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The Bird and the Worm

12 April, 2009

Recently I don’t hang around on Twitter anymore, due to personal reasons and I have to focus on other parts of my research now. After March 25 I only posted two tweets (actually three but I deleted one) but they are not showing up on my page, anyway, I post them here then;

http://twitpic.com/2lm3x – proefmodel voor nieuwe schoenen (veterlaarsjes), uit één stuk leer 12:24 AM Mar 30th from TwitPic

@vreer oh! we got to talk about The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence tomorrow (now look what you did, you made me tweet ‘n sweat) 1:13 AM Apr 3rd from web in reply to vreer

These are my last tweets and I’ve got so much time left since I don’t read tweets of my friends anymore. I do however see some tweets on Facebook in my friend feed though. The first few days I did miss my daily shot of tweets but when I read them now I don’t think the major part of them is very useful. I wish there was some applications or filter that only shows me useful tweets. I could filter on keywords but that’s not enough for me as I don’t know what tweets could be useful until I read them.

Another thing that’s bugging me is the huge amount of notifications I get lately from Twitter about new followers. A few days ago I got ‘only’ 94 notifications that @doesje started to follow me but since two days I received 1135 notifications that @mcula is following me. The e-mails gather up in groups of 61 and I think that’s due to Gmail, check this out;

noel

Luckily I have some filters there so my inbox is not overflowing. The strange thing is that I also get notifications of other users only once and those notifications are being forwarded to Twimailer. Maybe I should block @mcula to stop these notifications from coming in or notify Twitter? Just today I received an e-mail from a friend which said there’s a worm active on Twitter (StalkDaily-worm) and this could be the source of my overflow of follow notifications. So Twitter gets eaten by a worm, while I always thought birds eat worms?

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2 comments

  1. Well, now summer is coming up and studying is coming to an end for you it’s not strange to find you tweetless.
    But then again, this bird here misses you dearly.
    Anyway, enjoy the sun, life and I hope to see you soon.

    Think I’ll do another ‘knipoog’…

         by Alice Verheij 16 April, 2009 at 9:41 am

  2. hello Hannah Biemold~! I wish you the very best with your MA twesis on the implications that twitter brings with it for …(is that) society business social interaction … are you focusing on anything in particular? Let’s meet up for a Twoffie in the Coffee Co? :)
    anyways: best of luck with that.
    Thanks for profiling me on your site! I certainly noticed a spike in followers :) !

    That’s odd… even strange? Should I be contacting someone about it or have you done that already? 1135 emails… ??? WTF That’s almost as many updates as you’ve written these past weeks.

    I took a look in your inbox and noticed there is something in there about … twine? Could that application be carrying a bug, on your system? or mine? emmm….
    Well… hope it’s stopped now… sorry to hear you went cold turkey: any goose bumps yet?

    Best wishes to @vreer and @kathalijne & co

    ORACLE: Do you think that Twitter will ultimately assist in the Dublin Castle government lifting the ban on my person ever entering the Irish Republic? They’ve told me I will be arrested if I attempt to ever return home…. I wonder if that’s just because of the cannabis medication for MS? … or @vreer … could they be afraid of more than one contagion as-it-were… penetrating their society’s borders ? who knows? … (oh but, if only the walls could talk ~! (or indeed minister…if these garter-belts could talk!!!) eh?

    Maybe the Tworacle knows : are you she Hannah?

         by noel [mcula on twitter] 17 April, 2009 at 8:33 am

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