Twitter

Oh god. My mother…

by ZombieSkittles on August 31, 2009

Has a twitter.

No fear, no disaster, no terror compares to the shock of finding the following tweet in my mentions:

default_profile_bigger jilly10001: @Zombie_Plan will you be home for dinner

 

Really, what do you say to that. Your mother has just done the unthinkable and now has access to my every thought and feeling; That stuff is private and she has no right! How dare she access something broadcast on a public internet feed. How dare she. This is unacceptable, and something must be done.
But do I block her? Should I protect my feed and turn into the very thing that gives me the shits on Twitter? Or do I put a hit out on her because very soon she’ll know too much.

Alternatively, I could just make a blog post about the issue, and hope to god she doesn’t follow the links off my tweets. If she does, I hope she doesn’t read this next bit.

I am secretly a black Jewish lesbian with a fetish for having my nipples chewed on by two stray dogs while I get beaten with a broken buckling spring computer keyboard. Oh, and I made a kickass new About page for this blog.

Wow, I probably should of avoided making that so noticeable. Too late now though, not like this keyboard comes with a backspace button or anything. Oh snap.

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Petty.

by ZombieSkittles on August 29, 2009

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Well as I just found out, an “old” friend of mine has blocked me on Twitter, unlocked another achievement for me on the grand old interwebs.
There is a story concerning this, but it’s connected to a story (well, a group of stories) that will be in How To Fail At Girls section of the site. All I can really say about the issue at the moment, is that I could of understood why he’d be a little shitty (as you will inevitably too), but this crap is just petty. He won’t even stand in the same room as us if he can help it. I guess he doesn’t want me (or Courtney) seeing into his obviously exciting life of eating food and constructing a red bull fort.

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Anonbot army

by ZombieSkittles on August 11, 2009

So this is just a short post about an event that occurred last night. I was having a casual conversation with Rubenerd over Twitter about posting to blogs to satiate thought patterns when you think too much. My response was that I would, if I still were as creative as Ruben is, but unfortunately 4chan destroyed what creativity I had (as it often does). The tweet went something like (read; exactly like) this. Which was far enough, so the conversation went on. Then as usual, a keyword bot retweeted a message with my username in it:

default_profile_bigger @Zombie_Plan Whoa I missed that part about 4chan. Definitely yes, block it on your proxy if you must! :P http://bit.ly/10jr2O

Oh look! A bot for 4chan! It’s even called “anon7751060”! That’s kinda cool! Hey Rube-

default_profile_bigger @Zombie_Plan Whoa I missed that part about 4chan. Definitely yes, block it on your proxy if you must! :P http://bit.ly/10jr2Odefault_profile_bigger @Zombie_Plan Whoa I missed that part about 4chan. Definitely yes, block it on your proxy if you must! :P http://bit.ly/10jr2Odefault_profile_bigger @Zombie_Plan Whoa I missed that part about 4chan. Definitely yes, block it on your proxy if you must! :P http://bit.ly/10jr2Odefault_profile_bigger @Zombie_Plan Whoa I missed that part about 4chan. Definitely yes, block it on your proxy if you must! :P http://bit.ly/10jr2Odefault_profile_bigger @Zombie_Plan Whoa I missed that part about 4chan. Definitely yes, block it on your proxy if you must! :P http://bit.ly/10jr2Odefault_profile_bigger @Zombie_Plan Whoa I missed that part about 4chan. Definitely yes, block it on your proxy if you must! :P http://bit.ly/10jr2Odefault_profile_bigger @Zombie_Plan Whoa I missed that part about 4chan. Definitely yes, block it on your proxy if you must! :P http://bit.ly/10jr2Odefault_profile_bigger @Zombie_Plan Whoa I missed that part about 4chan. Definitely yes, block it on your proxy if you must! :P http://bit.ly/10jr2Odefault_profile_bigger @Zombie_Plan Whoa I missed that part about 4chan. Definitely yes, block it on your proxy if you must! :P http://bit.ly/10jr2Odefault_profile_bigger
rder=”0″ /> @Zombie_Plan Whoa I missed that part about 4chan. Definitely yes, block it on your proxy if you must! :P http://bit.ly/10jr2O

…I got spammed by over 50 of these bots over the next half hour, and it was hilarious, annoying and maddening at the same time. The idea that there was a robot army on Twitter made me smile, and it did a good job of spamming. However, fuck off.

That is all.

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Hey look, random photos

by ZombieSkittles on August 9, 2009

I was messing around this morning prior to work, and clicked on someone’s link on twitter to see their photo. I clicked on my username and got greeted with all the photos I’d posted. It was interesting seeing all the random things I’d uploaded, from food to my feet. I actually remember the reasons for posting each of them as well, even the miscellaneous ones too.
And now, some random images from Twitpic:

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TweetDeck on the iPhone

by ZombieSkittles on June 17, 2009

I’ve written a much better review of the program, viewable on a much better site than this one.

IMG_0001 Dear Diary, today was the best day ever. Today was the day that TweetDeck came out for the iPhone. This is the one app I’ve waited for practically forever, and it was more beautiful than I imagined. I was curious as to how they would manage the ability to create columns, manage who’s in them, flipping between columns, and so forth; I was too stuck on thinking in terms of already popular established twitter apps like Twitterfon and how they could be modified to work like TweetDeck, which was something I couldn’t come up with.
TweetDeck however, thought fresh and created the much better concept than I’d ever expected for a Twitter iPhone app; the columns are displayed much like the tabs in the phone’s internet browser, and give the user the ability to preview the columns, and move them into whatever order desired. The app displays new tweets in a similar fashion to the desktop application, supports multiple accounts and even syncs with the computer to share columns. I love this and my only annoyance is that THE SHIT DIDN’T COME OUT SOONER. It is absolutely brilliant, and if you use twitter, and have an iPhone, you need to get it immediately. If not, at least get the desktop version.

Also, Seesmic Desktop sucks. Balls. It sucks balls.

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Favourite Digg articles for the week of May 11th to 17th

by ZombieSkittles on May 17, 2009

Keeping with the idea of a regular weekly post, here’s another list of Digg articles that interested me in some way or another this week.

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Thar be a sequel

by ZombieSkittles on May 7, 2009

Like all sequels, almost none of the original cast is in it. In this case, less Craig, more Aly and Courtney. I had fun editing this, and I’m glad it finally got uploaded. Whether or not it stays up is yet to be decided. Part of the days goal was to set out reviewing coffee and wireless internet throughout Adelaide utilizing only Twitter, and while that isn’t covered in the video, know that essentially it wasn’t planned enough and didn’t reach full fruition. We will probably be attempting something similar again in the future, but a time isn’t decided yet.

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I LIED

by ZombieSkittles on May 1, 2009

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Ok, so I made a post around a week ago which briefly summed up my following habits on Twitter. However, no more than a day after writing that, I found myself going against what I said, and followed an additional 50 people who were following me. At first I contemplated deleting that post and pretending it never happened, but I made a promise to myself when I made the blog that I wouldn’t delete [many] articles, and to instead just write a new post.
I’ve started going through everyone I myself follow, looking at each profile and seeing if that person is to me, worth following. I’ve been looking at:

  • The number of tweets, because why would I follow someone with absolutely no tweets?
  • The quality of tweets. I don’t like the idea of following someone who only tweets ads, or affiliate links, nor the idea of someone who tweets short simple sentences ALL THE TIME like “Going home”, “Eating”, etc. What are you eating? Is it good?
  • Website. While this really doesn’t change anything about whether I follow you or not, I like seeing if people have a good website. I’m a sucker for blogs. And speaking of the general information area, your
  • bio needs to be there; no bio, most likely no follow. And then, if I see on there talk of marketing, then I will shun you. And from what I hear from everyone else when they complain about this, not many other people like it either.

And that’s pretty much it. I’ve found myself suddenly going from following sixty to one hundred and forty people really quickly, and it’s slightly overwhelming, even at such a small number, but that’s a story for another time.

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It’s an addiction

by ZombieSkittles on April 29, 2009

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I admit it; I’m slightly addicted to Twitter. While not as bad as some people, I need to try to limit some of my near-spamming. I’ll try my hardest not to spam as much anymore.

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My Favourite Twitter Web Tools

by ZombieSkittles on April 21, 2009

I’ve started using Twitter more and more over the past few months, coming to eventually rely on it as a vital part of my day. I tweet when I’m at the computer, when I’m lying in bed, when I’m eating, when I’m working; all the fucking time. Throughout this time I’ve been introduced to various applications to make the twitter experience even more fun. They’re probably familiar to most hardcore twits, but here are my favourites:

TWT.FM

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Really simple Twitter application built for the #musicmonday twitter meme; You type in the name of the artist and the song you’re listening to by them, and TWT.FM finds a stream of the song. You hit the Tweet It button, and it tweets the name of the song, artist, link to the stream, and the #musicmonday hashtag. I only started using this as of last week, but I’ve fallen in love with it; it’s the perfect way to share what I’m listening to. I especially love the little ascii ♫ it throws into the tweet (Although it seems TweetDeck doesn’t support it).

Twitterfeed

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Another simple program; this one scans your blogs’ RSS feeds, and if there is a new post, it will update to twitter. The tweets it sends out are customizable, and respective twitter feeds can be “paused” so they don’t send anything out. I’ve been using it for this blog (and once this post goes to air there will be another tweet about it, oh joy), and I can say it’s definitely helped. The best part is that if you go on a posting spree, you can specify to only tweet the single latest post, to prevent spamming people with links to your posts.

TweetLater

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I saw a review of this service on JohnChow.com awhile back, but never gave it a look. I decided to explore it a little today, and it’s quite interesting. The main feature for me is the ability to timestamp tweets so they’ll be displayed at designated times. So I could set up a tweet to be displayed in five minutes, and go for a jog. Five minutes later the tweet will be published regardless of whether I am at the computer or not. If I don’t tell someone it’s an automated tweet, you can’t tell; it looks exactly like a normal tweet. The site also allows you to set up an automated direct message which gets sent to all new followers. For someone like me that doesn’t get lots of followers, such a little touch is perfect. Apart from them, TweetLater does a whole heap more, but these are the only two features I’ve used.

In Closing

Not much else I can say here, thank you for reading all that, those were my three favourite Twitter webapps. They’re all useful in their own way, and I can’t see my twitter experience being the same without them.

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