I know that Mimi owned this topic to begin with but I have just got involved.

Talking about soccer Joe Scarborough is replying to me! I am so excited.

"When you walk through the storm hold your head up high... (cue tears and billowing Merseyside fog.)
16 minutes ago via UberTwitter in reply to Crittersbybritt"

Joe Scarborough also replies to Tweets about the Beatles.

Happy Birthday Britty!

Thanks! Eeeeeek the big FIVE O.

Get off my lawn!

Happy Birthday!!!

Best wishes for the next 50!

Happy Birthday! And please no groping or tickling at your party tonight!

Thanks all. Like Jon Sttewart said "cancel my 50th birthday!" (I am an ex sailor after all!)

Happy Birfday anyway, youngster.

I'm suddenly getting a HUGE amount of spam emails from "Twitter" informing me that I have unread messages. When I click the link, I am offered the chance to buy Cialis, Viagra and whatnot.

I figure if I bought the sex drugs that they try to sell me in half my emails, I'd need the painkillers they try to sell me in the other half.

Tweet.

Go to your twitter profile and uncheck the box where it says " Let others find me by my email address".

When you get spam tweets, report them as spam. It's an automated process.


ETA: Don't click on anything in the emails. Don't click to be taken off mailing list or anything. Twitter doesn't give your email address. They just forward the stuff.

Oh, they aren't even connected to a Twitter account. The email address they used doesn't HAVE a Twitter account, it's a business email address for my shop (not even the current email address, but I still collect the mail from it). I knew there were no tweets or messages waiting for me.

I wouldn't have clicked on the link if it wasn't for Malwarebytes, Avast, and a lot of other antispyware/antimalware programs I have installed. But I got more than 50 of the emails within 24 hours, all saying they were from Twitter. Just as a public service, I thought I'd mention it.

Can a Twitter Maven answer me what the || (double "pipe") signifies in a tweet, and when to use it? Thanks in advance.

Example:

I am not a maven, but I can explain.

You'll notice that this is a ReTweet (RT), @ _CCM is repeating @worldnetdaily 's tweet and making a comment on it. When commenting on a RT, it's common to insert some sort of divider, that's the double pipes. I use a slash / to separate my comment from the tweet I'm retweeting.

There is also a MT convention, to designate a highly modified RT. For example, here's an original message from Eddie Burke supporter @ReaganTMan:



Here's my MT reply:


See, it's easy!

Thanks much.

Yes, thanks much. I've been trying to figure out how to include my own comments w/ a RT for quite a while & finally just gave up. I don't like literal RT'ing, as the original framing never captures what I want to communicate. Now, I can do it.

I'm still in desperate need of a "Twitter for Dummies", however. I've actively resisted joining Facebook - not only b/c its the death of all privacy, but I also just want to use it to access the content of others. So, notwithstanding my relative inactivity, I like Twitter. Two sentences I *can* manage in less than an hour or two. I even made one of Moroni's follow lists!

But for GG & Mimi, though, I'd likely still have only 2 tweets in one year. Thanks to both of you in reverse.

I have started a private list (i may make it public) on twitter called birftards. So far it contains:

worldnetdaily
RevJamesManning
PhilipBerg
AndyMartinUSA
DrOrlyTaitzEsq
LibertyChalice

Anyone have anything useful to add here, for someone who would like to follow the latest birther insanity in the twitterverse?

I can't find any feeds for any of the "foundations", such as Orly's, or the ones backing Lakin. Also nothing connected to Fitzpatrick.

Thanks for any ideas.

You do know JAGHunter? The site has gone eerily quiet for Walt, who was usually yelling at least once a day. Maybe he has a real attorney now, who has advised him that this was not such a good idea:

You may want to add Chalice's other personality, Patriot Heart's Network. For some, one twitter account just won't do!

Thanks, you guys.

JAGhunter not a twitter name AFAICT. But I'll keep looking.

The Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism has done an annual survey of users of digital communications since 2001. This year's study asked Americans whether they would be willing to pay to use Twitter.

The result is astonishing, so much so that the methodology is being questioned: zero percent of Internet users said that they would be willing to pay to use Twitter. Surveys almost never return zero percents. I've never seen one in my entire career except in tiny sample pretests. Respondents tend to shy away from extremes, which introduces measurement error and makes choosing the most extreme response much less likely. (That is why a middle position is usually eliminated in response categories; doing so forces some choice.) Also, enough respondents usually misunderstand the question that all available response categories are populated. I think that if you asked the American population whether they are supporters of the American war on British scientific facilities in Antarctica, a noticeable fraction would say yes. It is not so much that respondents are uninformed or dumb; very often they do not wish to be embarrassed by saying "I don't know."

This peculiar result is embedded in a more expected result: although 49% of Internet users report having used "free micro-blogs such as Twitter," most respondents do not want to have to pay for access to content on Internet sites. They also don't like advertising on Internet sites, and only about about half ever click on an advertising link. But 55% of users would rather see advertising than pay a single solitary penny for content.

So, with these qualifications, I guess that my sense that Twitter is a worthless and even harmful form of social communication is not validated by the results of the survey. Further confirming that guess, I note that I have yet to pay a single penny for access to PJ, but I value it very highly.

Perhaps if Shalice and Palin were not on Twitter, I would have a better opinion of it.

I've read that the right is far more represented on Twitter than the left, which from my elementary level use of it seems true. People like Chris Hayes of The Nation/MSNBC, Rachel Maddow I can certainly understand using Twitter to augment their positions. But I see Mimi and GG fighting a losing battle in terms of volume trying to counteract the right. Although our Mimi certainly tries .

ETA: I wouldn't pay for twitter.

I think twitter is doing some kind of ads now. I read something about it a few months ago. Idunno if they've implemented it or not. Anyway, I believe advertising tweets are going to happen.

From what I read, I got the impression that it was going to be banner type adds, not tweets.

Since I rarely tweet my own self and use twitter to follow certain brilliant people (_ccm, GG, Doc. C, Verbie amongst others) as well as certain laughable hacks (Chalice, who baned me, be I can still seez you, you lying little kitteh killer, yes I can ) I'm OK with banner style adds.

If they start tweeting adds in the stream, though, I'd likely un-follow everyone except my webcomic updates. (Sorry, but webcomics is my corner of Geekdom.)

Could I pay for it to go away?

how would i mock sharon? she loves baning from her chat.