{"id":178,"date":"2008-06-30T20:13:19","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T03:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2008-06-30T20:13:19","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T03:13:19","slug":"top-five-twitter-faux-pas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"Top Five Twitter Faux Pas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/crapmonkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/KeyboardGuy_Sm.jpg\" alt=\"Keyboard Guy\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/>In\u00a0face-to-face conversations, sometimes our thoughts get ahead of us and things come out wrong.\u00a0 In the Twitterverse,\u00a0there are even more ways to trip over yourself and convey the wrong message.\u00a0 However,\u00a0Twitter has the added\u00a0feature of archiving that stumble for generations to come.\u00a0 Following are the top five ways to flub\u00a0with Twitter:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>The Gatling Tweet:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 This is when Twitter is flaking out and your updates fail to update, so you continue to re-type your check in, only to have it continually fail to update.\u00a0 Eventually, the site comes back to health and all of your Twitter updates rattle off one after another like a Gatling Gun -spamming Twitter with\u00a0a comment that was barely worth reading the first time.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Forgotten Follower:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Once you are being followed by a decent number of people, it can be hard to keep track of the folks\u00a0from your virtual posse that transcend into\u00a0your real world\u00a0(at least until you make a Tweet you regret):\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li><em>CrapMonkey is Twittering:<\/em> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Skipped out of work to have a beer and a shot of Jameson at the Pub.\u00a0\u00a0Expensing as a &#8220;business meeting&#8221; of course.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em>(Sudden relization that the boss is a Follower)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>CrapMonkey is Twittering:<\/em> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">@BossMan &#8211; I was just kidding, (LOL), I&#8217;m actually\u00a0filling out that TPS report I promised you.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Roaming Cursor:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Let&#8217;s face it, cursors tend to roam around the browser sometimes.\u00a0 Nothing worse than typing in the address\u00a0of your next destination only to find that your cursor was in the Twitter <em>Update<\/em> field.\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<em>CrapMonkey is Twittering:<\/em>\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">PunkyBrewsterFanClub.com<\/span>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The\u00a0Drunken Tweet:<\/em><\/strong> This one needs little explanation, but after a few too many &#8211; one should probably steer clear of Twitter.\u00a0 Twitter is taking the drunken booty call public in a big way:\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<em>CrapMonkey is Twittering:<\/em> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">@hotmamma &#8211; I&#8217;m gonna come over and get my lovin&#8217; on &#8211; yeah\u2026 I don&#8217;t care who knows it!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Truncated Tweet:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 We&#8217;ve all had to train ourselves in the ways of brevity, but let&#8217;s face it, sometimes we stumble and Twitter is unforgiving.\u00a0 When the 140 character limit is exceeded, you can do little more than hope\u00a0the part that made it conveyed your message appropriately.\n<ul>\n<li><em>CrapMonkey is Twittering:<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I have got to say, I&#8217;ve known jenny for a long time and work out with her at the Gym all the time. I can&#8217;t wait to be invited into her Ass<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">ociation of Fitness Instructors.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are my top 5 Twitter faux pas, do you have any others?\u00a0 Leave them in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0face-to-face conversations, sometimes our thoughts get ahead of us and things come out wrong.\u00a0 In the Twitterverse,\u00a0there are even more ways to trip over yourself and convey the wrong message.\u00a0 However,\u00a0Twitter has the added\u00a0feature of archiving that stumble for generations to come.\u00a0 Following are the top five ways to flub\u00a0with Twitter: The Gatling Tweet:\u00a0 This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}