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Twitter summary 28/03/2008

I’ve been truly sucked into the asynchronous, broadcast instant messaging of Twitter. It’s a little bizarre, but very compelling, especially when you have a desktop client running in the bottom right hand corner (I use Spaz). Here is a dump of twitters posted in the last week. I’ve left out the ones I used to coordinate meeting with people. You can directly follow the ‘stream of consciousness’ here

I’m wondering what happened to Channel 4′s big, audacious move into radio? “radio silence”, as they say… 10:15 PM March 21, 2008

loving the new Cut Copy album. As good as the rumours said it was 01:09 AM March 22, 2008

note to self: don’t eat a whole G+D banana split when trying to work – i feel like I might pass out. mmm, auspicious heaviness… 06:50 PM March 22, 2008

Just watched A Scanner Darkly. Amazing. Amazing cinematography, soundtrack by Radiohead, great cast, and a story by Philip K Dick, a genius 11:36 PM March 22, 2008

@mbites Elvis Costello will sell you an empty box http://tinyurl.com/35b4g8 01:20 AM March 23, 2008

@dubber needs mentors? jeeesus, what about us mere mortals – stop hogging the IP! 02:44 PM March 25, 2008

@tingchenjac – where did your point (3) go?? looks like you’re being too ‘deep’ for Twitter – get a blog!03:03 PM March 25, 2008 from Spaz in reply to tingchenjac

@langer @AJisthinking @apexa £1,000,000 london tech startup comp http://tinyurl.com/34mug4 04:03 PM March 25, 2008

@dubber – give it a name, and the rest will fall into place! 08:26 PM March 25, 2008 from Spaz in reply to dubber

an instant massaging client: what a great idea! in erratum veritas… 12:07 PM March 26, 2008

Auctomatic was acquired for less than the acquirer was offered for the domain name cricket.com ! puts things into perspective… 01:07 PM March 26, 2008

How long until Google introduces speech recognition tech? motivation: android, youtube ads; knowhow: 1-800-GOOG-411 11:38 PM March 26, 2008

@mbites journos have ceased to understand the world and so have given up on explaining it to society. Too many reporters, too few journos. about 18 hours ago http://tinyurl.com/3cox9v

it was risky for Apple to limit the features of first-gen iphones – how did it know rivals wouldn’t beat it to 3G? Industrial espionage? 14 minutes ago

  >PeterGulka @phbradley I don’t think they worry much about that… perhpas overconfidence in their product 11 minutes ago

@PeterGulka well, it’s gonna pay off. I notice their stock is on the upswing today, apparently due to market excitement about the 3G iPhone

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