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What are the people of Twitter twittering about?


8/27/09; 11:59:02 PM Pacific
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rael: Hmm, turns out Pleasanton is not Pleasant Hill. SF to Pleasant Hill in 2 hours — woo!
11:58 PM 
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goldman: Via @yoak "The plural of anecdote is not "data.""
11:52 PM 
1,048,689
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dougw: Laughing #whitepeopledancing
11:42 PM 
4,976
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rael: Call me crazy but I love him. Rescued on the beach. Here he is... Clamper the sea scallop! http://twitvid.com/B63C7 (via @NeilDiamond)
11:40 PM
twitvid
7,523
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stevej: CS Lewis Jr: http://bit.ly/14VWQn It's his America, we just live in it. (warning: cuss words)
11:34 PM
bit
5,518
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stevej: We also agreed that it's been a pretty great 3 years.
11:30 PM 
5,516
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stevej: At last night's anniversary dinner, @stacy and I had a long talk on how we can apply sabermetrics to football. we have hypotheses, people!
11:28 PM 
5,516
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jessverr: OH: "It must be really hard to increase your market share in toothpaste."
11:15 PM 
2,893
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jillyface: Ahhhhhhhhh! Nightmares for a year @delbius. http://mypict.me/ssc7
11:08 PM
mypict
1,563
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mutgoff: My arms hurt so bad I feel like a handicap t-Rex
11:03 PM 
12,322
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jessverr: Looking for housing in the cheetah - in which neighborhood should I live?
11:00 PM 
2,894
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rael: I am here again.
10:55 PM 
7,523
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jillyface: near death experience when our party of 7 exceeded the limit in @delbius + @audomatic's elevator. 4 real
10:38 PM 
1,563
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jessverr: My two guy housemates are plotting to launch a cooking show on youtube and titling it "The Big Fella and Indiglo Girl"
10:21 PM 
2,893
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ded: Americas got Talent broke my TV
10:20 PM 
5,630
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delbius: "On the third day, the vampire will come and change us over."
10:17 PM 
5,579
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ronpepsi: OAK 2 LAA 0 Nice. Just win the rest of them, Athletics.
10:08 PM 
2,014
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ded: David Hasselhoff makes no sense.
10:02 PM 
5,631
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Magnuson: It's 10 pm and I just learned/remembered that today is my room mate's birthday. I'm an idiot.
9:58 PM 
1,359
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stevej@jack yeah, let's do it. what park is there near your place?
9:56 PM 
5,518
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kevinthau@jack @stevej, I want in on that action. A game of Over the Line in the park?
9:55 PM 
4,319
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dougw: My house is on @foursquare. We have arrived.
9:51 PM 
4,979
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jack@stevej Let's throw the ball around sometime.
9:39 PM 
1,141,119
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stevej@jack when are you going to practice throwing? My parents sent my mitt down to me recently. (I played outfield in high school)
9:37 PM 
5,518
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biz: For some reason the most "relevant" photo of me on Flickr is a pic of my toochis taken two years ago in Rotterdam http://bit.ly/DXy9A
9:34 PM
flickr
1,177,642
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ded: I love milk
9:14 PM 
5,630
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pankaj: Can't say no to gelato! http://yfrog.com/3ttbbj
9:07 PM
yfrog
1,656
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jessverr: Caught off guard by a song on the radio.
8:57 PM 
2,891
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netik: While cleaning my camera sensor, found an eyelash. So that's what that odd shape was on half my shots. now to shoot the circus.
8:46 PM 
4,306
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ronpepsi: OK, I'm an idiot. Urology is not a scientific version of narcissism.
8:41 PM 
2,013
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crystal: Wondering what my weight in kilograms divided by my height in meters squared is.
8:18 PM 
14,302
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delbius: Dinner with @pansytron, @spcedog, @audomatic, @cascadem, @jillyface, and Dave-the-non-Twitter-user. Fried chicken is in my future.
8:18 PM 
5,576
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stop: The nights prior to trash/recycling day, those are the times I regret that our kitchen is on the top (3rd) floor.
8:13 PM 
9,539
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evan: Feel awful again. No burger.
8:10 PM 
3,517
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keerthi: a surprisingly good list of 20 movies from quentin tarantino: http://bit.ly/mYKev
8:09 PM
youtube
771
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abdur: My AT&T service seems to get worse every day...
8:02 PM 
9,093
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mutgoff: Yumm! Emmy's.
7:43 PM 
12,322
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al3x: So @foursquare and @gowalla need to either fight to the death or make a baby together. I feel silly checking into both.
7:41 PM 
13,625
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evan: Really want a burger and fries.
7:41 PM 
3,517
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robey: "500 days of summer"
7:27 PM 
2,325
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ej: it feels like there's a little @evan gremlin living in my throat, trying to upgrade my tonsil gems
6:51 PM 
2,805
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rael: I'm getting truly bloody sick of waiting for my iPhone 3G to respond to..., well, anything.
6:49 PM 
7,525
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jessverr: I am behind on email - apologies if I owe you a response.
6:41 PM 
2,888
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rk: Another day, another apocalypse averted.
6:36 PM 
3,775
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anamitra: Everything on a giant screen is better, gianter the screen the better.
6:33 PM 
2,431
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jessverr: I just invited myself on @kevinthau's run. His response: "Wait, you can't come on my date night jog!" #nevermind
6:26 PM 
2,888
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netik: Ok sorry to Pester you - am going to grab a drink, call me whenever your ready
6:21 PM 
4,306
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noradio: Addedum with attribution renders aforementioned life advise from @gregpass all the more poignant http://twitpic.com/fikpz
6:11 PM
twitpic
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mzsanford: the @twoffice is like a sauna … only perhaps hotter. My glasses are fogging up and patience has evaporated.
6:05 PM 
2,641
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noradio: Poignant life advice from @gregpass http://twitpic.com/fijdx
6:02 PM
twitpic
2,484
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crystal: Celebrating backlog reduction with a nice, cold, glass of... water.
5:53 PM 
14,303
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ronpepsi: I will be in the office tomorrow after all since the family will be in Hanford. Maybe I will get sign-off on an expense report for US48.
5:47 PM 
2,013
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robey: california tax rates will rise this year because we experienced deflation last year: http://bit.ly/EAzc3
5:43 PM
sfgate
2,326
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vl: EPIC. http://bit.ly/VnwS3
5:39 PM
youtube
5,338
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delbius: "I'm embarrassed for his FACE. ...ok, I don't know what that even means."
5:36 PM 
5,574
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jack: The @CityBeerStore in SF is now on Twitter!
5:34 PM 
1,140,124
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Magnuson: My new omega-3 pills taste like lemon instead of fish. Big improvement.
5:25 PM 
1,356
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ronpepsi: Introduced to pastor Needham of the Hanford O.P.C. today, a man of mildly serious dememanor who stressed the importance of gratitude to me.
5:23 PM 
2,012
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al3x: If I had a dollar for every time someone has applied the word "hacking" to an utterly talentless activity, I would not be at all well-liked.
5:19 PM 
13,624
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dougw: I am instant friends with (and may walk on fire for) anyone that will swap a book title with me. Looking forward to @sbroback's choice.
4:54 PM 
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evan: Watson, come here, I need you.
4:45 PM 
3,518
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evan: Various fixes for tmtm's mysql-ruby driver: http://github.com/fauna/mysql-ruby
4:40 PM
github
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keerthi: Test Tweet!
4:28 PM 
770
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stop: Sad and phenomenal at the same time - http://twitter.com/kennedynews - RIP Senator Kennedy.
4:21 PM
twitter
9,540
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jennadawn: Sweet @carrotmob event right down the street from work. It's so easy to do good these days...http://is.gd/2CK4D
4:18 PM
carrotmob
1,605
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jillyface: Just wrote out the FINAL payoff check for my car loan. Refreshing.
3:59 PM 
1,564
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mutgoff@goldman Thanks!!! I've just heard you aren't supposed to get hair cuts before big events. But I guess this worked out!! #hotness
3:58 PM 
12,319
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caroline: Via @kennedynews "Please RT - follow @kennedynews for official information about memorial and funeral activities for Senator Kennedy. #t..."
3:45 PM 
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meangrape: OH: "Verify checksum doesn't do anything, right?"
3:45 PM 
3,344
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al3x: Spotify is really nice. It's a shame I have to keep, uh, teleporting to the UK to use it, let's say. Er. Yes.
3:40 PM 
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delbius: Avril Lavigne's song "Girlfriend" is stalking me. It's a mixture of hilarity-inducing and perplexing.
3:34 PM 
5,570
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goldman: Via @dickc "I think I'm on hold with Comcast but I might also be starring in a very large staged reading of the movie Brazil."
3:32 PM 
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evan: The short int fits inside the regular int! The regular int fits inside the big int!
3:33 PM 
3,518
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goldman@mutgoff I was just about to say I liked it.
3:32 PM 
1,046,819
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ej: woke up to find one of my 3gs earbuds submerged in a glass of water. dried it out in the sun all day and it's working fine.
2:52 PM 
2,806
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vl: CEOs, stars, fund managers, athletes: the moment they start to suck, they’re out (P. Graham). Can’t say the same about designers.
2:45 PM 
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jillyface@mutgoff what what??!?!? no! I'm sure it's great.
2:40 PM 
1,564
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mutgoff: Great! Just got a drastic and terrible haircut before my sister's wedding!
2:31 PM 
12,319
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Magnuson: Ordered an al pastor burrito for lunch. I have no idea what I'm eating but it's definitely not al pastor
2:21 PM 
1,355
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nk: Expressing certain essential social interchange functions.
2:17 PM 
3,230
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evan: Locked out of the dashboard; sigh.
2:16 PM 
3,518
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jennadawn: One way to distinguish a transitory technology from an essential technology...http://bit.ly/Ptnw3
2:09 PM
theatlantic
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ded: where is @stop?
2:00 PM 
5,627
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al3x: Crashcorp (@joestump and @mg) are doing some hella cool shit.
1:59 PM 
13,612
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al3x: Agreed to gather requirements to outline an exploratory document to inform a project plan which will result in tickets. WE ARE MEN OF ACTION
1:53 PM 
13,612
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mhegge: Post lunch nap http://twitpic.com/fhfp0
1:37 PM
twitpic
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bs: Lunch and Kindle reading. { http://xkcd.com/625/ }
1:34 PM
xkcd
34,126
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kevinweil: Proud to say I inspired @rael to use his first your mom joke.
1:31 PM 
1,372
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al3x: "Your reign will be hollow." - @kevinweil, regarding @rael's plot to claim @foursquare mayorship of the Twoffice.
1:31 PM 
13,613
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jack: RT @WebsterU_Biz: Card Fans:Twitter co-founder @jack throws out 1st pitch @ Cards/Cubs game 9/18 after @WebsterU address http://bit.ly/RAsox
1:03 PM
webster
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jessverr: "We look for humor beacause it's a secret delivery mechanism for truth." -@biz on our company culture
1:01 PM 
2,883
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dougw: Lucky lunch? http://twitpic.com/fha34
12:58 PM
twitpic
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kevinweil: tweeting from @mozillaubiquity, peering over my computer at @noradio.
12:33 PM 
1,372
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meangrape: Inbox 800. Admit it, you're jealous.
12:20 PM 
3,345
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netik: Amazing stuff: http://sanfrancisco.crimespotting.org and http://oakland.crimespotting.org
12:13 PM
crimespotting
4,305
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jillyface: I think someone slipped me cat nip in my oatmeal. Fortunately @tyip has a great sense of humor and is dealing with me.
12:10 PM 
1,564
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jillyface: I love @NARAL's new avatar: "TRUST WOMEN". Yes. Trust us.
12:06 PM 
1,564
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goldman: Via @lane "Following the @meat_tree from True Blood."
12:04 PM 
1,045,784
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jack: Oops. The game is the 18th. Friday night. Be there.
11:56 AM 
1,138,428
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stevej: Via @jack "I have the honor of throwing out the 1st pitch for the 9/17 STL Cardinals v Chicago Cubs game! Let's fill the stadium."
11:55 AM 
5,525
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