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What is Twitter: A Funny Sarcastic Cartoon

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nudone:
this link might work?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Ff2X_3P_4
-tomos (March 23, 2009, 10:08 AM)
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hmm, still can't watch it. why on earth have they blocked it for certain regions. i'm sure i can handle the horrible truth - it won't send me over the edge, i promise.

f0dder:
hmm, still can't watch it. why on earth have they blocked it for certain regions. i'm sure i can handle the horrible truth - it won't send me over the edge, i promise.-nudone (March 24, 2009, 07:04 AM)
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I can - sort of - understand why some music videos and such are blocked in individual countries (even though I don not agree with the idea). But blocking a thing like this? Bigtime weird :-s

nudone:
i'm assuming this is it http://www.therundown.tv/videos/misc-videos/what-is-twitter/

anyway, i'm off to create a twitter acount so i can tweet about this post and the video.

oh, is the fail whale something specific to twitter or is that something else that has passed me by?

f0dder:
Yeah, you found it :)
* f0dder is interested in the fail-whale thing as well.

Paul Keith:
Thanks mouser. The only downside is that the video really doesn't go in-depth with the flaws enough but yeah... BIG BIG smile over here.

So, umm... is twitter basically just facebook status messages on amphetamine and with even less content?
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The reverse actually. More content, more linkbait, more rss-type messages, more memes, more noise, more everything. In fact the really popular ones don't use it for status messages. It's just the next generation of Digg minus the easy to understand commenting system but since Digg users rarely bother talking about something worth discussing anyways, it caught on.

Me? I'm more of a Plurk user. Problem is, there's too many flaws with these mediums and they won't scale. It's going to be like Digg probably. You're missing a lot of internet culture if you don't get in, especially with blog topic diversity dying down but at the same time, you're really just participating in an early culture. Kinda like the reverse-printing press. Lots of stupidity until someone actually uses the design and get it right and than maybe...*crosses fingers*...maybe there's hope for society just yet.

Fail whale is specific to Twitter. At least when I used to follow Twitter news. No idea if it went elsewhere already though. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_story_of_the_fail_whale.php

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