Comments on: Twatter

Twatter

chrismear — Mon, 14 May 2007 10:58:28 -0800

Twatter - A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: Who are you doing?

By: lodev

lodev — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:04:39 -0800

History repeats itself. Old unix commands and services become Web 1.0 and 2.0 sites. talk and finger became ICQ, LISTSERVE became Yahoo! Groups, ls became Yahoo!, find and grep became Google, rn became Bloglines, pine became Gmail, mount is becoming S3, bash is becoming Yahoo! Pipes, Twitter became wall for the web. So where does twatter fit in? It's the IRC sexchart of Web 2.0!

By: inconsequentialist

inconsequentialist — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:05:42 -0800

I don't think I'd be able to post many updates on an account if I had one, unless people needed to be reminded every day that I'm still doing the same person. A more interesting question might be: What are you doing with the person you are doing?

By: delmoi

delmoi — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:11:05 -0800

why do all the hyperlinks on that page point back to said page?

By: strangeleftydoublethink

strangeleftydoublethink — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:11:55 -0800

Cuz it's a joke?

By: oddman

oddman — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:12:16 -0800

How's about: What aren't you allowed to do with the person you are doing but would like to?

By: lodev

lodev — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:13:18 -0800

delmoi: because they were too lazy to expand their parody to multiple pages. See also: getafirstlife.com, for example.

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:21:11 -0800

::snort::

By: Stynxno

Stynxno — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:24:17 -0800

hugs.

By: nilihm

nilihm — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:27:58 -0800

Note: Logs sold to highest bidder according to procedure, detailed in our privacy policy.

By: YoBananaBoy

YoBananaBoy — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:28:03 -0800

lodev, I thought you were really going somewhere with that comment starting with talk and finger.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:29:51 -0800

The Internet has completed it's evolution from crude local network to worldwide electronic men's room wall.

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:35:52 -0800

I don't believe in the internet anymore.

By: bhouston

bhouston — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:42:37 -0800

Weird visuals. On my LCD screen there is an illusion that those blue links are floating above the page. Most likely unintended.

By: bhouston

bhouston — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:43:18 -0800

I think the visual strangeness has to do with the text for the blue links being offset down just slightly or something like that when rendered in FireFox.

By: mkb

mkb — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:44:35 -0800

Wow, there's people I know on the sex chart. Heh.

By: The Straightener

The Straightener — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:46:29 -0800

I was expecting something more like Twittervision but with twats. Like, you take a cell phone picture of some twat on the bus and send it to your friends like, "dude, check out this twat."

By: inconsequentialist

inconsequentialist — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:48:45 -0800

Weird visuals. On my LCD screen there is an illusion that those blue links are floating above the page. Most likely unintended. That's how the trip always starts.

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:51:59 -0800

If this is the best of the web, then jonmc is right.

By: drstein

drstein — Mon, 14 May 2007 12:02:09 -0800

"worldwide electronic men's room wall." I was thinking "port-a-potty wall" myself. There's a port-a-potty I know of in San Jose where people have actually written paragraphs answering back to the gang graffiti. Only in the Silicon Valley.

By: davejay

davejay — Mon, 14 May 2007 12:04:25 -0800

I wonder if the same people who give a free pass to government requirements for tracking their movements (cameras, RFID IDs, wiretapping, etc.) because they're "not doing anything wrong, and so have nothing to hide" would also give a free pass to this sort of thing if it were a government requirement (and of course real instead of a silly web joke.) After all, if you're not ashamed of the people you're sleeping with, and not committing adultery or something else that's questionable, why shouldn't you freely provide this information? As a tool for tracking sexually-transmitted diseases it would be a boon, after all, plus citizens would be much better informed about the people their potential partners have slept with (at last bringing accurate data to the idea of "when you sleep with one person, you're sleeping with everyone else they've ever slept with.") Plus, it'd be pretty obvious to see who the prostitutes are.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 14 May 2007 12:12:02 -0800

(also, I'm surprised there aren't a whole lot of people posting 'your mother.')

By: brownpau

brownpau — Mon, 14 May 2007 12:14:49 -0800

It's "whom are you doing," fwiw.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 14 May 2007 12:17:55 -0800

Grammr 2.0

By: chuckdarwin

chuckdarwin — Mon, 14 May 2007 12:23:51 -0800

Thanks, I was wondering what twitter was.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 14 May 2007 12:33:41 -0800

*registers whomr.com*

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 14 May 2007 12:35:26 -0800

Was whor.com taken?

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 14 May 2007 12:38:00 -0800

YES BY YOUR MOTHER IIIIIIIIIICE BURN

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Mon, 14 May 2007 14:17:40 -0800

When you have sex with someone who's on the internet, you're also having sex with everyone else who's on the internet.

By: Asherah

Asherah — Mon, 14 May 2007 15:07:01 -0800

When you have sex with someone who's on the internet, you're also having sex with everyone else who's on the internet. So how was I, klangklangston?

By: mkhall

mkhall — Mon, 14 May 2007 15:35:10 -0800

When you have sex with someone who's on the internet, you're also having sex with everyone else who's on the internet. I hope it was good for you, too.

By: mkhall

mkhall — Mon, 14 May 2007 15:36:11 -0800

Damn phone call making me miscue my lame joke...

By: pupdog

pupdog — Mon, 14 May 2007 16:40:49 -0800

So how was I, klangklangston? Amazing. At least I think that was you, it was a little crowded.

By: sparkletone

sparkletone — Thu, 17 May 2007 11:43:46 -0800

Metafilter: Dude, check out this twat. Related to Metafilter: Christ, what an asshole?