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I’m using Twitter BUT I CAN QUIT WHENEVER I WANT

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Rather than liveblog the Oscars and just make people click “refresh,” I’m doing it on the Twitter.

Feel sorta dirty.

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SomeGuy said on March 7th, 2010 at 10:52 pm

Are you sure that isn’t just Flapjacks?

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MasonK said on March 7th, 2010 at 11:53 pm

That’s how it starts, you know. First it’s just one tweet. Then, livetweeting the Oscars. Before you know it, you’ll be tweeting all your movements of the bowel kind.

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Sarah said on March 8th, 2010 at 12:39 am

The thing I don’t like about Twitter (okay, the specific thing I’m thinking of this second that I don’t like about Twitter, as opposed to all its other faults) is that it’s a major pain to go back and read, say, a bunch of posts from someone liveblogging an event a week later, especially if that person is a a prolific “Tweeter.” Blogs, you can just hit the proper entry, possibly found using handy tags or a search, and there you go, complete with commentary. I have not yet figured out how to do this on Twitter yet.

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mc'ed said on March 8th, 2010 at 12:42 am

Well, maybe we could ask all nice like if he will post his tweet coverage here so we can read it whenever we like without all that hassle.
Pretty please?

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mc'ed said on March 8th, 2010 at 12:43 am

Ironically this is the first year I’ve actually watched the awards and you don’t do it on your site.

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Jesse said on March 8th, 2010 at 2:35 am

Would you be willing to compile all the tweets into one post when you’re done? I like to read your liveblogs in one go later, since I never actually follow them in real-time.

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Jesse said on March 8th, 2010 at 2:36 am

Also mc’ed just asked the same thing and I am not very smart.

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Dogmatic Dharma said on March 8th, 2010 at 3:16 am

Nice idea MGK, but I just don’t think it works. On top of ‘week later’ thing people have brought up, I also miss the minute-by-minute time stamps and the more detailed comments of your previous liveblogged stuff.

Oh well, cheers for doing it at all, I guess. See you in 2011.

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Zenrage said on March 9th, 2010 at 4:11 am

The best thing about the Oscars is that Sandra Bullock won Best Actress just 24 hours after she won Worst Actress at the Razzies for her work in All About Steve.

And like Halle Berry before her, she was present at the Razzies to accept her award

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SmR said on March 9th, 2010 at 8:59 am

I agree with the requests to compile the tweets, if you’ve got the time and inclination.

I scanned your feed, and noticed that you had Ajami pegged as one of 2 possible winners for Best Foreign film. Really? Since the Waltz with Bashir upset last year, I’ve given up on an Israeli film ever winning an Oscar. (But at least we got the awesome Japanese acceptance speech out of it.)

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SmR said on March 9th, 2010 at 9:10 am

…wait. The awesome Japanese “Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto” acceptance speech was for Best Animated Short. I feel cheated again.
Anyway, point is, Israeli films: Oscar-nominated, yes; Oscar-winning, not so much.

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