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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: Tips on fighting retweets, the scourge of Twitter?
Date: 18 Feb 2010 15:17:11
Message: <4b7da047$1@news.povray.org>
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Captain Jack wrote:
> I think that last one might even count as irony.
Or subtle humor.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
The question in today's corporate environment is not
so much "what color is your parachute?" as it is
"what color is your nose?"
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From: Captain Jack
Subject: Re: Tips on fighting retweets, the scourge of Twitter?
Date: 18 Feb 2010 15:52:35
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"Darren New" <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote in message
news:4b7da047$1@news.povray.org...
> Captain Jack wrote:
>> I think that last one might even count as irony.
>
> Or subtle humor.
Hope springs eternal... perhaps I'm growing cyncal.
--
Jack
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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Tips on fighting retweets, the scourge of Twitter?
Date: 18 Feb 2010 15:58:04
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Captain Jack <Cap### [at] comcast net> wrote:
> "Darren New" <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote in message
> news:4b7da047$1@news.povray.org...
> > Captain Jack wrote:
> >> I think that last one might even count as irony.
> >
> > Or subtle humor.
> Hope springs eternal... perhaps I'm growing cyncal.
"Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows."
- David T. Wolf
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- Warp
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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: Tips on fighting retweets, the scourge of Twitter?
Date: 18 Feb 2010 17:02:25
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On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:55:25 -0500, Captain Jack wrote:
> "Darren New" <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote in message
> news:4b7da047$1@news.povray.org...
>> Captain Jack wrote:
>>> I think that last one might even count as irony.
>>
>> Or subtle humor.
>
> Hope springs eternal... perhaps I'm growing cyncal.
Water it and it'll flower. :)
Jim
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From: Captain Jack
Subject: Re: Tips on fighting retweets, the scourge of Twitter?
Date: 18 Feb 2010 17:03:50
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"Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote in message
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> Water it and it'll flower. :)
Which will aggravate my hay fever, then...
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Jack
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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: Tips on fighting retweets, the scourge of Twitter?
Date: 18 Feb 2010 17:43:06
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On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:06:40 -0500, Captain Jack wrote:
> "Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote in message
> news:4b7db8f1$1@news.povray.org...
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>> Water it and it'll flower. :)
>
> Which will aggravate my hay fever, then...
Heh, you and me alike. ;-)
Jim
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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: Tips on fighting retweets, the scourge of Twitter?
Date: 18 Feb 2010 19:55:35
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Warp wrote:
> "Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows."
> - David T. Wolf
I'll have to remember that one. :-)
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
The question in today's corporate environment is not
so much "what color is your parachute?" as it is
"what color is your nose?"
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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Tips on fighting retweets, the scourge of Twitter?
Date: 19 Feb 2010 04:17:05
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Darren New wrote:
> I'll have to remember that one. :-)
"People just quote stuff all day."
"Yeah."
<quotation>
"I'll have to remember that one."
[insert irony here]
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Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
> gregjohn wrote:
> > Have I missed something here?
>
> You missed that this has been going on in every advertising-driven medium
> since before the internet? Content is a cost. Viewers are a product.
>
>
A very apt truism.
What I had missed was that retweeting is unmanageable pollution only as far as
the public #hash searches go. If your friend is parroting every release from
some corporation or institution, then your subscribers, per se, don't suffer.
Even if there are two hundred people doing the same thing.
I think that Twitter would be cool if it either took retweets out of #hash
searches or made blocks of persons also take them out of these searches.
Darren's point is very well spoken for how corporations (and technology guru
wannabees) might behave on the internet. But individuals can do the same thing
for a cause, whether it's some unpopular religious sect or a good cause we're
already bored with. It becomes propaganda-- is it fascism?-- to keep pouring
material down a hole in the hopes of advancing one's cause.
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From: Tim Attwood
Subject: Re: Tips on fighting retweets, the scourge of Twitter?
Date: 21 Feb 2010 20:29:44
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Books? That's so quaint.
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