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The Twitter Hall of Shame: 50 Historic Tweets

insidecrm.com — Collection of angry, awkward and funny Twitter messages. Unfollow Me: Leo Laporte called for a boycott of Kevin Rose but later regretted it, as he was "drunk and out of control."

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  • k00pa, on 06/19/2008, -11/+26This was awesome! Somebody get fired by twitter usage... :(
    • revrev, on 06/20/2008, -2/+7that's funny. i have a job because of twitter usage
  • psogle, on 06/19/2008, -10/+23Kevin Rose got dropped by a drunk and out of control dude...you tell me the beginning of the story
    • OJdidntdoIT, on 06/20/2008, -10/+3Your mouth, Kevin Rose Dick.....
    • saigumi, on 06/20/2008, -2/+13Wow.. even valleywag gets it wrong.

      If you listen to the TWiT podcast (This Week in Tech), Leo was talking about trying to catch up to Kevin in some Twitter contest thing and joked that people should follow him and unfollow Kevin. He appologized the next week because people were taking him too seriously and joked that he was "drunk and out of control". Kevin now has more followers again.
      • fritzbrown, on 06/20/2008, -1/+5Leo was not joking, he was obsessed with being ahead of Rose...I think he's finally over it
      • OJdidntdoIT, on 06/20/2008, -3/+3You sir need a life.
    • jackusage, on 06/23/2008, -0/+1I know Leo was upset at one point, because even though Kevin was one of the founding fathers of TWiT he was "too busy" to be on the podcast (or netcast).
  • PixelBella, on 06/19/2008, -4/+17"Twitter Suicide? Twitter friends sort of come to his rescue..." Related link shows guy ended up sleeping in his car on the bridge. Amazing stuff.

    Also, this article is a good reminder to "guard" your identity. Recall that someone signed up as Seth Godin and had thousands of followers, but it wasn't him.
    • Sanitarium, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1Ah yes, Nick Starr.

      Here's the actual blog from the guy:
      http://twitter.com/NickStarr/statuses/181402252

      He lived in his car for years until finally moving to San Fran and openly came out as gay.

      All is very well documented on the Keith and The Girl podcast. Show 374 gives a brief history of him and an interview with him.
  • Bukowsky, on 06/20/2008, -5/+16#18 is great! Guy knows he's getting laid off, so he twitters the experience through-out the day.
    • ShaggyRogers, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1"Dammit. I was hoping to hook up the free Flickr Pro account before I got canned. Major fail."
  • marxlennon, on 06/20/2008, -7/+5i like #15...hahahah
  • ifnotme, on 06/20/2008, -6/+59Twitter telling the world what you should keep to yourself... 160 Characters at a time.
    • inputname, on 06/20/2008, -3/+22Shame it's only 140 characters.
    • Bananruthy, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Hah.
    • jeffhansen, on 06/20/2008, -2/+4How about 1 Character and limit it to alpha. Just as useful.

      FU*KING TWITTER SUCKS
  • jenny867, on 06/20/2008, -2/+7twitters constant downtime should be #1 here.
    rediculous
  • ELLIS1128, on 06/20/2008, -3/+54The other 50 couldn't be posted because twitter was down when they were sent
  • HenvY, on 06/20/2008, -11/+200Wow, none of these were even remotely interesting.
    Twitter sucks.
    • merreborn, on 06/20/2008, -1/+34Seriously.

      "This Twitter user admitted to watching "Showgirls.""?

      HOLY MOTHER OF GOD SOMEONE GET CNN ON THE PHONE, THIS IS THE STORY OF THE CENTURY.
    • brett1337, on 06/20/2008, -0/+15the article sucked too. a link to every story i mean cmon way too much work
    • Tyrghast, on 06/20/2008, -0/+9There is nothing historic about twitter. It's myspace, but with more narcissism.
  • chetanthaker, on 06/20/2008, -10/+4Drunk Twittering. Thats dope !! Next day you wake up in prison with the inmate is himself a twitter addict. Heaven !
    • why3th, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1...What?
    • MtheoryX, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1You can't be addicted to twitter, man! You ever suck dick for twitter? I didn't think so.
  • NYCEST124, on 06/20/2008, -9/+3I'm gonna twitter about this article...
  • Jasper710, on 06/20/2008, -10/+52i hate twitter so much
  • Mistaxe, on 06/20/2008, -3/+114Wow, this wasn't "historic" at all.

    What a waste of time.
  • galvo, on 06/20/2008, -5/+102Worst. Digg. Ever.
  • jspegele, on 06/20/2008, -5/+139buried because you have to open a new page to view each of the 50 twitters
    • endlessoul, on 06/20/2008, -0/+7If you're lucky. The damn writer obfuscated the links to the actual twitters, so here I am looking at another article about TwitterFone.

      WTF? If it's about tweets that you want people to see, then Cut 'n Paste, fool.
  • CYG101, on 06/20/2008, -7/+31I don't understand Twitter :S
    • ukblacknight, on 06/20/2008, -0/+14My friend was trying to get me to sign up for it. I signed up.. but it doesn't actually do anything. You write short messages, like a mini blog I suppose. I really don't see the point in it - it's not 'fun', it's not 'interesting'. If something exciting happened in my day, I'd probably mention it to my mates when I see them or when I'm on MSN. If you've got a facebook profile, it's basically the same as your status updates.
      • akilleen, on 06/20/2008, -2/+1Seems like if you were to be having a bad day/had a few too many drinks it may end up being a pretty bad thing.
    • RudeTurnip, on 06/20/2008, -1/+6It makes it easier to stalk Web 2.0 celebrities. Hey kids, prove me wrong!
      • Goblin, on 06/20/2008, -1/+1Oh god, it's all true.

        JasonCalacanis / Jason Calacanis
        Veronica
        majornelson / Major Nelson (Larry)
        twadget / Twadget
        acedtect / Tom Merritt
        Twitterrific
        kevinrose / Kevin Rose
        hotdogsladies / Merlin Mann
        WilHarris / Wil Harris
        johnfoster
        wilw / Wil Wheaton
        macrumors / MacRumorsLive
        Ihnatko / Andy Ihnatko
        jonathancoulton / Jonathan Coulton
        wilshipley / Wil Shipley
        litheon / James
        leolaporte / Leo Laporte
        bdurbin / Ben Durbin
        mollywood / Molly Wood
        Lons / Lon Harris
      • RevoFM, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1Better than Web 1.0 Stalking!
    • ralphthemagi, on 06/20/2008, -4/+1It's a multicast messenger with a text message gateway.

      They've been marketing it as some kind of "micro-blogging" service, but that's not really how people are using it. If your friends are signed up, you can think of updating to Twitter as the equivalent of, "Send to all." And while some phones do allow you to send text messages to multiple recipients, there's clearly a limit to how many, and it's not easy to manage multiple conversations. With Twitter, it is.
  • OJdidntdoIT, on 06/20/2008, -7/+21Most people who use twitter are usually at home on the ***** computer using myspace or facebook pretending to be popular.

  • mwalker05, on 06/20/2008, -2/+40so i have to click on all 50 of them to see the actual twitter message? what a genius way to get more advertising!
    • Linake, on 06/20/2008, -0/+6In more than half of them you never really get to see the actual Tweets. . . it just brings you to another article on another site.
  • sheerz, on 06/20/2008, -3/+32buried for 'twittesphere'
    • rootfiend, on 06/20/2008, -0/+6And I thought blogosphere was lame.
  • dafragsta, on 06/20/2008, -12/+7Dugg for Alex Payne, Twitter Developer:

    "Can I take my headphones off for ONE SECOND around here without hearing the phrase 'smoking a bowl?'"
  • whiterice0, on 06/20/2008, -8/+2This is like a Burger King commerical. McDonalds sucks, eat our food instead.
  • tobiasproject, on 06/20/2008, -6/+37Twitter.. Like anyone in the world cares about your daily life:

    "Oh boy, this milk has gone bad in my fridge"

    "Rushing home to take a huge dump.. shouldn't have had Taco Bell again.... oohh"
    • Nitesmoke, on 06/20/2008, -1/+16My ex-gf was bad about ***** like that: "Me and my boo are going to walmart! BBL" or "Just got back from McDonald's, I love fries!" It really used to piss me off. I tried to explain to her that no one cared about our day-to-day boring lives, if something exciting happened, spread the word, but no one cares that "I'm watching GoldenGirls while my boo plays TF2!!"
      /dumped for calling me "boo"
  • SuperMoses, on 06/20/2008, -2/+7Have they fixed the IM server yet? And this is the worst digg ever.
  • burstaneurysm, on 06/20/2008, -4/+20Overall, that's a pretty annoying website.
    Why not just screenshot and post it all in the same place?
    The cracked.com internet model needs to end.
  • uberchaoslord, on 06/20/2008, -2/+42buried for 50 pages of blogspam
  • Metellus, on 06/20/2008, -2/+52does this page SERIOUSLY link to 50 different tweets instead of showing them?
  • SuperMoses, on 06/20/2008, -8/+2Have they fixed the IM server yet? And this is the worst digg ever.

    http://twitter.com/pauljacobson/statuses/431753752

    Oh boy, there faces must have been red!

    *Gets gun and shoots myself*
  • PALMARY, on 06/20/2008, -7/+1May all "CAPITALISTS" rejoice in the communism offered all of us by the sun, where until you can seize it as "PRIVATE PROPERTY", or commodify its warmth and light, even the least among us will continue to share it with equal right and benefit.
    Once we commence to colonize the moon, borders will be carved, and fighting will commence as we introduce private property there, with commodification and unequal apportionment of property under the ruling currency.
  • kurkpeterman, on 06/20/2008, -4/+21Twitter sucks. So do these inane tweets (such a stupid name).
  • homercles337, on 06/20/2008, -3/+31What a stupid ***** digg. Buried.
  • walnutcrunch, on 06/20/2008, -3/+11This is such an insy list. Oooooooo, someone got mad on twitter when criticized about some nothing interview. That's ca-razy.

    It's like one of those lists from a niche video game. $nip4kill4 wins the Crowbar award for being a Scout taking out HW with a crowbar in TFC. So not interesting unless you're best buds with $nip4kill4 and play TFC.

  • Tirial, on 06/20/2008, -6/+1Buried for the non direct link to penny arcade's greatest twitter ever.
  • Ebeach, on 06/20/2008, -1/+13Cant get into the twitter thing. Dont get it. I subscribe to Brigitte Dale on youtube, http://youtube.com/user/daisytree1 ... very funny and sarcastic v. blogger. Anyway, she sums up my thoughts on twitter; "I've come close to tweeting a few times, stuff like 'I'm eating the best donut ever!' Then I think about it and realize I dont think people care that I'm eating the best donut ever."
    • fritzbrown, on 06/20/2008, -5/+2You're right...You *don't* get it
  • melonhedd, on 06/20/2008, -3/+17Anyone who uses Twitter is in the Hall of Shame.
  • DiggCrusher, on 06/20/2008, -3/+14Tweet = Worst name ever given

    "I'll tweet you all later."
    "I can't believe what they said in that tweet!"

    /vomit
  • Doomsan, on 06/20/2008, -1/+10I can't think why i would want to let people know EVERYTHING that i do.
    • parax, on 06/20/2008, -1/+4It's the essence of Web 2.0 and social networking, new ways to tell people you're drunk, and just how drunk you are. Weird that none of the "looking towards the future" shows ever mention how important kids find announcing the status of their drunkenness.

      When we have star trek comm badges, that will pretty much be the only thing they're used for, to tell other people with comm badges that you're drunk.
    • clharlem149, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1who said you had to use twitter to let people know everything that you do. just say the interesting stuff. say you're going to bed so people don't call you. say you're planning to go see a movie to see if you can get a group together. say you're going to the local diner to see if anyone wants to join you for breakfast. say you're in your common room (college student talking) studying for x subject to see if you can find a study buddy. people say twitter sucks because other people don't know how to use it properly.

      how about you don't bother with what the people you're not following are writing and make the site meaningful yourself? it's so low-maintenance anyway, so why not?

      what sucks is if your friends don't use it. then it becomes a bit useless.
    • RevoFM, on 06/21/2008, -0/+3Hey guys, about to vigorously masturbate in second here, hold on...
  • ZoomBoy, on 06/20/2008, -2/+11What the ***** is twitter?!
    • Goblin, on 06/20/2008, -1/+1Well, first of all, welcome to The Internet
  • goat2, on 06/20/2008, -7/+10***** faggotry
  • FredFredrickson, on 06/20/2008, -4/+34Twitter is such a stupid ***** invention.
  • cheeseplease, on 06/20/2008, -1/+16"I just read one of the most boring articles ever. Going to take a dump now."
  • akilleen, on 06/20/2008, -1/+7Twitter is a stupid name. I am going to talk about that in my blog and podcast.
  • alpha88, on 06/20/2008, -1/+16You mean I'm actually supposed to click on all 50 of those links? ***** that. Why isn't it a simple list?
  • penguinpc, on 06/20/2008, -2/+7I'm starting to think that TWiT stands for "This Week in Twitter," they talk about it so damn much.
  • PosedMagnet, on 06/20/2008, -4/+1Re: #24

    Unless you're gonna post what she said, ***** off. I don't care that someone posted private material. I want to SEE the private material.
  • Zippo, on 06/20/2008, -3/+8Personally, I just change the status on my Facebook :P
    • jdandrea, on 06/20/2008, -5/+2Aye, I change my Facebook status as well.

      Via Twitter. :)
  • davidrools, on 06/20/2008, -1/+12Tweets? So would the verb form be to tweet? And would that make the past tense...*****? :P
  • chris3435, on 06/20/2008, -2/+9I a currently on digg.
  • jdandrea, on 06/20/2008, -3/+2Umm ... exactly how #20 (the marriage proposal) made it to a list entitled "Twitter Hall of _Shame_" escapes me.
  • wontstoptalking, on 06/20/2008, -5/+5It's missing MrBabyMan's infamous "if you guys don't like me, I'll leave" Tweet. Good thing we got him back to his senses.
  • Nosferotu, on 06/20/2008, -0/+9Correct me if I'm wrong, but twitter is just like status on facebook, only like... with nothing else but that?

    I've NEVER thought it seemed like a good idea. Seems really, really stupid to me.
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