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    Image of mattchew03 mattchew03
    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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    11/11/09

    In reply to Palin Will Again Enrage Liberals in 140 Characters or Less
    Bored now! #sarahpalin
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    Image of Penscribe Penscribe
    11/10/09

    In reply to CBS Picks Up 'Shit My Dad Says' Twitter Sitcom
    He has 72 tweets in 3-4 months, that is not A LOT of time on Twitter. #twitter
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    Image of nirreskeya nirreskeya
    11/10/09

    @Penscribe: He purposely keeps it to about one per day.

    As long as I'm posting here, I may as well link to my favorite of these: [twitter.com]
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    Image of Penscribe Penscribe
    11/10/09

    @nirreskeya: My personal favorite is this one: "Son, no one gives a shit about all the things your cell phone does. You didn't invent it, you just bought it. Anybody can do that."

    I bet he has an iphone. #twitter
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    Image of TheMediaMob TheMediaMob
    11/10/09

    In reply to CBS Picks Up 'Shit My Dad Says' Twitter Sitcom
    This will succeed. I can see it now, with Jerry Stiller starring as the dad. No, I literally meant I could see it now, in syndication, since this is basically George's dad in Seinfeld. #twitter
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    11/10/09

    In reply to CBS Picks Up 'Shit My Dad Says' Twitter Sitcom
    A CBS-squeezed, family-sanitized version of this twitter will be called poopmydadsays and will be as funny as Two and a Half Men. #twitter
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    11/10/09

    @MrInBetween: It'll be just like All in the Family. Except it will suck. After all, it automatically has to be Crap My Dad Says. It's all downhill from there. #twitter
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    11/10/09

    @MrInBetween: I'm reticent to admit it, but you are probably right. The content of the Twitter feed would play truer on a cable channel. If they scrub the tweets down, it just won't be the same. Even Archie Bunker pushed the envelope saying "terlet" on network.

    Also, Justin Halpern? Thanks for making me laugh my ass off repeatedly. Way to turn a negative into a good (moving home with the 'rents, that is). Congrats! #twitter
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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    11/10/09

    In reply to Palin Will Again Enrage Liberals in 140 Characters or Less
    Someone send her an old Geocities build your own website link and let's lose her forever on that information highway. #sarahpalin
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    Image of SpyMagician SpyMagician
    11/10/09

    In reply to CBS Picks Up 'Shit My Dad Says' Twitter Sitcom
    Season finale: "See, I told you this would fail, schmuck..."
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    Image of ShawnP ShawnP
    11/10/09

    In reply to Palin Will Again Enrage Liberals in 140 Characters or Less
    Her Twitter background design is so busy I thought I was back on MySpace. I closed it before the Lee Greenwood mp3 could start up. #sarahpalin
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    Image of mattchew03 mattchew03
    11/10/09

    In reply to Palin Will Again Enrage Liberals in 140 Characters or Less
    Adrian, just FYI -- Palin is returning with a new Twitter account. In the last graf, you link to her old Twitter account. Her new one is @SarahPalinUSA. #sarahpalin
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    Image of Shadowlayer Shadowlayer
    11/10/09

    In reply to This 16-Year-Old Has 120,000 Twitter Followers, Brighter Future Than You
    Meh, how many of these "wonder kids" we saw during the last dotcom bust a decade ago and yet we hear nothing from them nowadays?

    I read something about this kid daniel a while ago: his startup is merely a custom wordpress site, not even coded (if you can call putting a WP site together coding) by him but some 25 yr old which he payed for that if I recall correctly.

    But you know whats even funnier? Back in my teens I would stumble with guys like daniel all the time. They were a dime-a-dozen, and all of them my age or even a couple years older.

    Problem? well, to put it simple none of them could keep up with the BS: having some knowledge in tech just didnt compare to a CS graduate, and as soon as they reached their 20s the bright kid was replaced by an average guy who couldnt do what most of his peers did everyday.

    Being so reluctant to even try college, to the point of calling it a waste of time ('cause working in a common startup for 5 years until its bankrupt really pays out!) this kid is going to find himself flipping burgers and living with his parents well into his 30s.

    In a scam like this, you can only keep pumping bullshit until a better scammer comes by, which is what daniel over here is going to learn the hard way in a few years from now.

    This kid is basically a product, like a star child being push fowards by his money-grabbing parents.
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    Edited by Shadowlayer at 11/10/09 12:41 AM Shadowlayer was starred Shadowlayer was unstarred
    Image of flugennock flugennock
    11/09/09

    In reply to The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted Because Only 0.027% of Iranians Are on Twitter
    The Iranian "revolution"?

    Oh, y'mean that National Endowment For Democracy-backed astroturf campaign? The one where some British company shipped in thousands of little portable digital cameras so that we could see all those "viral" videos of what was happening in the streets?

    What color was that one, anyway? Green, or something? #iran
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    Image of CherriSpryte CherriSpryte
    11/09/09

    @flugennock: The National Endowment for Democracy had very little, if not nothing at all, to do with the revolution in Iran. #iran
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11/09/09

    In reply to The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted Because Only 0.027% of Iranians Are on Twitter
    Though the charges have since been dropped, but if an American can be arrested for twittering a "revolution", then our government can't really condemn others for cracking down on those in the field.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    11/09/09

    @Magister: .... and from a certain angle, mountains and molehills are the same shape, and therefore can be directly compared... #iran
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11/09/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Agreed, but when I first heard of the Madison fellow's arrest, I immediately thought of the shot to our credibility, if we were to condemn other governments for making similar arrests.

    It's sort of like when the Bush-era waterboarding story was confirmed. It wasn't even days until comparisons were made to WWII-era convictions for war crimes.

    Sure, the charges against Mr. Madison have been dropped, but if we want to be able to encourage social networking as a means to organize, then we can't be arresting people for doing the same thing. #iran
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    Image of calwilson37001 calwilson37001
    11/09/09

    In reply to The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted Because Only 0.027% of Iranians Are on Twitter
    Interesting. But numbers alone arent the only issue. In terms of organizing, sometimes it is just as important to have the "influencers"-- ie, those people who can round up their friends/family/coworkers etc. -- in touch with each other. If twitter helped these "influencers" gain a sense of momentum and round people up, it served a far-reaching purpose.
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    Image of Aatom Aatom
    11/09/09

    @calwilson37001: Right. I'm very confused about the point of this post. A small number of twittering activists helped "foment" the protests that were seen and heard around the world against a despotic regime that could use a lot more of that kind of internal pressure, and that's...bad? Because there aren't a lot of people online in Iran itself? #iran
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    11/09/09

    In reply to "American Dissent, 2009, Mixed Media"
    Yeah... I knew guys that would say things like that in middle school.
    Once. #racism
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    Image of atlasfugged atlasfugged
    11/08/09

    In reply to "American Dissent, 2009, Mixed Media"

    He's a looker this RightBloggerPat

    [our.gop.com] #racism
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    11/08/09

    @atlasfugged: I saw that from the Wonkette thread. I almost threw up. #racism
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    Image of atlasfugged atlasfugged
    11/08/09

    @Claire Buoyant: I'm guessing you don't find men with goiters hot. #racism
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    11/08/09

    @Claire Buoyant: Oh, from his profile:

    Why are you a Republican?: I'm not, I'm a Conservative, the Republicans wouldn't have me... (Seriously? I cannot afford the membership.)

    When will this nincompoop realize that if you're poor, the Republicans aren't your friends? #racism
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    11/08/09

    @atlasfugged: I'm guessing he can't afford to go see a doctor, either. #racism
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    Image of atlasfugged atlasfugged
    11/08/09

    @Claire Buoyant: Here's his blog. [www.politicalbyline.com] . Seems like a charming young fellow. Apparently, he believes that, because Joseph Cao was born in Vietnam and because fat Pat had an who uncle fought there, the Congressman had an obligation to vote against the Affordable Health Care for America Act, which incidentally is in "lockstep with what the Vietcong believed in" - because, of course, the Vietnam War was fought to keep America free of universal healthcare.
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    kimsama promoted this comment Edited by atlasfugged at 11/08/09 10:33 PM atlasfugged was starred atlasfugged was unstarred
    Image of kimsama kimsama
    11/08/09

    @atlasfugged: Whoa-ho. Wow. Thanks for the link.

    Vn Americans who came from southern Vietnam right after the war are some of the most consistently conservative voters in the US. Anyone who fled Vn after the war was fighting on the same side as the Americans, like, for example, Cao's father.

    But you know, expecting any knowledge of history or nuance from this dipshit was probably a mistake after reading his profound insights that "All Asians = Chairman Mao!" and "Michael Steele = basketball player!" #racism
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    11/09/09

    @atlasfugged: It's as though a penis head grew stubble and figured out how to wear glasses! #racism
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    Image of atlasfugged atlasfugged
    11/09/09

    @Trai_Dep: I wish I didn't just imagine that. There goes breakfast. #racism
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