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Twitter on profiles isn't updating

Mwongozi — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:53:05 -0800

My profile is showing my "last" Twitter status as an update posted two months ago. I've made plenty of updates since then...

By: Mwongozi

Mwongozi — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:55:21 -0800

Nevermind. My fault. Sorry. :(

By: dersins

dersins — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:04:24 -0800

You twitter.

By: Pastabagel

Pastabagel — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:05:46 -0800

OPEN THREAD! OMG, did you guys see Gossip Girl?

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:06:07 -0800

I spend all day reading everyone's twitters, then I input various tangible activities into a growing database. Then at night I scan the database looking for patterns.

By: ALongDecember

ALongDecember — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:07:53 -0800

They call them fingers but I never see them fing.

Oh there they go.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:08:33 -0800

Oh yeah, well if you don't buy Bonestorm II, you're nothing!

By: chillmost

chillmost — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:09:43 -0800

Well since it's an open thread, I'm just gonna throw this out there...

I think Twitter is dumb.

Unless you get arrested by the Egyptian police. Then it comes in handy.

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:11:36 -0800

Twitter is to the Internet what Crash Theft Auto IV is to the PS3... completely overhyped.

By: bigmusic

bigmusic — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:15:49 -0800

Your favorite webapp sucks?

By: Pastabagel

Pastabagel — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:18:27 -0800

I spend all day reading everyone's twitters, then I input various tangible activities into a growing database. Then at night I scan the database looking for patterns.
posted by Burhanistan at 5:06 PM on May 7

I just had a depressing thought. Somewhere, someone's last communication to the world before they died was 'lol'.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:19:16 -0800

There's already a twitter is dumb thread on the blue.

By: limeonaire

limeonaire — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:28:56 -0800

OK, on a related note, Twitter updates immediately in my profile, but Last.FM doesn't until a couple days later. Anyone else have that happening?

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:30:56 -0800

Judging by the current incarnation's cell-phone submenu gimmick, there's a very good chance that Twitter will be an integrated feature in Grand Theft Auto V.

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:33:14 -0800

Don't cross the streams.

By: cashman

cashman — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:33:40 -0800

Twitter makes me all atwitter
Cause it's one step towards the shitter
Flitter off another bitter
Missive then some chatter chitter

We broke up, I've got the jitters
Tweeted Bud, he's quite the kidder
Lets go out - I'll text the sitter
Don't bring kids, there'd be a litter

She was all made up in glitter
At the bar and I'm the hitter
Then I hear the patter pitter
"Here's your kid." I hollered "Quitter!"

Here's the lesson, you'll be fitter:
Talk it out, be a go getter
Never should you tweet on twitter
'Less she asks you to.

By: Fuzzy Skinner

Fuzzy Skinner — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:33:43 -0800

Does Twitter work in my country?

Semi-related, my profile page used to show my facebook link. Then one day I got a message that it couldn't link to my page because the format was wrong (it wanted numbers only or something like that) and the facebook link went away, never to return.

Just wondering if something changed here, or with facebook.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:33:53 -0800

there's a very good chance that Twitter will be an integrated feature in Grand Theft Auto V.

LOL! Gunned down another ho!

By: desjardins

desjardins — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:38:20 -0800

I didn't eat breakfast this morning, so this twitter, it is useless to me.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:38:37 -0800

Mine's definitely borked.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:50:13 -0800

damn, that should be funnyish in 15 minutes.

By: WalterMitty

WalterMitty — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:01:19 -0800

This Twitter, it twits?

By: carsonb

carsonb — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:40:31 -0800

Who else wants real-time updating on the MeFi recent twitter page? Yeah!

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:24:23 -0800

WalterMitty: Clearly the verb form should mimic that of Twizzler.

By: Marie Mon Dieu

Marie Mon Dieu — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:58:55 -0800

Gee, I wish I could be super cool like all you really cool awesome Twitter hatin' snarkmeisters! Wow, gee golly, I wish I wuz superior and closeminded, jest like yew, so I could post some cool-ass snark and get my .15 secondz of fame raight here on Metahfilter!

But I'm 44, not 12, so guess I can't be like you. Too bad, so sad. Grow the fuck up already.

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:03:47 -0800

Someone needs a hug.

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:51:50 -0800

I think somebody is too heavily emotionally invested in her twitter stream, is all.

By: dersins

dersins — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:56:10 -0800

damn, that should be funnyish in 15 minutes.

emphasis on the ish.

By: ODiV

ODiV — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:09:46 -0800

wtf. We only get .15 seconds of fame now?

I'm calling my entertainment lawyer.

By: Mikey-San

Mikey-San — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:46:07 -0800

LOL! Gunned down another ho!

@bloods lol fucking owned (via @theLBC)

By: mattbucher

mattbucher — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:49:12 -0800

Do you like Kipling?
I don't know, I've never Kippled.

By: misha

misha — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:33:31 -0800

As a Mom blogger and mother of teens, I both tweet and play Grand Theft Auto IV. I can anticipate the day when I accidentally pop a cap in another Mom on Twitter and then hotwire a car to the high school...

By: cashman

cashman — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:47:35 -0800

May that poem could have been so much better. But you have no idea how many times I came close to resetting the cooter counter. Where are we at, by the way? I feel like it's been 30 days.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:52:14 -0800

It has not been 30 days. I keep the counter on my profile page.

By: ALongDecember

ALongDecember — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:00:47 -0800

So what would change if we reach 30 days? Your profile name, your name in the podcast? You are not actually going to go to the courthouse, right?

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:17:53 -0800

I'm going to start sending mean MeMails to people who reset the cooter counter. And by mean, I mean ridiculous.

By: danb

danb — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:19:03 -0800

It's actually quite amazing to me that we haven't hit 30 days yet.

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:36:41 -0800

What was that mechanic character's name on the Dukes of Hazzard? (Don't tell me! I'll put it to askme in about three weeks.)

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:18:56 -0800

It's actually quite amazing to me that we haven't hit 30 days yet.

Seriously. If I were the counter, I bet you that I'd hit it.

By: Sparx

Sparx — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:42:22 -0800

OPEN THREAD! OMG, did you guys see Gossip Girl?

Dammit! Went out last night and haven't caught up with my illicit downloads yet. Was it as awesome as I just know it was? I mean, Michelle Trachtenberg getting her hooks into Dan when Serena is all dubious morality girl and Chuck her enabler! Genius! Best. Show. Ever.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Thu, 08 May 2008 06:51:45 -0800

It's actually quite amazing to me that we haven't hit 30 days yet.

The "I've got the perfect ironic joke" guys will keep this a certainty. Thanks cortex.

By: middleclasstool

middleclasstool — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:06:28 -0800

How do you stay up with it? Just reading comments, or do you have some sort of pb/cortex hackamariffic little HitItSignal that sounds klaxons and fires up a twirly red light and tweets "d jessamyn reset the clock lol" whenever that string hits the database? Inquiring minds want to know.

By: middleclasstool

middleclasstool — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:08:27 -0800

(I'm hoping that it's the latter, btw, and that there are capes involved somehow. Or cortex in a unitard.)

By: danb

danb — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:28:14 -0800

I like to imagine there's a crack team of MeFites that scours the site and flags every occurrence for her perusal.

By: deern the headlice

deern the headlice — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:35:28 -0800

Grow the fuck up already.

Having grown up is exactly why I'm not using Twitter.

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:41:47 -0800

PLEASE STOP CALLING ME A UNITARD THX

By: dersins

dersins — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:09:20 -0800

THEN STOP ACTING LIKE ONE

UNITARD.

By: quin

quin — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:13:12 -0800

Burhanistan : Then at night I scan the database looking for patterns.

Don't bother. I cracked the code a while back, and the answer is "the Rosicrucians".

I checked and then double checked my work, but I kept coming up with the same solution. Thinking I had finally broken the Grand Illuminati Unification Theory, I vetted my work prior to the great revelation-which-would-change-everything when I released it; unfortunately once I dug around enough, I found out the actual question for this answer was "What conspiracy linked organization is really difficult to spell?"

Which was considered less that awesome by the community.

By: ODiV

ODiV — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:07:45 -0800

The "I've got the perfect ironic joke" guys...

and girls... :P

By: Sparx

Sparx — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:35:20 -0800

I just saw Gossip Girl and it was AWESOME. The rest of you folks talking about stuff? You keep doing that.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:03:33 -0800

and girls... :P

strangely, no.

By: ODiV

ODiV — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:56:02 -0800

strangely, yes.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:57:20 -0800

My lust and cheesiness, being rivals for the award of "most groanworthy" character attribute, have driven me to recklessly careen headlong past the flashing stop signs, toward that bright red brick wall, the threshold of restraint, so often that any gambling soul would bet that by now, I'd hit it.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:21:54 -0800

Aw, man!

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:12:22 -0800

Strangely, once. And now twice.

By: ODiV

ODiV — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:32:29 -0800

If it's just been twice then I'm really glad I didn't go looking through all of them. :)

By: danb

danb — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:12:15 -0800

One of the pitfalls of jessamyn's system is that, once someone asserts their interest in hitting it, the floor is open for others to second the motion for the rest of the day.

By: danb

danb — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:16:41 -0800

Also, I feel compelled to point this out.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:27:41 -0800

That was on the day this all kicked off.

By: dirtdirt

dirtdirt — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:08:20 -0800

Have there been any I'd-hit-its that were ostensibly unintentional and unironic?