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"His Facebook widget is going to change your life." Ryan Catbird mocks the cocky tone of Twitter users and (I think) Gawker people. [F.U. And The Blog You Rode In On]

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take back the internet

'Times' Twitters as Rome Blogs


So the New York Times has a Twitter account. (Twitter is the internet thing that tells everyone in the world what you're doing so they can make fun of you properly.) And it's an embarrassment! More embarrassing is the Twitter account for "The Moment," their new... blog-thing that is tied to T Magazine, the content-free style supplement to the Times Magazine. This Twitter is weird and aggressively friendly! But... who is behind it? Whose far-too-casual first-person Tweet are we even following? (Probably "Jonathan S. Paul," who posted about Twittering about posting this Art Party.) Whoever it is got drunk at an Art Party last night and peed next to Sean Lennon. Right now T twitter is following all the other Times Twitter accounts that just link back to things at the Times. If they really wanted to get all Webby they'd start a Tumblr that bitched about Gawker. [Twitter via Radar]

10:43 AM on Fri Jun 20 2008
By Pareene
1,142 views, 9 comments

Latest by Thatcornellguy: @Lazy Susan: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA....no more »

twitter art

MONEY CREATES TASTE

Is this really conceptual artist Jenny Holzer's Twitter? She's famous for projecting her aphorisms like " A LOT OF PROFESSIONALS ARE CRACKPOTS" onto every available surface. Add to the list of people worth following on Twitter, plz! [via Young Manhattanite] The most awesome Twitter feed ever after the jump. More »

4:19 PM on Fri May 30 2008
By Sheila
1,871 views, 29 comments

photoshop

What If Websites Were Realistic?

What if Facebook let you properly express your rage against the tool who just added you to the "Buying and Selling Friends" app? What if Netflix knew you'd skip to the dirty bits? I paid Jay Hathaway a slave's wage to draw up what this would look like. More »

4:50 PM on Wed May 28 2008
By Nick Douglas
3,861 views, 5 comments

twitterati

Inanimate Bridge Mocking You

Twitter is, uh... a microblogging thing, where you tell everyone what you're doing at any given moment. It's basically a colossal waste of time. But if you subscribe to ONLY ONE FEED let it be this one: the Twitter account of London's Tower Bridge. It makes all other Twitter feeds utterly redundant.

12:23 PM on Thu May 22 2008
By Pareene
2,725 views, 29 comments

internet

Progress

People often ask what's different about Tumblr, Twitter and the other "web 2.0" tools that are supposed to represent the future of internet publishing. Here's the answer: the eradication of joined-up writing. (via Catbird's Tumblr)

1:19 PM on Tue May 20 2008
By Nick Denton
2,065 views, 14 comments

webtards

Twelve People Actually Worth Following On Twitter

Maybe you didn't like the list of powerful people you're supposed to follow on Twitter. Neither did I! Because powerful people don't Twitter. But witty people do! Such as the man who wrote, "How much do you have to pay a cop to forget he saw a bloodstained Tickle Me Elmo stuffed with opium? Wikipedia is like zero help over here." More »

5:01 PM on Fri May 16 2008
By Nick Douglas
8,830 views, 20 comments

Listicle

Your Twitter-Stalking Power List

Andew Krucoff asked Rex Sorgatz which Twitter feeds he should follow. If those names mean something to you, you may already be familiar with this list. (Which is, in Krucoff's words, "a little tech, a little New York, a little media and lots of girls, girls, girls.") If not, here are the Internet Glitteratti's most personal thoughts and dreams, expressed in 140 characters or less. After the jump, the 23 people you Tweet in heaven. More »

12:41 PM on Fri May 16 2008
By Pareene
7,004 views, 55 comments

webtards

Quiz: Are You An Online Jackass?

Everyone has a little online jackass in them; some of us add people on Facebook too soon, some of us beg for votes on Digg, some make white whines on Twitter. But these behaviors can lead to more annoying habits, like constantly bugging people to blog you, getting hooked on Yelp, or writing drug metaphors. Thank god online jackassery can be summed up in a condescending online quiz. Take it below! Maybe you're a Carrie. More »

8:38 PM on Wed May 14 2008
By Nick Douglas
6,508 views, 58 comments

the internets

Laurel Touby's Awesome Twitter: "Dining with two Bloombergonians"

Boa-wearing MediaBistro entrepreneur Laurel Touby has made the mediabaristas of New York City laugh, again and again, with her inability to use e-mail. (Then we remember that she sold MediaBistro for $23 mil—at which point all laughter abruptly stops.) So you can understand the concern we feel about her brand-new Twitter account. So far she's plugged her conference, announced gym plans, and given out her dining coordinates so people can "drop by and say hello": More »

2:04 PM on Tue May 13 2008
By Sheila
2,685 views, 24 comments

Latest by n/a: @lawyergay: who? you might ask? Exactly. more »

Twitter Saves American Arrested In Egypt When a Berkeley grad student was jailed in Egypt for taking photos of a demonstration, he Twittered the word "ARRESTED." His Twitter followers (Egyptian bloggers and American friends) called the college, the US Embassy, and the international press, and the police soon released him. Of course theoretically he could have just called someone, but that wouldn't be much of a story. [Mercury News]

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Explanation Of Twitter For Normal People Only Makes It Seem Sadder "Real life happens between blog posts and e-mails," says Lee LeFever in his video "Twitter in Plain English." The video, which pretty accurately describes the microblogging site, just makes me feel pathetic for using Twitter.

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the mediated life

Everything Is Twittered

Signing off from Yahoo!. Fade to black... about 3 hours ago
Celebrating unemployment with a giant margarita at Chevy's. 5 minutes ago [Silicon Alley Insider] (Semi-related: soon-to-be-former Defamer editor Mark Lisanti already started his Tumblr!)

4:53 PM on Wed Feb 13 2008
By Pareene
808 views, 4 comments

the future

ReporTwitters To Ravage Newspapers, Pillage Cable Nets

Some time today, ReporTwitters, the newest iteration of the future of journalism, should go live. The idea seems to be: A bunch of journalists will contribute to a centralized website via Twitter, which is a microblogging service—it funnels in text snippets sent via IM or SMS. You can try and understand more about it from the site's blog but good luck with that. No but seriously: I'm sure it's the long tail future of crowdsourcing optimized 2.0 tipping point gadget citizen's journalism experimental new hotness. And oh yes, there will be cat photos.

Reporters Twitter site to launch [Journalism.co.uk, via Fimoculous]

10:00 AM on Thu Aug 30 2007
By Choire
377 views, 10 comments

Latest by rex: Choire reads my blog still? Fuck, that means I need to start updating again. No wait, I have Twitter... more »