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Posted by on April 20th, 2009 under Basketball, Football

As some of you already know, Twitter is the single most important communication medium since smoke signals. It will have a greater effect on humanity than Velcro.

Our friend Peter Bean at Burnt Orange Nation has found himself caught up in a life and death, Ashton Kutcher-style Twitter competition: SB Nation

If he wins, he will receive many great accolades and prizes or something. Whatever. It’s not important. What is important is he’s a Horn so follow him here: PB_at_BON on Twitter

You can also find us here: Barking Carnival on Twitter

That is all.

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  1. bob said:

    April 20th, 2009 at 10:07 am

    Before anyone questions my street cred I got my twitter account in January 2007 as part of their beta. This was when 99% of the world still thought twitter was a brazilian sex act involving transvestites and small birds.

    So I know what I’m talking about when I say that Twitter is the least useful form of communication since glow in the dark braille. It is actually so unuseful that it comes out the other side and actively sucks productivity and brain cells from heavy users. I’ve seen it happen.

    Here’s an iconic example and summary of the great Twitter fad of 2009.

    http://i.gizmodo.com/5211135/man-builds-chair-that-tweets-his-farts-single+handedly-justifies-twitters-existence

  2. Texoz said:

    April 20th, 2009 at 10:44 am

    The Tweedledum and Tweedledee twosome tweeked a twit who twitted twaddle in a twangy tone tween two twerps and a twat.

  3. Texoz said:

    April 20th, 2009 at 10:44 am

    said Twexoz.

  4. ponderos said:

    April 20th, 2009 at 10:59 am

    This was when 99% of the world still thought twitter was a brazilian sex act involving transvestites and small birds.

    Close.

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=twitter

  5. Steve Nebraska said:

    April 20th, 2009 at 11:00 am

    Et tu, Peter?

  6. HenryJames said:

    April 20th, 2009 at 11:06 am

    Yes, this is horrible, this idea.

  7. Scipio Tex said:

    April 20th, 2009 at 11:08 am

    Sailer Ripley has introduced Twitter to our site, but we still don’t have a 401K.

  8. srr50 said:

    April 20th, 2009 at 11:17 am

    No 401K?

    Hell, we don’t even have a break room

  9. HenryJames said:

    April 20th, 2009 at 11:21 am

    And why are all of our interns underaged Thai boys whose only words of English are ‘Ripley’ and ‘chickenhawk?’

  10. Facebook User said:

    April 20th, 2009 at 11:29 am

    http://twitter.com/nambla

  11. Facebook User said:

    April 20th, 2009 at 11:39 am

    And this guy makes Twitter worth the time: http://twitter.com/funnyjoker

  12. PB @ BON said:

    April 20th, 2009 at 11:39 am

    Not a good sign for my chances that the first I knew about this was from this post.

    Also, who the fuck would want 5,000 people writing them messages all day?

  13. NateHeupel said:

    April 20th, 2009 at 12:18 pm

    PB, I can answer that question rather briefly. They’re called attention whores. You seem like a more classically educated mind, so a more precise term would be the chronically vapid and vacant.

    http://twitter.com/danecook

    The prosecution rests.

  14. CloseToJumping said:

    April 20th, 2009 at 12:23 pm

    I twitter (for business). I find it amusing on a personal level. As a nascent customer acquisition, customer service and branding tool in ecommerce land, I view it as amazing.

    There are some obvious ways for Twitter to make money and I can’t really figure out why at least some of them aren’t being deployed. Of course, these guys sold Blogger to Google for a ton a few years back, so I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt, but it’s a headscratcher.

  15. Facebook User said:

    April 20th, 2009 at 12:54 pm

    PB – You are the producer, not the consumer. It’s just wireless RSS.

  16. SizzleChest said:

    April 20th, 2009 at 2:38 pm

    The past tense of Tweet is Twat, not Tweeted, not Twittered. Suxxors on that, bitches!

  17. PB @ BON said:

    April 20th, 2009 at 3:26 pm

    Actually the best thing about Twitter is that Snoop Dog is on it, where he eschews “tweeps” in favor of “ma twizzles”

  18. Bugs Bunny said:

    April 20th, 2009 at 3:39 pm

    Twat’s up, doc?

    A dying Stephen Hawking just twittered from his hospital bed, “Must reveal holy grail. That nappy headed douche Einstein was partially correct. E=mc2, but you can unlock the secrets of universe if you”

    Ahhh, too bad. He ran out of twitter space. You only get 140 characters, Mr. Hawking.

    Hibbity hoppity. That’s all, folks.

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