A Slick PWN


(Pwn (below: Various pronunciations) is a leetspeak slang term derived from the verb “own”, as meaning to appropriate or to conquer to gain ownership. The term implies domination or humiliation of a rival, used primarily in the Internet-based video game culture to taunt an opponent who has just been soundly defeated (e.g., “You just got pwned!”). It was popular among Counter-Strike gamers before spreading through the more general Internet world. The past tense and past participle, pwned, may also be spelled pwnd, pwn’d, pwn3d, pwnt, poned, pawned, or powned. Source: Wikipedia )



Enterprising parodists on May 19 created a Twitter account and feed to mock BP, BPGlobalPR.


Chris Matyszczyk reports (5/26) from CNET,


CNN did contact BP and asked the company whether it might feel its image was being polluted by this rogue global PR force. BP reportedly said it had seen it, but was sure that people would realize it’s not really the company’s work.


Perhaps this underestimates people’s notions of what is and isn’t possible in today’s often ugly, cynical world.


Still, I know there will be sticklers among you who will attempt to invoke Twitter’s fake pages policy. It reads that impersonators “should not be the exact name of the subject of the parody, commentary, or fandom; to make it clearer, you should distinguish the account with a qualifier such as ‘not,’ ‘fake’ or ‘fan.’”


It’s unlikely Twitter will get too picky about this, given that it gets some nice PR (happy to help, as always, chaps) out of it all, and given that BP seems unlikely to complain. BP has made its first wise PR move in allowing this site to gush black humor while the nation’s beaches are threatened by a far more painful darkness.


90,000+ followers, and counting.


Sometime in the next few days, BPGlobalPR’s following will surpass in number BP’s number of employees worldwide.


BP America’s Twitter following? 8,000 or so.


Although the official feed doesn’t offer any black humor, it’s funny in a different way.


What the Trend?

What the Trend?

Find out what’s trending on Twitter and why. For each trend, we give you a quick explanation of WHY it’s trending (these blurbs are edited by you!) You can also see the latest tweets, Flickr photos and news stories.

example: Why is #nmatl popular right now?

First trend: about 2 hours ago | Last trend: about a minute ago | Last defined: about 2 hours ago | Link: http://wttrend.com/7872

NMATL stands for the New Media Atlanta Conference: Social Media for Business, Sept 25, 2009. http://newmediaatlanta.com/

The 46 Stages of Twitter

The 46 stages of Twitter
1. Hear the word Twitter. Scoff.
2. Hear it again from someone else. Scoff again.
3. Hear about famous celebrity who is apparently “On Twitter.” Scoff, but make mental note to check it out.
4. Log into Facebook to comfort self.
5. Sign up for Twitter.
6. Give up because it seems dumb.
7. Loudly criticize others on Twitter.
8. Follow @johncmayer, @aplusk, @rainnwilson, @wilw, @mrskutcher, @oprah, and one other person you actually know.
9. Post tweet that is a variant of: “Trying out this Twitter thing.”
10. Attempt to dig a little deeper into Twitter.
11. Notice rampant usage of words: “Tweet,” “Twitter,” “Twitterverse,” “Tweetie,” “Tweetdeck,” and something called “RT.”
12. Scoff again, this time in confusion.
13. Tell friends you “tried that Twitter thing, but didn’t get it and it’s stupid anyway.”
14. Log into Facebook because that site at least makes sense.
15. Read story about Twitter somewhere.
16. Log back into Twitter.
17. Try to avoid saying Tweet, Twitter, Twitterverse, Tweetie, Tweetdeck, and ReTweet.
18. Respond to @rainnwilson.
19. Curse self for fanning out.
20. Log off for 4 months.
21. Come back, just to see.
22. Post something relatively funny.
23. Get RT’d.
24. Discover that RT means ReTweet.
25. Make it your life mission to get RT’d.
26. Install Twitter app on your phone.
27. No longer ashamed to say “I’ve gotta Twitter that.”
28. Attend events with the sole intention of “Tweeting” them.
29. Pray to get RT’d.
30. Refresh. Refresh. Refresh. Refresh. Refresh.
31. Close computer.
32. Open computer. Refresh. Refresh. Refresh.
33. Think in 140 character sentences.
34. Compulsively check phone all day every day.
35. Tweet that you compulsively check phone all day every day.
36. Alienate actual people in your life in an attempt to impress ones you don’t know.
37. Lose weight because you forget to eat.
38. Place phone by bed so you can check first thing in the morning.
39. Defend Twitter to the death from detractors.
40. Hear self, and vaguely recognize that you have become “That Guy.”
41. Feel like, and start to behave like River Tam.
42. Vow to quit Twitter to preserve sanity.
43. Read this and change mind.
44. Think to self, “I should twitter that.”
45. Recognize irony.
46. Twitter it.

purloined from Shane Nickerson. Good comment thread to original post.

Twittaffinity

Twitter cartoon

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Ys W Cn

Regression?

Tweet, tweet, twitter…

Myspace and Facebook are collecting participants on huge scales that various mediums before them took a lot longer to accomplish.

I’ve just stumbledupon, my new favorite hobby by the way, a reference which is niggling in the back of my mind making me feel this is part of the answer to what Twittering is going to evolve into.

http://www.jacketflap.com/megablog/index.asp?Year=2009&Month=03&Day=05&postid=314226

I’m looking at the word clouds and this sort of fits in sideways. Maybe I should have done a word cloud myself but I wanted people to look at it, think about it and perhaps extrapolate a bit on tools of the future.

Okay, I’ll share my creative vision of this example such as it is:

http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/723222/Twitter_Literary_Agents

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