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Sarah Palin denies favoriting a tweet

Jefff — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:31:49 +0000

Sarah Palin denies favoriting a tweet with the above photo. She says she doesn’t even know how, and it must have been an accident. If you check her twitter account right now, sure enough, no favorited tweets. Except that yesterday there were multiple favorited tweets. Oh well, I think she’s probably earned the benefit of the doubt at this point.

The demographics of language via Twitter

Jefff — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:52:02 +0000

“Bruh” is apparently a word people use. In the south. As demonstrated by this graph of its usage in Twitter posts:

Via The Morning News

In defense of Twitter

Jefff — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:34:13 +0000

Jason Kottke has a beautiful post defending Twitter from those who thinks it’s boring and narcissistic. Kottke perfectly confronts the attitude that those who Twitter about boring things mistakenly think the whole world is interested in what they had for breakfast.

People with that attitude completely miss the point of Twitter. They don’t get that there is a type of communication partway between private conversations and public announcements. Sometimes you say something about your dull life to your friends (who care a little bit about your dull life), and it’s something that you don’t mind if a non-friend listens in. In fact, it’s a great way for someone who only half-knows you to get to know you better. That’s what Twitter does. To put it another way: If you don’t want to hear about what I had for breakfast, why are you following my Twitter feed?

Twitter Paid $6 or Less Its Bird

Jefff — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:26:29 +0000

Simon Oxley was paid little and is credited none for his iconic Twitter bird graphic. Twitter licensed it through iStockPhoto. They don’t have an exclusive license for it, so anybody else could license it for themselves.