Note to our followers on Twitter
posted at 10:08 am on July 6, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
Users of Twitter have been mightily frustrated over the past couple of weeks about the down time and slow updates, which appear to be caused by World Cup tweeting. I usually like to tweet out announcements of new posts, as well as engage in dialogue with others on Twitter, but I’m not able to do that today, thanks to some significant down time. When it’s back up, I’ll be back on it — yes, I’m addicted — but in the meantime, I have a new Facebook platform where my updates can be seen and discussions launched, thanks to the efforts of Amy the Intern.
Keep an eye on my public page for updates, dialogue, and more fun to come. Be sure to note that you “like” the page or become a fan if you have a Facebook page of your own, and it will automatically update on your site as well!
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Twitter is racist
Crashing during a South African event.
blatantblue on July 6, 2010 at 10:10 AM
No to twitter
No to facebook
No to cellphones
No to . . .
excuse me, the damn kids are on the lawn again.
rbj on July 6, 2010 at 10:11 AM
I swore I’d never join Twitter, but then I also swore I’d never get a Blackberry and I just got one (and I’m already in love with it).
Facebook, however, I can do.
CityFish on July 6, 2010 at 10:12 AM
They’re over here to. Let me go chase them.
Cindy Munford on July 6, 2010 at 10:14 AM
We don’t get cell service at our house.
Kissmygrits on July 6, 2010 at 10:16 AM
No, no, no. Øbama will not allow greedy capitalists to use interns to exploit workers. Kindly close out your affairs and report to Re-education Camp at noon today.
petefrt on July 6, 2010 at 10:17 AM
No Facebook. No MySpace. No Twitter. Nothing that might make me a metrosexual or retrosexual. I would say nothing that might make me look gay, but Wanda Sykes might show up at my house with the PC police and the thought of that makes me almost turn beta.
NotCoach on July 6, 2010 at 10:17 AM
You won’t be able to Twitter after the fall, better to concentrate on survival skills and hoarding 8-track tapes.
Bishop on July 6, 2010 at 10:17 AM
Bishop on July 6, 2010 at 10:17 AM
Unfortunately, the only 8 track I could probably get a hold of would be my father’s Sergio Franchi tape. Maybe I could find my brother-in-law’s BST tape somewhere And when I die….
kingsjester on July 6, 2010 at 10:20 AM
Twitter is for twits.
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CapedConservative on July 6, 2010 at 10:21 AM
What’s Twitter?
Akzed on July 6, 2010 at 10:25 AM
It’s ok, any 8-track will serve as cash in the new economy which will sprout after the fall, regardless of its musical content.
Find them, hoard them, protect them; 8-tracks just may keep you alive one fine day.
Bishop on July 6, 2010 at 10:28 AM
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/07/01/the-top-25-conservatives-on-twitter/
Ed, AP, and a couple of GR writers, not to mention regular friends of HotAir listed.
Heh.
Abby Adams on July 6, 2010 at 10:29 AM
I can’t find a “fan” button on the page, so I had to “like” you, instead.
I feel like I’m in that South Park episode… :)
irishspy on July 6, 2010 at 10:31 AM
Ain’t she humble?
MadisonConservative on July 6, 2010 at 10:31 AM
What or who is a twitter? Is it related to, u know, twits?
Texas Tom on July 6, 2010 at 10:39 AM
People think they’re being funny by saying, “What’s Twitter” or “Never heard of it” or similar… but let’s face it… if you don’t know what Twitter is (or “Twitters” for our esteemed POTUS), then you should leave the internet now and never, ever return.
Abby Adams on July 6, 2010 at 10:43 AM
I think you can tweet twits or twoot twings on it, or something
blatantblue on July 6, 2010 at 10:43 AM
It’s Twitters !!!
Geez Ed, get with the program ……
Jerome Horwitz on July 6, 2010 at 10:43 AM
Hey, some of us only know how to get to HotAir.com, and that’s it!
blatantblue on July 6, 2010 at 10:43 AM
There are legion!
Man the barricades!
Texas Tom on July 6, 2010 at 10:48 AM
That statement is uncalled for. But it my get you an interview as the Internets Tsar.
Texas Tom on July 6, 2010 at 10:53 AM
What’s the internet?
NotCoach on July 6, 2010 at 10:55 AM
“… may get…”
‘scuse pleez.
Texas Tom on July 6, 2010 at 10:56 AM
If you guys are going with the 8 tracks again, remember to also stock up on book matches, so you can tear off the covers to make the little wedge to get them to track correctly. Yeah, I’m pretty much all about the tech tips today.
Wind Rider on July 6, 2010 at 10:57 AM
Match books! I can call the number on the inside to apply to 8 track repair school!
Texas Tom on July 6, 2010 at 10:59 AM
I tried twitter for a couple of months but didn’t find it useful and deleted my account.
JeffinSac on July 6, 2010 at 11:04 AM
Cell phone hell – it’s where we live:
http://www.motivatedphotos.com/?id=89877
disa on July 6, 2010 at 11:07 AM
Geez, another maroon …….
It’s the interweb, otherwise know as the the world wide net.
A series of tubes.
Jerome Horwitz on July 6, 2010 at 11:09 AM
Tubes scare me. They are the work of the devil…
NotCoach on July 6, 2010 at 11:11 AM
Abby sounds like a teenager for whom the world did not exist until she became aware of it.
Grown up Abby, some of us have lives and do not desire to be alerted every time a human being has a thought.
disa on July 6, 2010 at 11:12 AM
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Hey, I know it’s a dumb question and everyone else knows already, but how do I do that? Also Facebook. I just don’t have time to keep up with all that. HA is enough.
jeanie on July 6, 2010 at 11:17 AM
So you DO know what Twitter is, then.
Her comment was about awareness of the existence, and not necessarily the content, of Twitter. She wasn’t referring to you.
Lighten up, homeslice :-)
Good Lt on July 6, 2010 at 11:17 AM
So you comment on a blog? I see…
Well played, oh wise one.
Abby Adams on July 6, 2010 at 11:36 AM
I have 100s of albums. I even have some 45s and 78s. I even have 2 turntables to play them on.
Will this help me in the new economy?
Greyledge Gal on July 6, 2010 at 11:36 AM
With twitter you can get a dozen opinions on an appropriate tip calculation in minutes! Beats the IPhone and Blackberry tip calculators.
BL@KBIRD on July 6, 2010 at 11:40 AM
Ed,
How about a Hot Air app for smart phones? You could use a sugar-free Peep as the icon!
Anyway, websites like DVICE.com have their own app. I think it would be good for marketing.
Weebork on July 6, 2010 at 11:58 AM
you can tweet if you want to
you can share what on your mind
cuz if you don’t tweet
and if you won’t tweet
well
you’re no friend of mine.
… (Sorry, the Safety Dance always applies, just like there’s a Star Wars quote for every occassion)
WashingtonsWake on July 6, 2010 at 11:59 AM
Wait… you needed your intern to show you how to set up a Facebook page?!?
DaveS on July 6, 2010 at 12:08 PM
I have to take Twitter breaks. I enjoy it, but too much of it becomes annoying. There are good days and boring ones.
di butler on July 6, 2010 at 12:29 PM
Ed when will we have a ReTweet button on Hot Air articles?
coondawg on July 6, 2010 at 12:53 PM
I haven’t had any problems with Twitter today. Loads just fine.
Ortzinator on July 6, 2010 at 12:59 PM
What’s with the cattiness? People didn’t submit their names to be on that “Top 25 Conservatives on Twitter” list. And they certainly didn’t write their own blurbs. They’re on the list because Matt Lewis thinks they’re awesome, end of story.
Jenn Q. Public on July 6, 2010 at 3:18 PM
When I was a kid, you didn’t want to be called a ‘twit’!!
… and sorry, but I don’t care what you’re doing right now.
landlines on July 6, 2010 at 6:34 PM
TEOTWAWKI!!!!
Dr. ZhivBlago on July 6, 2010 at 7:05 PM
I hardly ever tweet, Ed — but like Chauncey Gardiner, “I like to watch”. Besides, it’s all those unguarded 140 character (or less) mutterings that reveal the TRUE inner workings of AllahPundit’s mind. (Bless his tortured soul.)
My collie says:
Mmmm, more like a warning that the Surgeon General of the U.S. has determined that repeated exposure to AllahPundit’s tweets may be hazardous to one’s mental health.
My collie says:
The female participants certainly DO appear to be a bit (forgive me) “twitterpated” — judging by all of the attention that they lavish upon AP. It may be the one medium where AP has managed to “turn the tables” on Ed.
CyberCipher on July 7, 2010 at 12:09 AM