The "Coulton" - a measurement of Nerd fame.
Upon reading a conversation between @genoboost and @hipsterplease on Twitter I knew I had to make this.
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Since I think I only have a following of one I rated pretty low
I'm actually thinking of giving a Wrist Strong bracelet to JoCo. I've just recently gotten into Colbert Report, and I hear that's teh rule.
But I think that should be higher, as Mr Coulton is one of my subscribers, that has to be worth something.
I say that having Coulton subscribe means that your number of Coultons should be squared.
(yes I am aware of the implications of that)
But, there is no allowance for the fact that Coulton follows ME!
ETA I did not read Kerrin's post above. So....What he said!
I'm thinking of changing it slightly. Unfortunately, it uses the latest status to get the number of followers you have, which isn't 100% accurate. I put this together at 3 in the morning and couldn't really be bothered to go through the more complicated part of the Twitter API so I'm having a look now at authenticating users so that more information can be gathered for a better measurement. I'll let you know when I've changed anything.
Sadly my results.
Your Coultonic state is sub-coultonic;
You have 5363 fewer followers than JoCo;
And if awryone gets a bonus because JoCo follows him then what bonus do I get for awryone following me? hehe!
6 degrees of JoCo!
ETA: that is one of the great things about this forum, always finding out about cool new things
Maybe I need a twitter for dumbies book
Let's say you visit JC's Twitter page. A few tweets down, you see that he has twittered (tweeted?) at thedoifter. Clicking on thedoifter's handle will take you to thedoifter's Twitter page. Clicking on the date and time will show you just JoCo's tweet by itself. Clicking on "in reply to TheDoifter" will take to her tweet that prompted his response.
Did that help? :-)
Presumably to reply to someone you have to be following them? So JoCo only replies to ppl he's following?
And do they get some sort of special notification that someone replied to them or do they just have to read it.
But how does one actually reply to someone else's tweet?
Say I'm following my friend, and he makes a tweet and I want to reply to him. How do I do that?
Sorry I know this is totally off topic now and makes me look very dumb Twitter needs more pages explaining just what is going on!
(Oh my goodness, my friend's mum knows how to do this and I, a programming student and self-professed lover of the intarwebs doesn't. QQ imo!)
If I were replying to you (assuming your name is the same), I'd just type @Ceridwyn and go from there.
thanks both of you!
any help on these questions from earlier?
Strange. I just ask because I'd like to think that if I "replied" to a JoCo tweet, he might see it! If he has to be following me to see it then theres no chance of that =S
http://help.twitter.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=85
Thanks Mucka, I'll stop derailing it now!
heh, I like what it says when you search JoCo himself.
It is for the growing minority of us who tweet just to amuse. It's like having a really short stage to do stand up on. You have to hit the punchline in 140 characters, or less.
Check this out. It's a site devoted to those posts which have been favorited.
Merlin Mann aka hotdogsladies cracks me up.
They all, however, use the 140 characters to crack me up.
For some people, it really has nothing to do with a need to tell the world about the minutae of their day. In my case, I like to write something everyday, even if it is only 140 characters long. As writing professionally is my goal, it makes me feel like I'm at least exercising the muscle through this writer's block. And I like to read the things other people say.
Did Hodgman break it again?