On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:48:48 -0500, Nick Sabalausky <a@a.a> wrote:
"Steven Schveighoffer" <schvei...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:23:17 -0500, Nick Sabalausky <a@a.a> wrote:
"Andrei Alexandrescu" <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote in message
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It's no different from sticking "Drink Mountin Dew!" up on there.
It is very different. We're _using_ Twitter, not just advertising it.
Yes, you're using it, but by doing so you're also pulling in twit's
branding, which amounts to an endorsement.
And so does every other web site on the planet.
They really shouldn't. Anything that's potentially applicable to more or
less any site/page belongs as an option in the browser (even if as a
add-on).
*shrug* it is what it is. You don't have to embrace it if you don't want
to. I personally don't have a facebook or twitter or myspace or whatever
account.
I don't see how this is a problem.
If you don't like it, ignore it.
And I think you'd be better off with Netscape Navigator. I don't
remember
it ever showing any twitter feeds.
Neither does the primary one I'm using, as I've already said.
Also, I find it interesting that after I explicitly said I didn't need
any
"d00d ur browser iz teh old!" crusaders, I get three such responses in
under
3 hours (although at least one of them looked like it may have been
tongue-in-cheek...?). Apperently I'm not allowed to choose my own
browser?
Or maybe I'm just not allowed to mention which one I'm using?
relax, Nick :) Read my implicitly tongue in cheek reply again. I'll
stress *Netscape Navigator*. And I think all the "upgrade your browser"
replies were TIC.
Fuck, how dare I have *any* problem with anything that's popular. Imagine
the *nerve* of that asshole Nick who stubburnly *refuses* to be thrilled
with twitter!! After all it's new and popular! Let's stone that goddamn
old-fasionioned motherfucker for not being the good little corporate
trend-whore he's expected to be!!
I have nothing against your personal opinion, you are certainly allowed to
express it (and I'm more amused than shocked at your vile hatred towards
everything trendy :). But shunning popular avenues of social networking
is not the way to spread the word about D. You would not make a good
marketing director :)
-Steve
