Posted on April 26, 2009 by Mike
I was apparently one of the first Twitter users to discover Bea Arthur had died. Is that cool? Not sure.
Posted on January 15, 2009 by Mike
Posted on December 5, 2008 by Mike
Posted on November 24, 2008 by Mike
The Magpie Twitter Ad Network: “Convert your tweets into bling-bling”
Part of me says, this is weird and stupid, and another says, who cares? …Don’t worry though, I have no plans to insert ads in my Twitter feed, but I did think it was interesting that they thought I could make €52.95 a month on my meager list of followers. If you are one of those people that is really into your followers number being as big as possible, you could be estimated to make a decent amount of money aparently*.
*Does not include shipping and handling of your soul.
Posted on April 10, 2007 by Mike
Here’s another nice little Twitter helper application for you Mac using Twitter folks. Its a very simple plugin for Quicksilver. After the simple installation, you just activate Quicksilver, hit ‘.’, type your Tweet, Switch to the action pane, type TWEET and hit enter. It will alert you via Growl with the results.
…ok, it way more simple than it sounds with my crappy description. Get it and learn for yourself.
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Posted on April 8, 2007 by Mike
Feel like hacking someone’s Twitter page and post messages as them all day? Apparently, all you need is their phone number.
Feel free to hack mine and make me look like I’m a guy that tells dead baby jokes over Twitter. Oh wait, I already do that.
Posted on April 1, 2007 by Mike
I’m not going to lie. I’m hooked on Twitter. Its fun and everyone is on it.
I still have some questions though:
1. Where is this going to go? How long will it be cool? Is it going to die before Summer hits or will it find a niche in the web somehow?
2. Who’s going to use their API to make the first really amazing application? Twittervision is cool, but will there be any really useful apps in the near future?
3. Why don’t I have more friends and followers? Self answer: All my friends and co-workers are way to slow and none of them use Twitter.
4. Assuming some really cool app comes around will the fact that you have to be a Twitter member slow its usage in any group other than hard-core bloggers?
5. Why is it so fucking hot in my apartment right now?
6. What did Lindsay Lohan do to suddenly get sexy again?
7. What was I talking about?
Posted on March 27, 2007 by Mike
The new Twitter API functionality is going to cause a big stir, just as Steve at Tech Crunch is surmising. Check this out:
A popular feature with Twitter is a “direct” message that you send to just a single friend. The syntax is simple – you type “d [username] [your message].”
Until now, Twitter’s API hasn’t allowed you to access those direct messages though. With today’s API addition, you can now retrieve Twitter direct messages. What does that mean? A lot, quite frankly.
Users can now send a command (“direct message”) to a username which is just a name for a web service like weather.com. For example, there could be a Twitter username “weather”, which I could send a Twitter message of “d weather 14202″ by text, web, or IM. The Twitter username “weather” could get this command (er, Twitter “direct message”) via the API, run a process on a web server to retrieve the current weather forecast for 14202, and send that as a direct message back to me ( i.e. “d TechCrunch Currently: Partly Cloudy, 50F. Tomorrow’s Forecast: AM Clouds/PM Sun. High: 55 Low: 40″).
There are LOTS or cool things one can do with, basically, a free text message code. Time to think about this, the mobile blog reader is getting a little stale and its time to create something new maybe…
The only issue is that Twitter seems to have a broken wing and it about to be eaten by a dog. I preferred method (IM) hasn’t worked for 12+ hours now and its painful to try and load up the website
Posted on March 26, 2007 by Mike
Damn it. I was playing around on the links from Scoble’s Twitter page and I accidentally clicked on the “Add Me” link to ask Kevin Rose to “be my Twitter friend”. I like Kevin Rose, he seems cool, and apparently everyone calls us twins, but I didn’t want to try and be so douchey and think that he would add me as a friend on Twitter out of the, I’m assuming, thousands of turd fanboys that try to add him all the time.
You seem cool Kevin, and apparently we may be doubles, but I’m not a fanboy. I miss-clicked. Feel free to toss that aside like I’m sure you already have…just don’t think of me as another douchey psycho digg-machine man-fan.
Posted on March 26, 2007 by Mike
Twitter is the new fad among the Web Geeks and the best way to sum it up is that Twitter is micro-blogging. By that I mean, its lots and lots of little tiny pointless posts. Apparently the idea is the use this micro-posts to tell people what you are doing right at this very moment, like drinking coffee, giving it hard to a barely legal Vietnamese prostitute, or beating that last bit of life out of a baby seal. That of course turns out be just a little more hopelessly boring than it sounds which makes most Twitter streams about as boring as…well…their owner’s blogs about their cat. Naturally, I’ve been shunning Twitter all this time because of that.
So why the change? Well if you recall, or even if you don’t, which doesn’t matter because you can’t change the past, back in the olden times of Hell Yeah Bitch! .com I had a quote that I would change at the top of the page to be something different when I felt like it. It was somewhat fun, but I had to go in a change it by hand and I turned out to be lazy enough that I wouldn’t even write code to make it easier in the long run to change it, so after the redesign that followed, the quote was killed…or “end quoted.” After looking in to Twitter a little more today, I realized that this could be the Quote 2.0 (Forgive me for using 2.0, I’m a bastard.). So for now we (royally, of course) are using the stock javascript to put the latest Twitter at the top of the page. Rest assured though, you will not be seeing things like “I’m eating a sandwich” or “I’m putting on my diaper in preparation for my dominatrix to arrive” sprawling across the top of the screen. No, I’ll be instead using it for little oddities that pop into my head. It they aren’t funny let me know, if Twitter is slowing the site down, let me know, or if you think this is cool and you want in on the action, lets talk and we can find a way for all the “friends of the site” to be able to put a new quote up there. Of course that last option will mean you will have to actually admit to people that you read this site, so think about the consequences before you add me as a friend.
Right now I just have my Twitter account, but if this goes well, I may just make one for the site itself later on. I’m mikehyb.
