Tag: twitter

In an wonderful post, the author John Scalzi produced twelve standard responses to online stupidity. The list seems complete and covers most cases.

The list:

I saw on Twitter than someone had made a random response generating page. I decided that a local version was also in order.

The project is a ruby script that can be run from the command line. It also contains a MacOS X workflow file that can be installed as a system service.

In 2010, the Library of Congress announced it had started archiving all of Twitter.

That’s right.  Every public tweet, ever, since Twitter’s inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress. That’s a LOT of tweets, by the way: Twitter processes more than 50 million tweets every day, with the total numbering in the billions. §