Archive for the “twitter” Category

Sarcasm On the Internet

Posted on January 15th, 2010 by primatage

Sarcasm isn’t exactly lost on the Internet. Smashing Magazine tweeted this pic today, showing the W3C laying a Twitter-sarcasm smackdown — I guess they’re not quite as dry a group of nerds as I thought they were — and it had me laughing. Then I read that a company in Michigan is now trying to [...]

Google Search to Incorporate Real-Time Data

Posted on December 7th, 2009 by primatage

Yes, they’ve finally done it. After months of talk about incorporating the mounds of real-time data to which Google has access, they’re finally piping it all into their own search results. The sources they listed are some pretty big names: Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, MySpace, and Jaiku, among others — and that’s not counting the major [...]

Twitter-Style Retweets Are (Were) Missing [Updated]

Posted on December 3rd, 2009 by primatage

Yep, completely and utterly missing. It’s been the better part of a day without the much-maligned pile of fail feature that Twitter’s massive ego of a CEO insisted we’d all grow to love — and they’ve not said a word about it. Unfortunately, because of their noted silence on the matter, the odds are about [...]

Hilariously Sleazy Site of the Month

Posted on November 30th, 2009 by primatage

Today I was pleasantly surprised when I checked Twitter and noticed that I had been followed by @Mirage234, which upon closer inspection, proved to be extremely LOL worthy — and then some.

Yes, those are “stacks” of “benjamins.”
His Twitter page was hilarious enough as it was without the G-Money MySpace retard-shot he has plastered as a [...]

Project Retweet: Suspended

Posted on November 11th, 2009 by primatage

After rolling out their lackluster new retweet feature not but one day ago, Twitter today announced that it’s been “temporarily disabled.” According to Twitter, they’re simply working on “a few problems” that have occurred during the rollout.
Twitter: Here’s Your Problem
Nobody likes your failed feature. The fix is simple, just remove it and act like it [...]

[Update: NO] Twitter Lists Now Incorporating TweetDeck Groups?

Posted on November 6th, 2009 by primatage

[UPDATE] Richard Barley, Community Manager for TweetDeck, was kind enough to stop by and clarify the issue last night, via comment. He made assurances that TweetDeck servers are secure, and suggested that the likely culprit here is in fact Brizzly. Apparently, in enacting their own list compatibility, Brizzly caused pre-existing groups to update back on [...]