MeFi Twittering Best Practices? March 17, 2010 9:35 AM Subscribe
Best practices for linking to MeFi comments on Twitter?
Lately I've found myself linking directly to awesome comments on Twitter. I try to remember to throw a #mefi tag at the end; is there anything else people could think of that'd make this sort of cross-site nonsense more useful/pretty/better?
Lately I've found myself linking directly to awesome comments on Twitter. I try to remember to throw a #mefi tag at the end; is there anything else people could think of that'd make this sort of cross-site nonsense more useful/pretty/better?
Unfortunately, TPS, I think that falls under "worst practices."
posted by jtron at 9:45 AM on March 17, 2010
posted by jtron at 9:45 AM on March 17, 2010
I try to remember to throw a #mefi tag at the end; is there anything else people could think of that'd make this sort of cross-site nonsense more useful/pretty/better?
No.
posted by defenestration at 9:46 AM on March 17, 2010
No.
posted by defenestration at 9:46 AM on March 17, 2010
is there anything else people could think of that'd make this sort of cross-site nonsense more useful/pretty/better
Credit everything to sixcolors.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 9:50 AM on March 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
Credit everything to sixcolors.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 9:50 AM on March 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
#fiamo
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 9:50 AM on March 17, 2010
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 9:50 AM on March 17, 2010
Unfortunately, TPS, I think that falls under "worst practices."
Aaaaand stolen, thank you! :D
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 10:00 AM on March 17, 2010 [4 favorites]
Aaaaand stolen, thank you! :D
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 10:00 AM on March 17, 2010 [4 favorites]
I copy and paste the comment with no link, so everyone will think that I'm the one that said the clever/smart/touching thing. Bad?
Ha! I like to amuse myself occasionally with a twitter account in which I do the same thing with the most ridiculous, idiotic and hateful political comments I find on the web from rabid right-wingers. It seems obvious to me that it's a complete mockery, but people who self-identify with the rush/glenn/sarah crowd keep following the account. I should do one with idiotic left-wing comments too, and see which group is more gullible. Hmmm. Maybe there is a Mefi Projects post in my future.
posted by Balonious Assault at 10:06 AM on March 17, 2010 [3 favorites]
Ha! I like to amuse myself occasionally with a twitter account in which I do the same thing with the most ridiculous, idiotic and hateful political comments I find on the web from rabid right-wingers. It seems obvious to me that it's a complete mockery, but people who self-identify with the rush/glenn/sarah crowd keep following the account. I should do one with idiotic left-wing comments too, and see which group is more gullible. Hmmm. Maybe there is a Mefi Projects post in my future.
posted by Balonious Assault at 10:06 AM on March 17, 2010 [3 favorites]
The "what" tag is because I found myself wondering why the hell I was making a post about this instead of just doing what I want when I want a la Master Shake.
posted by jtron at 10:19 AM on March 17, 2010
posted by jtron at 10:19 AM on March 17, 2010
I copy and paste the comment with no link, so everyone will think that I'm the one that said the clever/smart/touching thing. Bad?
only if you base your webcomic on it, I think.
posted by xbonesgt at 10:32 AM on March 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
only if you base your webcomic on it, I think.
posted by xbonesgt at 10:32 AM on March 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
is there anything else people could think of that'd make this sort of cross-site nonsense more useful/pretty/better?
Some mac'n'chee? A cupcake? Bacon?
I'm hungry.
posted by carsonb at 10:36 AM on March 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
Some mac'n'chee? A cupcake? Bacon?
I'm hungry.
posted by carsonb at 10:36 AM on March 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
at least you're in good company.
If thomcatspike is wrong I don't wanna be right.
posted by jtron at 11:15 AM on March 17, 2010
If thomcatspike is wrong I don't wanna be right.
posted by jtron at 11:15 AM on March 17, 2010
"Hurf durf blah blah" - MeFi
Why? Because I don't want to have to explain a username that is not only a sentence in itself, but also longer than the quote.
posted by griphus at 11:21 AM on March 17, 2010
Why? Because I don't want to have to explain a username that is not only a sentence in itself, but also longer than the quote.
posted by griphus at 11:21 AM on March 17, 2010
"only if you base your webcomic on it, I think."
Today, I adore you, xbonesgt.
posted by DWRoelands at 11:33 AM on March 17, 2010
Today, I adore you, xbonesgt.
posted by DWRoelands at 11:33 AM on March 17, 2010
#$20SAIT
posted by blue_beetle at 11:54 AM on March 17, 2010
posted by blue_beetle at 11:54 AM on March 17, 2010
I miss sixcolors.
posted by cjorgensen at 12:07 PM on March 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by cjorgensen at 12:07 PM on March 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
jtron: “Lately I've found myself linking directly to awesome comments on Twitter. I try to remember to throw a #mefi tag at the end; is there anything else people could think of that'd make this sort of cross-site nonsense more useful/pretty/better?”
Well, I do know a way to make Twitter useful, but it involves blowing up the internet and using the explosive force created to power space-exploring rockets.
So: first you'll need a rocket.
posted by koeselitz at 12:16 PM on March 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
Well, I do know a way to make Twitter useful, but it involves blowing up the internet and using the explosive force created to power space-exploring rockets.
So: first you'll need a rocket.
posted by koeselitz at 12:16 PM on March 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
I miss her too and I hope someday she'll be back. Yeah, she could be a headache for the mods, and definitely needed some Time Away when the hammer hit, but it still makes me sad to see people namedropping her as Awfullest Weirdo when she's not around; it's like a lunch table turning on one of their own when they go up to get some more orange drink.
posted by jtron at 12:18 PM on March 17, 2010 [2 favorites]
posted by jtron at 12:18 PM on March 17, 2010 [2 favorites]
Yeah, I'll definitely raise a glass to sixcolors. The haters can hate somewhere else.
posted by koeselitz at 12:22 PM on March 17, 2010
posted by koeselitz at 12:22 PM on March 17, 2010
Twitter's not completely useless. It saves me from logging into Facebook, for one. Dead easy to use on the phone. Prevents me from awful emotude. Promotes concision. The most interesting things about it to me are how many people are obsessed with the idea that they can make money off of it, and the level of communication it fosters (both genuine and fake-ass) between the hoi polloi and certain categories of 'celebrity' (in my experience, writers/artists/rasslers primarily, but that's who I follow, so).
posted by jtron at 12:29 PM on March 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by jtron at 12:29 PM on March 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
Also it's how I found out about cjorgensen's Jackass Letters.
posted by jtron at 12:32 PM on March 17, 2010
posted by jtron at 12:32 PM on March 17, 2010
WHO WANTS SOME ORANGE DRINK
posted by grobstein at 12:34 PM on March 17, 2010 [2 favorites]
posted by grobstein at 12:34 PM on March 17, 2010 [2 favorites]
jtron: “Twitter's not completely useless.”
Oh, I don't mean that uselessness is a sin or something. Most good books aren't strictly useful, but I like good books.
posted by koeselitz at 12:37 PM on March 17, 2010
Oh, I don't mean that uselessness is a sin or something. Most good books aren't strictly useful, but I like good books.
posted by koeselitz at 12:37 PM on March 17, 2010
Who wants an orange whip?
posted by Confess, Fletch at 12:59 PM on March 17, 2010
every time someone says hoi polloi, i just assume they're talking about beanworld, which is funnily enough one of the main arguments for twitter being awesome. larry marder's twitter stream is wonderful and hilarious and a peek into the mind of a man regaining his craft after almost 2 decades in the business side of the comics world.
posted by nadawi at 1:07 PM on March 17, 2010
posted by nadawi at 1:07 PM on March 17, 2010
@Balonius Assault - Can you send me your twitter of hate...I want to basically retweet it and get weirdos, too. That is damn hilarious.
posted by snap_dragon at 1:30 PM on March 17, 2010
posted by snap_dragon at 1:30 PM on March 17, 2010
Is this the thread where I answer a question about twitter by telling you that I think twitter sucks just like I do in every other thread about twitter?
Oh, never mind, I see that koeselitz already did.
posted by eyeballkid at 1:36 PM on March 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
Oh, never mind, I see that koeselitz already did.
posted by eyeballkid at 1:36 PM on March 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
This is one of the things that Twitter is good for.
posted by cortex (staff) at 1:51 PM on March 17, 2010 [3 favorites]
posted by cortex (staff) at 1:51 PM on March 17, 2010 [3 favorites]
eyeballkid: “Is this the thread where I answer a question about twitter by telling you that I think twitter sucks just like I do in every other thread about twitter?”
Again, I didn't say that Twitter sucks. I just thought the idea of making it 'useful' was funny. And maybe I was full of shit, but I don't tend to think of my favorite things as 'useful' generally. Maybe that's because they transcend the category, maybe that's because 'usefulness' is sort of a strangely pragmatic idea, I don't know.
Metafilter, for example, isn't strictly very 'useful' for me. Unlike some people, I don't come here to get answers to questions or solutions to problems in my life. But it's still quite worthwhile.
That's all I meant.
posted by koeselitz at 2:02 PM on March 17, 2010
Again, I didn't say that Twitter sucks. I just thought the idea of making it 'useful' was funny. And maybe I was full of shit, but I don't tend to think of my favorite things as 'useful' generally. Maybe that's because they transcend the category, maybe that's because 'usefulness' is sort of a strangely pragmatic idea, I don't know.
Metafilter, for example, isn't strictly very 'useful' for me. Unlike some people, I don't come here to get answers to questions or solutions to problems in my life. But it's still quite worthwhile.
That's all I meant.
posted by koeselitz at 2:02 PM on March 17, 2010
too bad someone already owns me.fi... that would be an awesome url shortener for linking to mefi posts/comments from twitter/etc.
posted by joshwa at 2:38 PM on March 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by joshwa at 2:38 PM on March 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
Also it would be cool if there were a pony single-comment view, with a "view this in context" link back to the whole 600+-post thread so I don't have to load it all just to read the snarky funny comment that got 78 favorites.
posted by joshwa at 2:40 PM on March 17, 2010
posted by joshwa at 2:40 PM on March 17, 2010
Man, complaints about the tediousness of Twitter are tedious.
posted by Pronoiac at 2:42 PM on March 17, 2010
posted by Pronoiac at 2:42 PM on March 17, 2010
See, there you go, koeselitz - to me, the usefulness of the Twoot is communication, entertainment, and distraction from the endless progress toward the grave. I'd call that last one EXTREMELY USEFUL.
posted by jtron at 2:47 PM on March 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by jtron at 2:47 PM on March 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
I bought a curious little pamphlet in a second hand book shop that was an advert from the 50s for some pharmaceutical company. It was called something like "Famous Thinkers and their Twitter Posts". It included Darwin, George Berkely, Jonathan Swift and Edgar Allen Poe. It was awesome in the way that it detailed how they had insomnia or ulcers, or bowel irritation, or whatever, and why this contributed to their genius. But also why some posts on twitter would have cured them of all that.
Recycle. Reuse. I'm saving the fucking planet here.
posted by Elmore at 4:06 PM on March 17, 2010
Recycle. Reuse. I'm saving the fucking planet here.
posted by Elmore at 4:06 PM on March 17, 2010
This may be the only place where I can share the story of how my partner - who is an electrical engineer - got really excited playing with circuit boards and the internet. He tried to think of some "practical applications" for this technology and decided that what would be best is if we put a device on the toilet that would post to Twitter anytime someone used the bathroom.
I'm not saying it's any worse than a lot of Tweeting that already happens, but I did have to make a blanket statement saying that no automatic posting to anything would happen from anywhere in the bathroom. Not the toilet. Not the shower. Not the litterbox. Not the toothbrush. NOT THE BATHROOM.
If you ever see a Twitter account that logs the activity of my bathroom door, you'll know why.
posted by grapefruitmoon at 4:14 PM on March 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
I'm not saying it's any worse than a lot of Tweeting that already happens, but I did have to make a blanket statement saying that no automatic posting to anything would happen from anywhere in the bathroom. Not the toilet. Not the shower. Not the litterbox. Not the toothbrush. NOT THE BATHROOM.
If you ever see a Twitter account that logs the activity of my bathroom door, you'll know why.
posted by grapefruitmoon at 4:14 PM on March 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
what
WARNING: link is to incredibly infectious Rob Zombie song which I found out about from his Twitter feed.
And thus, we have full recursion.
posted by quin at 8:30 AM on March 18, 2010
WARNING: link is to incredibly infectious Rob Zombie song which I found out about from his Twitter feed.
And thus, we have full recursion.
posted by quin at 8:30 AM on March 18, 2010
no that's when you find out about his twitter feed from his song
posted by grobstein at 11:41 AM on March 18, 2010
posted by grobstein at 11:41 AM on March 18, 2010
Bit.ly will retweet a whole thread pretty elegantly using the following form:
MeFi Twittering Best Practices? | MetaTalk http://bit.ly/cijaTe
It leaves plenty of characters for a little commentary to go with it (dependent on the title of the post, natch). So that's what I do mostly. I also use the #mefi, but it's wholly habitual, as my account is locked and therefore not part of the public timeline/searches.
posted by greekphilosophy at 1:04 PM on March 18, 2010 [2 favorites]
MeFi Twittering Best Practices? | MetaTalk http://bit.ly/cijaTe
It leaves plenty of characters for a little commentary to go with it (dependent on the title of the post, natch). So that's what I do mostly. I also use the #mefi, but it's wholly habitual, as my account is locked and therefore not part of the public timeline/searches.
posted by greekphilosophy at 1:04 PM on March 18, 2010 [2 favorites]
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posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 9:41 AM on March 17, 2010 [4 favorites]