Forging Ever Onward Into Technology Hell: We're on Twitter.

by gallagher on Feb 17, 2009 10:55 PM CST

Yes, we believed that blogging was a fad. Yes, we resisted texting for a long time. And yes, it's true, we hated email when we first saw it. Hell, the first time someone showed us the internet all we could to think of searching for was 'beer'.

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We no longer fear technology. Really.

But no more. We're embracing technology in all of it's various, probably evil forms. Including Twitter. We don't really even know what we're doing on it, but we're on it.

So, welcome to any of you who have just wandered onto this page due to an alert that some random person named StLouisGameTime is now ~~stalking~~ following you on Twitter, welcome. We decided to 'follow' you because you have listed yourself as a fan of the St. Louis Blues. We are too, obviously. So. Hey. There we go. We guess.

Honestly, we decided to go all Twitter because it seems like that's what the kids are all talking about these days and we don't want to seem out of touch. We didn't start dying our hair black, growing awkward goatees and getting our ears pierced in order to look older, after all.

So there you go. We're on Twitter. Stand by for Tweets. And Twakla. Or whatever.

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what the fuck is twitter?

You say 'Tomato', I say 'FUCK DETROIT', so lets call the season off

by RFJCC on Feb 17, 2009 11:03 PM CST reply actions

The short answer, as the NYT called it, is micro-blogging.

Essentially you can send very small updates to people who follow you about what you’re doing. For us, if you ‘follow’ StLouisGameTime on Twitter, you’ll get updates on new posts and FanShots and FanPosts (sort of like an RSS feed, which I similarly do not fully understand), plus any other innane shit we decide to send to our Twitter feed.

Aw hell, I don’t know. It’s like discussing religion: do you believe in Twitter? Then it’s probably real to you. Don’t believe in it? It probably seems like a bunch of hooey.

And yes, I just said hooey. And I fucking stand by it, too.

SWYD

by gallagher on Feb 17, 2009 11:23 PM CST up reply actions

so

do you recommend me looking into this or will this turn into another time sucking internet obsession of mine?

You say 'Tomato', I say 'FUCK DETROIT', so lets call the season off

by RFJCC on Feb 17, 2009 11:37 PM CST up reply actions

its like facebook statuses

you have 140 to tell everyone what you are doing. shaq twitters and his feed is pretty funny.

by averagejoe on Feb 17, 2009 11:47 PM CST up reply actions

So, yes, it's another time-sucker.

i mean, who wouldn’t constantly be checking for updates on Shaq’s twitter feed? I know I will.

SWYD

by gallagher on Feb 17, 2009 11:53 PM CST up reply actions

Deadspin covers Shaq's twitters . . .

like a fat kid on a donut. And yeah, it’s fucking hilarious.

"The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive." -- W.C. Fields

by Donut King on Feb 18, 2009 12:19 AM CST up reply actions

Deep within Twitter's programming is the software coding that will become the basis for "Skynet" in the future.

Fucking Skynet.

"It was one thing to know your heart, another thing to admit it. And something altogether different to allow yourself to follow it." ~R.A. Salvatore

by Gene_STL on Feb 18, 2009 1:28 AM CST reply actions

Careful...

Skynet may (or may not – holy changed premises, Batman) have become sentient on August 29, 1997.

The Governator likely has a file on you now…

Too bad it’s not about a year from now; I would gladly volunteer to scour the interwebs for obscure stuff at 3am

Let's go Blues!!!

by Milo. on Feb 18, 2009 1:00 PM CST up reply actions

And to think that I thought “Twitter” was the code word for a woman’s vagina.

Dude, I totally hit that twitter last night.

My twitter hurts.

Cam Janssen punched Aaron Voros right in the twitter.

by HuntsvilleBlues on Feb 18, 2009 8:25 AM CST reply actions

I have no idea what Twitter is. It sounds new and weird. I don’t like new stuff that is weird. I just pee’d a little

Thrillin' Booties and Punchin' Faces.

by Answer Man on Feb 18, 2009 10:26 AM CST reply actions

I don’t believe you.

www.stlouisgametime.com

by Brad Lee on Feb 18, 2009 7:58 PM CST up reply actions

I fear change.

Yet there I am on Twitter, too, with the young folk and “following” GT. Dammit.

Lighthouse Hockey: SBN's New York Islanders blog with hip issues.

by Dominik on Feb 18, 2009 11:19 AM CST reply actions

My county internet blocker has Twitter blocked (oh NOES – kids might post test answers on there… apparently they don’t know the concept of getting tweets on your PHONE), but I’ll follow you when I get home… thanks for stalking me on there.

A useful thing I’ve found out that might help with the site is to poke around other teams’ sites and see if their bloggers or the team in general has a feed. I can get pretty good info that way, like line set-ups and trades, before the press releases – the Thrashers’ guy, Ben Wright, is absolutely amazing and will have the lines and goalies about 6 hours before gametime, as well as anything else fascinating (like the time the Thrashers almost iced 2 D-men as forwards).

If the Blues have a regular beat blogger (I haven’t seen one), I would def. sign up for his feed. If they don’t have one, then they damned well need one.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand. --Homer Simpson

by hildymac on Feb 18, 2009 12:12 PM CST reply actions

They "allegedly" have a beat reporter ...

Used to be Aaron, but some douchebag Celtics fan has that one already.

by Fuck Detroit on Feb 18, 2009 12:33 PM CST up reply actions

Seriously

what do we stand to gain from Twitter? All i see is what i would see if i came to this site on an hourly basis…which i do

You say 'Tomato', I say 'FUCK DETROIT', so lets call the season off

by RFJCC on Feb 18, 2009 12:13 PM CST reply actions

Amen.

Back in an hour…

Let's go Blues!!!

by Milo. on Feb 18, 2009 1:01 PM CST up reply actions

Just every hour?

Fuck, I have no life.

Used to be Aaron, but some douchebag Celtics fan has that one already.

by Fuck Detroit on Feb 18, 2009 1:03 PM CST up reply actions

well

it’s pretty much open on my computer 24/7 but i do go to class every once in a while

You say 'Tomato', I say 'FUCK DETROIT', so lets call the season off

by RFJCC on Feb 18, 2009 2:09 PM CST up reply actions

Get mobile internet

and look it up during class, too.

Let's go Blues!!!

by Milo. on Feb 18, 2009 5:45 PM CST up reply actions

#53 on the list

Life is relevant. You can put your hands on a hot stove and a fraction of a second seems like hours. Yet you can put your hands on a hot woman and hours seem to turn into seconds.

by spectr17 on Feb 18, 2009 2:20 PM CST reply actions