Parsing newsfilter through teenage girls May 8, 2009 9:57 AMSubscribe
Inane Like 24 hour TV news tv, this would be a great tool, except you have it's tuned to OMG, LOLS and what the president had for lunch posted by fistynuts (19 comments total)
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Otherwise, it's fun to watch certain words expand and shrink. posted by not_on_display at 10:09 AM on May 8, 2009
Its a truncated graph; people never stop talking about fucking.
Especially if you count the porn spam feeds posted by no_moniker at 10:14 AM on May 8, 2009
Nope, going back through the log, there is a 7 minute gap between 11:04 and 11:11 AM (Eastern)... oh god what am I doing? posted by not_on_display at 10:18 AM on May 8, 2009 [2 favorites]
And I just found the #annoyatrekkie trend. Thank you, fistynuts. posted by lholladay at 10:26 AM on May 8, 2009
I really like that Ace banner ad. posted by nitsuj at 10:27 AM on May 8, 2009
I hate you for this.
(It's impossible to look away.) posted by oddman at 10:38 AM on May 8, 2009
Help me out here. What's the deal with #annoyatrekkie. It's just a stream of twitter comments that include something that would theoretically annoy a Star Trek fan, right? It won't actually annoy any trekkies because they probably aren't watching the #annoyatrekkie twitter feed. What am I missing?
I used to be with it.... posted by diogenes at 10:55 AM on May 8, 2009
Well, astro zombie is annoying the hell out of me with it, since it's flooding out real conversations. Twitter needs a "filter out hashtag junk" option. posted by Artw at 11:17 AM on May 8, 2009
See also WhatTheTrend, which, though not as dynamic, adds an explanation to why topics are trending. posted by SpookyFish at 11:52 AM on May 8, 2009 [1 favorite]
twitter . . . would be a great tool, except you have it's tuned to OMG, LOLS and what the president had for lunch
blogs . . . would be a great tool, except you have it's tuned to OMG, LOLS and what the president had for lunch
citizen journalism . . . would be a great tool, except you have it's tuned to OMG, LOLS and what the president had for lunch posted by the aloha at 1:39 PM on May 8, 2009
TWITTER DOWN! TWITTER DOWN! posted by Artw at 2:39 PM on May 8, 2009
Phew! It's back up - that was close! posted by Artw at 3:44 PM on May 8, 2009
phew, I'm glad that was well received, I thought I was being a bit ambitious for a second post. *it btw.
the aloha: agreed, but the latter two do require a little bit of work, so natural selection does some weeding after the first month. I read a number of blogs and apart from the odd diversion most remain consistently interesting (or like mefi I can see how it would be interesting to someone) but I don't think twitter will ever achieve this. Once upon a time I had access to live newsfeeds, and the bulk of that was inane, even though written by pros - twitter is like having a class of 6 year olds tell you knock knock jokes over and over again.
No doubt it will evolve into a form of communication which I find irreplacable, but I hope not. posted by fistynuts at 6:59 PM on May 8, 2009 [1 favorite]
It's a lot like the texting thing in the other post tbh: Twitter is what you (and the people you connect to) choose to make of it. posted by Artw at 7:08 PM on May 8, 2009
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Otherwise, it's fun to watch certain words expand and shrink.
posted by not_on_display at 10:09 AM on May 8, 2009