July 2009
10 posts
The End Is Nigh! The Twitpocalypse Is Fast...
A couple months ago the Twitpocalypse was all the buzz for a couple weeks.
The Twitpocalypse is similar to the Y2K bug. The unique identifier associated to each tweet has now exceeded 2,147,483,6471
For some of your favorite third-party Twitter services not designed to handle such a case, the sequence will suddenly turn into negative numbers. At this point, they are very likely to...
“The Mayans predicted that Rick Astley would accidentally “Rick-roll”...”
– Brooks Bayne
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Bacon Floss
Bacon floss is now back at Urban Outfitters! Dunno why they stopped selling it. Anyway, it’s now $4.99 instead of $6.00. Get some.
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Obamacare Yay Or Nay! The Truth About Silly...
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Unions + Acorn = Unicorns
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Kill Filters In Twitter - The Time Has Come!
If you use Twitter for #hashtag conversations, you will inevitably have trolls or spammers start to use your #hashtag. The most annoying thing, in this case, is that there’s no way to keep them out of search columns in the current versions of Twitter clients such as Seesmic Desktop or Tweetdeck (Tweetdeck has the per-column filter, but they only give you one filter per column and dozens of...
Who's Hijacking The Republican Party of Los...
Below is an email I received from the Republican Party of Los Angeles County. Seems like typical GOP power grab attempts. I’m always reminded that I’m glad that I’m not a Republican. However, I suppose this is newsworthy-ish, so if you have any information about this situation, please let me know, or simply leave it in a comment below.
An Attempt to Hijack the...