Secrets of the City

Seems to be of limited use, as I don’t see a way to view more than the 10 most recent tweets in either category.

I see the Tweet on this post has popped up in the right hand column.

I’m a voyeur junkie. Gotta love it.

If anything will scare Rex out of the woodwork, it’s a Twitter post.

Screw you all I am watching Cedar Rapids!

Here’s a little breakdown, the following occurred on 3:56 pm on December 08, 2008:

@demarius is excited about new insurance coverage
@hidama thinks interspecies couples are adorable
@bryanforbes thinks that @mimijohsons suggestion sounds amazing, he may have to invite himself over
@muzzysgirl her husband has a rosetta stone joke- we’ve all heard already lololol

I’m already following like half of Minneapolis so this is useless to me. Although I like that it will broadcast my tweets to a larger audience. I hope people enjoyed my poop talk today.

Wow. You’d think it was the first time everybody has seen snow. I followed the refresh for a few minutes, but it wasn’t easy.

Fuck Twitter.

mine aren’t showing up. maybe they go to the Detroit page instead.

In reading for a bit it’s fairly obvious that people lead mundane lives.

Hah, pages like these will only serve to make twitter seem really boring. Except in cases of terrorist attacks, nuclear war, or pudding factory explosions.

esquared: Doesn’t twitter.com do that too?

In the war against twitter (or in favor of twitter’s original intended use), our friend s4xton has been defeated.

I’m on s4xton’s side in the War on Twitter. Yet, I am also probably the single most worthless Twitterer. I don’t think I’ve ever tweeted anything remotely close to what is supposed to be tweeted.

So… what is “supposed” to be tweeted? Is there a fight over Twitter as an exclusively utilitarian tool, as Bob Collins seems to envision it, and Twitter as frivolous way to let people know what you are doing? You know, like I use it.

Eh, I used to be pretty anti-twitter, now I’m on it. I put a lot of boring crap on there. But every now and then, it’s nice – for instance, someone congratulating me on my successful roux, or finding out that a far flung friend and I will be visiting the same city on the same day.

I always thought Twitter was to update people on where you’re at and what you’re doing. Like, “At Town Talk” or something.

If boring, innocuous tweets are of concern … then just un-follow the people who don’t meet your standards. It’s not like anyone forces you to follow a boring conversation. I follow people whose interests mirror mine and they, hopefully, follow me for the same reason. I’ve found some very good professional info via some of my tweeple and I hope I’ve been entertaining and informative to them, too.

A lot of people take Bob Collins at MPR wayyy too seriously.

The active Mpls Twitterstream isn’t exactly about* Minneapolis, just from* it. The column on the right for Tweets about the city has been empty for a while.

I don’t know Bob Collins’ opinion, but I do think the Tweets from* Minneapolis aren’t worth the effort it’d take to read a txt message.

A lot of people take Bob Collins at MPR wayyy too seriously.

Mr. Collins himself tops that list.

Heh.

Mr. Collins himself tops that list.

*snerk*

We broke it.

I only follow people I somewhat know and @maddow, so it’s not that bad when people are boring. Twitter did, however, help me through a crisis and I like it for that alone.

Plus, it’s 140 characters at a time, for crying out loud, just skip over it if you don’t want to read it. Or just follow less people. But seriously, it’s 140 characters, I can assure you that no one is *that* interesting in 140 characters.

I mostly twitter about what I’m cooking, or what I just ate.

I’m too cheap to get a fancy phone plan w/free texts, so I limit twittering to from from web. Keeps me down to just the quality twitters… right?

The only stranger I follow is John Cleese.

i only twitter the stuff I don’t want my wife, parents and rabbi reading on facebook.

Like, my house is in foreclosure, I just quit my job, bought an 8-ball of coke, and am having sex with my secretary on a big pile of pork chops?

yum… i love pork chops.

Mmm… pork chops…

“pork” chops is right…

looks as if baker has been reading my tweets, but thankfully left out the parts about midgets in bondage gear.