24.03.11
Tributes are pouring out on Twitter as microbloggers around the world learn of the “violet-eyed beauty’s” death.
The top “RIP Elizabeth Taylor” tweets include “‘When people say, ‘She’s got everything’, I’ve got one answer – I haven’t had tomorrow.’ RIP Elizabeth Taylor,” “RIP Dame Elizabeth Taylor, surely the last of a breed…” and “RIP Elizabeth Taylor, you gorgeous woman you.” Microbloggers are celebrating what would be the 137th birthday of escape artist extraordinaire “Harry Houdini” by tweeting “It’s Harry Houdini’s 137th Birthday today. If he was alive he would cut the cake in half, and then he’d put it back together again. Ta dahh!” and commenting, “Rebecca Black. Not even Harry Houdini could get out of the mess you’ve made for yourself.”
24.03.11
Tributes are pouring out on Twitter as microbloggers around the world learn of the “violet-eyed beauty’s” death.
The top “RIP Elizabeth Taylor” tweets include “‘When people say, ‘She’s got everything’, I’ve got one answer – I haven’t had tomorrow.’ RIP Elizabeth Taylor,” “RIP Dame Elizabeth Taylor, surely the last of a breed…” and “RIP Elizabeth Taylor, you gorgeous woman you.” Microbloggers are celebrating what would be the 137th birthday of escape artist extraordinaire “Harry Houdini” by tweeting “It’s Harry Houdini’s 137th Birthday today. If he was alive he would cut the cake in half, and then he’d put it back together again. Ta dahh!” and commenting, “Rebecca Black. Not even Harry Houdini could get out of the mess you’ve made for yourself.”
22.03.11
5 Reasons Why I Hate Twitter
I’m going first-person in this entry because this is a personal rant that I don’t want ascribed to any of my RCPU colleagues. So, there will be none of the obnoxious royal “we” I so love to use in this space. Just so you know.
Twitter, the infernal social networking site, apparently turns 5 years old this week , an age that seems to match the emotional maturity of many of its frequent users. Now, recently, Twitter and Facebook, its far more tolerable cousin, have gotten a lot of credit for enabling protesters in places like Libya to, well, protest. If folks are using Twitter to advance the will of the people in a climate of repression, then good for them and good for Twitter. More power to them. I still wish they would find some other way to do it, though.
Personally, I hate Twitter . Anybody who has ever read anything about Twitter in this newsletter knows that. Of course, I have three Twitter accounts, one for this newsletter ( @leepender ) and two for personal blogs I write on soccer (which I will not promote here). Those are all unwanted necessities — no matter how much I dislike Twitter, other folks seem to like it, so I kind of have to use it in order to get people to read my stuff. Or so everybody tells me.
But let’s get back to me hating Twitter. In “honor” of Twitter’s 5th birthday, I offer five reasons why I hate Twitter:
The whole concept of limiting Tweets to 140 characters is obnoxious.
22.03.11
5 Reasons Why I Hate Twitter
I’m going first-person in this entry because this is a personal rant that I don’t want ascribed to any of my RCPU colleagues. So, there will be none of the obnoxious royal “we” I so love to use in this space. Just so you know.
Twitter, the infernal social networking site, apparently turns 5 years old this week , an age that seems to match the emotional maturity of many of its frequent users. Now, recently, Twitter and Facebook, its far more tolerable cousin, have gotten a lot of credit for enabling protesters in places like Libya to, well, protest. If folks are using Twitter to advance the will of the people in a climate of repression, then good for them and good for Twitter. More power to them. I still wish they would find some other way to do it, though.
Personally, I hate Twitter . Anybody who has ever read anything about Twitter in this newsletter knows that. Of course, I have three Twitter accounts, one for this newsletter ( @leepender ) and two for personal blogs I write on soccer (which I will not promote here). Those are all unwanted necessities — no matter how much I dislike Twitter, other folks seem to like it, so I kind of have to use it in order to get people to read my stuff. Or so everybody tells me.
But let’s get back to me hating Twitter. In “honor” of Twitter’s 5th birthday, I offer five reasons why I hate Twitter:
The whole concept of limiting Tweets to 140 characters is obnoxious.
