Tag: Twitter
Glory, hallelujah: in an interview with Acclaim magazine, RiFF RAFF revealed he and Spring Breakers auteur Harmony Korine are working together on a book based on the rapper’s prodigious Twitter feed. Apparently, the tome will feature Korine’s interpretations of @JODYHiGHROLLER‘s oft-inscrutable, always-amazing Tweets. Some recent entries that could be ripe for reinterpretation: “STEP UP TO THE PLATE, AND BE A […]
Fun news for Twitter users: Line breaks are now recognized in your tweets. This is cool but will also be a total catastrophe for the first week or so while everyone’s getting adjusted. For now, though, try doing these fun things: – Flex your humor muscles with some programming jokes -Organize your thoughts into paragraphs […]
It’s perplexing enough that Charmin’s commercials revolve around adorable, innocent bears shitting all the time. But their social media presence is essentially the same way, too. Charmin’s Facebook page and Twitter account talk about poop, a lot. It’s not surprising though, considering that, duh, they’re a toilet paper company, but the detail is a little…unexpected. […]
Ever wonder what it takes to rule Twitter? A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have reduced the art of increasing your followers to a simple science. After studying 500 different (non-celebrity) Twitter accounts over a period of fifteen months, they concluded that the most popular Twitters are, most importantly, those that […]
So you’ve tweeted your last tweet, just before heading into the great social network in the sky. Would you rather have your feed lie unpopulated and empty for the rest of eternity, or, if you could, would you like to have it keep on tweeting, retweeting, and favoriting, long after you’ve passed beyond the physical […]
Aren’t you loving Twitter’s ability to turn your life into a statistic? Yes? So, here’s an interactive map that the Gothamist found, depicting a vast diversity of languages tweeted throughout New York City, as detected by Google Translate. See the density of each language is visualized by neighborhood: English (grey), Spanish (second-most-tweeted language: blue), Portuguese (red), etc. The resulting infographic […]
Having already pinpointed the happiest intersection in Manhattan at 7th and 77th (near Hayden Planetarium), the applied mathematicians at Computational Story Lab are expanding their scope in an effort to map out the existential condition of the entire country. Unlike art cartographer Eric Fischer who used geotag data of tweets to map density of twitter […]
The person responsible for fucking up Burger King’s Twitter presence yesterday decided to target Jeep today. The new theme was Cadillac, and a lot of the tweets were similar to Monday’s, but this time there was a link to a full Chief Keef mixtape and another “WORLDSTAAAAAR” among the shoutouts. And yes, Lil Internet was […]
The fast food social media world was rocked today when Burger King’s Twitter account was hacked and became amusing, changing its name to McDonald’s and tweeting out Chief Keef and Gucci Mane videos. The group behind the hacking might be Lulzsec, as evidenced by the tweets right here, but who knows. Anyway, to whomever is […]
With the number of people using Twitter today, it is inevitable that some of those users will die. It’s also inevitable that among the dead, there will be famous people. Jamie Forrest and Michael McWatters understood that and created The Tweet Hereafter, a catalog of last words via Twitter. Some collected final tweets are mundane, but […]
