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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.
"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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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.
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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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.
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!!
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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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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.
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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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.
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:
Well said! I'm @JudahGabriel[^].
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango
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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
Jim Crafton wrote:
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.
I wrote something like that on April 1st a couple of years back. Even built in auto-replies. Worked great - people followed me, i replied to their replies, posted random stuff, and didn't have to actually use the thing at all. Still kinda pointless though.
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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.
What is your Twitter id? You can have some good followers if you post it here.
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What is your Twitter id? You can have some good followers if you post it here.
ChristopherPsc
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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Jim Crafton wrote:
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.
I wrote something like that on April 1st a couple of years back. Even built in auto-replies. Worked great - people followed me, i replied to their replies, posted random stuff, and didn't have to actually use the thing at all. Still kinda pointless though.
True, but you could program it to become more and more obscure, demented, etc. Perhaps that's where Skynet actually evolved from - a collection of Twitter Auto-Twats that gradually became self aware!
¡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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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.
Christian Graus wrote:
So, I joined Twitter, because I needed to, to enter into a contest.
Needed to or wanted to?
Christian Graus wrote:
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.
Surely you knew this long before now.
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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.
I don't get Twitter at all. I'm late to the Facebook party, but I love it no that I finally have an account. Twitter on the other hand, seems incredibly pointless to me.
I didn't get any requirements for the signature
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like so? :)
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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.
The hype of twitter is still overtaking the reality of twitter quite a bit. Don't worry though, they'll attempt to monetize it real soon and it will be as dead as the Alta Vista search engine.
"Creating your own blog is about as easy as creating your own urine, and you're about as likely to find someone else interested in it." -- Lore Sjöberg
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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.
The trick is you have to find celebs that post interesting stuff. Adam Savage[^]) and Grant Imahara[^] from MythBusters are my personal faves right now.
--Mike-- Does this cloth smell like chloroform to you?
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The trick is you have to find celebs that post interesting stuff. Adam Savage[^]) and Grant Imahara[^] from MythBusters are my personal faves right now.
--Mike-- Does this cloth smell like chloroform to you?
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