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  • C Christian Graus

    ARGH !!! You just twitterised CP.....

    Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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    Mark_Wallace
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    Christian Graus wrote:

    ARGH !!! You just I'm upset because someone has twitterised CP.....

    IFYPFY

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    • C Christian Graus

      So, I joined Twitter, because I needed to, to enter into a contest. Now I get people following me every day, and they are all basically advertisements. What a joke. Twitter seems dumb to me anyhow, people seem to use it to follow celebrities, who then post what they eat and when it leaves their bodies.

      Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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      realJSOP
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      It's almost like a less organized version of IRC.

      "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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      "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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        It's almost like a less organized version of IRC.

        "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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        "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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        Jim Crafton
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        Only limited to 140 characters. Hurray for progress, fewer features, less useful, more innovation! Woot!

        ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Personal 3D projects Just Say No to Web 2 Point Blow

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        • R realJSOP

          It's almost like a less organized version of IRC.

          "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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          "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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          Nagy Vilmos
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          John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

          It's almost like an unorganized version of IRCreality.

          ftfy It is a complete load of scrotle. Beyond self advertising, I am yet to work out what it brings to the party. No chips or beer that's for sure.


          Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

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          • C Christian Graus

            So, I joined Twitter, because I needed to, to enter into a contest. Now I get people following me every day, and they are all basically advertisements. What a joke. Twitter seems dumb to me anyhow, people seem to use it to follow celebrities, who then post what they eat and when it leaves their bodies.

            Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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            Jim Crafton
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            You know what would be cool? Some software that could link up to a twitter account and then auto-twat for you. You could let it run all the time and it would just make up crazy stuff. Something like that WTF article way back about the neural net program that was used to generate a poetry ("The pig go. Go is to the fountain. The pig put foot", etc). Better yet if the program could create twitter accounts, and just let it rip. See who ends up following it. Laugh. Profit!!

            ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Personal 3D projects Just Say No to Web 2 Point Blow

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            • L Luc Pattyn

              we need a new forum for this, so we can enjoy/ignore it at our own discretion. :)

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              Nagy Vilmos
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              How about just adding STI to the beginning of the title for the twaddle?


              Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

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              • J Jim Crafton

                You know what would be cool? Some software that could link up to a twitter account and then auto-twat for you. You could let it run all the time and it would just make up crazy stuff. Something like that WTF article way back about the neural net program that was used to generate a poetry ("The pig go. Go is to the fountain. The pig put foot", etc). Better yet if the program could create twitter accounts, and just let it rip. See who ends up following it. Laugh. Profit!!

                ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Personal 3D projects Just Say No to Web 2 Point Blow

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                Nagy Vilmos
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                +5


                Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

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                • C Christian Graus

                  So, I joined Twitter, because I needed to, to enter into a contest. Now I get people following me every day, and they are all basically advertisements. What a joke. Twitter seems dumb to me anyhow, people seem to use it to follow celebrities, who then post what they eat and when it leaves their bodies.

                  Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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                  Chris Losinger
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                  Christian Graus wrote:

                  people seem to use it to follow celebrities, who then post what they eat and when it leaves their bodies.

                  whatever you do, don't read any Lounge comments or posts

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                  • C Chris Losinger

                    Christian Graus wrote:

                    people seem to use it to follow celebrities, who then post what they eat and when it leaves their bodies.

                    whatever you do, don't read any Lounge comments or posts

                    image processing toolkits | batch image processing

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                    Nagy Vilmos
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                    This is irrelevant


                    Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

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                    • N Nagy Vilmos

                      This is irrelevant


                      Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

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                      Chris Losinger
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                      Thanks for the info!

                      image processing toolkits | batch image processing

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                      • J Jim Crafton

                        You know what would be cool? Some software that could link up to a twitter account and then auto-twat for you. You could let it run all the time and it would just make up crazy stuff. Something like that WTF article way back about the neural net program that was used to generate a poetry ("The pig go. Go is to the fountain. The pig put foot", etc). Better yet if the program could create twitter accounts, and just let it rip. See who ends up following it. Laugh. Profit!!

                        ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Personal 3D projects Just Say No to Web 2 Point Blow

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                        Brady Kelly
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                        I was just speculating about an app to create accounts and tweet certain sets of keywords, and measure the response as a gain in followers. I quite often have fun doing that on my own account, but can't really be sure the sudden deluge of followers after using 'viagra' is all from just that one tweet.

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                        • C Christian Graus

                          So, I joined Twitter, because I needed to, to enter into a contest. Now I get people following me every day, and they are all basically advertisements. What a joke. Twitter seems dumb to me anyhow, people seem to use it to follow celebrities, who then post what they eat and when it leaves their bodies.

                          Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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                          Judah Gabriel Himango
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                          There's some spam on Twitter. If you follow good people, it has some value. For me, it's a great way to stay up-to-date on tech and programming from people close to the technologies. See my post in the Lounge the other day: Who to follow on Twitter[^]. Oh, and you need a good Twitter desktop client to filter through all the junk. TweetDeck[^] is one popular one. I use a WPF client called Witty[^].

                          Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango

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                          • N Nagy Vilmos

                            How about just adding STI to the beginning of the title for the twaddle?


                            Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

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                            Luc Pattyn
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                            like so? :)

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                            • C Christian Graus

                              So, I joined Twitter, because I needed to, to enter into a contest. Now I get people following me every day, and they are all basically advertisements. What a joke. Twitter seems dumb to me anyhow, people seem to use it to follow celebrities, who then post what they eat and when it leaves their bodies.

                              Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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                              jond777
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                              "It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools." I'm sure you get spam in your email account as well, but you still use it because a) you've developed a system for dealing with it and b) the positives outweigh the negatives. I find it amusing that so many of the forum trolls here at CP pontificate about the worthlessness of Twitter when there is really important, poignant stuff here on CP like: Retro Lunch[^] Hello[^] Complete these well known song titles[^] I'm not casting aspersions on anyone here (except maybe those who are casting aspersions on Twitter users). My point is that the Twitter stream may have more noise but if you know how to use it, you can easily filter that out and it is no more inane than some of the stuff that's tolerated here. By they way, you can follow me on Twitter: @JonDiPietro[^] :rolleyes:

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                              • C Christian Graus

                                So, I joined Twitter, because I needed to, to enter into a contest. Now I get people following me every day, and they are all basically advertisements. What a joke. Twitter seems dumb to me anyhow, people seem to use it to follow celebrities, who then post what they eat and when it leaves their bodies.

                                Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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                                BillWoodruff
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                                Do you not believe that the Lounge is already twitterized ? And your fine many selves virtual master songbirds in terms of sheer frequency ? best, Bill p.s. you may note the above comment contains exactly 140 characters exclusive of carraige return / line feed, but inclusive of spaces.

                                "Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844

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                                • C Christian Graus

                                  So, I joined Twitter, because I needed to, to enter into a contest. Now I get people following me every day, and they are all basically advertisements. What a joke. Twitter seems dumb to me anyhow, people seem to use it to follow celebrities, who then post what they eat and when it leaves their bodies.

                                  Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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                                  Christopher Duncan
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                                  Yeah, I encountered that as well. I think the scam is that if you follow enough people, a certain percentage of them will feel obligated to follow you back, whether they're really interested in you or not. Don't really see the point in that other than the fact that it inflates your numbers and makes you look (or feel) important. I deal with it by looking at their numbers when they follow me. If they're following 7000 people and are followed by 7000 people, it pretty much tells the story.

                                  Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes In the US? Explore our Career Coaching.

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                                    You know what would be cool? Some software that could link up to a twitter account and then auto-twat for you. You could let it run all the time and it would just make up crazy stuff. Something like that WTF article way back about the neural net program that was used to generate a poetry ("The pig go. Go is to the fountain. The pig put foot", etc). Better yet if the program could create twitter accounts, and just let it rip. See who ends up following it. Laugh. Profit!!

                                    ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Personal 3D projects Just Say No to Web 2 Point Blow

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                                    Christian Graus
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                                    I did read about someone who got busted pretending to be some celeb.

                                    Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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                                    • C Christopher Duncan

                                      Yeah, I encountered that as well. I think the scam is that if you follow enough people, a certain percentage of them will feel obligated to follow you back, whether they're really interested in you or not. Don't really see the point in that other than the fact that it inflates your numbers and makes you look (or feel) important. I deal with it by looking at their numbers when they follow me. If they're following 7000 people and are followed by 7000 people, it pretty much tells the story.

                                      Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes In the US? Explore our Career Coaching.

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                                      BillWoodruff
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                                      Christopher Duncan wrote:

                                      If they're following 7000 people and are followed by 7000 people, it pretty much tells the story.

                                      The only thing I understand about Twitter is the number : #140. How can there be leaders, if leadership is defined by the number of those who're following the followers ? best, Bill p.s. the first two sentences of my reply fully implement the Twitter interfarce : // note the parameters specified are the defaults // they are specifically written out here only for documentation TwitterMessage twitMessage = new TwitterMessage(Relevance.Inane, ContentStyle.Void); bool isValidTwitter = false; string reply = ""; ... reply = getMessage(CP_PermaLink).TrimQuote("blockQuote"); twitMessage = (TwitterMessage) reply; isValidTwitter = twitMessage is Twitter;

                                      "Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844

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                                      • C Christian Graus

                                        So, I joined Twitter, because I needed to, to enter into a contest. Now I get people following me every day, and they are all basically advertisements. What a joke. Twitter seems dumb to me anyhow, people seem to use it to follow celebrities, who then post what they eat and when it leaves their bodies.

                                        Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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                                        BillWoodruff
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                                        Hi Christian, I thought I would put some soothing oinkment on my last posts by sharing with you why I find it personally unnecessary to join Twitter. And of course I respect your right as (presumably) an adult to engage in consensual messaging of any form or length within the bounds of the general norms of the contextual community in which you so voluntarily commit, or join with others in committing, such acts. In the larger scheme of things my personal subjective experience of the relevance of your messages is as irrelevant as your personal subjective experience of my messages. What is more important, I assert, in the (putative) larger scheme of things is, in my humble opinion, not found in such useful mnemonic devices as "imho," but found in laughter, smiles, and warm feelings of happiness ranging from mushy to spiritual. So : yes, I did consider joining Twitter. And I sat down and wrote my first twitter which is this : (don't count the quotes and you'll see it is 140 characters) "The only Twitter I've ever found worth reading : i.e., of real value, rather than being ephemeral fluff used to fill a vacuum where a personal self should be : is this one." After writing this I realised, with a kind of sigh, a feeling like the one you get when you have a really good 'personal evacuation,' that I was released from any desire to mess with Twitter. It was almost as good as if Twitter never was. I hope you don't think this is grandiose : I don't claim this would work for anyone else, or that I've had any supernatural inspiration here. But I have to admit at the time I did hear Salvador Dali's voice whispering to me his famous one-liner : "The only man who is not a crazy man is ... Dali !" But I hear that so often. best, Bill edit ... p.s. do you think I am being selfish to not join Twitter and post my first Twitter, and then immediately unjoin in the off-case this act, if performed with a sincere spirit of loving kindness (what in Theravada Buddhism we call "karuna metta"), might bring happiness or comfort to others ?

                                        "Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made according

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                                          "It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools." I'm sure you get spam in your email account as well, but you still use it because a) you've developed a system for dealing with it and b) the positives outweigh the negatives. I find it amusing that so many of the forum trolls here at CP pontificate about the worthlessness of Twitter when there is really important, poignant stuff here on CP like: Retro Lunch[^] Hello[^] Complete these well known song titles[^] I'm not casting aspersions on anyone here (except maybe those who are casting aspersions on Twitter users). My point is that the Twitter stream may have more noise but if you know how to use it, you can easily filter that out and it is no more inane than some of the stuff that's tolerated here. By they way, you can follow me on Twitter: @JonDiPietro[^] :rolleyes:

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                                          Judah Gabriel Himango
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                                          Well said! I'm @JudahGabriel[^].

                                          Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango

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