Fave Random Tweet June 30

Fave Random Tweet of June 30

In his tweet today, the aptly named MOMENTOFTRU drops what we Old School types would call "science."

momentoftru

Ladies, if your feet look like they're throwing up gang signs, you don't need to be in flip flops or sandals. Just saying...

Sir Twitalot appreciates the insightful social commentary that momentoftru provides us, like any comedian-philosopher worth their salt, he raises into high relief an issue we have all noticed, but have just accepted. In this case, by likening awkward toes to gang signs, he secures from us a smile, or a Laugh Out Loud as the texting masses say, or a colon-right parenthesis " :) " as the emoticonners are prone to type.

In case you need a more graphic explanation, here are two hyperlinks.

GANG SIGNS

NASTY TOES

Momentoftru, if you visit his twitter page, you will see, has waxed eloquent on other issues of fashion and behavior, all with the confines of 140 characters.

MomentO'Tru- Sir twitalot salutes you! May your tweets be loud, and your feets be free of gang signs.

Novelist All Atwitter About Critic's Review

Hey, Sir Twitalot does appreciate the poorly named

concept called "Spoiler Alert" that review sites

use to protect those who have not seen a film or TV show

from wandering into a review that might give away

key story elements.

Sir T believes Spoiler Alert might be a more appropriate

name for bacteria that infests chicken salad or milk, making it

inedible.

But yes, why have your viewing or reading experience ruined

by someone who has already traversed the terrain?

So we understand why novelist Alice would be angered

at critic Roberta for revealing plot points of her book -

I mean it is hard enough to sell books these days, without

a critic lambasting your hard work and giving away narrative.

But should have Alice, in her tweets, gotten so tw-bitchy as to

"post Ms. Silman’s phone number and email" so that people

could tell Roberta Silman what they thought of snarky critics.

I mean that seems very freshman year of high school

if you ask Sir Twitalot. I mean she could've just

And can't we put an end to the word "snarky" while we are at it.

Sir T is so OVER that adjective.

READ LINK Alice Hoffman is so totally pissed at Roberta Silman

about a book you probably have not read!

126 is Average Twitter Temperature

Yes, according to Twitter's techies, the average twitter user has 126 followers
and 80% of twitterees are accessing not from web but from mobiles.

Guardian UK article

Marvelous! This means most people are not in front of computer, but rather are driving, skydiving, or making love when they tweet.

Fave Random Tweet June 29

Fave Random Tweet - June 29

Maggrig

Equine flu in the year of the horse, Swine flu in the year of the pig... next year is the year of the cock.

It's hard to use a Tweet to sound like a fortune cookie, a Fox News fear-filled Headline, AND a Playboy Magazine Party Joke all AT THE SAME TIME, but twitterer Maggrig has done it.

All penis users, male and associated female, should be clutching their package considering what Maggrig's Cassandra-like twitter suggests. Shall it be a full body flu, or one that effects "Members Only?"

We don't know, but we send a thanks to Maggrig for our fave random tweet of the day.

Spammy Marketers - Icky Thumps

Are Marketers Ruining Twitter?

When all you do is send spam with a link to an affiliate program, Sir T says YES!
That is not marketing, that is crazy masturbation, people.
His name is Biz Stone, not Jizz Stone.

Think! Don't just send Affiliate Links!

Here is an Article from another Blog, that goes more into detail.

This is something Twitter is going to have to deal with more effectively.

Fave Random Tweet June 28

Fave Random Tweet of June 28

zhiwiller

Ok, I'm pretty sure this is the rapture and God is taking the people he likes _really_ slowly.


Sir Twitalot thought this being Sunday in America, he should see how God is being twittered about, tweetified, twizzlerized.

While many are thanking God for megachurches, or musical bands, or wishing friends with sick relatives may receive help from Him....

our Tweeter above zhiwiller
is pondering God's unfathomable ways, after a week when many famous folks have had their mortal coil shuffled off. McMahon, Fawcett, Jackson, and finally Billy Mays.

Now Sir Twitalot notices that Zhiwiller has a belief that God likes celebrity pitchmen, and women. Famous Marketers.

If you think about it - Ed Mcmahon, was a successful pitchman for many products and shows, as was infomercial king Billy Mays. Farrah became uber-famous from shilling her body in a bathing suit, and if you don't think Michael Jackson was the ultimate in sales, the King of Marketing, not just Pepsi, you've only listened to his music and not read the business section. Try this article about him.

(And don't get the Beatles started about the Gloved One's purchase of their catalog!)

So we applaud this tweet of zhiwiller's because of these two divine elements.

1 - The concept of a rapture occurring... but very slowly.

2- The idea that a seeming pedophile, late night second banana, product carny, and eye candy from the 1970s would be more favored than the religious fanatics.

Here's to you Zhiwiller for writing our Fave Random Tweet of the day

Fave Random Tweet - June 27

Fave Random Tweet - June 27

Today we decidedly, randomly, and perhaps quixotically, to go hunting for unicorns.

We found many one horns in the Twitterverse today, but only one worth shooting and then tagging before letting it run free.

It was the tweeticorn of this fine Twitterer:

RitaJKing

For those who have asked, it is unclear whether the unicorn is "real" though I suspect my mother will attempt to gold-leaf it regardless.

So many things to love in this Tweet.

The fact that Ms. King is answering those who must have asked from a previous tweet, if the unicorn is real. Or as Rita says, "real." For isn't that the question so many of us have had at one point in our life? Are unicorns real? Or must we make do with those godawful colored ponies some animation company designed?

And from this question we can ask - is our fantasy world valuable, or will our parents just cover it with "gold-leaf," forcing us to leave our childhood delights and focus on worldly success... regardless?

One wonders from this tweet if Mama King has an interior design fetish for gold leaf as well. Perhaps she was so enamored of King Midas, she seeks to emulate him in a lesser form. Perhaps Rita was but one step away from being covered in gold herself. Perhaps she has neighbors with the last name of Goldstein, Goldfarb, Goldberg, and she wants to blend in?

We can't know from this one tweet, but we can imagine, while riding our unicorn.

Fave Random Tweet - June 26

Fave Random Tweet June 26th 2009

In the day following Michael Jackson's death, one can be sure the twittosphere is filled with many thoughts on him - grief, wishes for a positive afterlife, derision about his recent troubles. But what tweet would stand out for Sir Twitalot?

Well friends, it was this one:

DebAsrate

I can't explain how much I regret not going to Neverland when I could.


Sir Twitalot finds this random tweet to encompass so much using so little.

Poetic - The Tweet has a definite rhythm with which it needs to be read.

Emotion - The frustration at debastrate's inability to explain her deep and vast regrets mixes with the fun she can only imagine. It touches us all in the places we have where we regret not having done something.


Personal Connect with History - She had a chance to actually go to Neverland. She appears to have been a child at an age when going to Neverland seemed to be a marvelous adventure. (Or perhaps she didn't go because it was in the news by then.)

Fantastical - She doesn't refer to his music as most tweeters have. She refers to another creation, one of Michael's that sought to perpetuate childhood. An iconic place from fantasy literature that Michael tried to bring into reality by naming his ranch, Neverland.

This is a tweet in a vast morass of 140 character moaning, eulogizing, deriding that we feel did a lot.

Instead of Beat It, debastrate knew she had to Tweet It today. And she did.

Charlie Don't Surf! And CEOs Don't Twitter

In our infamous category of - Like uh, No Duh!

Business Week dot com connected to an article on uberceo dot com
about how CEOs are Late Adopters of Social Media.

And of course Twitter, of all social media, has the fewest CEOs on it.

Come on business researchers, CEOs are different that you and me.
They live in a rarefied world of HUGE stock options, incestuous Boards of
Directors who are their buddies, political plutocratting, and always on the
cutting edge of corporate crime.

See this.
They don't need to interact with the hoi-polloi,
they travel on Golden Parachutes. Even in death.


Here is the link to article below
Like uh, No Duh...

Fave Random Tweet June 25

Fave Random Tweet for June 25

aldoric

As a cultural movement, existentialism belongs to the past. As a philosophical inquiry in human life it still plays an important role.

Sir Twitalot never thought that 140 character tweets could be used as a college lecturing tool, but aldoric here changed his mind with his thinking person's tweet above.

What more knowledge will find its way onto the ever increasing twittaverse?

The most delightful thing about our learned tweeter's posting is that his discussion of Existentialism is sandwiched between two posts about tennis player's beauty.

I already mentioned Maria Sharapova and Nicole Vaidivosova. I add Caroline Wozniacki as the third most beautiful woman on the tenniscourts

AND

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But i think you can agree with the two most beautiful women of Wimbledon: Sharapova and Vaidisova.

I feel an Aldoric Tweet coming on about whether Love is best known by the mind, or on the Tennis Court.

Thank you Aldoric for our fave random tweet of the day.

Fave Random Tweet - June 24

Fave Random Tweet - June 24th

Every once in a while you see a tweet that on it's own, seems to be a fabrication, or exaggeration, but then looking at the flow of tweets before it, you see it was real.

That is our fave random tweet today.

CancerCourtney

The President touched me on my non-cancer shoulder! And told us we looked great for having beaten cancer. What a long, great day.

Yes, the president CancerCourtney speaks of is Prez Obama.
Yes, she did see him today.
She works at a place called Planet Cancer

We figured this all out looking at the flow of her tweets and her bio.

Sir Twitalot loves this post not only for it's enthusiasm and joy, but also for the use of the adjective "non-cancer" in describing her shoulder, and for the ending, "What a long, great day." which if you read the tweets before it, is a fitting culmination to her Twitter Build Up. Also, you feel the word "touched" in this tweet extends not only from his physical touch, but also the emotion she felt.

Great Tweet and Great Day, Ms. Courtney! Sir Twitalot salutes you.

Twitter Creators - Winners of Nobel Peace Prize!

Now everyone knows that Fox News is all about the hyperbole, but this clip is hyper- hyperbole!



Now, Sir Twitalot is all about Tech Geeks winning a Nobel Peace Prize...
Sure....
But if we are going to place an Internetter in the same hallowed halls as Mother Teresa, Bishop Desmond Tutu, and Amnesty International - shouldn't we award it to the guy who invented Tetris? Or that moderator on the NYC BBS back in the late 80s who was always telling the flamers to chill out? Or the martyr Kevin Mitnick?

2008 Nobel Peace Prize Announcement

Gossip for more than Girls - hackers use porn link on Twitter

Twitter has had it's security lapses -
phishers look for entry to get your online data and those
of your followers.

But using porn links about a teen TV star to give you a
Trojan fit for a horse?

That just seems too twitterlating to us!

TWITTER HACK - Security hole in Twitter
using a porny Leighton Meester

Down with criminals! Up with useless status updates about
your visit to Starbucks!

Biz Stone - In Cannes- Says time to Make Money

IN CANNES, not to unveil a film, but to talk Twitter and Advertising, BIZ STONE discusses development of the service and technology, and their goal to start making money.

REALTIMESCANNES article

In article Stone explains, Twitter's success is less about a technological breakthrough than understanding human motivation to share and connect, calling it a "triumph of humanity, not the triumph of technology."

Fave Random Tweet - June 23

Fave Random Tweet - June 23

NotFancy I wish "schadenfreude" was used more often in causal conversation.


Why does Sir Twitalot like this as his favorite random tweet for June 23rd?

Because he too wishes that schadenfreude was used more in causal conversation, and less in casual conversation.

Actually Sir Twitalot wishes the loanword schadenfreude was used more during TV pundit sessions, lovemaking, and by athletes doing post game interviews. As well as the words smorgasbord, shillelagh, and albatross.

Fave Random Tweet - June 22

Fave Random Tweet - June 22

kristenoversix

Sorry for singing "Molly Malone" over the fish at dinner, but if you serve no booze I WILL hit a pub between the wedding and the reception.

Sir Twitalot commends kristenoversix on this tweet, because while twittering is very "present tense," K/6 manages to straddle the past with an APOLOGY for her song, and yet utters a DIRE WARNING of her drinking in the future.

Also Sir Twitalot enjoys the fact that this tweet seems very focused on one person - perhaps the bride? It would be funny however, if Kristenoversix IS the bride, and she is warning her guests of her expected unruly behavior.

We raise our glasses in affirmation of your singing and drinking kristenoversix

Twitter's 3 year Graphic Tale

Cute, but not horribly informative

THE STORY OF TWITTER SO FAR in a graphic

William Twitterspeare - Theater Review

A musical in New York that invites audience members to contribute material while it is in action.

The play being, in part, about both the disruptiveness and consuming nature of social media.
The review here seems to dismiss the play, yet readers who saw it, in readers' reviews argue with her.

I would think Twitter will soon be used by improv groups to enhance audience interaction.

Imagine if Hamlet had tweeted when he first saw a ghost.
Or if William Shakespeare had 500,000 followers he twittered. Actually, I wonder if he would have had more than Ashton Kutcher?

Fave Random Tweet - Father's Day - June 21

Fave Random Tweet - June 21st, Father's Day

How to describe a 420 experience in 140 and combine the celebration of Father's Day?
It's not easy, but this Twitterer knocked the bong, uh, we mean ball out of the park on this one.

pmaporvida just did bong rips with my girl's dad.. how fucking clutch is that ? happy fucking father's day dude !

We salute you pmaporvida for bringing some poetry that wasn't Hallmark on this tweet, perhaps it was inspired by that bit of the "bubbly" you had before you tweeted.

ANOTHER RANDOM DAD BELOW.

Fave Random Tweet - June 20

Fave Random Tweet on June 20, 2009

oldmansweaters Just saw a guy on a motorcycle with a handicap license plate. Wait! What?!

I like the fact that oldmansweaters is able to communicate her mental gyrations as she processes this odd act by some DMV. Wait! What?! Obviously the rider was not obviously disabled. Probably just has seizures where he or she blacks out.

Sir Twitalot delights in this tweet because it feels like a scene to begin a comedy film, or a mystery novel, or just plain twitter poetry.

oldmansweaters sent this tweet via text which makes the punctuation usage all the more admirable.

May your tweets be as delightful

Twitter Monetizing & Streaming One Day Soon

Sure, Twitter in a NY TIMES article of June 19th reveals
one day how it will make money with e-commerce

TWITTER SHOPPING

But more interesting to Sir Twitalot
is this note in article.


"Mr. Chaffee said the company also expected to offer users the ability to sort their Twitter streams. “Over time, Twitter will develop filters to help users manage and classify their tweet streams into useful categories, such as tweets from friends, family, celebrities, news organizations, charities,” Mr. Chaffee said."


That would end the need for different Twitter Accounts, and in my case personalities. Sometimes I feel like I have Multiple Personality Disorder on Twitter.

Biz Stone - Blog Entry of Sept 12, 2001

An interesting Internet Archaeological Dig done by Sir Twitalot, and spurred on by recent
use of Twitter in Iran revealed this:

BLOG ENTRY BY BIZ STONE - CO-FOUNDER OF TWITTER
On SEPT 12, 2001 day after the World Trade Center was attacked on Sept. 11.

Biz states - "The nation wasn't torn apart by chaos and widespread panic partly because of our access to information. It was great to be able to check who was okay via IM and email when the phones wouldn't work. "

His literal day after angle on the events seems to reveal a single minded focus on his creations, OR a lack of desire or ability to share his feelings with words, OR an inner knowledge that his creation, Twitter, would eventually be helping people in the same manner.

Favorite Random Tweet of June 19

Favorite Random Tweet of June 19

matisyahu Anyone in vegas wanna come hang for shabbes. I'm at Chabad.

Matisyahu, the Orthodox Jewish Rasta Rapper, who had the big hit King without Crown - a song Sir Twitalot did enjoy, despire not knowing all the secret Hebraic terms Matis-yahooed in it, in this tweet, invites anyone in Vegas who wants to celebrate Sabbath with him to come hang at Chabad. While I do believe there are myriad Jews in Vegas who celebrate the Sabbath in manifold methods, I am not certain that hanging out at Chabad is high on their list.

I think it would require a strong spiritual constitution, like Matisyahu's, to hang at Chabad, when the Hard Rock Cafe is making Manischevitinis.

Reading Tweets from Iran? Give thanks to Falun Gong.

With Iran closing down internet servers of dissent, how did the Revolutionary Tweeters get their 140's out to the world?

Thanks to the Chinese!

No, not the Controlling Communist Party, but dissidents who over the course of the past decade have developed software called FREEGATE and many tricks to evade or climb around firewalls.

It is because of the Falun Gong and other groups that the ruling party in China dislikes, we were able to read the tweetlies coming from Iran.

NY Times Columnist Nicolas Kristof uses more than 140 characters to explain it here.
Kristof's NY Times Column

140 in 5-7-5 Twit-ku

Frankly, the idea of eating great sushi after relaxing in a hot spring in a spa in Japan with some arcane cold sake sounds good to Sir Twitalot -- but as I ain't rich and taking the red-eye to Tokyo, I have to find my pleasures in hints of Japanese culture.

So I decided to hunt The Almost Great Democratizer, the name I am calling Twitter this week of electoral rioting in Iran, a country which most likely will have to wait another 8 years for a new President (See United States; 2001 to 2009; similarities of rigged elections, Men in Black Robes in Charge)...

And lo and behold, I found #twitterhaiku I can't guarantee what will come up when you check it out, and while it is in English, versus Japanese, it is a form follows function situation, the 5-7-5 syllabic breakdown, fitting in nicely with the 140 characters.

The topics vary; from commenting on the form, Twitter itself, life, nature, and more.

If anything, you should add one.

A Twitter Haiku
Flowing Words, Stock Market Songs
Tapestry Dancing

Posting Affiliate Links Like You Are Playing Slot Machines

Sir Twitalot will follow all kinds of Twitterers, just to see
what they are adding to the quilt of consciousness - at
140 characters a stitch - but Sir T sometimes FLINCHES
at the constant, Obsessive Compulsive Tweets that
are nothing more than Affiliate Links.

I can't understand why the person would think this incessant
hebephrenic bombardment of his or her followers
with links to sales pages would make anyone except the
similarly communication-challenged want to continue
following you.

I can only imagine their conversation in real life.
"Would you like to buy this?"
"Thank you. How about you? Would like to buy this?"
"Fantastic! Let me show you this thing to buy."
"I bought that and it is good, but not as good as this thing..."
AD NAUSEUM.

Now here's the funny part.
See this poll on how most purchase decisions are made:
It's not by sending URL-shortened links over and over.

HARRIS POLL ON WORD OF MOUTH

Twitter for a Laugh - #nicerfilmtitles

And if politics is not your cup of Chai, or you just need a laugh

there's always the way that Twitter can become
an INSTANT DAVID LETTERMAN TOP 10 LIST

in this case with the Twitter Trending Group on June 17th

NICER FILM TITLES

If I can't Tweet, you can keep your revolution

This picture - perhaps the most hopeful and proud black eye I have seen in a long time, from a document of sweet tweets from Tehran, in ATLANTIC MAGAZINE Live Tweeting the Revolution

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140s if you got them.
You can tweet me via this link sir_twitalot

Ahmadinejad Don't Like it - # the Casbah...

Twitteran shall be Iran's New Name!...

... It's the week where Twitter and Facebook changed the course of Iran!....

If we can believe the hype that Twitter (and related social media) have propelled protests, instigated riots, united youth, and most importantly, made public an even greater electoral fraud that Florida 2000 in the US of A.

Some suggest that or argue against it here IRAN'S TWEETS

While some say that nations like US and UK with our technological eroticism are more sexed up for the underdogs (in Iran or Moldovo) using similar tech as ours - we relate to the kids who "text 140" in their twitter accounts and their fight, because it is easier to relate to than the dictatorial leaders.

I think it may be more of the school of MARSHALL MCLUHAN and his infamous "The Medium is the Message." The Democratizing of Communication - allowing swift info outside of controllable channels like state controlled TV - is forcing democratization to be more level playing field. That is why China's leaders controls what filters through their web so much.

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