Twitterquette for a twit

[orange_crushed]

Would I be deserving of mockery if I got a Twitter ? Like, for the million times a day when I just want to type "DONALD DUCK NEVER WEARS PANTS LOOOOOOOOOOOL" to everyone I know, and I just don't have the technology ? Do you guys all have them and it's a big party with constantly refreshing cupcakes ? Is it serious business and would no-one appreciate a Zombie Thomas Jefferson impersonation ? Do people write drabbles there or just wax poetic on life in the present milieu- and how do you spell milieuuueeue anyway ? Should I just get a diary instead and write everything in glitter pen ? Does my insane rambling really need an audience ?

Er... ignore that last one.

Anyway, flist, you're like a collection of all the knowledge ever; I trust your judgement in these matters.

Comments

[clevermonikerr.livejournal.com]

Get a twitter. I updated to say the I'm the Henry the 8th song was stuck in my head.

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

a lot of people seem to like it...! but I prefer it when people take the effort to write something more than one sentence. there are LJ clients for phones and such.
I don't really understand twitter I guess. A lot of people seem to use it for random stuff and responses to each other,... but when someone else reads it, it seems disjointed and ick to me.

and so many people just say "I'm eating cereal" I mean really, do we need to know? I'm not sure either whether I want people knowing that I'm shopping at XYZ store at such and such time (STALKERS!)

however, your insane rambling is typically very amusing... !

[boxed.livejournal.com]

I must say that the creation of a Twitter should come with a warning: you will a) do ridiculous things at uncertain times just so you can Twitter them and b) you will be a stalker. I am totally okay with both of these things though, because it reinforces the delusion that I am in fact BFF with Neil Gaiman and Stephen Fry. But honestly, I love Twitter. It's like Facebook without all the....Facebook. You know what people are doing or where they're going or if they'd like you to go do a certain thing, see a certain film, read a certain book, et cetera.

....I'm guessing you realize I am totally on the boat for you getting one. I'm so on the boat that I'm heading toward the metaphorical horizon with sunscreen and a thumbs up.

[nebbity.livejournal.com]

Dude, I'm BFF with Neil Gaiman and Stephen Fry, too!

Well... I was until yesterday. I found out that I'm not actually so much of a stalker that I want to hear about Stephen Fry's eggs every morning, nor have twenty million reminders every day to see Coraline. (I've seen it THREE TIMES.) It's a good thing to know about myself, and very reassuring.

[ivydoor.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm cooler than both of you because I'm BFF with WIL WHEATON.

[nebbity.livejournal.com]

Was also friends with him, but cut him for the same general reasons. My actual friends have been known to have 100+ twitter conversations within an hour. Add to that the 50 or so for people who have no interest in what I have to say in responce, and my phone starts hating me.

I have, however, kept John Cleese, John Hodgman, and Johnathan Coulton. (So many Johns...) Now those are QUALITY Twittees.

[ivydoor.livejournal.com]

*runs to find Cleese*

Ah, see, that would drive me slightly round the bend. I have only a handful of people on mine, so it's still relatively easy to keep up. And I view it on the web only.

[boxed.livejournal.com]

I adore Neil, I don't feel like he's plugging anything at all. Today he posted photos of himself in his bee gear! Walking his dog! Doing things that humans do! I am sometimes of the notion that he is so awesome he must be from another universe, and it's reassuring to see that I am either insane or he blends in very, very well.

Stephen Fry is just hilarious. His constant updates are sometimes hard to keep track of, but I find them endearing. I suppose I'm much too far into Twitterdom to ever come back.

[orange-crushed.livejournal.com]

Your boat image pushed me over the metaphorical edge. Hee. I'm orangecrushed there in case your Twitter is fandom-welcome.

I am liking Twitter because I can be Orange there instead of Orangesrealname Orangeslastname in Orangeshometown, USA. I like the idea of this real-timey brain-sharing, and I get the feeling I'm going to hear about a lot of neat things this way. :)

[ivydoor.livejournal.com]

I AM ON THERE STRICTLY FOR THE LULZ, SO YOU MUST JOIN.

ALSO, INCENTIVE: http://twitter.com/calvinandhobbes

[orange-crushed.livejournal.com]

DONE AND DONE.

I am orangecrushed. I will wave a flag for you.

[nebbity.livejournal.com]

Please get Twitter. It is awesome, and I yearn to hear your crazy random thoughts throughout the day.

[orange-crushed.livejournal.com]

YOUR WISH IS MY TWITMAND. Well, that was awful, but I'm not deleting it. You will have to come back and harass me for my grammar.

(You can find me at orangecrushed, naturally.)

[flinkkamingo3.livejournal.com]

I don't really know anything about Twitter except that I seem to have lost my roommate to it. Like, she goes on there and doesn't leave. Ever. I'm okay with you doing that so long as you do that thing where it collects your twitters (I don't know, is that what they're called?) and post them here. Because a Zombie Thomas Jefferson impersonation is MOST DEFINITELY something to which I would like to be privy.

Did you know that 'zombie' in Italian is 'zombi'? I really wish I had a zombie icon right now, but I guess I'll have to go with the presidential theme instead.

[jezebelz.livejournal.com]

Twitter is highly addictive. Go. Do. You will not regret. And even if you do, you will only have 140 characters in which to express it.

[unicorncandy.livejournal.com]

If you get a twitter, I hope all you write about is Donald Duck has no pants, LOOOOOL. (Oh, and your icon is KILLING me). I do have a twitter but I almost never use it. Occasionally I will deign to watch American Idol and get on Twitter and make several extremely witty comments.

[principia-coh.livejournal.com]

I have Twitter, but never use it. And have, in fact, blocked its display codes from my friends page. :)

[claidissa.livejournal.com]

Get a twitter! They're fun. :D And no one minds if what you write makes any sense at all.

ALSO YES YOU ARE MISSING OUT ON THE TWEETING PARTY

THERE'S, LIKE, A BIG PILE OF CUPCAKES FOR YOU

[orange-crushed.livejournal.com]

*WANTS CUPCAKES*

*IS IN LOVE WITH YOUR ICON IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY.*

I will be glad to be rid of the pressure of making sense. LOL. As if I ever did.

[majorenglishesq.livejournal.com]

i have a twitter and i follow both Mike Doughty and, strangely enough, Jhonen Vasquez, with it, along with my brothers and jameth the e-celeb.

Vasquez is really an insane fuck, too, and it's so middle school gawth to love him right now, but he'll post these 10-part tweets in which he explains the real uses of his consoles when he's not taunting children for having gamertags related to his comics on Call of Duty.

11 hours into broken 360. The Wii tries to cheer me up by making cookies, but accidentally gets trapped in the oven. The PS3 just stares.

Wii is recovering in it's usual place, stuffed under a cabinet. The PS3 has generated a hot apple pie from nothingness to mask the smell.

The Wii, muffled, cries, begging me to play yet another Mario Kart, or something where Mario eats a sandwich part 8. PS3 goes for a smoke.

PS3 comes back in, its cold shark eyes shining. "Want I should cut him?" it says, gesturing with a knife towards the Wii. I think on it.

it's sort of like fanfic drabbles, except that the original author is the one who can't seem to help himself.

or things as simple and brick-shitting as this:

No, I was not at the New York Comicon. 10:08 PM Feb 7th from web

Not this year. Not in human form, anyhow. 10:12 PM Feb 7th from web

but other than that, yeah, lots of people do just post about what they're eating and how many pieces of toast they've had in a day. i was using it to keep track of the value of my British currency until i stopped giving a shit.

[starlightmoonla.livejournal.com]

I only just started Twitter and it's great! You should definitely get one! :D

[goldy-dollar.livejournal.com]

I have one! I used it for a whole week and then got bored and wandered off. But I did get to follow Darth Vader, which I think is an important feat.

I also really want to use it to post to LJ for the sole purpose of irritating [Bad username or site: mrv3000 / @ livejournal.com]. Sometimes I am evil like that.

[orange-crushed.livejournal.com]

I immediately went and followed Darth Vader, which is of course what you do in these situations.

Irritation is the right of any evil overlord. XD

[jeonggam.livejournal.com]

I have one. Only problem is, I keep forgetting about it. I tend to do that with any other social networking platform (except LJ, of course, that's now ingrained in me) unless they email me updates and comment notices.

I'm obviously not enough of a techno-whore, yet...

[orange-crushed.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is more likely than not that I will shortly forget about it, hyperactive toddler style. But for now it seems... fun. I will pet it and love it and call it Twitter.

Your techno-whore Doctor, meanwhile... LOL