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Re: I'm done with Twitter

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Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> wrote:
> Cydrome Leader <presence@mungepanix.com> wrote:
> 
>> sent and received posts from a website over text messaging?
> 
>> Not trolling here either- that twitter shit has never made a lick of sense 
>> to me at all, ever.
> 
> 
> I think (but not sure), when they started, it was the only way to send an
> sms message to multiple people. But I think (again not sure) it only worked
> if there was a mention.
> 
> So like a tweet like this:
> 
> AHK is a pud puller. #mamasboy
> 
> It would only show up on my timeline, or whatever they call it, if you were
> following me on the website or application.
> 
> If the message was sent like this:
> 
> AHK is a pud puller. @cydrome @geoff @anderson #mamasboy
> 
> The 3 of you would get it as an sms, again if you were following me and
> permitted twitter to send it as sms. Remember when they started, most people
> didn't have unlimited messaging.

It looked like this twiter shit was founded in 2006. I'm a late phone 
adopter and I know for a fact even an old phone from then could do group 
texting with no problem and that unlimited (or just a huge number of them) 
wasn't expensive or hard to get. If twiter was from 1996, some of this 
might make sense. Even my 1997 phone could receive text messages. You 
could not reply, and could not see where they came from, but they did show 
up, many years after I got the phone.

Not trying to call you a liar, but like how a TIF district works, it just 
never makes sense.

> By the way, I'm too lazy to stick this tidbit as a follow up to whatever
> thread there was but a recent discussion about the phones and lack of it
> having an FM radio, even though I thought it was there in the gps/wifi chip,
> just not enabled, this article popped up (on twitter, heh) about that very
> subject.
> 
> http://www.wired.com/2016/07/phones-fm-chips-radio-smartphone
> 
> If you are too lazy to click, it appears from that article that any phone
> (including iPhones) that support LTE has an FM radio in it, but again, it's
> just not enabled. The main reason appears to be that it might undercut the
> music pay services.

I was waiting for some magic updae to allow FM radio on the galaxy s5, but 
it never seeme to happen. Can't say that I really miss the radio, unless 
it's the dusties AM station.

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I'm done with Twitter Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-07-04 12:11 -0700
  Re: I'm done with Twitter smr <me@shawnritchie.com> - 2016-07-04 19:16 -0500
    Re: I'm done with Twitter Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-07-05 15:17 +0000
    Re: I'm done with Twitter Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-07-05 11:17 -0700
      Re: I'm done with Twitter smr <me@shawnritchie.com> - 2016-07-05 20:53 -0500
        Re: I'm done with Twitter Michele <eatshitanddie@spammers.com> - 2016-07-05 22:34 -0500
          Re: I'm done with Twitter Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> - 2016-07-06 15:46 +0000
            Re: I'm done with Twitter Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-07-06 09:35 -0700
        Re: I'm done with Twitter Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-07-06 09:38 -0700
          Re: I'm done with Twitter smr <me@shawnritchie.com> - 2016-07-06 19:23 -0500
            Re: I'm done with Twitter Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-07-06 22:11 -0700
              Re: I'm done with Twitter Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> - 2016-07-07 15:28 +0000
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-07-07 12:05 -0700
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-07-08 15:38 +0000
                Re: I'm done with Twitter barbie gee <booger@nosespam.com> - 2016-07-08 20:36 -0500
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> - 2016-07-09 02:19 +0000
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2016-07-09 11:35 +0000
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-07-09 18:50 -0700
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-07-10 04:36 +0000
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2016-07-10 11:20 +0000
                Re: I'm done with Twitter core <core@pt40.net> - 2016-07-10 11:11 -0500
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> - 2016-07-11 00:55 +0000
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-07-11 19:05 +0000
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> - 2016-07-12 14:31 +0000

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