Twitter ablaze with #Euref #Sunderland #Sterling #Doom #Mayhem #Panic. Over on Facebook, photos of cats — Annie West (@anniewestdotcom) June 23, 2016 This is true.
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Danah Boyd has an interesting piece on the Reality Distortion Field that is modern tech. Viewed through the original call of Cyberspace from 20 years ago, during the halcyon early days of the ‘net, it’s a glimpse into the future that awaits, and its not pretty. At first I thought I had just encountered the […]
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So, a glitch in a software update to the Nest left users quite literally cold as their nest devices stopped working. Very irritating, and the nine-step, time consuming fix sounds quite awkward to say the least. But there’s more: Making matters worse is the lack of recourse. Buried deep in Nest’s 8,000-word service agreement is […]
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Newcastle became famous for a day for being the location of a puddle. Streamed live on periscope, it seemed to catch the attention of everyone on what was an otherwise boring January afternoon. I freely admit I joined periscope just for this, as did quite a few others. It kind of ate itself when the […]
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News has broken that twitter might be abandoning it’s rather unique 140-character limit for messages, or at least allowing for longer ‘click for more’ type messages. So what’s the point of that? Competing with Medium? Yes and no, it’s largely an effort to keep people in the garden that they’re building. What’s really changing here, […]
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mamasnark on Twitter: “Basically, Trump is what would happen if the comments section became a human and ran for president.”
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The Future. "Grandma, where were you when [Important News Event] happened?" *sighs wearily* "On Twitter, darling. We were all on Twitter" — Amanda (@Pandamoanimum) April 28, 2015 100% true.
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Every now and then, I like to revisit "the actual grammar nazi" tweet. pic.twitter.com/xS3CxgR4Il — Hend (@LibyaLiberty) April 25, 2015