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[Tyler]

I have a ticket to see a conversation with David Letterman and Biz Stone (founder of Twitter) this Friday. I might walk out if they don't limit their responses to 140 characters each.

[Darrel Manson]

I'm now there.

[Peter T Chattaway]

[J. Henry Waugh]

I am not a blogger but an esteemed blog commenter.

Similarly, I have a twitter account that I check on my phone where I never post, but I love following bright, informed people. So far I only follow journalists and authors, but I'm willing to break my no celebrity policy if there are any artists of the type we discuss 'round these parts of interest.

Any suggestions?

[Jason Panella]

Well, one celebrity that I almost always get a chuckle out of is Nathan Fillion (NathanFillion). He does tweet a lot, though. And while he's not a big celebrity per se, Superchunk/Mountain Goats/Jay Farrar drummer Jon Wurster (JonWurster) is an absolute riot.

Don't know if these help!

[J.A.A. Purves]

I'm now the proud owner of this T-shirt.

[Tyler]

Worst Tweet ever?

Quote

Millions are in uproar in #Cairo. Rumor is they heard our new spring collection is now available online at http://bit.ly/KCairo -KC

[Tyler]

Time's list of the 140 best Twitter feeds.

[Overstreet]

A new hashtag: #MovieTitlesYouShouldNotMixUp

[Tyler]

#LiteraryTurducken

[Tyler]

#InaccurateSpoilers

[Peter T Chattaway]

Peter T Chattaway, on 04 May 2010 - 09:51 PM, said:

Peter T Chattaway, on 31 July 2009 - 10:38 AM, said:

Teens Don't Tweet; Twitter's Growth Not Fueled By Youth
Twitter's footprint has expanded impressively in the first half of 2009, reaching 10.7 percent of all active Internet users in June. Perhaps even more impressively, this growth has come despite a lack of widespread adoption by children, teens, and young adults. In June 2009, only 16 percent of Twitter.com website users were under the age of 25. Bear in mind persons under 25 make up nearly one quarter of the active US Internet universe, which means that Twitter.com effectively under-indexes on the youth market by 36 percent.
Nielsen Wire, July 30

Twitter: No matter what Hollywood thinks, it's totally uncool for kids
When I had a little downtime with this year's Summer Movie Posse, I asked them how they kept up with the buzz about movies. As you might expect, they spent a lot of time online, which gives them a chance to look at trailers or hear word of mouth about upcoming movies on their friends' Facebook pages or sites like Slashfilm.com or Comingsoon.net.
But when I asked whether they kept abreast of things via Twitter, they all looked at me like I was crazy. Rajiv Rao, who's 17, said "I don't know one high schooler that uses Twitter." His friend, Arya Zarifi, also 17, added: "It's something for adults who feel like it makes them hip or something."
Yalda Chalabi, 17, was especially dismissive of actors and celebrities who use Twitter as a self-promotional tool. "I hate it when they say, 'Follow me on Twitter,' as if we're interested in every little thing they have to say," she explained. "It's just an adult thing. Our music teacher kept saying that she would put stuff up for us to follow on Twitter until one day she said, 'OK, who's following me on Twitter?' And no one raised their hand. You keep hearing people talk about it, but I don't know anyone my age that uses it." . . .
Patrick Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, May 4

Teens join Twitter to escape parents on Facebook: survey
Teens don't tweet, will never tweet – too public, too many older users. Not cool.
That's been the prediction for a while now, born of numbers showing that fewer than one in 10 teens were using Twitter early on.
But then their parents, grandparents, neighbours, parents' friends and anyone in-between started friending them on Facebook, the social networking site of choice for many — and a curious thing began to happen. . . .
The growing popularity teens report fits with findings from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, a non-profit organization that monitors people's tech-based habits. The migration has been slow, but steady. A Pew survey last July found that 16 per cent of young people, ages 12 to 17, said they used Twitter. Two years earlier, that percentage was just eight per cent. . . .
“The first group to colonize Twitter were people in the technology industry — consummate self-promoters,” says Alice Marwick, a post-doctoral researcher at Microsoft Research, who tracks young people's online habits.
For teens, self-promotion isn't usually the goal. At least until they go to college and start thinking about careers, social networking is, well, social.
But as Twitter has grown, so have the ways people, and communities, use it. . . .
Associated Press, January 30

[J.A.A. Purves]

Hey everyone, now you can keep twittering after you're dead.

[Jason Panella]

One of my favorite Twitter accounts is someone pretending to be Garth Brooks pretending to be a rock star. I realize this is going go have a limited audience, but he (or she) cracks me up merely be existing.