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    Ellen Exploits Twitter's Lists for Fun and Profit

    Measure Your Twitter Manhood in Exciting New Way
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    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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    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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    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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    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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    10/27/09

    In reply to Measure Your Twitter Manhood in Exciting New Way
    So who killed the new night editor? #twitter
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    10/27/09

    In reply to Measure Your Twitter Manhood in Exciting New Way
    Am I the only one seeing a re-post of today's Twitterati, but with comments disabled?

    Maybe watching Andy Cohen is making me delirious, who knows. #twitter
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    10/27/09

    @mattchew03: I'm seeing it too. And they didn't even bother to put "RT" in front of it.
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    10/27/09

    @ShawnP: Me too. Weird. #twitter
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    10/27/09

    @raincoaster: It now shows 126 comments, but you can't read them. I'm sorry, but Ayalet Waldman is just not that interesting. #twitter
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    10/27/09

    @raincoaster: Correction: the post is posted twice.

    Here
    gawker.com/5390436/ayelet-waldman-now-fantasizing-on-twitter-about-screwing-husband

    and

    gawker.com/5390432/ayalet-waldman-now-fantasizing-on-twitter-about-screwing-husband
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    10/27/09

    @raincoaster: Two words: #twitter
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    10/27/09

    In reply to Measure Your Twitter Manhood in Exciting New Way
    TweetDeck parsing: career of the future! #twitter
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