Comments on: Twitter, we need to talk

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:46:00 +0000

This didn’t used to bother me. It doesn’t always bother me either, since sometimes the thing mentioned is actually useful.

But when I went through and purged my twitter followers? NOW it bugs the shit out of me. I unfollowed those people for a #(*%ing reason, dammit, and I don’t want to have to see your inane responses to their trollish babble in my twitter.

GRRRRRRR.

By: Lifes Crazy Joke

Lifes Crazy Joke — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:49:27 +0000

Pinky twitch. Awesome.

By: Temerity Jane » Blog Archive » We have to talk again, Twitter.

Temerity Jane » Blog Archive » We have to talk again, Twitter. — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:29:00 +0000

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By: Aunt Becky

Aunt Becky — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:59:50 +0000

I kind of want to punch twitter in the balls.

By: jonniker

jonniker — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:03:33 +0000

Dechion: Uhh, you should get it. Just click on your “@ replies” page. It lists the responses of everyone who @’s you, whether you follow them or not.

By: Dechion

Dechion — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:30:26 +0000

While I completely agree, and am in fact glad that I no longer have to listen to half conversations there is one thing that irks me more.

If someone that I don’t yet follow sends me a tweet @Dechion I don’t get it. These are folks that follow me that for reasons of my own laziness I have not followed back as of yet.

I understand that Twitter is trying to protect me from spambots, but I am a big boy. I can block them myself after the first tweet.

By: Awlbiste

Awlbiste — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:59:17 +0000

Hey, I don’t think you are allowed to have that many nemesisis. Nemeses? Nemeses apparently.

I proudly stake my claim as #1 nemesis. If you dispute this claim I WILL BE EVEN MORE NEMESIS-Y.

By: Ebby

Ebby — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:51:12 +0000

And this is known as the number 1 reason I will never EVER join Twitter or use it in any way, shape or form.

By: Kerri Anne

Kerri Anne — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:20:59 +0000

OMG, YES. I just! started noticing people doing this, and consequently just started wanting to punch some tweets in the ovaries.

By: jonniker

jonniker — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:42:57 +0000

Okay, so once? That period feature created the world’s most awkward situation ever. As in, I cringe just thinking about it. And now, let me share it with you:

So, it’s right before BlogHer, and there were apparently awards being given out, and during the course of a conversation between two people I follow, one of them said something about being up for an award. And though it was clear that they were talking about THEMSELVES, something in that wording led the OTHER person to think that they were talking about THEM.

The person then Tweeted — using the fucking period feature whilst @-ing the person who mentioned the award and said, “Wha? I’m up for an award? HOW AWESOME!”

And then there was silence. An awkward silence, as you can imagine. Because now, thanks to the period, she made EVERYONE ON HER LIST (all fifty thousand of them or something awful) think she’d been up for an award. When really, she hadn’t been. And did not get it.

And then *I*, who cannot abide awkward situations, felt obligated to JUMP IN and CLARIFY and say no no, doll, SHE is up for an award. You are merely up for … I don’t know an award for Most Awkward Twitter Ever.

And herein ends the story of why I hate the fucking use of the period. It’s AWKWARD EVERY WAY YOU SLICE IT.