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Twitter Weekly Digest for 2009-03-30

by on Mar.30, 2009, under Updates

  • just had my first foray into new age http://www.drzail.com The psy­cho babel was ques­tion­able but the adjust­ment was right on. #fb #
  • @Sabri­naGee That’s ridonku­lous #
  • Why are old peo­ple the slow­est dri­vers? Shouldn’t they be the MOST rushed? After all, they do have the short­est time left to live. #fb #
  • New Post on my blog: Kogi BBQ stole their taco idea from ME!!!: Yes you read my title right,.. http://tinyurl.com/d579pb #
  • Those must be fake! Look how skinny she is… That’d be phys­i­cally impos­si­ble! …but I bet you couldn’t drown her. *gulp *gulp #
  • Those must be fake! Look how skinny she is… That’d be phys­i­cally impos­si­ble! …but I bet you couldn’t drown her. *gulp *gulp #fb #
  • some peo­ple just don’t under­stand love. and sadly, those peo­ple will be doomed to never enjoy it. #fb #
  • is the lat­est vic­tim of the eco­nomic down­turn. #
  • hasn’t left the house all day. And hasn’t put a shirt on either. #fb #
  • can’t take much more of this devil lan­guage. argh­h­hhh! my ears are bleed­ing! #fb #
  • New Post on my blog: The best Red Vel­vet cup­cakes in LA are not from Sprinkes:
    There’s a de.. http://tinyurl.com/ctvms4 #
  • New Post on my blog: The best Red Vel­vet cup­cakes in LA are not from Sprin­kles. http://www.kwongfucius.com #fb #

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Twitter Weekly Digest for 2009-03-23

by on Mar.23, 2009, under Updates

  • if you hate get­ting caught on cam­era at the club, wait till you see what you look like caught on video! #
  • If we are more than just the sum of our parts, could it be our soul is the unquan­tifi­able por­tion of that sum? #fb #
  • If ur an idiot in real life and have idiot thoughts, Fb sta­tus and Twit­ter just make it pos­si­ble for the world to know ur stu­pid quicker #fb #
  • we are cur­rently in the mid­dle of a par­a­digm shift …but then again, when are we not? #
  • every stereo­type is born from a grain of truth …and a moun­tain of racism #
  • does not have a weak­ness for word games. his weak­ness IS word games. ..can’t spell. it’s a fact. #
  • http://twitpic.com/275z3 — It’s so big! …that’s what she said. #
  • Is about to pop is Kogi cherry. #fb #
  • http://twitpic.com/29o3y — Not even open yet and there’s a line 25 deep. #
  • http://twitpic.com/29o7m — Wait­ing for Kogi on sun­set and man­zanita #
  • Some things never change. There are still Mex­i­cans inside the Kogi truck mak­ing my tacos. #
  • http://twitpic.com/2asusGTA Chi­na­town? Can’t wait to see if this is racist. #
  • @vio­let­mae touche #
  • @vio­let­mae you know I am just the hat­er­ade to your kool-aid #
  • Lac­tose intol­er­ence and going to melt­ing pot on a date don’t match. #fb #

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Twitter as we know it will be dead in a year

by on Mar.17, 2009, under Internet, Rant

There’s a new trend: Broad­cast my life! I am so interesting!

Now that every­one has the abil­ity to, every­one feels the need  …no, the oblig­a­tion to tell the world about every lit­tle thought they have and every bowel move­ment they make. No seri­ously, search for poo or bath­room on twit­ter, you’d be sur­prised. As I was telling my online neme­sis @violetmae (who by the way doesn’t know is my neme­sis yet), I don’t think there is enough inter­est­ing content/people to sup­port a site like Twit­ter for much longer. And now, with the main­stream­ing of Twit­ter, it will be over­loaded with com­plete drib­ble. Every­one from McCain, who doesn’t know how to email, to your mom (…lit­er­ally, your mom. I’m not try­ing to insult you) will be tweet­ing. It’s going to be a com­plete clusterf##k. Imag­ine if you got everybody’s Face­book sta­tus update in your news­feed. That’s going to be Twit­ter. It’d be the same as Youtube tak­ing over DirecTV …but worse! It’s 24/7 lol­cats, old man rants, and fat peo­ple dancing!

Then the next step in the Twit­ter move­ment would have to be a Hulu equiv­a­lent, a more focused site that only has qual­ity con­tent on it. But we already got that; that’s fmylife. But now fmylife has got­ten so pop­u­lar, it has con­se­quently gone to crap. Every­one with a key­board thinks they’re funny and they’ve started gam­ing fmylife with fake posts, fake posts that aren’t even good! I tried to show my friend fmylife the other day and told him how funny it was. We went through two pages before we found some­thing even mildly amus­ing. I was embar­rased. Worse thing was, the post was obvi­ously a fake. You’d need a whole cot­tage indus­try just to shift through the mess and aggre­gate what was worth­while. And the sad truth would be, most of it wouldn’t be worth my pre­cious time. Money, friends, online accounts …my time is the only thing I can’t make more of.

Here’s an even sad­der truth: If you’re bor­ing in real life, you’re prob­a­bly more so on Twit­ter. If you’re an idiot in real life and have idi­otic thoughts, Face­book sta­tus and Twit­ter just makes it eas­ier for the rest of the world to real­ize this …which I guess in it of itself isn’t a bad thing. Then I can weed the idiots out of my life a lot faster. It use to take a while to fig­ure out if a girl was a snotty clingy psy­cho. Now I can just look at her sta­tus his­tory and I’ll know in moments she’s psy­cho when she has post like, “What is love? Will I ever know it? Why are all the guys I date 8554o735?” or “I was out­side his apart­ment again last­night. He says she’s his sis­ter but I know he’s lying.”

But despite hav­ing it’s upshots, like the exam­ple men­tioned above, as well as hav­ing a few inno­v­a­tive and pro­duc­tive ways to use Twit­ter, most won’t know how to use it prop­erly and they will unfor­tu­nately over­whelm those who do. The mes­sages of busi­nesses like Dell and Kogi BBQ will only be a whis­per on the Twit­ter­scape drowned out by the noise of the illit­er­ate masses vying for our atten­tion. In fact, it would serve a busi­ness like Kogi bet­ter to have an API on their web­site that updated their cur­rent loca­tion than risk get­ting lost in #Kogi hell on Twit­ter with a bunch of crap reviews and unin­tended com­ments. Actu­ally, they should already be doing that right now. For proof, just search #sxsw and you’ll get more  “No, I’m not wear­ing green and no, you may not pinch me” than any sub­stan­tial news. And these are sup­pose to be the pros!

To me, the only ray of hope is Face­book. The new Face­book UI is meant to be more like Twit­ter, and that’s smart. Because a site ded­i­cated to tweet­ing alone isn’t inter­est­ing enough to keep my atten­tion. Look at Friend­ster, it was about degrees of seper­a­tion. If it just stayed as that, no one would go there any­more. It had to evolve and that’s what Face­book is doing with its new fron­tend.  And as soon as Face­book offers the best fea­tures of Twit­ter, there will be no real use to tweet. Not only does Face­book offers so much more fun­tion­al­ity than Twit­ter, Face­book has way too big a lead on users for Twit­ter to make a dent. I already intro­duced peo­ple to Twit­ter by telling them it was like a stream of Face­book sta­tuses, it just makes sense for Face­book to take over the Twit­ter world. Do I sense another buy out attempt? Prob­a­bly not, Twit­ter should have seen this com­ing when Face­book tried to buy them out the first time. Either way, it is Facebook’s will­ing­ness to evolve and it’s abil­ity to stay on the fore­front of trends that will keep Face­book at the top of our browser history. A rev­o­lu­tion is at hand, one that started with the Guten­berg Press and that is now cul­mi­nat­ing with sites like Twitter.  Mass pub­lish­ing has been brought to the masses and just like any war, there will be col­lat­eral dam­age. It might serve us all to find a safe place to take cover until the whole thing blows over …oh who am I kid­ding, look to the right of your screen at the blue box and click the icon that says “Follow”.

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Twitter Weekly Digest for 2009-03-16

by on Mar.16, 2009, under Updates

  • just sucker punched some bees in court. What I would give to be a fly on the wall of those damn liti­gious honey mak­ers. #
  • thinks its funny when ugly girls say there r no cute guys at the club. Dont they real­ize guys r look­ing at them n say’n the EXACT same thing #
  • has a love hate rela­tion­ship with his masseur Mr. Zhou. Some­times his war on my knots leaves col­lat­eral dam­age. Now on to the hot tub. #
  • Even Obama haters are peo­ple too. They’re not just an annony­mous red color. That’s a harsh real­ity that I’m try­ing to come to terms with. #
  • Wth? My 74 year old uncle uses skype and is talk­ing about wife swap­ping. This is turn­ing out into very weird din­ner. #
  • is fas­ci­nated by old peo­ple talk­ing about tech­nol­ogy. Blue­tooth, GPS, skype. “It trav­els through the air!” #

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