I've been having fun playing with Twitter for the last month or so. Yes, 90% of the people on there are lame asses who think that other people care what they had for breakfast. But I've also discoverd that it can be a powerful networking tool in the right hands. We need to do something to raise the profile of Discordians on Twitter, whether we do that by having a GASM account to help promote missions or just by setting up an interconnected network through hashtags.
Relevent links:
http://twitter.com <-obviously
http://twitter.com/jablair51 <- me
http://wefollow.com/ <- user directory that we can pervert for our nefarious purposes
http://hashtags.org/ <-more on hashtags
http://www.wildapricot.com/blogs/newsblog/archive/2008/03/11/an-introduction-to-twitter-hashtags.aspx <- good users guide
I've already added myself to wefollow under the tags #discord and #eris. We could add a #gasm tag too if this takes off.
EDIT: More links.
http://discordia.wikia.com/wiki/TwitterGASM
http://www.twibes.com/group/gasm
http://www.twibes.com/group/discordia
http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/
http://www.twitscoop.com/
http://hashtags.org/trends/now
http://www.neuroproductions.be/twitter_friends_network_browser/
http://revdrjon.blogspot.com/2009/04/another-bloody-twitter-bookmarklet-user.html
http://skepchick.org/blog/?p=6803
http://twitrobot.com/index.html
http://socialcollider.net/
http://www.botomatic.com/
http://twittercounter.com/
Great, another another reason why I shouldn't be ignoring Twitter.
:argh!:
That's actually a very cool usage. I borked up any chance I had with facebook after letting tons of friends and family on. So now I avoid it like the fucking plague because really, if I wanted to broadcast to them all next time I wanted to take a dump, I'd just do it by email or something.
Using Twitter for a gasm or something sounds awesome.
Twitter would be a great way to spread memebombs too.
Added you--I'm Simple_Bliss.
I like what I see so far. :mrgreen:
Quote from: Laughtrack on April 02, 2009, 08:57:21 AM
Added you--I'm Simple_Bliss.
I like what I see so far. :mrgreen:
Thanks. :D
Other Discordians that I know of:
http://twitter.com/PinkoCommie
http://twitter.com/kallisti_x
Quote from: Jenne on April 02, 2009, 06:57:33 AM
That's actually a very cool usage. I borked up any chance I had with facebook after letting tons of friends and family on. So now I avoid it like the fucking plague because really, if I wanted to broadcast to them all next time I wanted to take a dump, I'd just do it by email or something.
Using Twitter for a gasm or something sounds awesome.
Protip: read up on the "limited profile" feature. You can select who gets to see what. That way, only your chosen circle of friends will be able to stay informed of your colon's health.
Approximately half of my twitter posts are generated by NotBroken. Most people can't tell.
All is going to plan...
Btw, if you intend to spread memebombs, OM materials, &c there are several twitter services who are mostly just re-broadcasters. For instance, @memetweet will typically just repost whatever you send it with an @reply to you, and everyone following that person will get it. I have an absurdly large group of followers considering that I mostly post long strings of nonsense, so you can probably direct stuff to me if you want it reposted to a large group ( @enkiv2 )
Quote from: LMNO on April 02, 2009, 01:10:14 PM
Quote from: Jenne on April 02, 2009, 06:57:33 AM
That's actually a very cool usage. I borked up any chance I had with facebook after letting tons of friends and family on. So now I avoid it like the fucking plague because really, if I wanted to broadcast to them all next time I wanted to take a dump, I'd just do it by email or something.
Using Twitter for a gasm or something sounds awesome.
Protip: read up on the "limited profile" feature. You can select who gets to see what. That way, only your chosen circle of friends will be able to stay informed of your colon's health.
I know this already--but then when I restrict their access, they whine. I shit you not--this is a sign of people with too much time on their hands, they WANT to know the health of the colon.
So then I just don't show up. Or lurk and don't post.
Quote from: Enki-][ on April 02, 2009, 02:53:21 PM
Btw, if you intend to spread memebombs, OM materials, &c there are several twitter services who are mostly just re-broadcasters. For instance, @memetweet will typically just repost whatever you send it with an @reply to you, and everyone following that person will get it. I have an absurdly large group of followers considering that I mostly post long strings of nonsense, so you can probably direct stuff to me if you want it reposted to a large group ( @enkiv2 )
Ah! Good to know!
I approve of this idea.
IN fact, it may raise our profile and potentially bring in new recruits. Sjaantze does the twitter thing and often has back and forth comments between herself and people like John Cleese. If he were exposed to a few memebombs and a GASM or two... he may just poke back. There appear to be a number of high profile 'pranklike' individuals on Twitter.... this could be extremely useful.
I think I'll launch my gasms this weekend, then, since I'll have some time. Just need to figure out if iPhone has a Twitter app. I'm sure it does.
Quote from: Ratatosk on April 02, 2009, 05:26:42 PM
I approve of this idea.
IN fact, it may raise our profile and potentially bring in new recruits. Sjaantze does the twitter thing and often has back and forth comments between herself and people like John Cleese. If he were exposed to a few memebombs and a GASM or two... he may just poke back. There appear to be a number of high profile 'pranklike' individuals on Twitter.... this could be extremely useful.
Fuck you Tosk. :roll:
Ok, I'm Officially slamming this thread into the Information Vectors thread (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=20408), and declaring TwitterGASM to be the communication-backbone of the InfoVector Master List used for recruiting, as a vector, and also to coordinate in real-time during peak memebomb throwing sessions (Ex:
EVERYONE JUMP ON FACEBOOK, post this gif[godzillabukkake.chooseyourownadventure@tiny.url] to 5 friendsorgroups then meet us on BoingBoing +523 points).
Quote from: Cramulus on April 02, 2009, 12:18:19 AM
split so as not to jack the Missions, Goals, Objectives thread...
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on April 01, 2009, 05:46:49 AM
Quote from: Cain on March 31, 2009, 03:32:33 PM
We should really see if we can contact people in the current internet counterculture - groups like the former Technoccult site (now Renegade Futurist), Alterati (good for creative projects), the PDX Occulture lot...and work from there. The first two in particular churn out links and promotions like nobodies business, and with the added bonus of attracting our sort of crowd.
Disinfo.com (http://www.disinfo.com/content/) would be a good target too. If there are enough of us there we could vote the story up and get it on the main page.
Quote from: Telarus on April 01, 2009, 07:53:20 PM
Can we start setting up a wiki page for these memetic infection vectors?
We can break it down into sections and have easy links to register for sites like stumbleupon, boingboing, LJ, etc, etc.
If we can make it very easy for the PD members that are less interested in trying to organize this thing to get all set up with accounts everywhere we need them, then we can have our mob pre-register over a few weeks time. Then once we have something ready to infect the web with we would have a large group of agents that can just jump in and start posting/commenting/bumpng our stuff all over without having to go through the hassle of signing up for each site right before they do so.
Yes, that's a great idea.
let's create a naughty stepchild of Discordian_Websites_and_Communities (http://blackironprison.com/index.php?title=Discordian_Websites_and_Communities) called http://blackironprison.com/index.php?title=Discordian_Vectors (http://blackironprison.com/index.php?title=Discordian_Vectors)
with the sweetest spots to seed stuff
but here's the ten million dollar question - where is the most fertile soil (generally) for planting ideas?
There's your answer Cram. At the moment, it's Twitter. Once we have momentum in that, it will spill to the other places.
Quote from: Jenne on April 02, 2009, 10:35:32 PM
I think I'll launch my gasms this weekend, then, since I'll have some time. Just need to figure out if iPhone has a Twitter app. I'm sure it does.
http://www.macworld.com/article/134807/2008/08/iphone_twitter.html
Also, Twitter is about to release a better search engine that we can use to our advantage:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/162538/a_look_inside_twitters_new_discovery_engine.html
http://twitter.com/DrGoofyMofo is mine but I rarely update for I hate social networking but I like being a hypocrite!
As much as I am convinced Twitter is retarded:
https://twitter.com/CainAerte
ITT Discordian's who are thoroughly against social networking of this style go over to the dark side.
Quote from: The Borderline Simpleton on April 03, 2009, 11:56:44 AM
ITT Discordian's who are thoroughly against social networking of this style go over to the dark side.
I am against all styles but I have gone to the dark side on all, being a hypocrite is fun!
OK, which one of you is masquerading as the Jewish Internet Defence Force?
Because I have a hard time believing they are interested in reading me and Enki discussing caffeine poisoning.
HAHA @cain
I got Ciromarketing Following me now.
The spamming technique these days seems to be this: spam companies will create accounts of arguably real people who consider themselves marketing geeks, who will follow people who fall into a certain grouping in terms of followed-to-following ratios, and then if they get followed in return they will start spamming via direct message.
This doesn't particularly matter to me, since I typically use twitter for an input source for more or less unpredictable and diverse data and as a way of allowing my bots to annoy facebook users.
Your words interest me. I wish to subscribe to your magazine.
I haven't been able to deal with this yet. Work is sucking ass. Normally I'd be on it. Ugh. Fuck this day.
Motherfucking Twitter refused my account! FUCKERS! I tried to sign up from my phone. :( So I will try again tomorrow during work from my PC
Because I'm not suffering the delusions of being any good: http://twitter.com/SprehhanBoli
@drjon (yes, our drjon) has crafted a profile lookup bookmarklette: http://revdrjon.blogspot.com/2009/04/another-bloody-twitter-bookmarklet-user.html
Drag and drop it onto your bookmark toolbar (Firefox). Then highlight a twitter username (without the @) and hit the button. You'll be taken to their profile page.
Damn, I need to get my Twitter acct setup. :x
Oh, god damn it: http://www.twitter.com/SafariRalph
Why won't they show the picture I uploaded? :argh!:
Ok, I'm @JayGurl73
I'm not going to use this for "really real" purposes, just this gasm, methinks.
Hm, interesting what their TOS are. Basically, if enough people block you or complain about you, you're toast.
Ok, ETA: this Twitter thing SUCKS ASS. They need larger bandwidth or something. Everytime I move in and out of the damned site, it says it's OVER CAPACITY. Ugh. Fail.
Quote from: Jenne on April 07, 2009, 02:44:12 PM
Hm, interesting what their TOS are. Basically, if enough people block you or complain about you, you're toast.
Ok, ETA: this Twitter thing SUCKS ASS. They need larger bandwidth or something. Everytime I move in and out of the damned site, it says it's OVER CAPACITY. Ugh. Fail.
Fail Whale is Fail!
Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN2HAroA12w
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on April 08, 2009, 08:22:37 PM
Quote from: Jenne on April 07, 2009, 02:44:12 PM
Hm, interesting what their TOS are. Basically, if enough people block you or complain about you, you're toast.
Ok, ETA: this Twitter thing SUCKS ASS. They need larger bandwidth or something. Everytime I move in and out of the damned site, it says it's OVER CAPACITY. Ugh. Fail.
Fail Whale is Fail!
Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN2HAroA12w
:lol:
Also, seems to be working ok today. I was able to post up a couple of pieces of nonsense. WTF, btw, is the agenda for this? I keep hitting on subjects that are in the mega search thingie to the right.
For now, I am concentrating on moving between shit no-one cares about, and interesting links and comments. Just enough to build up a reasonable amount of people following me. Then I'm going to start slipping in meme-bombs, PD references and links.
Rebecca Watson of Skepchick just posted an awesome list of good skeptic/scientific Twittererereres:
http://skepchick.org/blog/?p=6803
And holy fucking shit, it's Warren Ellis:
http://twitter.com/warrenellis
Ellis was like the third person I subscribed to.
This is royally fucked up. For the THIRD time, it's telling me I'm using the wrong password, and I know for certain that I've got it right. If I have to reset it one more fucking time, I quit.
Yeah, dude, as a site it sucks balls. I haven't posted yet. I should just put an app on my phone if they have one.
Works fine for me, apart from occasional downtime. Latest version of Firefox, Javascript allowed to run on site, and I have to say everything seems hunky-dory
https://twitter.com/BDSimpleton (https://twitter.com/BDSimpleton)
I think I have everyone ITT followed, but it's so slow I don't actually know.
EDIT: Holy shit my twitter is fugly.
Ugh, all the "Tweeting" apps are $. I'm NOT paying to put this crap on my phone. :lol:
Web-based it will have to be, then!
Quote from: Jenne on April 09, 2009, 07:30:45 PM
Ugh, all the "Tweeting" apps are $. I'm NOT paying to put this crap on my phone. :lol:
Web-based it will have to be, then!
There are ways to send Tweets with text messages. Just go to Settings-> Device and add your phone number. I don't use it to receive updates from other people because I don't want hundreds of texts per day.
The only problem I've had with the site so far is that it has eaten several of my posts. I heard that they are working on that though.
Wait... I can notify everyone who's following me that I just took a massive shit by text message???
Surely there must be a catch.
Quote from: The Borderline Simpleton on April 09, 2009, 07:45:00 PM
Wait... I can notify everyone who's following me that I just took a massive shit by text message???
Surely there must be a catch.
Nope. That is the entire reason Twitter was invented.
Oh man. That is pretty awesome... And likely to take up a lot of my free texts.
Yeah, I don't need the text overages, either. Hm...I think I'm happy just keeping it web-based. AND I can always use safari.
Quote from: The Borderline Simpleton on April 03, 2009, 11:56:44 AM
ITT Discordian's who are thoroughly against social networking of this style go over to the dark side.
Hypocrisy FTW.
Quote from: The Borderline Simpleton on April 09, 2009, 07:56:42 PM
Quote from: The Borderline Simpleton on April 03, 2009, 11:56:44 AM
ITT Discordian's who are thoroughly against social networking of this style go over to the dark side.
Hypocrisy FTW.
If it's for The Greater Good
TM, it's cancelled out.
Setup as TelarusKSC: http://twitter.com/TelarusKSC
Now digging into the network of links to people.
This app is awesome: http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/
First Adobe Air app that I like.
Holy shit. Tweetdeck is teh epic.
Start Tweeting Check
Get app to become super addicted not check because my os is not on there
I now have a Twitter account
I'm "Weaselpanties".
I think I'm addicted. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? :x
Quote from: The Borderline Simpleton on April 10, 2009, 08:00:31 AM
I think I'm addicted. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? :x
ONE OF US!!! ONE OF US!!! ONE OF US!!!
Good, good. More people to follow! *cue maniacal laughter* Actually, I have pitifully few, but that's fine. If this thing goes as Cain indicates, we're supposed to slowly build up a base, correct?
Also, I just fed a "Zombie Jesus" tweet into the "Jesus" topic. Har.
Tweetdeck is teh suck. Its taking forever to log me in.
Edit: NVM, got it working.
Quote from: Jenne on April 10, 2009, 02:35:07 PM
Good, good. More people to follow! *cue maniacal laughter* Actually, I have pitifully few, but that's fine. If this thing goes as Cain indicates, we're supposed to slowly build up a base, correct?
Also, I just fed a "Zombie Jesus" tweet into the "Jesus" topic. Har.
There are topics?
Yeah, # indicates a #hashtag and you can search for them and there are sites that track all conversations with that #hashtag.
You can include it in the message, like "This message is about #PDSpags, are you a #PDSpag?" or you can just tack it onto the end of a message.
Oh, that's cool! Will make use.
FUCK THIS
For the 5th fucking time (yeah I know I said I'd quit after the 4th time; bite me), it's telling me my password is wrong! After the first few times I decided that maybe the password I had chosen was just too complex for my idiot brain to type properly more than once, but after changing my password to "fuckyou" it STILL doesn't work!
Fuck you Twitter. I don't know what your god damn problem is, but you can shove it so far up your ass covered in superglue that it sticks to your lymphatic system and I can yank the whole thing out and use it to enrich my Jenkem brew, which I then make you huff until radioactive waste pours from your eye sockets.
Quote from: Cainad on April 11, 2009, 02:41:21 PM
FUCK THIS
For the 5th fucking time (yeah I know I said I'd quit after the 4th time; bite me), it's telling me my password is wrong! After the first few times I decided that maybe the password I had chosen was just too complex for my idiot brain to type properly more than once, but after changing my password to "fuckyou" it STILL doesn't work!
Fuck you Twitter. I don't know what your god damn problem is, but you can shove it so far up your ass covered in superglue that it sticks to your lymphatic system and I can yank the whole thing out and use it to enrich my Jenkem brew, which I then make you huff until radioactive waste pours from your eye sockets.
The problem is on your end, not Twitter's. I can log into your account just fine. ;)
I was waiting for someone to check :lulz:
Quote from: Cainad on April 11, 2009, 02:53:52 PM
I was waiting for someone to check :lulz:
Just one of the many -- um...
Do I provide services?
The "remember password" feature is a lifesaver for precisely this reason.
Quote from: Cainad on April 11, 2009, 02:41:21 PM
FUCK THIS
For the 5th fucking time (yeah I know I said I'd quit after the 4th time; bite me), it's telling me my password is wrong! After the first few times I decided that maybe the password I had chosen was just too complex for my idiot brain to type properly more than once, but after changing my password to "fuckyou" it STILL doesn't work!
Fuck you Twitter. I don't know what your god damn problem is, but you can shove it so far up your ass covered in superglue that it sticks to your lymphatic system and I can yank the whole thing out and use it to enrich my Jenkem brew, which I then make you huff until radioactive waste pours from your eye sockets.
Try just opening a new account?
Could also be a browser issue. But yeah.
That's lame. What browser are you using?
Quote from: Cainad on April 11, 2009, 02:41:21 PM
but after changing my password to "fuckyou" it STILL doesn't work!
Quote from: Enki-][ on April 11, 2009, 04:27:25 PM
The "remember password" feature is a lifesaver for precisely this reason.
its not a bug, its a random feature
Quote from: Telarus on April 11, 2009, 09:22:36 PM
That's lame. What browser are you using?
The same problem happens in both Firefox and Opera.
http://twitter.com/whereRtheFNORDS
name tags that ill be adding often: chaos, discord, discordia, discordian, eris, fnord, fnords
Twitscoop is a good way to keep track of what words and phrases are currently trending on Twitter.
http://www.twitscoop.com/
Or just get TweetDeck. It's already built in.
enki were you hiding hxxp://www.outwit.me from us?
Cainad have you asked someone to make you account yet?
:fnord:
Following 325 Followers 22
blog it out? might give us a target to work to inject words into it.
<iframe style="height:300px;width:150px" frameborder="0" src="http://www.twitscoop.com/widget.html"></iframe>
:fap:
:argh!: seems adobe air (and scrible) doesnt like my machine
Ok, we seem to have quite a few people going. So, next part of the Project:
-List you username (in Bold).
-List 5 (to ten) people you recommend following (who aren't on this board)
{After we have a few rounds of this, I'm going to ask for people on the board who haven't posted or we have missed.}
Then we build the wiki-page, and start looking at the over-all network setup. Does anyone know of visualization software for that kind of network?
TelarusKSC
tyrsalvia
drjon
brainsturbator
StephenTColbert
metaphorge
klintron
chaoflux
ulysseslazarus
enkiv2
cyc_ai
trent_reznor
godthemother
tweet_words
memetweet
jablair51
Theoforx (I'm not sure if he post here or not. I can't figure out who he is)
dangerousmeme
GodTheFather (Hilarious)
hoosiergirl
BadAstronomer (Phil Plait)
BreakingNews
#teabaggers :lulz:
whereRtheFNORDS
dpvp_23 (odd twits)
Illogicopedia (dot org)
skilluminati (good personality)
kallisti_x (http://www.theappleofdiscord.com/)
projectpastiche (asked me if i knew god was a crazy woman after following her)
dangerousmeme (http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dan_dennett_on_dangerous_memes.html)
quite a few dead wood on the tags i went for... i say i have to trim out about a hundred
:mittens: I know there are more of you lurking this thread, spill the infos already.
@skilluminati is @brainsturbator (Justin Boland, aka the rap artist thirtyseven, aka PIZZA S.E.O. blog, and websites on both twitter usernames).
Idea Note: CD full of intermittens bundled with some of thirtyseven's work (if he'd be willing to donate a few tracks), along with a few tracks from the music spags from here = memetic viral-bomb. Then, tweet the website link to the network forming here, and make burning and hiding the CDs in public a GASM.
Anyone want to have a crack at naming this network, just so I can stop using the word network all the network.
I was actually thinking that the network would be more or less joined by the use of a hashtag, rather than having an account for it... Like #THEGASM
Sorry if the @ symbol threw you [edited it out of previous post], I was just looking for a name. I really like the idea of a Hashtag to co-ordinate it, so we'd want something short.
I was going to suggest #discord but people would get that mixed up with the IRC channel. #GASM could work.
so far
#PDspags - introductions to the network
#GASM - tag for any ideas
#YoGabbaGabba - :lulz:
Quote from: Yάttᶿ on April 15, 2009, 08:21:51 PM
#YoGabbaGabba - :lulz:
Ahem: http://twitter.com/GabbaFriends
And I have actually tweeted about Yo Gabba Gabba before. The perils of having a 2 year old, I guess.
I think I should autotag all NotBroken's automated postings with #hecomes
Bif Naked (bifnaked) is now following your updates on Twitter.
must think of targeted fnord...
Ok, been poking around with the hashtags. #om seems to be in wide use referring to something other than our OM.
I'm going with #gasm (#GASM) as it will segue people into the other GASMs pretty well. We can use #eris and #discord for other subjects.
Ok, I'm going to be linking to some interesting/useful twitter "things" (apps, visualizations, etc). If you come across something cool you can do with twitter, please post it here.
If you've been reading this thread and haven't signed up for Twitter or haven't spilled your username and top 5 'to follow'.....
Well, fucking do it already. That is all.
Links:
Hashtag.org "Trends": http://hashtags.org/trends/now
-This will be very useful once we have TwitterGASM up to speed. This will allow us to peak at the 'current' topics of conversation (which we could then piggyback off of).
Twitter Friends Network Browser: http://www.neuroproductions.be/twitter_friends_network_browser/
-Friends Network Viz, should come in handy. A little clunky, tho.
TwitterThoughts: http://yvoschaap.com/twitterthoughts/
-TwitterThoughts is an advanced tool and mashup that visually graphs Twitter trends based on a variety of factors, such as number of tweets and followed total. It takes its information from a sample subset of Twitter accounts. The data can be complicated to work with, but it is a unique way to visualize data on Twitter. It also comes with a world Twitter map and a list of recent top Twitter trends.
Twitter StreamGraphs: http://www.neoformix.com/Projects/TwitterStreamGraphs/view.php
-Twitter StreamGraphs is another data-based visualization of Twitter trends. Instead of loading bar charts or line items, it uses stream graphs to display words and tags associated with a keyword, based on a thousand recent tweets. It's especially adept at visualizing tweets over time and can visualize the top keywords of any individual tweeter.
TweetWheel: http://tweetwheel.com/
-Nice circular Viz with pretty colors.
InFlow: http://orgnet.com/inflow3.html
-Shows emergent patterns and groups followers by "interest clusters". THIS IS A GOOD ONE, costs $ tho.
TweetBeep: http://tweetbeep.com/
-Get email updates on tweets that include specific keywords.
TwitterLocal: http://www.twitterlocal.net/
-Filter tweets by geographic location. May be useful to track targeted OM activities, like a local PosterGASM blitz.
Ok, I'm trying out the TweetWheel site right now, will post graphic in a little while.
Delicious account just for twit bookmarks??
also people directory http://wefollow.com/
also maybe #meme
http://discordia.wikia.com/wiki/TwitterGASM
#swineflu isnt #kosher #memebomb
also seeding twits in #pie
1st attempt at visualizing the network. Only my 2ndary connections shown.
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_ET-SdQY3hlo/SfXtCKnb_5I/AAAAAAAAAr0/uUcSIr2EjLk/s912/DiscordianSocietyMap_Test02.jpg)
Holy shit, I just logged in successfully!
Good idea of starting to GASM Twibe, Telarus. Let's much sure everyone gets in on it.
http://www.twibes.com/group/gasm
Here's my latest. May have missed people.
(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_ET-SdQY3hlo/SfYrwJXDNvI/AAAAAAAAAsQ/pa3NfYAi5HI/s1280/DiscordianSocietyMap_Test03.jpg)
Again, these are mainly my connections. I'd like a better tool to map out all the twitter connections and then grow a network from there.
Joined. I must pay more attention to my twitter-er.
#swineflu isnt kosher #memebomb
2:55 PM Apr 25th from web
Swine Flu Not Kosher in Israel
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=7436806 - 13 hours ago
seems like some reporter liked my title or :?
related
CDC using Twitter for swine flu information
Swine flu creates controversy on Twitter
hxxp://twitterati.alltop.com/
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=twitterati
hxxp://www.twitterrati.com/about/
hi peepl, my twitter acct is http://twitter.com/tripzilch I just added a whole bunch of people (from here) for following, so you should see me.
i haven't posted much on my twitter acct, i was a bit skeptical about its use at first, but I randomly gave it a shot for trying to follow the news about the queen's day disaster in Apeldoorn, and ... well turns out twitter is more than perfect for getting real time, at the moment news, including inside-scoops and rumors, and often more information or the first than the traditional media outlets, just by following #apeldoorn and later #k09 I got to see pictures and info about the idiot that did it (via his license plate, people looked up registration, etc) within half an hour of it happening, fucking surreal and completely amazing.
so yeah, twitter, I'm in.
What exactly happened with that, anyway? There was an attempted assassination, right?
http://yfrog.com/23americanrevolutionbostoj #teaparty #teabagging
Interesting twitter Viz app:
http://socialcollider.net/
I twittered this for yall but here it is anywho.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hvxAszrGuX2Vncmk-qApJN5U6cUAD97SBR8O2
Quote from: Dr Goofy on May 05, 2009, 09:31:45 PM
I twittered this for yall but here it is anywho.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hvxAszrGuX2Vncmk-qApJN5U6cUAD97SBR8O2
All social websites have a limited life cycle. MySpace is mostly dead. Facebook is likely to decline soon. Twitter is on the uptick. The only thing that will keep a site like this going is constant innovation. You'll notice that MySpace's decline almost exactly coincides with Tom getting bought out by Rupert Murdoch.
I'm sure that Twitter is just a fad that we'll laugh about with our grandkids though.
i dont know twitter is so open sourced with the RSS feeds
it could easily take on more market share with the right app or business arrangement
only a matter of time until its added to the chat bundles like gaim
example hxxp://www.twitqa.com/
hey everyone's favorite action movie star (me)
http://www.twitter.com/novaxian
come on you know you wanna follow me :fnord:
Random idea: a Twitter bot that twits random high-ranked membombs from the membomb tool every 24hrs or so
Would be a good automated way to spread the memebombs, and would synergize amazingly with the tool, especially if it links back to the tool (on profile or every time it posts).
(If I had teh coding skillz I would do this myself, but I don't code. :()
Quote from: VERB` on May 10, 2009, 08:27:05 PM
Random idea: a Twitter bot that twits random high-ranked membombs from the membomb tool every 24hrs or so
Would be a good automated way to spread the memebombs, and would synergize amazingly with the tool, especially if it links back to the tool (on profile or every time it posts).
(If I had teh coding skillz I would do this myself, but I don't code. :()
I could implement that. Probably through my own account, too.
I'd need a server to run it, cause I'm not online 24/7
Go with a bot that tweets 1 memebomb per X hours, building a queue from "new memebombs in the top 23" or something.
Probably best to have a tinyurl to the memebomb's page, with the format:
<MEMEBOMB> <URL>
In lots of cases it would look like the memebomb itself could refer to something in a link, so people may see the link and click it to "find out more"... And thus they discover the database.
y/n? /m?
Great Idea.
I have a server and can run it. I certainly can write it as well. Should this be a separate account? I can mainline it into my own account, which has plenty of followers off PD.
I can go by my cached version of the DB easily, but if you want it based on the memebomb db as it exists, I will have to do some spagging around with page dumping and forbid people from changing the format significantly without telling me (otherwise I'd end up spamming gibberish to twitter -- goddess forbid!)
I think a separate account would be pretty cool.
1. separate account please
2. the memebomb tool has xml output: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/memebombs/?action=list&o=rating&m=100&template=xml so given a good high level programming language (like python) parsing should be easy peasy (google python+sax for simple and basic xml parsing). also posting to twitter is easily done with the python twitter module (google it), so you could be done in 20 lines of code :)
I'll do it in my copious free time, unless someone has more copious free time than I do and manages to finish it first, in which case I will continue to slack off.
please to tweet:
FDA: Cheerios gets you HAMMERED
http://digg.com/d1rA9G
http://digg.com/d1rA5T
http://digg.com/d1rCsK
edit: added third link
Quote from: Cramulus on May 14, 2009, 02:23:48 AM
please to tweet:
FDA: Cheerios gets you HAMMERED
http://digg.com/d1rA9G
http://digg.com/d1rA5T
Done
I tweeted the pipe pic and a link to the original story.
@anonomatic, a bot which lets you tweet anonymously
@deliciomatic, a bot that collects your tweet links and posts them to your Delicious account
hxxp://www.botomatic.com/
That's frikkin awesome. I need to migrate my Simpy links to Delicious. Anyone know of an easy way to do this?
I've finally opened a separate account for St. Verbatim (not to be confused with my IRL shit):
https://twitter.com/stVERB
So apparently there is a site called Twibes which lets you make Twitter groups. And some German spag made a Discordia gwoup: http://www.twibes.com/group/discordia
I'm already 50% of the group, if any of you join there will be a PDCOM majority. :D
yay licensing :D
http://www.tweetcc.com/
If Twitter has done one thing, it has proven my course is pretty sexy. There are a lot of seriously attractive women studying IR out there.
Attn, RWHN: http://twitter.com/ComicTwit
Who is this spag? http://twitter.com/dangerousmeme
Not one of us on PD, as far as I know. But useful, probably. Given the name.
Oh ok. They are indeed useful... as they are following me.
(http://marcdegrandpre.com/images/lulz/Dramatic%20squirrel.gif)
I would like to know who really does that account. He does a good job at it.
BTW, all of you should be following Jesus General: http://twitter.com/JC_Christian
His feud with Meghan McCain yesterday was EPIC! :lulz:
We now track 2,683,429 unique Twitter accounts.
http://twittercounter.com/whereRtheFNORDS/
also whats a good name for the discordian twits
Quote from: Dr Goofy on June 03, 2009, 05:47:05 AM
Who is this spag? http://twitter.com/dangerousmeme
ha! I was just about to post this guy as he started following me too.
his feed is chock full of super interesting links, IMO. good stuff, right?
Quote from: Triple Zero on June 03, 2009, 08:51:00 AM
Quote from: Dr Goofy on June 03, 2009, 05:47:05 AM
Who is this spag? http://twitter.com/dangerousmeme
ha! I was just about to post this guy as he started following me too.
his feed is chock full of super interesting links, IMO. good stuff, right?
I haven't checked the links but I found his post to be interesting IMO
I'm liking nwo_watch as well.
:jihaad: http://is.gd/Pz4s
TODO: export the table to a blog so we can have safari trips and act like monkeys
QuoteYou can create groups of up to 30 people in each box of a grid.
To create a group, type group: (that's the word "group" with a colon) followed by a comma-separated list of up to 30 twitter usernames.
Example: group:jazzychad, tweetgrid, biz, ev, waynesutton, respres, takeroot
Click Here for an example grid using the above group.
You do not need to put an @ symbol in front of each name.
This will update the box with only tweets from this group of people. At the moment there is no way to filter groups for keywords, but that is coming next.
good idea?
http://principiadiscordia.com/gasmfeed/
add
<script language="javascript">
/* widget config */
var jtw_divname = 'jtw_widget1';
var jtw_search = '#GASM';
var jtw_width = '400px';
var jtw_height = '500px';
var jtw_scroll = 'yes';
var jtw_widget_background = '#CFF2FF';
var jtw_widget_border = '2px solid #4192AF';
var jtw_center_widget = 'yes';
/* tweet styling */
var jtw_tweet_textcolor = '';
var jtw_tweet_background = 'url(./img/greygrad.png) repeat-x #fff';
var jtw_tweet_newbackground = '#ffe';
var jtw_tweet_border = '1px solid #4192AF';
var jtw_tweet_margin = '5px';
var jtw_tweet_fontsize = '12px';
var jtw_hide_img = '';
/* search and display config */
var jtw_pre_html = '<center><b>Golden Apple Seed Missions</b></center>';
var jtw_post_html = '';
var jtw_mid_html = '<hr>';
var jtw_num_tweets = '25';
var jtw_tweet_lang = 'en';
var jtw_widget_refresh_interval= 10;
</script>
<script src="http://tweetgrid.com/widget/widget.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
or :?
source: hxxp://bit.ly/o0UPf
Followers
Accounts with 0 followers: 29.4%
Accounts with 1 to 9 followers: 50.9%
Accounts with 10 or more followers: 19.7%
Followings
Accounts following 0 people: 24.4%
Accounts following 1 to 9 people: 43.4%
Accounts following 10 or more people: 32.2%
Tweets
Accounts with 0 Tweets: 37.1%
Accounts with 1 to 9 Tweets: 41.0%
Accounts with more 10 or more Tweets: 21.9%
Seems very odd. I have 287 followers and all I ever do is sent out nonsense.
not really nonsense is salvation
newser.com/story/60875/jilted-guy-hides-ring-in-twitter-treasure-hunt.html
A New Zealand man who finds himself with a “spare ring” is going to hide it somewhere in the capital city Saturday—and post clues as to its location on a Twitter treasure hunt, the Dominion Post reports. Currently some 700 followers are gunning for Anthony Gardiner's $3,200 ring, which bears five .25-carat diamonds.
meh I have 30 and I normally just post links to old show's opening song, like Bobby's world
Quote from: Enki-][ on June 06, 2009, 06:43:34 PM
Seems very odd. I have 287 followers and all I ever do is sent out nonsense.
:lulz:
This would be a great topic for a peedy/blog entry
especially considering our recent discussions about nonsense (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=20959.0)and all
Why no love for old tv show themes?
ENKI do you follow back everybody that starts following you? often if you don't follow back your followers some will unfollow you.
because there's lots of "twitter marketers" and I dunno .. stuff .. might even be legit, but they just seem to trigger whenever you use certain words, and you get another follow. I mention "Python" and I get retweeted by some random Python-Bot with a lot of followers, really if the thing just retweets whoever mentions "Python", who'd want to read that?? (or even has the time to sort the crud from the crap)
anyway, my point is that if you output nonsense, you probably hit a pretty wide variety of keywords, and attract a wide variety of people that follow you.
Quote from: Cramulus on June 08, 2009, 06:07:27 AM
Quote from: Enki-][ on June 06, 2009, 06:43:34 PM
Seems very odd. I have 287 followers and all I ever do is sent out nonsense.
:lulz:
This would be a great topic for a peedy/blog entry
especially considering our recent discussions about nonsense (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=20959.0)and all
Quote from: Triple Zero on June 08, 2009, 01:36:45 PM
ENKI do you follow back everybody that starts following you? often if you don't follow back your followers some will unfollow you.
I follow anyone who seems like a human non-marketroid who might seem interesting who follows me, or a bot that doesn't appear to be a spammer. That means that perhaps one out of every sixteen people who follow me I follow back.
Quote
because there's lots of "twitter marketers" and I dunno .. stuff .. might even be legit, but they just seem to trigger whenever you use certain words, and you get another follow. I mention "Python" and I get retweeted by some random Python-Bot with a lot of followers, really if the thing just retweets whoever mentions "Python", who'd want to read that?? (or even has the time to sort the crud from the crap)
anyway, my point is that if you output nonsense, you probably hit a pretty wide variety of keywords, and attract a wide variety of people that follow you.
If they say "marketing" in their bio, that's a good tipoff that they are a meat/sock puppet spammer who will direct message you a bunch of stuff you don't care about. Same with any username that looks like a bunch of arbitrary characters paired with an exceedingly generic name. Others will be somewhat less obvious, but if somebody starts spamming me, I will unfriend them pretty quickly. That stat is probably nearly a month old, though -- I got it from mistertweet, which only updates once a month.
Quote from: Broken AI on June 09, 2009, 07:59:50 AM
well, i finally signed up to twitter, as keithrolly.
I plan to "tweet" every single damn dull thing I do for the next month or so, using my kindle to send said tweets from all over the damn show. mundane? yes. pointless? yes.
BUT ITS WHAT EVERYONE ELSE IS DOING!!!!
AM I FOLLOWING YOU YET?
I FORGTO WHAT IS YOUR USERNAME
Quote from: Broken AI on June 09, 2009, 07:59:50 AM
well, i finally signed up to twitter, as keithrolly.
I plan to "tweet" every single damn dull thing I do for the next month or so, using my kindle to send said tweets from all over the damn show. mundane? yes. pointless? yes.
BUT ITS WHAT EVERYONE ELSE IS DOING!!!!
I unfollow people who constantly tweet boring pointless shit. Or complain constantly. Some people seem to think Twitter is the perfect venue for constantly bitching about their boyfriend or ex or neighbor or housemate or whatever.
(http://flowingdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/twitter-browser.png)
:fap:
WTF is that supposed to be? Are we just supposed to sit here and guess?
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on June 16, 2009, 01:23:09 AM
WTF is that supposed to be? Are we just supposed to sit here and guess?
Ever since he stole stickerninja's avatar, I've just assumed if yatto doesn't make sense, he's actually crazy.
its being able to see your own strings
Quote from: yatto on June 15, 2009, 11:37:20 PM
(http://flowingdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/twitter-browser.png)
:fap:
I see a boob in your twitter network.
Or maybe an eye.
Either way, offset concentric circles are good for wanking.
a question, since a few weeks twitter auto-shortens some longer URLs with bit.ly, does anyone know a trick to prevent this from happening?
cause sometimes i want to include the full URL so people become aware of a domain, or simply because the URL is descriptive enough and would allow one to fit more into the 140 char limit than having to sacrifice 12-20 chars to an obtuse bit.ly code.
i know it has something to do with twitter and bit.ly having the same mother company (or some similar connection) and naturally it is datamining GOLD to obtain all information about all the URLs shared through Twitter.
In case you didn't know, bit.ly also logs the twitter user to share a link, the twitter user clicking on it and discussions in which it is retweeted.
Fortunately we can all access this wonderful information as well! And it is as easy as appending a "+" to the bit.ly URL, example:
http://000.blackironprison.com/holy-fuck-stickers.html >> http://bit.ly/zjX6k >> http://bit.ly/zjX6k+
the last link doesnt take us to the stickers webpage, but to an info webpage on bit.ly, showing the link has been clicking 55 times, 31 times from the US, 8 times from the Netherlands and 8 from outer space.
it also got a nice bar graph showing activity over time.
very useful to track success of your memes. so, all in all, having bit.ly autoconversion on twitter isnt all bad, it's just kinda bad :-)
Another random idea: the hypothetical memebot could, once every five memes, select a random trending hashtag and append it to the tweet. This will get a random subsection of the tweeted memes a totally disproportionate amount of attention. This depends, of course, on the memebomb tool being something we actually want the world to see.
BTW, Trip, thanks for the info on bit.ly, it's really useful that you can track your links that way!
hm actually, I got this little piece of code lying around here, for calculating something called the "Generalized Yahoo Distance", which could be used to correlate words from the memebomb with some of the trending topics, to see which it would fit best (according to a bunch of stats gathered from Yahoo!Search result pages).
however, about trending hashtags, the fact that they are trending just means that a lot of people post tweets with those hashtags in them. that doesnt mean a lot of people are following/searching for those tags, afaik. they probably are already spammed to death by the fact they are top-trending, personally I would be quite reluctant to follow a hashtag that is trending cause of all the noise on it?
unfortunately you can't really find out anywhere which tags people are following, afaik.
But you can guess. I would guess when a trending topic starts trailing off into the long tail of tweets that are past the topic peak, there will be a lot of people seeing the topic or the hashtag and wondering what's being/been said, which would lead them to search for the topic. It's the point where latecomers have to figure out the trend before getting on the bandwagon. At the same time, it would not be so heavily spammed as to make it impossible for anyone to notice something thrown in. This is all, of course, just theory. The bit.ly tracking info might be a good tool for testing this stuff.
ahem @hashtags hashtags dot org
ETA related tags could be useful
nbcphiladelphia.com/around_town/the_scene/NATLFoodies-Flock-to-Twitter-Friendly-Carts.html
Twitter recently became the communique of choice for the almost cultishly popular Kogi BBQ trucks, roving Korean-style taco vendors in Los Angeles that use the 140-character, cell phone-friendly missives to alert customers to their whereabouts and menu items.
And she thinks the success of food truck Tweets likely will inspire a broader use of Twitter across the food world.
@PDXfoodcarts :fnord:
Quote from: Broken AI on June 26, 2009, 09:13:41 AM
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4OYGjUrdllo/SkLrKwRwtlI/AAAAAAAAX4g/VttYiIWAzZE/s1600/loosetweets.jpg)
Holy shit, I need a life-sized poster of that for my dorm next year.
If someone prints, I'll buy one.
Rise of the Twinterns
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1199648/Rise-Twinterns-Work-experience-students-charge-social-media-major-brands.html
is there some rooster sheet or something
Where do I send my resume to be an AstroTurfer? That seems like the best job ever. Spend all day on internet subtlety spamming up the place.
BTW, this Sprite I'm drinking is awesome!
Dangerousmeme has started to tag those that retweet... Deputy Replicators
what to do with these names...
(http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/4535/neww.gif) take on shit twitting
http://twitter.com/Dalegacy/status/2193949650
Quote from: NotARealFurby on July 19, 2009, 08:13:28 AM
Dangerousmeme has started to tag those that retweet... Deputy Replicators
what to do with these names...
Well, you could always follow other Deputy Replicators and hope that they start to follow you. It couldn't hurt.
more thinking of trying to get a cabal named and stuck together :D
mrtweet.com :?
@GolfPut - auto follows those who twit the word "golf"
more tools...
http://twitrobot.com/index.html
@takebackthebeep is a call to action from David Pogue of The New York Times to end useless and annoying wireless voicemail instructions.
I have to mark twittergasm as loosely a success of some kind. I keep on seeing RTs of memebombs by people who are not even tangentally involved with discordianism, even of the non-peedy variety.
Some examples:
Exoplanetology @archetyper @blustr RT @enkiv2 Reality is the original Rorschach Test. #memebomb
advertisinglies RT @Jablair51 Black sheep are still sheep. #memebomb
murmur55 RT @enkiv2 Ridicule may lawfully be employed where reason has no hope of success. #memebomb #discordia || #police #lawenforcement
Advertisinglies is my new BFF. I'm sure we could pull her over to Discordianism if we tried hard enough.
Ah. When I was composing that list, I left out anyone who I recognized from prior correspondence, and anyone who appeared to know about discordianism (this means I left out the retweets from qjohn). I imagine we could determine pretty good statistics on who is probably being exposed to the memebombs without using links, just by looking at all the retweeters and how many mutual friends they have, and the percentage of responses to statements they get.
It might be useful to compile a list of all known Discordians And Related Clowns for any discordian twitternaut who needs good contacts. Of course, any of our followers' lists is a good start....
some of the discordian clowns are kinda spammy and contentless though. at least I wouldnt want to follow them all. same as I stopped following #fnord :)
Quote from: VERBtr on September 26, 2009, 12:08:38 PM
It might be useful to compile a list of all known Discordians And Related Clowns for any discordian twitternaut who needs good contacts. Of course, any of our followers' lists is a good start....
There's a link to a list on the wiki earlier in the thread.
http://discordia.wikia.com/wiki/TwitterGASM
found. on first page.
speaking of which, enki, have you given up on the memebomb-bot thing?
I haven't, per-se. I still have the code. The problem is still connecting it to SOMA. It shouldn't be *too* hard, but I still haven't gotten around to it.
If anyone else wants to give it a go, the code is hanging around.
http://xcubiclabs.com/the-flaming-xbird a tool for automatically posting on twitter
That's the part I wrote, actually ;-). The hard part is getting the memebombs out of the response from SOMA.
you are xcubic? or you wrote a program that does the same?
posting stuff to twitter automatically is nto that hard, ENKI already wrote that (afaik part of his tweets are generated already? corrrect me if im wrong).
the memebomb database outputs data in XML format, which should be as easy as pointing an XML parser at it in a programming language that supports files over http (such as PHP or Python, not sure maybe even Perl).
Yep. I have one that will automatically grab from a text file or a fortune cookie file, cut it down, append the hashtag, etc. I'm just not familiar enough with the various python xml parsers to be able to figure out how to get them to do what I want them to. The focus of all the ones I've seen has been on getting tag args, rather than tag content. I may just use regexes, rather than bothering with xml parsers.
it's really incredibly easy to do. check out this little thingy I wrote for Cram a while back for inspiration:
http://pastebin.com/f25a3343a
plz tweet/digg/stumbleup/etc: http://cramul.us/2010/12/the-et-cetera-discordia/
Sometimes, you just need to know the Discordian Date right now.
Found this:
https://twitter.com/#!/ddate
Been following that one since ages :)
There's also a Big Ben twitter that just goes BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG every hour :lol:
Quote from: Triple Zero on December 08, 2011, 04:39:03 PM
Been following that one since ages :)
There's also a Big Ben twitter that just goes BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG every hour :lol:
:lulz: :lulz:
Quote from: Triple Zero on December 08, 2011, 04:39:03 PM
Been following that one since ages :)
There's also a Big Ben twitter that just goes BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG every hour :lol:
Wow. :lulz: That's genius.
my twatter thingy is @sermoiii.
@placiddingo
still @tripzilch (http://m.twitter.com/tripzilch).
i'm @bimpleton (http://twitter.com/bimpleton)
think I said that before but people bumped this so I thought I'd join in! plus, I started using twitter again
@therealcrocus (https://twitter.com/#!/therealcrocus)
New to this twitter business. Mostly retweet news regarding international politics, tech, terror, cyberwarfare etc.