Comments on: Parsing newsfilter through teenage girls

Parsing newsfilter through teenage girls

fistynuts — Fri, 08 May 2009 09:57:52 -0800

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

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:09:36 -0800

Seems like about 2 hours and 20 minutes ago, people just stopped talking about fucking! And then it started up all over again. Otherwise, it's fun to watch certain words expand and shrink.

By: no_moniker

no_moniker — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:14:19 -0800

Its a truncated graph; people never stop talking about fucking. Especially if you count the porn spam feeds

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:18:17 -0800

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?

By: lholladay

lholladay — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:26:30 -0800

And I just found the #annoyatrekkie trend. Thank you, fistynuts.

By: nitsuj

nitsuj — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:27:14 -0800

I really like that Ace banner ad.

By: oddman

oddman — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:38:27 -0800

I hate you for this. (It's impossible to look away.)

By: Zambrano

Zambrano — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:45:56 -0800

Twits' Coop

By: diogenes

diogenes — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:55:36 -0800

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....

By: Artw

Artw — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:17:26 -0800

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.

By: Marisa Stole the Precious Thing

Marisa Stole the Precious Thing — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:24:35 -0800

#condomfish oh no artw at it again bout how annoyin it is wen ppl tweet w/e pops up

By: Artw

Artw — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:28:23 -0800

#condomfish I unfollowed the fucker for the duration.

By: Artw

Artw — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:29:15 -0800

#condomfish of course anyone silly enough to follow me is probably more than bored at the crap I post.

By: Marisa Stole the Precious Thing

Marisa Stole the Precious Thing — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:46:03 -0800

#condomfish which reminds me - I need to make a new account

By: SpookyFish

SpookyFish — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:52:32 -0800

See also WhatTheTrend, which, though not as dynamic, adds an explanation to why topics are trending.

By: the aloha

the aloha — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:39:33 -0800

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

By: Artw

Artw — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:39:15 -0800

TWITTER DOWN! TWITTER DOWN!

By: Artw

Artw — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:44:55 -0800

Phew! It's back up - that was close!

By: fistynuts

fistynuts — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:59:01 -0800

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.

By: Artw

Artw — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:08:30 -0800

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.