Thu, July 16, 2009
Why Twitter Rules "Nobody has any clue what's going on. That's why sneering at Twitter is worse than blindly loving Twitter." Definitely no clue there! Whatever the hot thing of the moment was, Iranian youths would have [that]'d the riots. And you know how we heard about it? On TV. So... there.
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Bee Boy — Fri, 7/17/09 6:36pm
I stand corrected. Twitter is awesome.
Joe Mulder — Sat, 7/18/09 4:07pm
Or, if you prefer: Twitter is so lame that it actually took the inherent awesomeness of Louis CK to even make it tolerable...
Joe Mulder — Tue, 11/3/09 7:00pm
It should be noted that this afternoon, after my cell phone stopped receiving calls (it could make calls, just not get them) and my wife's did too (which was weird because she had just called my work phone from her cell), and a Google search on T-Mobile was no help whatsoever (thanks for nothing, rest of the internet!), I just typed T-Mobile into Twitter and found out that, sure enough, all of T-Mobile was fucked up. Not that I could do anything about it, but it was nice to know that it wasn't just my wife's and my phones.
So, two things, then, for which Twitter is undeniably useful: confirming in real time that something is up and it's not just you, and letting you know when one of your favorite comedians is going to be on TV or at a club in your area.
I do think we have to begrudgingly give Twitter its due, at least in those two arenas.
Bee Boy — Wed, 11/4/09 9:46am
Indeed. Twitter: less fucked up than T-Mobile, less obnoxious to follow than MySpace.