The desire to shoot a question at a podcaster who can only be reached via the 140 character scourge has made me fold.
I'm on the twitter now. @GSLissmann
I registered with something approaching my proper name that wouldn't look suspicious to the jackbooted thugs who will surely, some day, use the thing to round up undesirables like myself.
And now I have zero clue what to do with the damn thing. I've fired off my question (no response thus far, it's regarding the episode before last, so there may never be one). And, while I enjoy finding stuff like this (seriously, if you like laughing about Ikea or big-box idiocy in general, click hence), I'm totally lost.
Heck, I've been on twitter for less than twenty four hours, I've fired of all of one tweet, and somehow ... I've got a follower! Some guy I've never even heard of, from Santa Rosa - but nothing I can find on the forum or the UTMC Map even that matches what he has divulged about himself in his twitter profile or on his website. Do we know any web-designers who have bungee-jumped off of the Victoria Falls?
Please, I feel like I've walked into an exotic restaurant, run by immigrants from a country I've never heard off and, while I can read the menus, even know the words, it's in a language I don't even know the name of. And someone has just offered me what could either be a hot beverage or a lifetime vow of silence and prayer. Is there anything I should be doing?
EDIT: The dude that's following me, I only just noticed he started doing that around 8 AM this morning (Jerry Time). I hadn't been on twitter 12 hours at that time!
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Because the board got shutdown again because of a load of database, I had to fettle with the settings again.
As part of that, the server no longer stores what topics you have or haven't read.
IT IS STILL RECORDED!
But now, that information lives in a delicious cookie, rather than the forum database.
Upside: this should reduce the load of database.
Downside: if you use multiple devices to access the board, or you reject delicious cookies, you won't always have that information cookie. But the New Posts feature should take care of that.
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- open the menu at the top
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this will zero the unread anything for you, so you can strive forth into the exciting world of the new cookie thing.
Because the board got shutdown again because of a load of database, I had to fettle with the settings again.
As part of that, the server no longer stores what topics you have or haven't read.
IT IS STILL RECORDED!
But now, that information lives in a delicious cookie, rather than the forum database.
Upside: this should reduce the load of database.
Downside: if you use multiple devices to access the board, or you reject delicious cookies, you won't always have that information cookie. But the New Posts feature should take care of that.
PLEASE NOTIFY THE ADMINISTERRERRERR ABOUT ANY PROBLEMS!
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If you cannot Debauch because you get an IP blacklist error, try Debauching again time. It may work immediately, it may take a few attempts. It will work eventually, I don't think I had to click debauch more than three times. Someone is overzealous at our hosting company, but only on the first couple of attempts.
If you have problems logging in, posting, or doing anything else, please get in touch.
You know the email (if you don't, see in the registration info below), you know where to find the Administerrerrerr on the Midget Circus.
Some unpleasant miscreant was firing incessant database queries at our server, which forced the Legal Department of our hosting company, via their Abuse subdivision, to shut us down. No I have none.
All I can do it button the hatches, and tighten up a few things. Such as time limits on how long you may take to compose a post and hit Debauch! As of 24/01/10, I've set that at 30 minutes for now.
To restrict further overloads, any unregistered users had to be locked out.
How do we know who is or isn't an unregistered user?
By forcing anyone who wants in to Log In.
Is that annoying?
Yes. But there's only so much the Administerrerrerr can do to keep this place running.
Again, if you have any problems: get in touch.
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Twitter - help me.
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DerGolgo
- Zaphod's Zeitgeist
- Location: Potato
Twitter - help me.
If there were absolutely anything to be afraid of, don't you think I would have worn pants?
I said I have a big stick.
I said I have a big stick.
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xtian
- Le coureur de lames chasse Tinti...
- Location: belgium
- Contact:
Re: Twitter - help me.
don't ask me, I didn't even find any porn in 6 month, I have no clue either. my fifth and last non commercial tweet was "I really needed Twitter. As much as I needed teeth in my asshole."
just in case.
just in case.
I'm not really from around here.
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Pintgudge
- The Big Oooola
- Location: Tacoma
Re: Twitter - help me.
Is there anything you should be doing?
RUN LIKE THE WIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RUN LIKE THE WIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If man is fit to be governed, is any man fit to govern?
These are the days of miracles and wonder!
'81 Goldwing Standard w/'61 Ural Sidecar
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These are the days of miracles and wonder!
'81 Goldwing Standard w/'61 Ural Sidecar
'06 Bajaj Chetak
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DerGolgo
- Zaphod's Zeitgeist
- Location: Potato
Re: Twitter - help me.
Please tell me whether I got this right. If it's in the twitter FAQ, they have hidden it most expertly.
- any tweet is public. Somewhere, there's a button to limit a tweet to be seen only by my followers, but by default, anyone can see it. Same goes for retweets.
- anyone who has made the grave error of following me (Hi, GG!
) will have any tweet I make delivered to them automatically.
- if I use a #somethingorother, anyone checking into #somethingorother will see that tweet, whether they follow me or not.
- if I tweet something to someone in particular, by starting the tweet with their @username, all my followers and anyone pimping into my profile gets to see it, and the recipient. But their followers won't see it, unless they retweet or respond.
Is that about right?
- any tweet is public. Somewhere, there's a button to limit a tweet to be seen only by my followers, but by default, anyone can see it. Same goes for retweets.
- anyone who has made the grave error of following me (Hi, GG!
) will have any tweet I make delivered to them automatically.- if I use a #somethingorother, anyone checking into #somethingorother will see that tweet, whether they follow me or not.
- if I tweet something to someone in particular, by starting the tweet with their @username, all my followers and anyone pimping into my profile gets to see it, and the recipient. But their followers won't see it, unless they retweet or respond.
Is that about right?
If there were absolutely anything to be afraid of, don't you think I would have worn pants?
I said I have a big stick.
I said I have a big stick.
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rolly
- Tim Horton hears a Who?
- Location: Greater Trauma Area
- Contact:
Re: Twitter - help me.
Sounds about right, but your followers may miss some of your tweets if they're not online at something close to the same time as you, though if you @ someone they will always be notified.