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What are the people of Twitter twittering about?


5/27/09; 11:57:07 PM Pacific
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dougw: Dancing with @mandymarks to Do What You Do by Marz: http://bit.ly/iegAk
11:53 PM
bit
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al3x: Listening to the dreamy sounds of Windy & Carl. Everyone at the Rickshaw Stop is sitting down.
11:51 PM 
11,506
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jack: Exceptionally excited.
11:44 PM 
605,951
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meangrape: Had to resort to /sbin/telinit 6 to get a server to reboot.
11:43 PM 
2,612
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evan: After an Apocalypse - Steven Schroeder: http://poems.com/poem.php?date=14393
11:38 PM
poems
2,758
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jillyface: At the m83 show, late school nite! Loud. Wish I had the energy to move more.
11:21 PM 
600
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jennadawn: In case you need a laugh (or the motivation to punch something)...http://bit.ly/eevZo
11:20 PM
youtube
421
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evan: Stopped by the office on the way back. Surprised the cleaners.
11:17 PM 
2,758
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kevinweil@dougw unfortunately I know almost nothing in the city... maybe the presidio area, or across the gg? Or come down to the peninsula :)
11:07 PM 
262
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kevinweil: welcome to twitter, @thaddeusiii! dude, i wish i were going to kenya with you.
11:05 PM 
262
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delbius@andr8a Adios! You almost made it to 11!
10:43 PM 
2,739
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andr8a@delbius - okay, my eyes are beginning to zzzz... (see ya in the office tomorrow).
10:41 PM 
1,350
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jessverr: I'm curious about this #spymaster game that @rohrsh and others are playing - @playspymaster I want an invite!
10:40 PM 
1,287
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kevinweil: Went to the Hadoop and Cascading talk by @cwensel with @evan tonight. Solid talk, looking forward to more details at #hadoopsummit.
10:38 PM 
262
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delbius@andr8a Caffeine, my friend.
10:24 PM 
2,739
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stop: Bouncing between two tools, trying them both, ultimately attempting to pick the right one for the job.
10:22 PM 
7,331
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andr8a@delbius well, makes me a little worry cuz i won't be able to function the next day.
10:12 PM 
1,350
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kevinweil: RT @al3x: I got a free Android phone a while back, but it has this weird bug where it's not an iPhone.
10:07 PM 
262
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delbius@andr8a There's nothing wrong with that.
10:01 PM 
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andr8a: i'm not sleepy or tired and it's 10pm.
9:59 PM 
1,349
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goldman: Thanks to the emoji keyboard on the iphone, I almost signed an email . instead of .j ... May change to the rocketship permanently.
9:57 PM 
539,222
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evan: Waiting for the Caltrain.
9:56 PM 
2,756
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mrtall: Watching a documentary on breakdancing... no, not "Breaking 2: Electric Boogaloo"
9:52 PM 
2,311
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ronpepsi: Working on fixing the family website.
9:48 PM 
1,669
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stop: via @al3x "I got a free Android phone a while back, but it has this weird bug where it's not an iPhone."
9:40 PM 
7,328
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jack: Landed in LA. And learning a lot.
9:40 PM 
605,650
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nk: The average programmer spends 3 years of her life in the bathroom, 6 months having sex, and 5 years running unit tests.
9:37 PM 
2,521
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cmagnuson: Just got back from work. Tired.
9:34 PM 
1,112
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al3x: I got a free Android phone a while back, but it has this weird bug where it's not an iPhone.
9:30 PM 
11,491
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jkalucki: Against my will, learning strangely good things about mySQL secondary indexes.
9:27 PM 
1,735
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dougw@kevinweil looking for flatish terrain for runs near the city when I'm sick of climbing. Any ideas?
8:56 PM 
2,957
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evan: Palo Alto. http://twitpic.com/63i5w
8:52 PM
twitpic
2,756
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jack: Eating pizza at the airport
8:33 PM 
605,497
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jack: Taking @VirginAmerica to LA
8:32 PM 
605,493
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rael: Weeks without Mondays are like, well, weeks with a 1st day.
8:24 PM 
6,618
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rael: Two terrabytes! Count, 'em, two! The future is here, it's just not all backed up yet.
8:22 PM 
6,618
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nk: Why I work here: "and I have no intention of initiating any sort of brain activity not expressly related to beaches and daiquiris"
8:17 PM 
2,519
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andr8a@robey - i would make a comment, but i won't. ;)
8:15 PM 
1,350
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robey: republicans cling to their memory of reagan like democrats used to cling to their memory of kennedy. (too bad reagan was no kennedy.)
8:13 PM 
1,953
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dougw@jillyface picture or it didn't happen.
7:56 PM 
2,959
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evan: Github shout-out (slide-out?).
7:54 PM 
2,756
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biz: At the arclight in los angeles -- love this theater! http://yfrog.com/13hc9j
7:44 PM
imageshack
619,186
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jillyface: At the movies with a, and as predicted, we are the only people here. Oh! Except for those people having sex in the front row. Seriously.
7:40 PM 
598
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robey@evan please. senior director architects.
7:36 PM 
1,953
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cmagnuson: There's a bike thief on Caltrain! - http://flic.kr/p/6rvj6Z
7:29 PM
flickr
1,111
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cmagnuson: My dyslexia gets really bad when I'm tired. It's rare when I can have a convo where I don't mix something up or slur words. Very embarassing
7:26 PM 
1,111
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evan@jessverr Unfortunately I was not being clever; bzr is a programming tool.
7:24 PM 
2,757
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ronpepsi: Serendipity: http://tinyurl.com/r8dcl7
7:23 PM
eurekalert
1,667
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abdur: Hanging with @ana for her b-day, @mutgoff did not hook us up... :(
7:23 PM 
8,691
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jessverr: My newest favorite abbrev: bzr (via @evan)
7:19 PM 
1,285
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evan: At the Cascading/Hadoop talk with @kevinweil. Unfortunately the pizza is all gone; too many hungry senior developers.
7:16 PM 
2,757
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anamitra: So Barca won today huh...I've been a little out of touch. Did Romario score?
7:06 PM 
1,237
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crystal: Eating trailmix, catching up on work. Watching Jason furminate Fu with truly Virgoean vigor.
6:54 PM 
13,931
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ronpepsi: Ops is on the other side of the wall from the mess hall, but it may as well be a world away. The weather is totally different there.
6:52 PM 
1,666
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sean@mutgoff No cell phone? That's a dealbreaker!
6:52 PM 
1,152
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mutgoff: At the apple store getting my iphone replaced. Get ready world for maggie + a phone that works.
6:46 PM 
11,832
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gregpass: Watching daughter in her first play: she is Ping in The Empty Pot!
6:40 PM 
2,046
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jessverr: Accident 101N at candlestick - only 1 lane open and backed up for miles
6:32 PM 
1,286
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al3x: I don't know if the browser is the new operating system, but I'm damn sure my browser is using way more memory than my operating system.
6:22 PM 
11,479
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meangrape: I think Izzie is trying to lock me in the toy room.
6:15 PM 
2,605
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dougw: Google Video's UX is really slick http://bit.ly/Xj3B5. Watch which content moves (and which doesn't) as you scroll.
6:11 PM
google
2,953
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ev: Here's a little trick about Twitter: You can choose exactly who you want to follow—and so can everyone else. #followanyone #unfollowanyone
6:07 PM 
772,283
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kevinweil@evan are you in the office?
5:54 PM 
259
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cmagnuson: GM Gas-Electric Hybrid Car Ad From... 1969! - http://bit.ly/C6vHh
5:46 PM
treehugger
1,107
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evan: Reported a bzr bug.
5:45 PM 
2,754
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ev: I'm out of the loop. Why is everyone giving @iamdiddy a hard time?
5:45 PM 
772,199
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bs: via @jack ""Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's wh..."
5:34 PM 
35,467
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jennadawn: Yo just cut out. What's up?
5:30 PM 
420
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mrtall: via @craigmod "Michio Hoshino, Japanese wildlife photographer's last photo - of the bear that mauled him to death http://is.gd/D8kG #hol..."
5:24 PM
tumblr
2,307
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jack: "Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters."
5:16 PM 
604,866
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bs@mzsanford link to the V16 video?
5:16 PM 
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rk: via @Aubs "Can't decide if the highlight of today was being yelled at by Gov. Schwarzenegger or the fact he wore combat boots w/the Stat..."
5:14 PM 
2,635
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al3x: Excited to see Windy & Carl at the Rickshaw Stop tonight. Droning, sleepy, dreamy music. http://bit.ly/dNe9J
5:13 PM
rickshawstop
11,478
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ded: i hate mosquito bites in the elbow pit :/
5:11 PM 
2,618
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mzsanford: getting ready for bouldering tonight by watching a V16 on YouTube. Humility is the order of the day.
5:09 PM 
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kevinweil@evan it's closer to Pig in function, really. Not as easy to work with, but I've heard it's more powerful in some ways too...
5:04 PM 
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evan: Debating going to the Hadoop/Cascading talk with Kevin. Cascading sounds vaguely like Hive.
4:54 PM 
2,753
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evan: Bzr.dev tree has taking literally 5 hours to checkout with bzr.
4:49 PM 
2,753
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jack: Gathering around the guacamole.
4:39 PM 
604,733
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ded: Enjoying a cup of the Monte Cristo http://bit.ly/go8Ce
4:29 PM
barefootcoffeeroasters
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kevinweil@jeffmaphone what's config.py? You mean compile.py? I've never known a file named config.py... I was in BVI during the p4 switch! :)
4:25 PM 
258
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robey: best final attack ever. he destroys the solar system to do a few hundred HP damage! http://bit.ly/KSreR
4:24 PM
youtube
1,952
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netik: playing with code and rocking out to German Hipster Electro (there's a mouthful.) Now playing: Grosstadtgeflüster / Lebenslauf
4:22 PM 
3,541
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delbius: Hearts blessed: somewhere around 15. It's one of those days.
4:21 PM 
2,736
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kevinweil@jeffmaphone where? checked in?
4:11 PM 
258
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dougw: OH: The easiest way I'm aware of right now to find out if the api is borked is to search for 'tweetdeck sucks"
4:07 PM 
2,947
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robey: congrats barcelona!
4:06 PM 
1,952
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cmagnuson: 4pm smoothie time!
3:55 PM 
1,106
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mhegge: Those near me that refuse to turn off their iPhone keyboard clicks shall be ridiculed via my twitter account, dipshit.
3:48 PM 
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dougwhttp://twitpic.com/62wc4 - The @twitterapi plant tells us when it's thirsty thanks to the folks at http://bit.ly/3tUmyD
3:35 PM
twitpic
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al3x: Another way to keep up with what's going on with the Twitter API: http://apiblog.twitter.com/. Official, but less formal.
3:12 PM
twitter
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evan: 22%!
3:07 PM 
2,751
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anamitra@dougw think it was monitter.com...I was thinking about totw
3:07 PM 
1,228
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dougw: Just got my first spam email promising beaucoup dollars on Twitter. Yay?
3:01 PM 
2,941
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kevinweil: Wow, all of code.google.com is 502ing for me right now.
3:00 PM 
258
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kevinweil: Dear @elizabeth: can I have a cat with wings for my birthday? http://bit.ly/113QdF
2:43 PM
msn
258
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kevinweil@dougw reminds me of gmail paper: http://bit.ly/10Fkco
2:41 PM
google
258
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kevinweil@dougw reminds me of http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html
2:41 PM
google
258
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dougw: Twitter on Paper http://bit.ly/xo0ln. It'd be cool if they hit scaling issues. (h/t @danthorne)
2:37 PM
sampottsinc
2,940
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ev: Just stopped by @tonyhawk's office. Watched him skate, talked Twitter, tried out his new video game (which is rad). What a treat!
2:34 PM 
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