Reason.com - Free Minds and Free Markets
Reason logo Reason logo
  • Latest
  • Magazine
    • Current Issue
    • Archives
    • Subscribe
    • Crossword
  • Video
  • Podcasts
    • All Shows
    • The Reason Roundtable
    • The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie
    • The Soho Forum Debates
    • Just Asking Questions
    • The Best of Reason Magazine
    • Why We Can't Have Nice Things
  • Volokh
  • Newsletters
  • Donate
    • Donate Online
    • Donate Crypto
    • Ways To Give To Reason Foundation
    • Torchbearer Society
    • Planned Giving
  • Subscribe
    • Reason Plus Subscription
    • Print Subscription
    • Gift Subscriptions
    • Subscriber Support

Login Form

Create new account
Forgot password

Culture

Follow Reason on the Twitter!

Reason Staff | 6.1.2010 11:15 AM

Share on FacebookShare on XShare on RedditShare by emailPrint friendly versionCopy page URL
Media Contact & Reprint Requests

If you use Twitter, you can follow official Reason news and tweets from the following mag, website, and TV staffers:

Reason magazine: reason

Matt Welch: mleewelch

Nick Gillespie: nickgillespie

Radley Balko: radleybalko

Katherine Mangu-Ward: kmanguward

Michael C. Moynihan: mcmoynihan

Dan Hayes: dan_hayes

Katie Hooks: katiehooks

Anthony Randazzo: anthonyrandazzo

Kerry Howley: kerryhowley

Dave Weigel: daveweigel

Drew Carey/Price Is Right: tpirhost

Peter Suderman: petersuderman

Shikha Dalmia: shikhadalmia

Greg Beato: gregbeato

For more info on Twitter, go here.

Start your day with Reason. Get a daily brief of the most important stories and trends every weekday morning when you subscribe to Reason Roundup.

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

NEXT: How High Can/Should/Will Retirement Age[*] Go?

Reason Staff
CultureMedia
Share on FacebookShare on XShare on RedditShare by emailPrint friendly versionCopy page URL
Media Contact & Reprint Requests

Hide Comments (221)

Editor's Note: As of February 29, 2024, commenting privileges on reason.com posts are limited to Reason Plus subscribers. Past commenters are grandfathered in for a temporary period. Subscribe here to preserve your ability to comment. Your Reason Plus subscription also gives you an ad-free version of reason.com, along with full access to the digital edition and archives of Reason magazine. We request that comments be civil and on-topic. We do not moderate or assume any responsibility for comments, which are owned by the readers who post them. Comments do not represent the views of reason.com or Reason Foundation. We reserve the right to delete any comment and ban commenters for any reason at any time. Comments may only be edited within 5 minutes of posting. Report abuses.

  1. Boston   16 years ago


    Dan Hayes: dan_hayes

    Katie Hooks: katiehooks

    ?

  2. Boston   16 years ago

    Ah Reason TV. Gotcha. Carry On.

  3. Solana   16 years ago

    Ha. I was seriously just looking you guys. Where the hell is Moynihan?!

  4. JSFan   16 years ago

    go where?

  5. the innominate one   16 years ago

    twitter: wasteoftime

  6. Steven Andrew Miller   16 years ago

    ha, I just watched Matt Welch on Blogginheads talk about Twitter, and how he has no idea what it is, etc.

  7. LarryA   16 years ago

    For more info on Twitter, go here.

    Where?

  8. What The Fuck Is Twitter?   16 years ago

    And isn't the root word here "Twit"?

    I mean really, I started hearing every two-bit TV pundant talking about Twitter about three weeks ago. What's the big deal?

  9. Warty   16 years ago

    Yo, fuck Twitter.

  10. Solana   16 years ago

    Can't fight the tide, folks.

  11. Episiarch   16 years ago

    Twitter is for when you want everyone you know to know what you're doing all fucking day and night because you compulsively report it.

    It's annoying enough when people do it on Facebook, but Twitter is like an OCD exhibitionist hell with spelling errors.

  12. Twitter   16 years ago

    Gay.

  13. What The Fuck Is Twitter?   16 years ago

    "Can't fight the tide, folks."

    Bullshit. Twitter isn't the tide. A soon to be stagnant lagoon maybe, but tide? No way. And I say this as someone who's been intertubing for nearly twenty years.

  14. What The Fuck Is Twitter?   16 years ago

    "It's annoying enough when people do it on Facebook, but Twitter is like an OCD exhibitionist hell with spelling errors."

    My take exactly.

    Pagers were all the rage once...

  15. Boston   16 years ago

    In defense of Twitter, it does make bar hopping easier.

  16. What The Fuck Is Twitter?   16 years ago

    "In defense of Twitter, it does make bar hopping easier."

    So did pagers.

  17. Xeones   16 years ago

    Shut the fuck up, Warty.

    Just kidding. Fuck Twitter, yo.

  18. Episiarch   16 years ago

    Catfight!

  19. Solana   16 years ago

    Bullshit. Twitter isn't the tide. A soon to be stagnant lagoon maybe, but tide? No way. And I say this as someone who's been intertubing for nearly twenty years.

    Spoken like a dude who spends a lot of time fighting the tide.

    Twitter is actually really interesting, and I think everyone (me included) hates it when they hear about it, and just instinctually. Once you play with it for a week or so, though, you realize it's not so much about telling people what you're doing as it is about sharing information.

    News stories have been breaking from Twitter (plain crash in Holland or wherever the hell it was, plus, the past couple of hours, Helen Thomas made a Slumdog Millionaire crack about Bobby Jindal. Fun!!!), then there are links, customer service things (with the companies that use Twitter: publishers giving away books, Whole Foods answering consumer questions), and all sorts of things.

    But I get it. People are afraid of change.

    *shrug

  20. Boston   16 years ago

    So did pagers.

    not in avoiding people you hate.

  21. What The Fuck Is Twitter?   16 years ago

    "But I get it. People are afraid of change."

    Let's revisit this next year.

  22. ed   16 years ago

    Can't fight the tide, folks.

    I can and I will.

  23. Episiarch   16 years ago

    Solana, Twitter has its uses, but depending on who you end up connected to, it can be severely annoying.

    MySpace was huge for a while, but the proliferation of idiots made it unbearable. Facebook came to the fore, but the inability to "politely" refuse Friend Requests causes you to eventually be mired in the same pointless information overload.

    My prediction is that new sites will come to the fore that allow more fine-tuning of whose and what info you receive.

  24. Warty   16 years ago

    not in avoiding people you hate.

    e.g., people who use Twitter.

  25. economist   16 years ago

    "Twitter is for when you want everyone you know to know what you're doing all fucking day and night because you compulsively report it."

    I passed a firm, healthy stool earlier today.

  26. ..   16 years ago

    What's wrong with just wanting to be left alone?

  27. Astroglide   16 years ago

    "I passed a firm, healthy stool earlier today."

    Tell me more! I'm all a twitter!

  28. Solana   16 years ago

    Epsi, for sure. I agree. These things keep transforming, and in the process they tend to improve. But one thing they are not going to do is go away.

  29. Mister DNA   16 years ago

    Does LoneWacko twitter?

  30. ed   16 years ago

    The next logical step has to be anally implanted video-phones.

  31. Boston   16 years ago

    e.g., people who use Twitter.

    Reason magazine uses Twitter. Surely you don't hate Reason magazine? Reason magazine gets emotional about this sort of things.

  32. Episiarch   16 years ago

    But one thing they are not going to do is go away.

    Absolutely not. But filtering needs to improve.

  33. kilroy   16 years ago

    In 5 years Twitter will be a distant memory of wasted time, just like college.

  34. skeptic   16 years ago

    With Twitter, you can stay hyper-connected to your friends and always know what they're doing.
    -Why do I have to always know what my friends are doing?

    Or, you can stop following them any time.
    -What self-respecting stalker would do that?

    You can even set quiet times on Twitter so you're not interrupted.
    -Like when I'm sleeping, having sex, or shitting? Or are all those "twitterable" circumstances?

  35. Jerry   16 years ago

    Getting millions in seed money without a business model is actually quite cool.

  36. Ganja Blue   16 years ago

    Hey Killroy, just because you didn't remember it didn't mean you didn't have fun.

    College was the best 7 years of my life. If I could have tweeted from class I might have actually gone.

    http://twitter.com/ganjablue

  37. Episiarch   16 years ago

    College was the best 7 years of my life.

    "Lane, I've been going to this high school for seven and a half years. I'm no dummy."

  38. BDB   16 years ago

    I tried setting up a Facebook account once, and it was cool for about a day. Then a bunch of people I didn't really like, some I positively despise, and some I didn't even remember from back in College, High School,(and Middle(!)) started sending me friend requests. I just called it off right there.

  39. mari dupont   16 years ago

    Twitter is great if the people you're following are 1)incredibly witty at all hours of the day or night 2) are continually inviting their followers over for free booze/weed/lines or 3) are telling you things that can easily be translated into cash. Instead, Twitter reveals that most people, especially political people, lead deadly dull lives, get excited by the most mundane things, aren't as witty as their blogs lead you to believe and never, ever hook up.

  40. Twitterer   16 years ago

    @mari dupont

    *DRIVING TO 7-11

    @mari dupont
    *YUMYUM I LUV ME SUM TAQUITOS!

  41. JW   16 years ago

    But I get it. People are afraid of change.

    No, some of us don't give 2 shits about compulsively sharing, no matter who you are. Work with me here, but some of us really have no burning desire to broadcast the minutiae of our lives. I've got another secret: we care even less about yours.

    If I want to share with friends, I've got several different phones I can call them on and, you know, talk. I've probably got their email addresses too.

  42. ed   16 years ago

    I'm commenting on a blog and watching Lou Dobbs interview Christopher Hitchens.
    Am I fascinating or what?

  43. Creepy libertarian basement dw   16 years ago

    I'd like to twitter Katie Hooks, if you know what I mean.

  44. JW   16 years ago

    But I get it. People are afraid of change.

    S/he posts on a blog to other blog posters.

  45. Hugh Akston   16 years ago

    It's not clear what I can get out of tWiTtEr that I can't get out of:

    1) First Life
    2) Websites
    3) Blogs
    4) E-mail
    5) the telephone
    6) Being doused in kerosene and set alight to the music of Don Johnson
    7) Second Life
    8) Facebook

    But then I'm afraid of change.

  46. ed   16 years ago

    No.

  47. Bill   16 years ago

    I'd like to twitter Katie Hooks, if you know what I mean.

    She doesn't look bad, does she hook?

  48. FrBunny   16 years ago

    I'm with ed.

  49. J sub D   16 years ago

    Twitter -

    15 minutes
    14 minutes
    13 minutes
    12 minutes
    11 minutes
    10 minutes
    9 minutes
    8 minutes
    tick, tick, tick

    IOW, a fad that has lived half of its life.
    I could be wrong, but rarely am about social trends.

  50. ed   16 years ago

    Speaking of social trends, I hold by my prediction that the next one must necessarily be wireless anal cams. I mean, what's left?

  51. FrBunny   16 years ago

    8 minutes
    tick, tick, tick

    Any fad that George Snuffalupagus pitches on This Week cannot possibly still have 7 minutes of "cool" left.

  52. Xeones   16 years ago

    I mean, what's left?

    Wireless urethral cams?

  53. Episiarch   16 years ago

    Fisting cams

  54. Tom   16 years ago

    How is Twitter not merely sending-text-messages-to-groups-of-people?

    Like, I could already do that, well before Twitter came along. Why is this technology so "groundbreaking"?

  55. Lamar   16 years ago

    I can't wait to never use Twitter than not understand what all the fuss is about when people remember how useless it was.

  56. ed   16 years ago

    I'm going to take a leak now.

    More later.

  57. Jeff P   16 years ago

    Firm healthy stool. Hmmm. I am so jealous.
    Mine are loose and gelatinous. Like day-old gravy.
    Read all about it on my Assbook and Shitter pages...

  58. Nick   16 years ago

    What I would have twittered (or is it tweeted?) just now if I gave a shit:

    Out of pretzels. Goldfish with my turkey sandwich. I like pretzels better. My day is less than stellar.

    God, this is so freaking stupid. Am I the only one who think all tweets should be in Haiku form? Lends itself to that, imo.

  59. val   16 years ago

    Oh you guys bring a happy tear to my eye. Here I was sitting thinking that I'm becoming an old technophobic foggie. I see twitter this and twitter that all around, and I just think, who the assfuck cares, why is this exiting, why is this groundbreaking. But now I can see I'm not alone and I feel better. FYI; I have been having some gastrointestinal distress this morning as well.

  60. dbcooper   16 years ago

    6) Being doused in kerosene and set alight to the music of Don Johnson

    F*cking LOL.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULI5kolBpAk

  61. SxCx   16 years ago

    What's all this fiction about a "coercive" surveillance state? We're letting people track us by choice, a completely passive submission.

  62. SxCx   16 years ago

    "Guess what I'm doing now!"

    "And guess what I'm doing now!"

    "And how about now?"

    "Here I am! I'm right here!"

    ...because it's fun!

  63. Brandybuck   16 years ago

    Twitter is for bloggers who have nothing interesting to say.

    "I'm on the way to Mario's Pizza!"
    "Hey, I had a pepperoni! Whooo, pepperoni!"
    "Oh man, do I have heartburn or what?!?!"
    "Going to 7/11 going to buy pepto..."

  64. Mister Tax Slave   16 years ago

    What I want to know is who OWNS Twitter? It seemed as if there was a coordinated mass promotion via TV especially on MSNBC. Does NBC have a piece of this?

  65. Tony   16 years ago

    coordinated mass promotion

    That's what I've been thinking. I don't see why Twitter is such a useful or groundbreaking thing, and the fat that fat white-haired men on cable news channels promote it makes me very suspicious.

  66. Mister Tax Slave   16 years ago

    "and the fat that fat white-haired men on cable news channels promote it makes me very suspicious"

    Exactly, Tony. I mean, when did Joe Scarborogh (sp?) and Chris Matthews crawl up to the alleged cutting edge of technology?

  67. obi juan   16 years ago

    Twitter is like an RSS feed that isn't organized well and doesn't have any actual content. The CEO was on CSPAN not to long ago openly admitting he has no idea how to make money with Twitter. If it weren't for devout twitter evangelists no one would know about it because no one really needs it.

  68. Tacos mmm...   16 years ago

    MySpace was huge for a while, but the proliferation of idiots made it unbearable. Facebook came to the fore, but the inability to "politely" refuse Friend Requests causes you to eventually be mired in the same pointless information overload.

    Really? I just accept the requests, then drop the person. They're notified when they're accepted, but not when they're dropped.

  69. Tacos mmm...   16 years ago

    In 5 years Twitter will be a distant memory of wasted time, just like college.

    And email. Does anyone email anymore? I haven't gotten a mass forward of inspirational jesus quotes set to midi music and surrounded by dozens of animated butterfly .gifs in ages.

  70. obi juan   16 years ago

    Email has proven it's utility. I have yet to see any real use, unique or otherwise, of twitter. People use it to imitate the status messages of Facebook or the away messages of IM clients. Often times people update twitter with an app that posts the same status to twitter and IM client. Other people use twitter as if it were an RSS feed, a job it does poorly.

  71. Orange Line Special   16 years ago

    Kaus recently speculated that all the twitter posts on other sites were part of a pay-to-post campaign of some kind... Who am I kidding? Who would want the Reason demo?

    I kid! In fact, you can follow me here. You might enjoy my attempts to bother the #teaparty freaks.

  72. Rob McMillin   16 years ago

    Twitter = lame

  73. Hazmat warning   16 years ago

    Lonewacko's Twitter feed:

    It's 10 Molar distilled & concentrated obnoxiousness.

  74. jkp   16 years ago

    Hmm. No mention of Dave Weigel (@daveweigel)? Curious. Is he no longer with REASON?

  75. jkp   16 years ago

    Never mind - clearly, I'm out of touch.

  76. rech   16 years ago

    "Helen Thomas made a Slumdog Millionaire crack about Bobby Jindal"
    Oh man, totally worth it OMG LOL ROTF ROTFLMAO LMAO OMG MYGRMT!!!!!

  77. Nooge   16 years ago

    I think the Twitter hate backlash is mere months away.

  78. Nooge   16 years ago

    After reading this thread, I have concluded that it is one of the best EVAR.

  79. Nooge   16 years ago

    1) First Life
    2) Websites
    3) Blogs
    4) E-mail
    5) the telephone
    6) Being doused in kerosene and set alight to the music of Don Johnson
    7) Second Life
    8) Facebook

    But then I'm afraid of change.

    I've noticed that Solana occasionally pops in here to tell us ("us" being whoever disagrees with him/her at the time) that we're all a bunch of retards, no matter what the subject. I'm sure it's all over Twitter.

  80. Nooge   16 years ago

    Exactly, Tony. I mean, when did Joe Scarborogh (sp?) and Chris Matthews crawl up to the alleged cutting edge of technology?

    Well, Matthews did get that closed-circuit rebreather installed in his mouth.

  81. ed   16 years ago

    If Twitter is outlawed, only outlaws will be twits.

  82. Chris Matthews   16 years ago

    Every time I Twitter, I get a four-hour erection. I LOVE it!

  83. rbk   16 years ago

    Twitter - 'It's how the narcissistic keep in touch with the feckless.' Fuck Twitter.

  84. robc   16 years ago

    Follow Reason on the Twitter!

    No.

  85. B.P.   16 years ago

    Twitter is a word toilet.

  86. Twitterbug   16 years ago

    Just finished some chipped beef on toast (shit on a shingle) for breakfast. Picked up another bar skank last night. She's a little chubby, but man is she feisty, think I'll go another round with her right now.

    Details later.

  87. Twitterbug   16 years ago

    Update:

    Had a sudden bout of diarreha that kept me from getting back to the skank, but I think it's past. Back to business.

    Details later.

  88. KT   16 years ago

    I mostly like to follow people who tell funny jokes, sorry.

  89. Twitterbug   16 years ago

    Update:

    Whew! that was fun. I'm going to watch Montel now.

    More later.

  90. Twitterbug   16 years ago

    Update:

    Damn! More diarreha. That indian food for dinner must have been bad. This cheap toilet paper is chafing my ass, shoulda' got the good stuff. Fuck!

    More later.

  91. D.A. Ridgely   16 years ago

    Twitter requires way too long an attention span.

    That's why I invented The Word 1.0!

  92. ed   16 years ago

    Follow Reason on the Twitter!

    No. No! Goddamnit, NO!

  93. Jeff P   16 years ago

    All postings should be in Haiku.

  94. @ Twitterbug   16 years ago

    @4/8/08 11:13: > 140 char dude.

  95. Twitterbug   16 years ago

    Whoo. gotta stop eating spaghetti. Makes me gassy and mom gets tired of the house smelling like shit when she gets home.

  96. phalkor   16 years ago

    twitter on debate
    people are already twits
    debate is over

  97. MNG   16 years ago

    If a nympho twitters about her sexual escapades is it twattering?

  98. Beaker   16 years ago

    Some of you guys sound really old

  99. The Bearded Hobbit   16 years ago

    Some of you guys sound really old

    Let me tell you, punk, I used the Internet back when we had to use punch cards!

    .. "Hollerith" Hobbit

  100. ed   16 years ago

    I will not Twitter, Reason mag,
    I will not Twitter like a fag.
    I will not send tweets to Matt Welch,
    Radley Balko makes me wretch,
    Nick Gillespie is a bum,
    Mangu-Ward is just plain dumb.
    I will not Twitter, Reason mag,
    I will not Twitter like a fag.

  101. Episiarch   16 years ago

    If a nympho twitters about her sexual escapades is it twattering?

    LOL

    Maybe tittering?

  102. the innominate one   16 years ago

    no, it's titillating

  103. James Anderson Merritt   16 years ago

    # Mister Tax Slave | March 23, 2009, 1:55pm | #

    # What I want to know is who OWNS Twitter?
    # It seemed as if there was a coordinated mass
    # promotion via TV especially on MSNBC.
    # Does NBC have a piece of this?

    I saw tie-ins to it on The Weather Channel and SciFi recently, too. Both are owned by NBC/Universal. Does anyone watch the USA Network? Are Twitter tie-ins there, as well?

  104. James Anderson Merritt   16 years ago

    # The Bearded Hobbit | April 14, 2009, 7:13pm | #

    # Let me tell you, punk, I used the Internet
    # back when we had to use punch cards!

    # .. "Hollerith" Hobbit

    It was an early personal computer as video-terminal for me, but one time I DID transmit from home the images of a deck of hollerith cards for remote punching on-campus, back when I was in college. In those days, being able to generate the deck image on my personal computer, and not having to spend late-night hours in the key-punch room, several miles away, was quite the perk, I can tell you.

  105. jk   16 years ago

    I've punched in raw machine code on a Unisys UYK-7 front panel. You punks with Hollerith cards don't know what real programming is.

    1. The DECwriter   15 years ago

      was where it was at, baby.

  106. jk   16 years ago

    Actually, the people that have to fiddle around with the little details of how the next generation of microprocessors will work still deal with the low level details.

    Aside from a bug in the floating point arithmetic in Intel's first Pentium we live in a world of where the popular microprocessor's computations are flawless.

    This is absolutely fucking amazing.

  107. VM   16 years ago

    Epi, TIO - just make her your tweetheart.

  108. franz kafka   16 years ago

    I just passed a fecal boulder.
    Is this a pivotal moment or what.
    Twit that!

  109. corvair   16 years ago

    jk

    A UYK-7 maintenance panel, realy? I think I've got a rep card around here somplace...

  110. Zeb   16 years ago

    "Can't fight the tide, folks."

    Maybe not, but I can walk above the high tide line and fucking ignore it.

  111. PbP   16 years ago

    This saddens me, great minds that must compress their thoughts into 160 characters.

  112. anarch   16 years ago

    great minds that must compress their thoughts into 160 characters

    Protolibertarian Lao-Tsu could say a lot in 160 characters.

    Nyuk-nyuk.

  113. James Anderson Merritt   16 years ago

    # jk | May 19, 2009, 3:24am | #

    # I've punched in raw machine code on a Unisys
    # UYK-7 front panel. You punks with Hollerith
    # cards don't know what real programming is.

    I've loaded bootstrap programs and patched subroutines by toggling in bytes in binary on an IMSAI 8080 front panel. Does that count? I never had to replace core memory, though.

  114. James Anderson Merritt   16 years ago

    # jk | May 19, 2009, 3:50am | #

    # Actually, the people that have to fiddle
    # around with the little details of how the
    # next generation of microprocessors will
    # work still deal with the low level details.

    And how many of those are in the world today? What would happen if they started to disappear? One must wonder.

    Well, one DID wonder. Two, actually: Ayn Rand and Theodore Kaczynski.

  115. Hugh Akston   16 years ago

    reason wouldn't keep bumping this thread if followship on Twitter were strong. Just one more problem of using these idiotic social networking apps: popularity anxiety.

  116. Solana   16 years ago

    @micsolana

  117. MNG   16 years ago

    116 posts already without evolution, the Civil War or Sci-fi?

    Jesus, people feel VERY strongly about twitter!

  118. Xeones   16 years ago

    Yo, fuck post bumps.

    P.S. Any replies to this comment will most likely consist of ad homs, as libertarians concede my points and show their childish, anti-intellectual nature.

  119. guy in the back row   16 years ago

    Mangu-Ward at least put some time (say about 5 minutes) intot he design of her site!

  120. Ink Stained Wretch   16 years ago

    How can newspapers compete when all you libertarians are on the twitter!

  121. Xeones   16 years ago

    Yo, fuck post bumps.

    P.S. Any replies to this comment will most likely consist of ad homs, as libertarians concede my points and show their childish, anti-intellectual nature.

    This.

  122. Matthew   16 years ago

    on Twitter!

    Et tu, Reason?

  123. MNG   16 years ago

    Yay, a spoof of me, and on a twitter thread. What a waste...

  124. MNG   16 years ago

    personally I'd rather be spoofed in a twitter thread. at least it isn't serious business.

  125. ..   16 years ago

    People wanting to be stalked...what a concept!

  126. Tomcat1066   16 years ago

    Stalking...it's not just for breakfast anymore

  127. Robert Enders   16 years ago

    It's my understanding that Twitter is only of use when you and your friends have phones with QWERTY keyboards.

    I still have a RAZR phone. I'm so 3 years ago.

  128. Douglas Fletcher   16 years ago

    I don't like it.

  129. Ben   16 years ago

    Yeah... guess what... fuck twitter

  130. John-David (proud cisgendered   16 years ago

    First!

  131. kilroy   16 years ago

    Bumping this junk again I see.

  132. Brian Sorgatz   16 years ago

    I have never owned a cellular phone. By even mentioning Twitter to me, you're violating Starfleet's Prime Directive.

  133. kilroy   16 years ago

    kilroy | July 13, 2009, 9:50am | #
    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

  134. Bingo   16 years ago

    Twitter is awesome! $1.10 drink specials to celebrate 110 degrees? Hell yes count me in! Thank you twitter!!

  135. ...   16 years ago

    No.

  136. Britney   16 years ago

    nice post...
    ___________________
    Britney
    The best place for the best ENTERTAINMENT

  137. kilroy   16 years ago

    kilroy | July 16, 2009, 2:32pm | #

    kilroy | July 13, 2009, 9:50am | #
    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

  138. the innominate one   16 years ago

    ... | July 16, 2009, 8:17pm | #

    No.

    Not only no, but fuck no.

  139. kilroy   16 years ago

    kilroy | July 20, 2009, 3:26pm | #

    kilroy | July 16, 2009, 2:32pm | #

    kilroy | July 13, 2009, 9:50am | #
    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

  140. kilroy   16 years ago

    Might I suggest you add this information to the contributors information pages instead of continually running this up the flagpole?

    Or is your illogic that it makes more sense to ensure it's always on the Hit & Run front page ... forever?

    I think any reasonable person who wanted to find your Twitter ID would likely go to the profile section before combing through the blog entries, don't you?

  141. FrBunny   16 years ago

    Keep it up, kilroy. The bump quote gets better and better!

  142. Not a Libertarian but You Migh   16 years ago

    But on to serious Twitter matters...

    http://www.stockholmpride.org/howhetero/

    Stockholm's gay pride group launched a "How hetero are you?" Twitter analyzer as one of many ways to entice you to stop by for pride, which kicks off July 27.

    It goes like this: Enter your Twitter username, and it'll decide what percentage straight your 140 character messages are based on your record of mentioning things like "gay" or "Prop 8."

    @reasonmag
    73% Hetero
    "You're boomerang hetero. It doesn't matter how hard you try to gain new experiences, magically you always return to your starting point."

    @mleewelch
    80% Hetero
    "You're winnebago hetero. Get the kids, pack the grill and, for the love of God, don't forget the SpongeBob dvd."

    @mcmoynihan
    65% Hetero
    "You seem to be a bit semi-hetero. Just like a chocolate chip ice cream you don't really know what you want to be. Basically it's a vanilla ice cream but what's the deal with the chocolate thingies? Luckily, most people like chocolate."

    @radleybalko
    56% Hetero
    "You're as hetero as low-fat mayonnaise. Trying to have our cake and eat it too are we?"

  143. Adderall Apocalypse   16 years ago

    me: http://twitter.com/AderalApocalyps
    lol.

  144. Human Bean   16 years ago

    No.

  145. !   16 years ago

    Fuck Twitter

  146. +   16 years ago

    No, goddamnit!

  147. John-David   16 years ago

    Where's Kilroy in our hour of need?

  148. kilroy   16 years ago

    kilroy | July 22, 2009, 12:56pm | #

    kilroy | July 20, 2009, 3:26pm | #

    kilroy | July 16, 2009, 2:32pm | #

    kilroy | July 13, 2009, 9:50am | #
    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

  149. kilroy   16 years ago

    Reading the damn "Gatesgate" thread and asleep at the switch.

  150. kilroy   16 years ago

    In the unlikely chance someone at Reason will read this, I'll post it again.

    Might I suggest you add this information to the contributors information pages instead of continually running this up the flagpole?

    Or is your illogic that it makes more sense to ensure it's always on the Hit & Run front page ... forever?

    I think any reasonable person who wanted to find your Twitter ID would likely go to the profile section before combing through the blog entries, don't you?

  151. jayjayhawker   16 years ago

    I vote for Kilroy's idea.

    I am not sure why people are hating on twitter.
    Yes, it seems trendy...but as far as trends go it appears harmless. It doesn't cost anything, takes little investment in terms of time, and it is relatively easy to ignore if you dislike.

    I am not a huge twitter fan, but I am not sure if it is here to stay.

  152. kilroy   16 years ago

    kilroy | July 24, 2009, 3:30pm | #

    kilroy | July 22, 2009, 12:56pm | #

    kilroy | July 20, 2009, 3:26pm | #

    kilroy | July 16, 2009, 2:32pm | #

    kilroy | July 13, 2009, 9:50am | #
    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

  153. PR   16 years ago

    breaker one nine

  154. C\'mon!   16 years ago

    We want Damon Root!

  155. Charles   16 years ago

    my only hope is that someone from reason is twittering about whatever this gates situation is. Did you know he got arrested?

  156. ed   16 years ago

    as trends go it appears harmless

    Indeed, tweetering twits are valuable news correspondents!
    What do you think of Michael Jackson's anesthesiologist? Tweet us @ blah blah blah blah.

  157. +   16 years ago

    kilroy | July 24, 2009, 3:35pm | #

    ...I think any reasonable person who

    You shouldn't say "reasonable" here, Kilroy.
    One of the local wits will yell "Drink!" and you'll be made fun of.
    And don't ever mention the nazis.

  158. kilroy   16 years ago

    Yeah. I used reasonable intentionally.

    Drink!

    -- Hitler

  159. A. Eichmann   16 years ago

    That's not funny.

  160. doug   16 years ago

    I might follow you on twitter if you ever get around to making your website work with the blackberry browser.

  161. kilroy   16 years ago

    kilroy | July 27, 2009, 5:49pm | #

    kilroy | July 24, 2009, 3:30pm | #

    kilroy | July 22, 2009, 12:56pm | #

    kilroy | July 20, 2009, 3:26pm | #

    kilroy | July 16, 2009, 2:32pm | #

    kilroy | July 13, 2009, 9:50am | #
    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

  162. Spoonman   16 years ago

    Fuckdamnit.

  163. FrBunny   16 years ago

    Let's get this thread moving again...

    Gates is a racist! Cops have earned a wide berth from lowly civilians!

  164. kilroy   16 years ago

    I thought I thoroughly Godwinned this thread above. Some how it keeps coming back to life.

    Oh, shit! Zombie thread!

  165. the innominate one   16 years ago

    snoogans

  166. hmm   16 years ago

    HOLY CRAP YOU CAN FOLLOW REASON ON TWITTER?

  167. strike through   16 years ago

    It's Twittergate. It cannot be stopped. It can only be contained.

  168. kilroy   16 years ago

    kilroy | July 29, 2009, 11:59am | #

    kilroy | July 27, 2009, 5:49pm | #

    kilroy | July 24, 2009, 3:30pm | #

    kilroy | July 22, 2009, 12:56pm | #

    kilroy | July 20, 2009, 3:26pm | #

    kilroy | July 16, 2009, 2:32pm | #

    kilroy | July 13, 2009, 9:50am | #
    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

  169. Xeones   16 years ago

    Yo, fuck Twitter.

  170. Twitter   16 years ago

    Yo, fuck Xeones.

    That's right bitches, I've developed sentience.

  171. Xeones   16 years ago

    Fuck!

  172. Groovus Maximus   16 years ago

    Twitter has developed sentience; must have been too close to my trapper keeper ultra with the picture of the cast of Dawson's Creek!!!! Hide your DVD's of "AKIRA"!!!! I'm seriously!!!!

  173. kilroy   16 years ago

    Twitter has developed sentience, in lieu of all those that use it.

  174. Prince Jerome from Nigeria nee   16 years ago

    Is it possible yet to carpet-spam a Twitterer?

  175. John-David   16 years ago

    You guys are just doing this to piss people off now, aren't you? Cancel my subscription!

  176. kilroy   16 years ago

    kilroy | August 4, 2009, 11:08am | #

    kilroy | July 29, 2009, 11:59am | #

    kilroy | July 27, 2009, 5:49pm | #

    kilroy | July 24, 2009, 3:30pm | #

    kilroy | July 22, 2009, 12:56pm | #

    kilroy | July 20, 2009, 3:26pm | #

    kilroy | July 16, 2009, 2:32pm | #

    kilroy | July 13, 2009, 9:50am | #
    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

  177. Tweetless in Tijuana   16 years ago

    OMG! Twitter is down!
    How will my "friends" know what I'm doing right now?
    How will I know what my "friends" are doing right now?
    It's anarchy!

  178. max hats   16 years ago

    I come to the front page and find this, of all posts, has 178 replies. How the hell is that possible, I ask myself. Now I see all 178 replies, and I still don't know.

  179.   16 years ago

    KM-W rules Reason

    Yet the Obamatarian deserters be hatin'

  180. Bingo   16 years ago

    You guys are gay, I met some cuties on twitter. It's great for keeping up on local events.

  181. Das Leben der Anderen   16 years ago

    "Follow Reason on the Twitter!"

    No thank you.

  182. 24AheadDotCom   16 years ago

    If everyone followed me on twitter, not only would I tell them many political things Reason never will, but they'd know about things like this. Quite SusanBoyle-ish for her age.

    Also, I'm starting a new service with heavy metal videos on twitter. There's nothing there at post time, but starting in a few hours I'll be posting different vids four times per day, every day.

  183. FrBunny   16 years ago

    Paging kilroy.

  184. Warren   16 years ago

    Holy crap. How many Reasoners are still keeping up with their tweets? Isn't following someone on twitter sufficient loser qualification?

  185. Rice Bingham   16 years ago

    I'm following reason on The Twitter! I'm following! I'm following!

    Wheeeee! Wheeeeee!

  186. Craig   16 years ago

    Stop wasting time tweeting. Where are the Hit and Run posts on that Free Stater packing heat in New Hampshire for Obama's visit, and mocking Pelosi for being shocked that voters are upset when Congress tries to buy themselves a few more posh private jets?

  187. wow   16 years ago

    KM-W rules Reason
    Yet the Obamatarian deserters be hatin'

    That thread has all the depth of a tween slumber party.

  188. juris_imprudent   16 years ago

    I'm with max hats on this one. On the other hand it seems appropriate to drop this link on this thread.

  189. Neu Mejican   16 years ago

    Is the Reason Twitter "Tweason"

    I like the sound of that.

    Tweason on the twitscape.

  190. Me   16 years ago

    Twit minds and tweet markets?

  191. Me   16 years ago

    Anyway, if this be tweason, make the most of it.

  192. 24AheadDotCom   16 years ago

    In addition to my main feed, I also have a feed that delivers heavy metal, chocolate cooking, and bread/cookie baking videos. Each of those delivers four different videos each day.

  193. mark   16 years ago

    Since it has not been mentioned yet, one of the trending twitter topics was #welovethenhs. Excuse me while I go attend to a distressed stomach!

  194. strike through   16 years ago

    I want to know what Rachel Maddow is doing right now !

    No I don't.

  195. Xeones   16 years ago

    Shut the fuck up, LoneWacko.

  196. Rachel Maddow   16 years ago

    I'm munching a rug. It's delish!

  197. Paul   16 years ago

    What's twitter?

  198. shrike   16 years ago

    Where is Cavanaugh? (top finance guy here)

  199. John-David   16 years ago

    I was going to try upping the kilroy count, until I saw my main man show up. Shriek! You must be on your meds right now! Good for you, little buddy.

  200. Paul   16 years ago

    Where is Cavanaugh? (top finance grammar guy here)

    FIFY.

  201. Kris   16 years ago

    Oh fer fucks sake!!!!

    Put down the model airplane glue, Gillespie!

    We get it! Stop recycling this shit!

  202. TWC   16 years ago

    200 comments on TWITTER? WTF?

  203. kilroy   16 years ago

    kilroy | August 5, 2009, 2:56pm | #

    kilroy | August 4, 2009, 11:08am | #

    kilroy | July 29, 2009, 11:59am | #

    kilroy | July 27, 2009, 5:49pm | #

    kilroy | July 24, 2009, 3:30pm | #

    kilroy | July 22, 2009, 12:56pm | #

    kilroy | July 20, 2009, 3:26pm | #

    kilroy | July 16, 2009, 2:32pm | #

    kilroy | July 13, 2009, 9:50am | #
    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    I went on vacation and when I came back you're still being mindless fucking idiots and bumping this junk.

    Read this and stop for fucks sake.

  204. J sub D   16 years ago

    From now on, everytime this post get's bumped I'm gonna comment with ...

  205. J sub D   16 years ago

    ... Yo! Fuck twitter.

  206. 24AheadDotCom   16 years ago

    I just signed up ten new twitter accounts just so I could increase Reason's follower count and make them look more important.

    But, seriously, try one of my fine feeds linked above or this one.

  207. FrBunny   16 years ago

    I'm going to follow kilroy on Twitter.

  208. Lamar   16 years ago

    I don't use Twitter, but I do click on this each time it gets bumped to see if kilroy is on top of things. Kilroy is the best part of this.

  209. kilroy   16 years ago

    kilroy | August 25, 2009, 7:29pm | #

    kilroy | August 5, 2009, 2:56pm | #

    kilroy | August 4, 2009, 11:08am | #

    kilroy | July 29, 2009, 11:59am | #

    kilroy | July 27, 2009, 5:49pm | #

    kilroy | July 24, 2009, 3:30pm | #

    kilroy | July 22, 2009, 12:56pm | #

    kilroy | July 20, 2009, 3:26pm | #

    kilroy | July 16, 2009, 2:32pm | #

    kilroy | July 13, 2009, 9:50am | #
    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

    Bumping this junk again I see.

  210. kilroy   16 years ago

    Fuck it. I quit.

  211. MJ   16 years ago

    "Follow Reason on Twiiter!"

    No.

  212. J sub D   16 years ago

    Yo! Fuck twitter.*

    * I promised.

  213. Rice Bingham   16 years ago

    You're a real A-hole Gillespe.

  214. the innominate one   16 years ago

    where, oh where is kilroy in our hour of need?

    Shine bright the kilroysignal!

  215. ed   16 years ago

    I just wet myself.

  216. Charles   16 years ago

    Presumably, this post will exist forever, and thus accept comments forever. Someone is missing an opportunity to have a personal blog here (somebody did that in the past I remember).

  217. Some personal Blogger   16 years ago

    Well, I just thought I would bring you all up to speed on ME:

    Next week is the 12th anniversary of my simultaneous divorce from the "hag", conversion to Buddhism, my absolute leap from the closet and into Fabulousness, smoking cessation through hypnosis, membership in PETA, renouncement of eating anything with a face (well, except for Timmy....teehee!), and uber-committment to environmentalism. What a week, eh? LOL

    Every year, I still get goose bumps recalling how absolutely empowered I felt by my metamorphisis. And I can't wait for this year's anniversay. Timmy and I will be hosting a reception at the Blue Lagoon on Saturday, I do so hope that our friends and family can drop by.

    I am still tormented by that painful anal leakage problem. We can't decide if it is due to irritation of my anal fissures by Timmy's genital wart, or my my non-stop craving for bean and cheese burritos with green chile salsa.

    Irregardless, it is certainly an inconvenience when I am on line at the health-care reform vigils that are currently my only form of income (thank you SEIU!!)

    I didn't realize just how obvious it was until all the "teabaggers" kept calling me Shitstain.

    Well, that's all for now. Give me a "tweet" sometime.

    Randy

  218. capitol l   15 years ago

    Ah, seeing a Lonewacko post sure does bring back memories.

    For old times sake:

    Shut the fuck up lonewacko.

    That is all.

  219. Almanian   15 years ago

    Twitter sucks

  220. CE   15 years ago

    What's Twitter?

Please log in to post comments

Mute this user?

  • Mute User
  • Cancel

Ban this user?

  • Ban User
  • Cancel

Un-ban this user?

  • Un-ban User
  • Cancel

Nuke this user?

  • Nuke User
  • Cancel

Un-nuke this user?

  • Un-nuke User
  • Cancel

Flag this comment?

  • Flag Comment
  • Cancel

Un-flag this comment?

  • Un-flag Comment
  • Cancel

Latest

Government Argues It's Too Much To Ask the FBI To Check the Address Before Blowing Up a Home

Billy Binion | 5.9.2025 5:01 PM

The U.K. Trade Deal Screws American Consumers

Eric Boehm | 5.9.2025 4:05 PM

A New Survey Suggests Illicit Opioid Use Is Much More Common Than the Government's Numbers Indicate

Jacob Sullum | 5.9.2025 3:50 PM

Judge Orders Tufts Grad Student Rumeysa Ozturk Be Released on Bail From Immigration Detention

C.J. Ciaramella | 5.9.2025 3:17 PM

Georgia Man Who Spent 6 Weeks in Jail on a Kidnapping Charge Says He Was Helping a Falling Child

Autumn Billings | 5.9.2025 2:05 PM

Recommended

  • About
  • Browse Topics
  • Events
  • Staff
  • Jobs
  • Donate
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe
  • Contact
  • Media
  • Shop
  • Amazon
Reason Facebook@reason on XReason InstagramReason TikTokReason YoutubeApple PodcastsReason on FlipboardReason RSS

© 2024 Reason Foundation | Accessibility | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

r

Do you care about free minds and free markets? Sign up to get the biggest stories from Reason in your inbox every afternoon.

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

This modal will close in 10

Reason Plus

Special Offer!

  • Full digital edition access
  • No ads
  • Commenting privileges

Just $25 per year

Join Today!