It’s been about 6 months since I joined Twitter. For a multitude of reasons, I’ve valued every minute of it. To give you a taste of My Twitter, I am sharing a list of my favorite “tweets” - most of which are the flavor of “fun.” This post was inspired in part by a Tweetversation with Rodney Rumford on 17 December 2008, the day I gave him a Yellow Star (the icon for a Favorite Tweet).
My Favorite Tweets
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Rumford if a twitter nudge is like a facebook poke, then i want a bitch slap function on twitter.
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craignewmark Back home in SF, all observed ice is in glasses, as God intended.
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kwbridge Should I feel honored or creeped out if someone is following 2 people – me and CNN – LOL
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meangrape Note to self: do not use that brand of wife’s conditioner on my beard again — instant floral perfume is not what I’m going for.
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lizstrauss People forget what you said. They get foggy about what you did. But they remember how you made them feel.
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howardlindzon Caveman prehistoric sounds from mens room at newark. I just ran out.
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jowyang Weve created a new term for people who tweet at parties: anti social social or ASS #time4wine
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MarketingProfs Really happy that my 11 y o tried out for her middle school’s play. It’s an awesome thing to watch your kids face their fears… and win.
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howardlindzon This market looks like a toilet in Tijuana at the end of a night
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howardlindzon Just blamed the market problems on financial terrorists. 20 9 year olds crying. My work is done here.
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howardlindzon I just told a class of 9 year olds that Paulson is a jackass asshat. They love me $$
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Armano The truth about “social media” is that it’s powered by human beings, and so instantly flawed. Which is why it’s both wonderful and terrible
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Armano social media is nirvana when we like it and a mob when we don’t
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howardlindzon Max, rachel and I are at Dairy Queen doing all we can to bailout warren buffett.
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jowyang Nearly everything gets monetized, I noticed this from my youth passing the coffer down the pew at church.
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JonBurg btw – best analogy I’ve heard today – Twitter is the Digital Water Cooler.
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MackCollier Social media success will never be based on attempting to monetize personal interactions. $$$ comes as byproduct of interactions not from
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guykawasaki @TechCrunch How can you tell me what is more important to me? If I had to pick between Twitter and cell phone, I would pick Twitter.
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chrisbrogan Wow… lots of speakers “throat clearing” here. It’s like writing a 260 page preface to a 270 page book.
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pearsonified F**k, I need a ride 2 miles away, but that’s like asking someone to cut off an arm in Hollywood
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kevinokeefe Sitting back and looking at TweetDeck and the info exchanged by lawyers and the comradery among you is flat out amazing.
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briansolis Please stop feeding the very thing that unravels the essence of the Twitter community by measuring and publicizing your place within it.
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pattyinboothbay Heading to the tub to read my Kindle in a zip loc bag.
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cspenn “There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo. Please use in that order.” -Ed Howdershelt
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kamichat Chris Baggott adds that money used to be the only driver on who succeeded in a market, now passion and expertise also count #solutionsstars
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worleygirl Unintentionally, but Paco showed great analogy for how companies should approach customers in soc media. Hip to hip vs. face to face. #fcf08
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bethevans Latest China food crisis rumors are that meat, seafood, eggs and dairy are all unsafe. So basically the whole country should become vegan.
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Scobleizer More followers? What does that prove? I judge myself by who I follow.
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jspepper Biggest problem in PR and social media: the belief it’s cookie cutter. Very little original thought or understanding of tactics/strategy.
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giovanni Now that oil is less than $65 a barrel, WHY am I still paying an additional $15 to check a bag?
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kdpaine Just gave the waitress my room number in Wichita and realize i have no clue what my room number is here in Detroit. def of road warrior
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howardowens Maybe now we can have a serious discussion in this country about what to do rather than hastily follow Bush off another cliff?
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jowyang I know one brand who want to blog as they saw their competitors do it. I asked “whats your goal” they said “thought leadership” #paradox
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jowyang It’s entertaining how the tourists in SF always ask ME for directions to China town.
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dcarli Social Visualization & Re-Cognition: Using social media visualization tools to develop a new and better shared understanding of an issue.
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howardowens Caller id: Unrecognized phone number; caller ID says “RAINMAKER” … let that one go to voice mail.
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chrisbrogan Oh my belly. It appears that I liked the Mexican lunch more than it loved me.
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MarketerBlog Kahlow: B2B marketing & social media – SM is price of doing business, keep it simple, helps foster long-term relationships. #et08
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dcarli The key to economic recovery is to make markets transparent & the businesses in them energy efficient, energy independent & carbon neutral.
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dcarli At the end of the day the economy is all about and ultimately runs on energy. Follow the Energy.
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skydiver New HARO rule: if you email me and ask “what’s the website for helpareporter.com?” you don’t get added on principle.
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dcarli I really like the idea of government back energy conservation bonds! Anyone else! Amory Lovins would call them “Negawatt Bonds”
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jowyang I just slipped up, (I’m so tired) “how do you keep track of all the Virgins of your Software?” (I meant versions)
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TDefren “I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.” – Harry Truman
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howardowens I want my leaders to have done something. Having spent a career in politics is to have done nothing.
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jowyang Oh dear, imagine if an alien found @kevinrose and @scobleizer’s DNA and created a hybrid. It would be a beer drinking tweeting machine
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joshdmorg play like you’re in first, train like you’re in second. I think this is the strategy the Reps are using.
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chrisbrogan The difference between persuasion and influence is the same as blasting holes through mountains vs going around
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jljohansen @jyarmis @swhitley Now I have a sarcastic post stuck in my head titled: “Social Media Uncovers New Revenue Stream for Business – Customers!”
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chrisbrogan 1 evening showing of Peter Pan, 2 bottles of art supply glitter found, 2 sleeping-in-late parents= pixie dust everywhere
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whatsnext jeez, i wonder what they do in rehab for sex addiction? http://tinyurl.com/5r922y
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TDefren “There are only two ways of telling the complete truth–anonymously and posthumously.” – Thomas Sowell
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jowyang I visited a social networking company here’s how the receptionist titled me http://tinyurl.com/686aoo
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whatsnext debt elimination is the new penis enlargement in spam mails.
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TobyDiva lazy, sunny sunday drinking coffee reading the nyt – ink on my fingers. rather like that.
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TDefren Best part about visiting the dentist is walking out, knowing you won’t be back for at least 6 months.
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ConversationAge @uncommon_sense one story- in winter, when getting into local stores, her eyeglasses would fog up she’d smile and say, one sec as I find you
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jowyang With an ER doctor friend hes seen beans above the frank, yuck
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howardowens IM’ing with my wife sitting on the other side of the room.
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jowyang Overheard during vendor briefing: “Opinions are like *ssholes, everyone has one and they all stink” I lol’d
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MarketerBlog Was Twitter down a lot in November? There are a lot of social media types having babies recently
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jowyang Is it bad that I notice that email resolves itself if you ignore it?
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briansolis The Social Revolution is Our Industrial Revolution, http://tinyurl.com/5eunaw
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ConversationAge If you encounter a lot of opposition you’re onto to something… gotta remember that
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bethevans learned the hard way that electricity in China is prepaid.
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TDefren If you’re getting kicked in the butt, at least it means you’re in the front. http://tinyurl.com/5u53d4
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ConversationAge Twittervana is when the people adding you equal the people leaving or fleeing your stream
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briansolis The Conversation Chasm – the division between the desire to comment and the time and effort actually required to do so.
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TDefren How often do you find yourself writing something clever in an email to someone … and then deciding to “blog it instead?”
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TDefren The future of Public Relations will be anchored in the simple goal of humanizing the organization.
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bethevans Poll: is it too shameless of a pun to name my blog Beijing Duck?
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toniasarah Chocolate melted on your pants doesn’t translate to “chocolate melted on your pants”
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And, last but not least: My favorite Direct Message response (which came in after I commented about the reasons people “Unfollow” you on Twitter)…
Me: all I can say is: don’t ever mention the Dixie chicks!
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mark_hayward I am laughing because that is probably the last thing I would ever mention! Did you have Dixie fallout?
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If you’re currently on Twitter, feel free to leave your handle/address here in the comments. For those of you who are not (yet) on Twitter, please feel free to join us!
See you on the Tweetside,
Jaculynn
http://twitter.com/diablogue_chat
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Hey. I am glad that i was the inspiration for this really great blog post. I want to put this in my twitter book but it is too late… arrrggghhh.
Nice work! Cheers.
Rodney Rumford
Some of my favourites:
drewm Good to see the Japanese Olympic Team putting safety first. All their uniforms have a carbon monoxide detector card on the front
(http://twitter.com/drewm/status/887322461)
jonathancoulton Finding it harder and harder to get captchas right on the first try. Starting to think I might not be sentient.
(http://twitter.com/jonathancoulton/status/1060783489)
zeldman Dog and daughter apparently competing to see who can accidentally urinate on nicest item of furniture in apartment.
(http://twitter.com/zeldman/status/809714092)
Hey! There I am. Some of these are great. And I think I should start following more of the people that you are.
I love the cross of kevinrose and scobleizer
Dave, thanks for your contributions
Love the tweets you used to highlight your list. Honored to be included.
Hi Toby! I’m the one who’s honored. Thanks for stopping by
I’ve just fallen in love with Diablogue and I’ve started following your on Twitter. I am at http://twitter.com/amsall