Follow (Most of) Your Favorite Consumerist Editors On Twitter Aside from Carey, who uses Tumblr because he's cool, you can find all your favorite Consumerist nerds, as well as the blog itself, on Twitter.
Follow: Ben, Meg, Chris, Alex, Laura, The Blog Itself, and CReporter, our little buddy at Consumer Reports.
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@Pizza_Club: I would follow hell into Meg herself.
Oh, wow, that looks about as dirty as I thought it might.
Can I be the first curmudgeon to say the Twitter Emperor has no clothes?
126 characters is a limit that only the ADD-addled would count as a feature.
(that said, different strokes, and (harumph) I guess if the Consumerist crew is happy with it then bravo for reaching out to those ADD-inflicted readers)
PS: kids, get off my LAWN!
@Trai_Dep: Not to be *that* person, but...it's 140 characters, not 126. Those 14 letters can make a big difference! ;)
@Applekid: I'm guessing this is why Meg doesn't do the Consumerist videos anymore. She wants to shield herself from the "fans".
"Meg, you're writing is so.....sexy, keep using big words."
@Trai_Dep: Agree with you there too. Hate this service. Just commented on Giz about how I feel the "twitter generation" will turn into self entitled narcissists, since they believe everything that happens in their life is important and others are interested. Plus, it's disappointing to see the growth of ADD since kids don't want to read anything that isn't less than 400 characters.
Sorry.
Twitter gets thrown into the same shitcan right beside Facebook and texting.
@Trai_Dep: I too do not get it. In the presence of cool kids, I try to act like I know... but I just don't get Twitter.
@Trai_Dep: I don't like Twitter either. I pretty much started using it so I could yell at MSNBC when they had a typo on their chyron. Some of our coworkers at CU can do neat things with it like treat it as a micro-google news alert with the hashtag search thing, and it's a nice way to get a company's attention if they have a Twitter presence (@comcastcares for instance), but I think for a lot of people it's just a short livejournal or endless series of away messages.
@valueofaloonie: Well, see, I can SEE texting. You're on the road, you're sipping the java, you don't want to lug around your laptop so you text. Small screen, small keyboard, on the go: I get it.
But constraining yourself when you're at a computer, I don't. It's like turning your 56" Bravia to fugly NTSC mode just to annoy your roommates. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
WHERE is Captain Duvel Moneycat's Twitter stream!?!?
@valueofaloonie: Jeez. I understand 128 or 127: something to do with 8-bit buffer limits, punchcards and chess-playing computers that grow into sentient consciousness only to rise and kill us all until they feel bad and send a morphing red-headed babe/singer/songwriter from the far future to save us, or kill us in a different fashion (Twitter, the former and Shirley Manson is the latter). But 140? 140?!
They chose 140 just to be ornery. I know it.
I honestly don't understand this fascination with 140 character limited micro-blogging. Might as well take it to the next step; a service that uses grunts and facial expressions (14 expressions or less), which they will simply call 'Twit'.
OK, if I follow Ben and Meg, how much would I have to donate to get a CU labcoat?
@Wants A CU Labcoat_GitEmSteveDave: Bearing in mind I would wear it around my house on my webcams, AND do a commercial. I am a total camera whore.
@Chris Walters: Yeah, I use ping.fm in my IM client (Adium.) I actually yelled at Ben yesterday about ice cream trucks because he's directly above Ping.fm on my buddy list. Oops.
my twitter posts to my tumblr.
Is there any reason that Meg has 2x as many followers as Ben?
I would follow Meg into hell itself.