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Re:Tweeting Too Hard is digg for self-important tweets by ScottWhigham on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @01:50PM (#618955)
I quit reading when I saw "okay... the poop is coming out". Suddenly "tweetingtoohard" took on new meaning.
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Re:Tweeting Too Hard is digg for self-important tweets by jfarmer on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @02:00PM (#618970)
Heh. Pretty sure it's a reference to this: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/4/23/
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Re:Tweeting Too Hard is digg for self-important tweets by Everest on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @02:30PM (#619033)
ha for your revenue model you can charge people who want their tweet to be removed from your site.

I say this only half-jokingly.

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Re:Tweeting Too Hard is digg for self-important tweets by tptacek on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @04:18PM (#619231)
It should cost a dollar an upvote. Incentivize people to get their tweets removed early.
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Re:Tweeting Too Hard is digg for self-important tweets by Tichy on Thursday May 21, 2009 @04:24AM (#620093)
I think something like that could be built upon twollars.
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Re:Tweeting Too Hard is digg for self-important tweets by briansmith on Thursday May 21, 2009 @12:40AM (#619909)
That's the GetSatisfaction/RipOffReport business model.
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Re:Tweeting Too Hard is digg for self-important tweets by tezza on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @12:54PM (#618854)
As someone who does not use Twitter, and cannot see why I would ::

I feel like a person who, caught unawares, has to take refuge[1] when the tide comes in. You then just have to wait while the sea rages and eventually recedes.

it is amazing to watch the swirling currents of Twitter news around HN/Slashdot/Regular Press.

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[1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/7765409@N06/3483551927/

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Re:Tweeting Too Hard is digg for self-important tweets by tptacek on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @04:20PM (#619234)
Thank you for providing the obligatory comment about the Twitter fad. Now we have something to use to vote whether we like Twitter or not.
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Re:Tweeting Too Hard is digg for self-important tweets by tdavis on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @05:01PM (#619316)
But that's not what voting is supposed to be for!!1
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Re:Tweeting Too Hard is digg for self-important tweets by tptacek on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @05:28PM (#619366)
I voted you up so now we can have another meta-vote on what voting is for.
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Re:Tweeting Too Hard is digg for self-important tweets by tdavis on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @10:12PM (#619730)
I voted you up because I am thoroughly confused now and it just seemed like the right thing to do.
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Re:Tweeting Too Hard is digg for self-important tweets by JeremyBanks on Thursday May 21, 2009 @10:02AM (#620446)
Is it just me or does this tangent feel a bit like Reddit?
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Re:Tweeting Too Hard is digg for self-important tweets by tdavis on Thursday May 21, 2009 @12:02PM (#620638)
Is it just me or does it feel like people here spend way too much time wondering if something feels like reddit?

I had the unfortunate necessity of reading some reddit comments recently, and believe me, nothing on HN feels remotely like reddit. When it does, I'll be sure to sound the alarm bells, I promise.

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Re:Tweeting Too Hard is digg for self-important tweets by JeremyBanks on Friday May 22, 2009 @07:41AM (#621869)
I don't usually say so, it's just that chains of "I voted you up because..." can be found in almost every large discussion on Reddit.
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Re:Tweeting Too Hard is digg for self-important tweets by tptacek on Thursday May 21, 2009 @05:04PM (#621129)
I just voted you up as an expression of how much I don't like Reddit.
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Re:Tweeting Too Hard is digg for self-important tweets by treyp on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @02:41PM (#619057)
actually, TTH uses the purported Hacker News algorithm, so i'm not sure if Digg would be the best comparison. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/reddit-stumbleupon-delicious-and-...
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Re:Tweeting Too Hard is digg for self-important tweets by jrockway on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @08:35PM (#619625)
I'd like to think that these tweets are actually parodying the "real" Twitter, but sadly I know better than that. Oh the world... what an interesting place you are...
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Re:Tweeting Too Hard is digg for self-important tweets by asdf333 on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @05:12PM (#619335)
oh man this site is too funny
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