhhh!
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    02/24/09

    @Almostbanned: Seriously! Shush the heck up! That cat staying firmly planted in the bag is what keeps the internets running!
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    02/24/09

    @BooWahBabe:

    That's what everyone thinks. No one EVER admits to being susceptible to advertising. You probably don't even realize it, but I guarantee you've been influenced by online advertising in the past. We all have... even if you don't necessarily click through.


    Advertising works no matter what the medium is.

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    02/24/09

    @BooWahBabe: CAN RYAN TATE OR OWEN THOMAS OR HAMILTON NOLAN OR NICK DENTON PLEASE EXPLAIN HOW ADVERTISING WORKS SO THAT THESE COMMENTERS DON'T CONTINUE TO SAY "I NEVER CLICK ON ADS, SO HOW DOES IT WORK?"
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    01/23/09

    In reply to The Twitterati Are Not as Awesome as They Think They Are
    @gawker: I'm writing this as I take a shit. I'm out of TP. OMG, WANT.
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    01/22/09

    In reply to The Twitterati Are Not as Awesome as They Think They Are
    I believe I'm stealing this from someone else on another one of Owen's Twitterati posts, but it bears repeating:


    We Gawker/Valleywag commenters have no business ripping on an Web-based forum wherein people share random thoughts that may or may not be read by anyone else.


    Do you read me?


    Hello?


    Anyone?

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    01/23/09

    @Social Crimer: Well, the anonymous, faceless masses here just do it for the shits. But people on Twitter actually put themselves out like they're a fabulous new brand of rice cracker. Then they whore themselves out to as many people as possible while providing no actual material of their own. So it's a giant stream of contentless vanity. I actually think it would be an honest improvement if Twitter were just a single button that posted the phrase "pay attention to me".
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    01/22/09

    In reply to The Twitterati Are Not as Awesome as They Think They Are
    TWITTER CRAWL says Xeni to get idiocy-proof brain. STILL DO NOT WANT.
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    01/22/09

    @MrInBetween: I think I'm a bit Xeni-phobic.
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    01/22/09

    In reply to The Twitterati Are Not as Awesome as They Think They Are
    Remember the good old days, when regular as-many-characters-as-want blogging was considered an ADD form of bastardized writing?


    Eventually, there will be a platform called "." and will consist of nothing more than people posting punctuation marks. I have seen the future of stupid.

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    01/22/09

    @Aatom:


    .

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    01/22/09

    @Aatom: @Monsigor Xtravagante D'ouchestache:

    ?---?
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    01/22/09

    In reply to The Twitterati Are Not as Awesome as They Think They Are
    OMG I fucking hate twitter. Its about as interesting as reading someones phone number over a urinal.


    Please make it go away.

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    01/22/09

    @MaverickReformer: I can say a lot of positive things about the entertainment value of some of the bathroom graffiti I've seen. Twitter, on the other hand, is irredeemable.
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    01/22/09

    @Carlos: Every time I come upon a "new" web 2.0 "platform" I have to compare it to the 'for a good time' bathroom graffiti that I found in a john in Japan off an interchange running thru Tokyo on a cold, metallic day. Hai.


    Most of web 2.0 I find wanting. Twitter's like old boring the old SMS's that you're too lazy to scroll down to delete.

     Reply
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    Image of Alaska Miller Alaska Miller
    01/22/09

    In reply to The Twitterati Are Not as Awesome as They Think They Are
    Hey gawker folks: [twitter.com]


    Don't be a stranger.

     Reply
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    01/22/09

    In reply to The Twitterati Are Not as Awesome as They Think They Are
    re: headline


    No one who uses Twitter is awesome. No one. "Twit" doesn't even mean anything positive!

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    01/22/09

    @Gospel X: Tell that John Cleese and Stephen Fry. There, I said it.
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    01/23/09

    @Bella_vina: Even the great ones make mistakes.
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    01/22/09

    In reply to The Twitterati Are Not as Awesome as They Think They Are
    Nobody wants to spy on Xeni Jardin except the year 2001. When she was last interesting.
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    01/22/09

    In reply to The Twitterati Are Not as Awesome as They Think They Are
    And this is my daily installment on why I do not use Twitter.
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    01/22/09

    In reply to The Twitterati Are Not as Awesome as They Think They Are
    Chris, check out Threat Level. I think they might have some info you could use.
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    01/15/09

    In reply to The Twitterati Say Far Too Much
    You already used the "140 character" line in the Karl Rove story. You must be under a lot of pressure to crank these out since the downsizing.
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    Image of Owen Thomas Owen Thomas
    01/15/09

    @lawnsprinkler: Au contraire, mon frere! As Twitter brings us into the 140-character age, it is a trope we shall constantly revisit.
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