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sharing the good, and exposing the best of the worst on twitter
Got my eye on you
Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito met in the ring last night, and Margarito got the raw end of the deal. Especially his eye. His eye definitely got the worst of it. In the “olden days,” a fighter, after losing a big bout, would be able to go home, get some rest, and wait for the papers to slaughter him in the morning.
But this is the golden age of twitter, and everything, everywhere, becomes the stuff of instant commentary. Before the fight ended, and new hashtag #margaritoseye was born. We’ve picked the best/worst of the pack.
If you’re not a boxing fan, you’ll probably want to skip this one. Instead, read about toad safety or dogs and cats and come back later.
What do you think? Can you do better? Give it your best shot in the comments.
The absolute best twitter list, ever
Earlier today, when we were screwing around doing research on twitter, we decided to login to “NEW IMPROVED TOTALLY KICK-ASS” twitter so we could make fun of it post a review about its supposed awesomeness.
And, because it works just as perfectly as old decrepit antiquated twitter, it sent us to this page:
We don’t remember exactly what “sessions” used to do, but we’re pretty sure it was a twitter command or something. But that’s neither here nor there. Or the other place. Try this link: http://twitter.com/sessions – bet you don’t get the same result we did.
Ha! See? Told you! It doesn’t exist.
Wooo.
This got us to thinking. What other anomalies could we find? Turns out, tons of them, but you already knew that. But, while we were researching, we found @yudai214, and although we’re a world apart, and don’t speak the same language, we really want her to be our new best friend, because we’re her biggest fan.
It’s about lists. We have lists. We have our buds list, our list of funny people, and of course, our two biggest lists, #notfollowing and #also-notfollowing (Oprah’s on both, BTW).
Our lists make us look like rank amateurs in comparison to @yudai214, who has the most awesome list of all.
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Check it out: @yudai214/reserved-word. While we were compiling a list of real and imaginary people on twitter, @yudai214 took it to a new level and created a list of links to places and things on twitter.
No, there’s nothing sinister there. No evil code waiting to harm your computer. Just a list that does something entirely different than the rest of us.
@yudai214 we bow before your greatness. We are not worthy.
7 Genuinely Funny Real People on Twitter
When Rackspace got hacked a couple of weeks ago, bad things happened to this blog. Draft posts vanished. Widgets disappeared. We got totally fed up. So, we moved to a new server and are rising from the wreckage and rebuilding.
We’re running a bit low on snark, so, instead of ranting endlessly about out of date server software, bad customer service, inadequate communication, general finger pointing during a crisis, and all that jazz, we give you seven people we follow who are genuinely funny.
@tremendousnews – For Dee, low self-esteem is an art form – tremendousnews.com
@thebloggess – Weird, neurotic, and wonderful – thebloggess.com
@sherigilmour – A woman with a serious attitude problem sherigilmour.com
@JuliaChildCIA – She doesn’t have a blog, but her most faved tweets list is a must read – favstar.fm
@HungryLikeKevin – Clever, with a heapin helping of snark sogoddamn.tumblr.com
And, a shout out to two Honorary Fail Bird Handlers, who are funny enough to write guest posts on this blog:
@stinginthetail – The Queen of Darkness, possibly the AntiChrist stinginthetail.wordpress.com
Guest post: Guy Kawasaki Did Not Invent That Motorbike
@jackassletters – One of the funniest people we know. Jackassletters.com
One of his guest posts: The Secret to Fewer Followers
You won’t find them in our FF list, because we don’t do that.
What funny people do you follow? We’d love to add them to our funny list.
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Sometimes Real Life Gets in the Way
We owe you a post. Had several good ones in various states of completion, and then gremlins came and ate everything.
We have this really kick-ass computer. Or so we thought. Until the power supply/motherboard/ram/whatever-it-was issue happened, and it had to spend three days in the shop. And then we had to play catch up with “real” work after struggling to get stuff done on the laptop we love, but doesn’t have all the awesome software we have installed on the supposedly kick-ass computer.
All that sucks, because we love blogging. If we could blog every day, we’d be thrilled. But since blogging doesn’t pay (Shock!) we do actual work to pay the bills. Here’s a video the amazingly awesome @thebloggess, told us about, which explains why we do it anyway.
So, we owe you an apology. And something cool to look at while we work on the next blog post, which will be up soon, we swear.
We’re sorry we abandoned you. It won’t happen again. Promise.
Here’s the cool thing. There’s a blogger named Greg, who wrote this fabulous song about how much bloggers love comments. Then he had someone record it, and a bunch of bloggers (not us) sent clips that turned into this really cool video. We mean every word in it, as if we wrote it ourselves.
Go read Greg’s blog, Telling Dad and leave him a really good comment. You’ll make his day.
We’ll see you soon.