Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Tim Wintle wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 14:58 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: > >> Oh wow. If this is what Twitter does to one's ability to articulate > >> clearly, I hope Twitter dies a horrible death and any APIs and Python > >> bindings with it! > > > > Thank you, thank you, thank you .... > > > > everyone around me seems to love that thing (twitter), and I still can't > > work out why (apart from hacks such as using it as a hosted queue for > > cross-server comms, or receiving cheap sms to your app) > > Yeah. Of course I always thought that IRC was a good fit for this > purpose. Virus writers seem to think so. I wonder how Twitter would > deal with viruses and worms using Twitter and a command and control > communications mechanism. > > People who love Twitter are also people who SMS a lot it seems. Twitter > probably is a natural evolution of SMS, melding the IRC idea with > ridiculously short, hard-to-read, cryptic, lol-speak, messages. I think > the Japanese just might be on to something as no one over there uses > SMS. It's all e-mail to them. Granted the scourge of abbreviated words > and lol-speak is just as bad there. Sigh.
lol-speak originated on IRC. (Or probably even earlier on the original bitnet relay chat.) -- R. David Murray http://www.bitdance.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
