Comments on: ‘Overheard on Twitter’ Friday

By: Rachael

Rachael — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:10:05 +0000

It’s small-minded to make fun of the people who twittered about the plane crash since Twitter’s been adopted for a number of things, including allowing people to chat about major events and disasters. As somebody who didn’t have access to an American TV channel at the time, it was interesting to watch people talk about it. People do that when they’re in earthquakes and similar situations, or when they see something out of the ordinary going on elsewhere. A lot of the time, it helps people get their feelings out about something, especially something like a disaster or near-disaster.

Probably also important to look inwards before talking too much about other people’s self control on Twitter Also, you know you can unfollow tweeple whose updates are boring you, don’t you?

By: foot in mouth

foot in mouth — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:29:22 +0000

@lisabarone

The wedding industry is saturated with bad taste, I mean my Wife refuded to get anything at David’s bridal last year because she always “Looked like a Giant Cake…or the Snowbeast from Star Wars”… Seems like bad taste in sequins does translate to MS painted background images haha

By: Lisa Barone

Lisa Barone — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:18:55 +0000

footinmouth: That site was awesome. I’ve seen a handful of wedding Web sites like that in my time. Someone must be sharing some bad information.

Jeremiah: You know we only tease you because we love you.

By: John Jones

John Jones — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:56:35 +0000

I would have never figured out that the home page was a splash page on that seizure inducing website. Wow!

By: Jeremiah Andrick

Jeremiah Andrick — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:48:47 +0000

Now that is how rumors get started. I can’t help that the twitter API doesn’t love me.