Blogger Recycles Own Twitter Posts And Tries To Pass It Off As Original Blog Content
Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
By Darryl Mason
So Twitter has been an interesting experience in the past few months. I find it fascinating how quickly and easily it became a part of the daily ritual of checking e-mails, news sites, blogs.
Now that I follow a few dozen journalists, and news sites, I find I go to Twitter first to get the news I missed while sleeping or working. I open it up and find dozens of 140 character posts that summarise the new stories the journalists have worked or, or have come across as a part of their gig, or their interests, or hobbies. I don’t just follow journalists, but news and current affairs is one of my main interests, so I follow those who specialise in those subjects. As you can do, too, with just about any subject or interest or hobby.
Say, for instance, you start making your own chocolates. On Twitter, you can already find hundreds of people who professionally and hobby make chocolates and want to share their skills and knowledge and thoughts and observations with others as interested in the subject as they are. You can easily ask people who are into what you’re into questions through Twitter, and you can share what you’ve learned and what you’ve found elsewhere online with the people who decide to follow you, to see what you have to say, to see what you learn as you begin to study the science of chocolate making.
That’s a simple example of what Twitter can be used for. It’s very much still early days for this digital global mind.
I’ll get around to posting a more detailed story soon on how to get into Twitter and make the most of it, for those of you who aren’t already utilising this revolutionary tool of communication and information exchange.
But for those who aren’t following me on Twitter here : @DarrylMason, I’ll occasionally post on Your New Reality some of the messages and links I’ve put up on Twitter, a lot of stuff that doesn’t find its way onto this blog and that I don’t save elsewhere.
So here’s a bunch of my Twitter posts from October, so far :
They got to the Mayans! : 2012 Not The End Of The World, Mayans Insist http://tinyurl.com/yh78fgg - I’m still building my rocket regardless
Irony megasplash : Christian intelligent designist calls science a “superstition”. Also, God is fucking angry - http://tinyurl.com/yhcetdq
When Muslims buy a church that Christians no longer attend and convert it into a mosque, they’re not “taking over our town!” Just saying.
Did u know there are images of Australia on the Voyager spacecraft now leaving our solar system? http://tinyurl.com/ygmxfwq Very cool.
The only time it’s ever wrong to order a pizza is during a funeral. Well, take delivery of the pizza anyway.
Next time you’re feeling like a bit of a loser, remember (Australian businessman) James Packer is losing $8000 a minute due to bad decisions
Truck from US nuclear missile base crashes after driver distracted by “large insect” inside the cabin - http://tinyurl.com/yfjcxo9
Okay, so we got a Nobel Peace Prize for a president in two wars, Marge Simpson in Playboy, the Moon bombed. Just another Saturday….
The Horror. Achy Breaky Heart on TV, partner says, “This isn’t so bad, compared to some of the shit around now.”
Anyone know if it’s myth or truth that Alfred Nobel banned awarding a prize in mathematics because a mathematician stole his girlfriend?
Bill Murray was busted in 1970 smuggling nine pounds of cannabis through O’Hare airport, according to CBS News - http://tinyurl.com/ylaqahr
Murdoch conservative extremist Andrew Bolt : The Taliban Are Right - http://tinyurl.com/ylayukt
Fantastic. According to Rupert Murdoch speech in China, bloggers are “content kleptomaniacs”
OK, worked it out - Hitler survived WW2, escaped on UFO to Nazi Moon base, Osama Bin Laden fled there too, US bombs Nazi/Al Qaeda Moon base. Clear?
All jokes about fake Moon bombings aside, that NASA footage today was absolute shit
How do we know they haven’t faked the Moon bombing? //Headline : Moon bomb rocket punches out Moon Bombing conspiracy theorist.
The Craz-E Burger - it’s a fatacular bacon cheeseburger, with a glazed donut instd of a bun. American, of course http://tinyurl.com/y8tdtwx
40 years ago, we landed on the Moon. Today, we bomb it. http://tinyurl.com/yljrstj Expect immediate retaliatory strikes from Lunar Base 11.
Washington Post Launches American Idol-ish Competition To Find ‘America’s Next Great Pundit’ ($200 a column). http://tinyurl.com/yzyt6ru
Father let 19yo son grow 35 dope plants inside house because it was the only thing “he showed an interest in” - http://tinyurl.com/ybj6lac
@whitehouse follows (British prime minister) Gordon Brown, but not (Australian prime minister) Kevin Rudd on Twitter. If I worked for a tabloid, I could turn that fact into a 400 word page 3 story
So the question seems to be : which election was more fraudulent? Iran’s or Afghanistan’s?
The story of the Sunflower Boy will make you cry - http://tinyurl.com/ybnqs2l - you have been warned.
These are the facts : “the IAEA reiterates that it has no concrete proof that there is or has been a nuclear weapon programme in Iran.”
Gordon Brown attempts Sky News int. storm out, walks into door. Downing Street No 2 calls Murdoch execs “bunch of cunts” -http://tinyurl.com/ydhfr4j
Interesting that both the Obama White House and Gordon Brown told the Murdoch media to fuck off on the same day? Very.
Psycho NeoCon ‘news’ site NewsMax publishes then disappears column calling for military coup against Obama - http://tinyurl.com/ybjkxdw
I did give some of these a bit of an edit, so they appear slightly changed from how they appeared on Twitter. For instance, I added further info in brackets, and filled out the words that were shortened (’cld’ for ‘could’ as an example) to fit the message inside the 140 Twitter character limit.
Anyway, if you decide to join Twitter, say hello by posting a message with @darrylmason as part of the message and that will pop up in my @replies box.
Posts to Your New Reality will continue as has become standard, many all at once and then suddenly nothing for two or three days, or sometimes a week. But I do use Twitter most days now. Hope to see you there.
