Posts Tagged: Twitter

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8
Jul 10

Realtime Coverage of the Oakland Riots

Courtesy of @OaklandBeat, from newest to oldest.

  1. MehserleVerdict: RT @nikosuave89: Nd tha riots begin… They down there throwin M-1000s at tha police smh10 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone
  2. RT @SFBART: 19th St Station is now closed to customers. Some entrances at 12th Street Station remain closed, but service continues there.12 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone
  3. RT @insidebayarea: here at op ctr batts blamed about 50 ‘hardcore anarchists’ for most of the problems tonight (via @mattoyeah)21 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone
  4. Bottles being thrown at police officers at 17th and Broadway now.24 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone
  5. RT @oaklandpoliceca: Approx. 300 people in the 1400 blk Broadway. OPD has given commands to disperse.25 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone
  6. Broadway is blocked with officers. People are fighting … its bad down here http://tweetphoto.com/31589582 (via @aldrin16)31 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone
  7. RT @SFBART: Service is back to normal through 12th St./Oakland City Center Station.37 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone
  8. RT @tyska: city council member Rebecca Kaplan on bdwy front line#TwitPict http://twitpic.com/23n57f39 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone
  9. Mayor Ron Dellums is urging people to leave downtown Oakland. “Lets leave on a note that is dignified,” he says.about 1 hour ago via Twitter for iPhone
  10. BREAKING: Protesters are breaking windows to a bank at 14th and Broadway. CHP has arrived to provide assistance to Oakland Police.about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck
  11. RT @SFBART: Trains are not stopping at 12th St. Oakland City Center.about 1 hour ago via Twitter for iPhone
  12. LA organizer Aidge Patterson tells crowd still gathered, “What is a pair of shoes, a window, when a person’s life has been lost?”about 1 hour ago via Twitter for iPhone
  13. Several windows smashed, Footlocker looted. Police wearing riot gear are warning those who don’t clear out are risking serious injuries.about 1 hour ago via Twitter for iPhone
  14. OPD declaring protest unlawful; some people are breaking windows. Situation becoming chaotic downtown.about 1 hour ago via Twitter for iPhone
  15. Some protesters have begun throwing bottles at police blockades.about 1 hour ago via Twitter for iPhone
  16. OPD blocking protesters off at 12th. Crowd peaceful, some chanting. http://yfrog.com/0cn8oyjabout 1 hour ago via Twitter for iPhone
  17. RT @oaklandpoliceca: Crowd of approx. 500-800 in the 1400 blk Broadway. No other incidents in the City of Oakland.about 2 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone
Awesomesauce — No Comments
22
Mar 10

Microsoft Copies Twitter; Retreats into Jungle then Begins Quoting T.S. Eliot

“We are the hollow men

We are the stuffed men

Leaning together

Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!

Our dried voices, when

We whisper together

Are quiet and meaningless

As wind in dry grass

Or rats’ feet over broken glass

In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,

Paralysed force, gesture without motion;”

Microsoft mentioned OfficeTalk in a March 19 posting on the Office Labs blog, calling it a vehicle that “applies the base capabilities of microblogging to a business environment, enabling employees to post their thoughts, activities, and …

… and, well, you get the idea.

via Microsoft privately testing a ‘Twitter for business’ service | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com.

Awesomesauce — No Comments
29
Dec 09

Twitter bans 370 passwords

Twitter bans 370 passwords.

thanks for the dictionary list, bitches.

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24
Aug 09

Justin (shitmydadsays) on Twitter

I am so happy I found this.

Justin (shitmydadsays) on Twitter

Bio: I’m 28. I live with my 73-year-old dad. He is awesome. I just write down shit that he says

“My flight lands at 9:30 on Sunday…You want to watch what? What the fuck is mad men? I’m a mad man if you don’t pick me the hell up.”2:42 PM Aug 15th from web

“The dog is not bored, it’s a fucking dog. It’s not like he’s waiting for me to give him a fucking rubix cube. He’s a god damned dog.”10:43 AM Aug 18th from web

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10
Aug 09

Bureau of Sanitation

If you live in an apartment building in LA and have always wondered how to get recycling bins at your building, it’s really easy. You just have to send an e-mail to the Bureau of Sanitation.

All the info is on that web page. You can also follow them on Twitter.

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12
Apr 09

Watch out for new Twitter virus

You can get details here at this Mashable article.

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10
Apr 09

Sell your soul on Twitter

With Magpie it’s easier than you think…

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8
Apr 09

HOWTO: Auto push your Facebook status updates to Twitter via Twitterfeed

It’s been a while since I had to figure this one out and Facebook has gone through a few revs since I last tried it.

It’s a bit of a hack. I’ve not been able to identify any official support or documentation from Zuckerberg et al. Maybe it’s deprecated; maybe it’s a REST API experiment gone awry. Who knows?

The first thing you need to do is get your status updates page which is found on “minifeed.php”

The URI format is simple.

http://www.facebook.com/minifeed.php?id=

Where the value for the id parameter is your profile ID. Get this from the URI for your profile page.

Next, get that content in RSS format by appending another name/value pair to the querystring. This one is called “filter” and the filter for RSS is 11. Like Spinal Tap.

So, add it all up and you should have a URI like this:

http://www.facebook.com/minifeed.php?id=625839607&filter=11

At least, that’s what mine looked like.

If you haven’t done so already, sign up for an account at twitterfeed. This is a service that somebody was bound to create sooner or later. You can take any RSS feed and rebroadcast it as Twitter posts. I use it with last.fm, my blogger posts (via feedburner), hulu, and am looking into other REST APIs I can consume into it.

I think you can take it from here.

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