The good folks at Twaggies bring tweets to life. Sample 2 below.

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Sportscasters say the most ridiculous things when they are offering ‘color commentary.’ At one point I thought it might be funny to draw cartoons based on those outlandish statements. Then, I remembered I can’t really draw. Also, I am super lazy.

The cat on a roomba was so yesterday.

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That reminds me, I read something awful on twitter the other day about a Roomba. I can’t find who said it, and I shouldn’t even share this, but their dog had an accident while they were at work. The Roomba came through and, well it was everywhere.

Look! It’s the surfing sheep video that was on every site last week except this one because I was working. You can say that’s a fake video, but Mildred is still cooler than you because she has more twitter and FB friends than you.

My boorish opinions on this commercial are below, but I really posted it because this is our local news WZZM.  (Don’t click that! The site is full of ads and hurts your eyes.) The local news is like listening to your mom talk about her Facebook friends. WZZM is constantly discussing their FB fan page and I would guess that 30-40% of their reporting is about things they read on Facebook. So this is what you are missing if you don’t live in West Michigan.

This commercial is really strange. In my opinion it seems like they are making fun of individuals who post nonsense to social networks. Yet, they’re insulting the very people that are the market for the phone they are trying to sell. I guess they are banking on the fact that freaks like us who post to social networks every 5 minutes must have a sense of humor.

Fair enough.

And so ends my shortest rant ever.

A fun, informative motion graphic piece about our home away from reality.

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The Average user watches 182 videos online a month? Oh man, no wonder why I am single. I am such an overachiever.

Christian VanVuuren has been diagnosed with a serious form of TB and has been hospitalized since January 18th. Obviously you can see from the name of his video that he’s in full quarantine, stuck in a single room without a bit of yellow wallpaper to peel. I’ve had days where I’d be crazy enough to put something like this together, you guys are lucky I don’t have a camera. Anyway, I thought I’d share his video with you because he has a kick ass rap name, Fully Sick Rapper. Send him some love on his newly created twitter account.

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tone_def posted this link, Unlink Your Feeds – A Manifesto a couple of days ago. I thought I would share it with you all. Tim Maly makes some good points and that first page is a quick read, so don’t be scared to click the link. One of the things he doesn’t mention in his post is that some people are reading their social networks in one application. So, your feed literally does look like duplicates if someone is following you on 2 networks.

Personally, I felt strange about mixing audiences by linking Twitter to Facebook. Honestly, Facebook is mostly full of dudes that were in my college courses six years ago. On the other hand, my Twitter followers are close friends, most of who I have hung out with. (Luckily, no one reads the blog or I’d probably pay for this observation on FB.)  The people on FB could probably care less I was in town or in a bad mood. Now, my tweeps may be concerned as they may want to get lunch or keep clear of me.

Prior to FB‘s redesign that put the news feed/status updates as the focus, the two social networks were very different creatures. To some extent they still are with FB being more content rich. (Though, I would call it clutter.) Thus, Maly’s point is “using each service for what it is.” For example, while I’d encourage you to spend time with your family face to face, FB does allow you to share photos and videos with the family. (Easily done with links on Twitter too.) Twitter is much more real-time focused, short and sweet with no pictures, videos, marketplaces or games to clutter up the communication. Maybe you want to jab at a friend because your college team is beating their college at the moment. Rather than calling them, you tweet it at them.

Finally, a funny story about this linking feeds concept- Not too long ago I decided to construct a Facebook Fan Page for this website. Mainly, I was feeling like an adbot or something on FB because I hardly used my account except to share my website posts (through an RSS feed, oops!). I continued to share my links to blog posts on Twitter, while also posting the links to the FB fan page. Someone (I won’t name names), commented about the duplicate posts on my Twitter account and on the FB fan page which showed up in their FB news feed. Then, that person stopped being a fan on FB. I don’t know why he/she didn’t notice that my personal FB and Twitter statuses were posting links prior to the creation of the fan page.

Anyway, I completely understood the reason I lost a fan. I would probably do the same. However, I did find it hilarious that this person uses a Twitter app to feed their status into FB.

Anyway, check out the Manifesto, he’s got examples and even a form letter to send someone.

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