Tag: Twitter
The word “curator” gets thrown around casually these days… Fortunately, there’s a”Ask a Curator Day.” On September 19th, the general public is being encouraged to ask the curators of numerous international galleries and museums whatever questions they may have for these experts. 85 Museums in 15 countries signed up for #askacurator so far. This is open to ALL […]
File under “more great unintentional poetry from random Twitter users.” Much like Pentametron trolls the social network for lines in iambic pentameter then assembles the rhyming ones into surreal sonnets, Anagramatron assembles pairs of found anagrams. So @HairieSahrin’s “Shame on you dear,” gets paired with @ainqarina’s “You are handsome,” in what could be the opening couplet […]
Fucking christ, am I unpopular. There once was a time when I could send a tweet into the stratosphere with crossed fingers and a dream, convincing myself I was providing my followers with valuable with and insight, and if I included a link, that at least a handful of my few hundred followers would click on it. […]
Going through @stopandfrisk‘s timeline on Twitter, one phrase jumps out at you: “No weapon is found.” Every five minutes, the account tweets a short description of one of the 685,742 stops that occurred in 2011, and only one percent of those stops actually turned up a weapon. Here’s a sampling: 01/06/11: Police stop a 31-year-old in […]
Past Friday afternoon, artist and recent legal provocateur Richard Prince tweeted a link to a video in which he is seen burning one of his still disputed “Canal Zone” paintings. The tweet has since been deleted. Rewind: Years ago, the artist was sued by photographer Patrick Cariou over the artist’s use of his photographs in a series of paintings […]
Last night, Christine Quinn’s Twitter follower count jumped from about 3,500 to about 24,000 overnight. Most of those new followers are almost certainly fake. Fake followers, you ask, but how? Here’s how. Should you care? Probably not. I’d be willing to bet it was some clueless staffer or volunteer who made the call, not Quinn […]
How did you live so long without a device that sends you a tweet whenever your infant urinates all over him or herself ? It’s a difficult question, but thankfully not one that you’ll have to wrestle with any longer, thanks to Huggies. That company’s Brazilian wing is responsible for TweetPee, a little plastic device […]
Sick of people on Twitter constantly spoiling your favorite tv shows before you even get the chance to watch them? Today is your lucky day, because Jennie Lamere — the only female to participate in the Boston Hackathon — has created Twivo. This simple Twitter add-on filters your newsfeed, eliminating any spoilers of last night’s episode of Whatever That […]
Starting tomorrow, Brooklyn based artist and Twitter extraordinaire, Man Bartlett will be taking over both the Brooklyn Museum‘s Twitter and Instagram feeds during the Brooklyn Artist’s Ball. This years event celebrates Brooklyn artists and the borough’s ever changing, thriving, creative community. During the event and its concurrent auction Man will be working with Barry Hoggard on the project asking what […]
Hacker and internet activist “Weev” was sentenced to 41 monthes in prison recently for his part in exposing a security flaw in AT&T’s network and collecting email addresses and information from an estimated 100,000 iPad users, but he has not been silenced . Weev has been tweeting from prison via TRULINCS, a new government program which provides inmates with some limited computer access, […]
