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Chief Twit on Iran- "I Never Intended Twitter To Be Useful"

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Who dugg this? Made popular Jun 26, 2009

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  • magic6435, on 06/26/2009, -1/+110Chief Twit!?!??!?!!?!?!?! Leo is gonna be pissed.
  • Nemsoli, on 06/26/2009, -3/+35Fail, chief Twit is Leo Laporte.
  • StuartGibson, on 06/26/2009, -0/+27Hey AirRaven, screw you. Screw you. I'm kicking you off.
  • FuzzplugJones, on 06/26/2009, -4/+17Don't worry, it wasn't, until this.
  • cahovis, on 06/26/2009, -0/+11Buried for "Chief Twit."
  • inactive, on 06/26/2009, -8/+19I know this is the Onion, but Twitter is still useless. ***** Twitter.
  • D14852001neko, on 06/26/2009, -2/+12For a moment, I thought the headline was real, until I saw "The Onion"... then I started to doubt if everything there was satirical, and they post real news just to ***** with our minds.
  • inactive, on 06/26/2009, -1/+9twitter: Only useful in totalitarian states.
  • ZenNemesis, on 06/26/2009, -0/+8Yeah he is.
  • PhobosDeimos, on 06/26/2009, -1/+7I was using twitter back when it was called IRC.
  • Whackly, on 06/26/2009, -0/+5Play him off, keyboard cat.
  • StuartGibson, on 06/26/2009, -1/+6At least he has it on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/chieftwit
  • avatarpalin, on 06/26/2009, -0/+5I think he's serious!
  • brundlefly76, on 06/26/2009, -0/+5People are so insistent on making a determination over whether Twitter is important or not.

    The reason why it frustrates people is because the usefulness of Twitter, unlike Email, Web, or VOIP, is that its importance is event-driven.

    Day to day, nothing happening, the daily drivel on Twitter is exactly that - drivel.

    However, when news breaks, its clear that Twitter is now the first go-to.

    Of course, not everything said on Twitter is true, nor is everyone who they say they are - but being on Twitter during the initial din of a major event is an important communications role no other medium had really captured yet.

    Its similar to 24-hr news. I don't watch CNN at 3PM on a Tuesday afternoon because its fairly boring, but if something important happens I do. Same with Twitter- I dont check in to see what some stranger had for lunch, but when the ***** hits the fan I want to see what other people are saying about it.

    Also, Twitter is poised to replace IM because the players never got their ***** together and unified. Twitterers are on Twitter and you don't need manage 5 different logins.
  • avatarpalin, on 06/26/2009, -0/+5God the TWiT and Twitter border is getting closer and closer!
  • inactive, on 06/26/2009, -1/+5Ahmadinejad now on Twitter?! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3puJa2EfcM
  • theos13, on 06/26/2009, -0/+4I can hear him now. "SCREW YOU, ONION!!"
  • Soragon, on 06/26/2009, -0/+4Screw you, AirRaven.
  • Glich, on 06/26/2009, -0/+3The Chief twit is leo www.twit.tv and no one else poster needs to check his wording..
  • MisterRik, on 06/26/2009, -0/+3No one expects the Onion
  • hiPpymIck, on 06/26/2009, -1/+4its the submitter - not the Onion
  • Paranor01, on 06/26/2009, -0/+3*applauds*
    I was using IM when it was called IRC.

    6 years as an Admin on one of the older smaller networks. one of our servers shared another server on undernet.
  • method7670, on 06/26/2009, -0/+2That way they always keep you guessing.
  • falafelkiosken, on 06/26/2009, -1/+3I didn't expect the Onion
  • AirRaven, on 06/28/2009, -0/+2Because the original headline didn't actually fit into Digg's submission box. That's all, really.
  • LanEvo, on 06/26/2009, -0/+2he should have done something when he had the chance.
  • jmuh, on 06/26/2009, -0/+1How is this submission trying to pass as anything other than exactly what it is? In general, do you make a habit of commenting on headlines without checking the source?
  • duckbillgates, on 06/26/2009, -1/+2Are you really passing off an Onion story as real or is your headline and description just awful?

    Reminds me of this:

    http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/potter.asp
  • duckbillgates, on 06/26/2009, -0/+1And have you noticed the half-dozen commenters who didn't expect the Onion?

    Why rewrite the headline? The original was more obviously The Onion. And it didn't have Chief Twit.
  • AirRaven, on 06/28/2009, -0/+1='(
  • Paranor01, on 06/26/2009, -0/+1The only reason IM didn't unite, is because AOL was given head chair in putting that together. AOL has, and always will be about AOL. And they don't like anyone else jumping on their monop... sorry, bandwagon anywhere.
  • MeoWzen, on 06/26/2009, -0/+1Mission accomplished
  • willterminus, on 06/27/2009, -0/+1Leo is the only "Chief TWiT"
  • falconear, on 06/26/2009, -2/+2Play him off? What does that mean? ***** THING SUCKS! WE'LL DO IT LIVE!
  • method7670, on 06/26/2009, -1/+1And they realize they have an ego problem, that is why I LOVE the onion!
  • seantubridy, on 06/26/2009, -2/+2While this is totally hilarious, don't forget that the Onion uses Twitter.
  • papasmurph, on 06/27/2009, -0/+0Actually this could have been authentic (but wasn't of course).

    Twitter is still the simple short-messaging service that took them two weeks to code, so anyone anywhere could set up their own Twitter-like service in the same amount of time. Then why is Twitter worth billions? Solely due to the amount of users?
  • mickeydawn02, on 06/27/2009, -0/+0Heck, I would argue that the "real" news lies to us more than The Onion!
  • dallis33, on 06/27/2009, -0/+0So does this mean that Twitter was supposed to be a "fad"?
  • Fikiman, on 06/26/2009, -2/+1Why does it always take so long for me to look ate THE ONION logo at the top?! OR the url on DIGG... Damn you ONION!!
  • aabril, on 06/26/2009, -3/+1lol good 'ol onion
  • frontaxle, on 06/26/2009, -4/+1Digi-Crack in 140 character hits.

    I dare him to announce to America that he's "upgrading the servers over the summer. See you in September or Octoberish"

    Then you'll see some streets and Blackberries afire in Cleveland and elsewhere!
  • bigboss65, on 06/26/2009, -5/+2What a douchebag.
  • PabloMac, on 06/26/2009, -10/+4Thanks for sharing. Twitter + TweetDeck is actually a bit of a goldmine to some. You're welcome.

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