Twitterbaiting - n. The act of sending public, direct tweets to midly-famous/internet-famous people whom you follow (but who don’t follow you) in an attempt to bait them into @replying back, thereby appearing to random passersby like you are BFF.
Also, see the double entendre factor of basically only having a conversation for your own satisfaction.
Twittergasm - n. The momentary gasp of excitement when you discover the object of your Twitterbaiting has proffered up a reply.
Announced…. via Twitter? Well, I guess someone in the government understands new media.
I hope this isn’t just viral marketing for the new X-Files movie. (July 25th!)
(via catbird)
::big sigh:: Ok, I’ve caught up on some outstanding RSS feed action. That anxious feeling has subsided and I am on the way back to the Hackers on Planet Earth conference.
(Note: Future blog coming on the specific facial cringe hardware hackers perform when you say, “Hey, are you on twitter?”)
Twarmageddon (n.) - A sense of the coming e-pocalypse as heralded by a twinami of outage posts.
UPDATE: Google apologizes via its blog. Universe resumes course through galaxy.
Does this mean twitter is officially over?
View the Top 100 followed and cool #hashtag tools at wefollow.com
Spreadtweet is a desktop twitter app that mimics the appearance of an Excel spreadsheet. Yessssss.
@publicdomain has been tweeting Alice in Wonderland line by line for quite a while now, cracking open little fortune cookies of synchronicity along the way.
via everyone on tumblr
Tweet of the Day: ABC’s Terry Moran tweeted this off-the-record remark made by President Obama during a CNBC interview, then quickly deleted it. Of course, the Internet being the Internet, nothing ever really goes away.
That’s my President!
Based on Postage by Greg Cooper. Everything heavily modified by me.
*Unlikely to find your lost post using this but you can try...
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