Comments on: Twitter squatting

By: gCommerce

gCommerce — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:17:53 +0000

Users don’t insert the tinyURL to mask…it’s an automated feature built in to twitter. And for the love of god Stiennon, why is Arrington picking fights on twitter?

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Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:42:52 +0000

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By: stiennon

stiennon — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:01:45 +0000

Hmmmm… feeling stupid about this call yet? Twitter has just broken through some critical mass barrier. Just look at all the PR and social media geeks using it. Scoble, Arrington, Kawasaki are all posting constantly. Better get moving.

Good call on the Twitter squatting though. I think you get credit for coining the phrase!

-Stiennon

By: TDavid

TDavid — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:07:13 +0000

Kevin - I’ve had a resurgence of interest in Twitter since writing this post and am no longer a twitter squatter, see (linked as related post above too):
http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20071015/4864/

And then I talk about how to better manage the flow here:
http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20071128/4975/

It’s been like 60 days since I began studying and experimenting with it much greater depth. Probably adding a #of days counter to the homepage.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:59:28 +0000

Well, you got me to sign up for it … it’s definitely one of those pages where you can spend a lot of time doing absolutely nothing. I think if you get all of your friends to sign up for it, it could be fun, like a facebook or myspace account. But at the end of the day I’d prefer a facebook account. My one and only twitter update : “Wasting 5 minutes of my life on Twitter that I will probably wish I had back at some point.”

PS Props on the limecat picture in your above screencap

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#1 Twitterer leaves Twitter over name conflict » Make You Go Hmm — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 13:47:47 +0000

[…] Laporte also has the most followers on Twitter, the #1 Twitterer, if you will according to twitterholic. Also rounding out the top 5 is everybody’s favorite Sith Lord: Darth Vader. Takes almost a perfect bowling score of 300 followers to make the top 100 Twitterholic list. I’m not apt to get there any time soon hanging around in Twitter squatter mode, how about you? Twitterholics Anonymous, anyone? […]

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By: nick botulism

nick botulism — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:07:02 +0000

I actually like the fact that it is trivial stuff broadcast to the world. I see nothing wrong with it. If you don’t like it, then don’t read it. I don’t see it filling up search engine results with noise, for example, so I don’t see how it hurts anyone… just like personal blogs.

By: TDavid

TDavid — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:34:43 +0000

It’s one thing to recommend a great place to each cheese sandwiches, that’s good signal, versus telling someone you just ate one. They should make the default not “to the world” and that would probably cut down some of the nonsense, but would also cut down a lot of the flow which is why they probably leave it the way it is. There are a bunch of people that sign up for things and never change the default settings.