This is why I hate twitter. I used to live with these two self-important idiots who would sit around wanking to each other about who had more followers and who got faster responses to things they tweeted and how important they each were and how everyone else wasn't nearly as cool, and then they'd do this sort of chortling laugh to each other as they gazed lovingly into each other's eyes and secretly plotted to steal followers from each other.
Oh, god! It actually *looks* like them! Put a burning man standard-issue cowboy hat and goatee on Jobs and put Gates in a victorian waistcoat and it's like dead ringers.
The nice thing about twitter is that you aren't forced to follow any assholes. I feel like there are two twitters -- the really annoying one where everyone is a self-promoting douchebag, and the useful low-noise one I use.
Also that if I see a person following more than a hundred or two people I won't follow them, because they're clearly not interested in a conversation, just a broadcast.
But I'd also like to get the folks I talk to on Twitter off to some decentralized system.
And the Internet disappears up its own arse.
This is why I hate twitter. I used to live with these two self-important idiots who would sit around wanking to each other about who had more followers and who got faster responses to things they tweeted and how important they each were and how everyone else wasn't nearly as cool, and then they'd do this sort of chortling laugh to each other as they gazed lovingly into each other's eyes and secretly plotted to steal followers from each other.
http://johnkarma.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/steve-jobs-bill-gates.jpg
Oh, god! It actually *looks* like them! Put a burning man standard-issue cowboy hat and goatee on Jobs and put Gates in a victorian waistcoat and it's like dead ringers.
My god ... it's full of douchebags!
This made me literally spray my monitor with the Dr. Pepper I was drinking.
PERFECT.
The nice thing about twitter is that you aren't forced to follow any assholes. I feel like there are two twitters -- the really annoying one where everyone is a self-promoting douchebag, and the useful low-noise one I use.
This.
Also that if I see a person following more than a hundred or two people I won't follow them, because they're clearly not interested in a conversation, just a broadcast.
But I'd also like to get the folks I talk to on Twitter off to some decentralized system.
you may want to check out http://status.net - it's open source, federated microblogging :)
I sense an opening to a new idea.
I sense a beautiful flower...
This so need to be a t-shirt...