Comments on: Cyber Shaq

Cyber Shaq

Lutoslawski — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:26:33 -0800

Shaquille O'Neil's Twitter.<

By: PhatLobley

PhatLobley — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:28:55 -0800

Shaq is awesome.

By: dhammond

dhammond — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:30:32 -0800

Yeah, I've been loving this for a few weeks now. All hail Shaq!

By: Joe Beese

Joe Beese — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:32:50 -0800

Maybe it's a generational thing. But the mere thought of reading a Twitter page makes me want to claw my eyes out.

By: twoleftfeet

twoleftfeet — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:34:37 -0800

Kottke's entry on this has that goofy picture of Shaq.

By: saladin

saladin — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:36:30 -0800

The Big Cactus abides. Awesome find, thanks Lutoslawski.

By: filthy light thief

filthy light thief — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:37:45 -0800

Can we have a list of all celebrity twitter feeds and be done with it? Here's a list of "minor" celebrities, and a few big-time folks, and another list.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:40:13 -0800

Lulz

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:41:24 -0800

I mean knowing how to use Twitter but not Wikipedia (or Google) -- that's epic lulz in my book. Maybe this is because I'm an asshole.

By: billysumday

billysumday — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:41:53 -0800

Win.

By: Peach

Peach — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:47:01 -0800

Maybe it's a generational thing. But the mere thought of reading a Twitter page makes me want to claw my eyes out.

Since I'm 57 and I enjoy reading Twitter pages (one way to have desultory conversations with my daughter--other ways are text messaging, Facebook, and livejournal), I'm guessing you must be either pretty young or reeeeal old.

By: mullacc

mullacc — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:49:03 -0800

I have a Charles Barkley twitter feed wired directly to my brain.

By: gman

gman — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:49:26 -0800

His right hand looks totally deformed in that photo.

By: cgomez

cgomez — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:51:34 -0800

Craig Hockenberry, creator or the CHOCK LOCK and Twitterrific, has been feuding with Shaq for a while. I present, teh_real_chock.

By: tcv

tcv — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:52:51 -0800

"@THE_REAL_KOBE Tell me how my ass tastes!" :-D

By: Zambrano

Zambrano — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:58:45 -0800

So, he really is an idiot.

By: fusinski

fusinski — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:04:33 -0800

Twitter is the worst thing created since Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. Look no further than this link for validation.

By: Jimbob

Jimbob — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:17:43 -0800

Look, I know I've been down on Twitter in the past, but now that I'm receiving instant notification whenever Stephen Fry has a shower, I'm completely sold on it.

By: ageispolis

ageispolis — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:18:27 -0800

God, this is gonna turn out worse than Rosie O'Donnell's tweeter-like-fan-thing.

By: goldfinches

goldfinches — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:25:53 -0800

I was excited about the possibilities that this presented before realizing that it's very hard to slam-dunk whilst dinking w/ an iPhone.

By: popechunk

popechunk — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:27:25 -0800

I think our language is about to fork.

By: Brian B.

Brian B. — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:32:50 -0800

Mershaq: "half mermaid, half Shaq" (animated short).

By: JohnnyGunn

JohnnyGunn — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:00:33 -0800

The big aristotle. Nice.

By: Dennis Murphy

Dennis Murphy — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:07:16 -0800

Maybe it's a generational thing. But the mere thought of reading a Twitter page makes me want to claw my eyes out. posted by Joe Beese Since every thread that involves twitter has someone eventually saying they're too cool for twitter I'd say it just makes you boring and unimaginative. And yes, old.

By: aliceinreality

aliceinreality — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:24:29 -0800

I think the best part of his twitter is definitely the inspirational "Shaq quotes" that are just things other people said that he has essentially plagiarized in really bizarrely adorable ways. My genius is 1 percent inspiration 99 percent perspiration Shaquille o'neal A shaq quote to live by Make every person feel like he or she matters

By: bookish

bookish — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:29:39 -0800

Uh oh. Who's going to tell Shaq that Mr. Rogers is dead?

By: Flunkie

Flunkie — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:30:58 -0800

Sitting 3:57 PM Dec 2nd from bench
Fouling out 3:56 PM Dec 2nd from court
Blocking 3:56 PM Dec 2nd from court
Runnng back 3:56 PM Dec 2nd from court
Missing a free throw 3:56 PM Dec 2nd from free throw line
Getting fouled 3:55 PM Dec 2nd from hoop
Dunking 3:55 PM Dec 2nd from hoop

By: MiltonRandKalman

MiltonRandKalman — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:34:09 -0800

my friend was telling me how bizarre his twitter were, now I know what he means.

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:37:06 -0800

On the other end of the spectrum... I followed Shaq for a short while, but having updates from him and Mr. Fry so close together just felt wrong.

By: Chocomog

Chocomog — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:50:51 -0800

Can someone explain to me why Twitter is so great? I have an account and use it sparingly, but I don't get all the hooplah about it.

By: NikitaNikita

NikitaNikita — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:16:53 -0800

I like having a quick easy way to launch my random thoughts into cyberspace. However, I fail in terms of finding a good way of catching up on reading other people's feeds. (Suggestions on making this less of a one-way exchange are welcome)

By: dydecker

dydecker — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:29:24 -0800

Can someone explain to me why Twitter is so great? Twits want to blog, but they can't write a full paragraph.

By: sugarfish

sugarfish — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:34:22 -0800

About to go to yoga, gotta get my strecth on Haha, I love this.

By: box

box — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:39:13 -0800

How come the Fu-Schnickens don't call any more?

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:46:57 -0800

Twitter is just like it sounds. Thats why I joined Twatter.

By: esch

esch — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:09:23 -0800

Just helped a man read Shaq's twitter, schwww im tired

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:39:21 -0800

I don't like Mr. Fry's twitter stream because hearing about how he just had a shower reminds me that I am not with with at all times. Dan you twitter, you are so cruel.

By: Mikey-San

Mikey-San — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:15:49 -0800

dear god in heaven shaq why have you not posted a single thing about shaq-fu you could teach us so much :(

By: jimahon

jimahon — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:19:39 -0800

Good one Kevin. Is he posting this from a cell phone or does Shack know how to use a computer?

By: batmonkey

batmonkey — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:26:15 -0800

I got curious about the Twitter thing after seeing a ton of on-the-fly activism being planned in quick bursts of succinct sentences. After hanging out with it for a few months and using it just enough to understand I'll mostly be a passerby in Twitterland, it does function as a logging tool for some people, so could be a blog in that sense. Mostly, though, I see people using it as a party line, backyard fence, comfy spot on the stoop...a place to have the exchanges of tiny inspirations, declarations, complaints, lies, and mundane happenings that few experience out in their own neighbourhood anymore.

By: b_thinky

b_thinky — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:31:06 -0800

So Shaq's following the Natalee Holloway thing... never woulda imagined...

By: like_neon

like_neon — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:07:16 -0800

I love how Stephen Fry ends all his twitter posts with a kiss.

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:46:09 -0800

This is interesting, in that it's as boring as every other stranger's Twitter feed (my own included, of course). At least Stephen Fry puts in some effort to make his Twitter stream genuinely interesting by sharing pictures of amazing lemurs he met while making a documentary, or writing capsule reviews of gadgets he's been sent. Also, I really wish the fake Tony Benn on Twitter had been real.

By: bondcliff

bondcliff — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:09:02 -0800

Can someone explain to me why Twitter is so great? I have an account and use it sparingly, but I don't get all the hooplah about it. Spend a couple of days following hodgman and you'll understand the appeal.

By: louche mustachio

louche mustachio — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:46:40 -0800

Are there updates on how his ass taste?

By: oneirodynia

oneirodynia — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:19:34 -0800

I find it ironic that in any thread about Twitter, people always pop in to post a pithy one-liner alerting random strangers on the internet to the fact that they think Twitter is crap, whether or not anyone actually cares to hear their opinion.

By: troybob

troybob — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:39:30 -0800

The only thing I know about Twitter is that it gives one a perfect aliᗺi.

By: thread_makimaki

thread_makimaki — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:25:24 -0800

Can someone explain to me why Twitter is so great? I have an account and use it sparingly, but I don't get all the hooplah about it. I am not a 20something hipster, but I am the kind of person who gives most social-media things a go. I didn't get Friendster, I didn't get Orkut. I don't get MySpace (only use it to stay in touch with my younger sister) and I don't get Facebook either. I didn't get Twitter at first either. Now I do. On a selfish level it's a way of dumping out all the little bits of fluff floating around in my head so I can move on to other things. (Also a place links to LOLCats or whatever too, admittedly.) It's interesting reading the fluff in other people's minds too. It's also a great way to get a stream of consciousness about a particular subject or event from strangers. Following the Mumbai twitters was horrifying and mesmerizing at the same time. It's cut down on my personal blogging a lot. The only time I feel like blogging on my personal site these days is...well, barely ever, unless I have something I want to get into some depth on. Anyway, I follow both @stephenfry and @THE_REAL_SHAQ and I enjoy them both, because they're just being themselves and they can occasionally be funny, deep, whatever. (I think THE_REAL_SHAQ is the deeper philosopher, actually, but that may just be 'cos I disliked the shallowness of Stephen Fry's America so much.)