Shelley makes the assertion that we are never going to bother with our Twitter past. When I read that, I initially agreed with her: Twitter is a fast-moving medium for short messages whose value fade as time marches on. So in general I won’t need to go back and retrieve them. Then today happened and I realized that it’s not because we won’t want to – it’s because it’s going to become impossible. Read the rest of this entry …
This evening on “As The Twitter Spews”:
- Opera’s “Web Opener” (and newest Interest Group member) makes a request
- Internet Explorer’s Head Honcho gets a little huffy
- Snarkiness
BTW, if you’re not on Twitter yet, you are missing out. For instance, I find this feed useful.
Did they go under or did they forget to renew their domain? This is seriously going to impact my microblogging until I build out something new …
While I was posting posting my own fail story, a bunch of Twitter residents decided to start riffing on the phrase ‘EPIC FAIL’ (maybe as a result of this article?). I’m not sure who started it, but I thought I’d paste in the relevant tweets from the people I follow:
- Kurafire: EPIC HAIL
- Molly: EPIC SAIL
- Kurafire: EPIC FLAIL
- Kurafire: EPIC INHALE
- Kurafire: EPIC WHALE (also cwilso)
- Molly: EPIC SALE
- Eric Meyer: OPEC FAIL
- Eric Meyer: E-PIC FAIL
- Chris Wilson: EPIC MAIL
- Chris Wilson: EPIC KALE
- Me: EPIC GALE
- Me: EPIC STALE
Despite my best intentions and my inner voice crying out “microblogging is stupid!”, I’ve been slowly sucked into it. It started innocently enough with the Facebook status. Then I joined the party over at Twitter just to see what all the hubbub was about. When I learned about identi.ca, I decided to check that out a couple days ago (more and more people are joining there now).
The problem, of course, is that not everyone is on the same social network. And you might not want to be on any of the social networks that I’m on. Or you might not trust any of those companies. Enter ping.fm. Read the rest of this entry …