Command-line Twitter client.

Awful exchange on Twitter, collected and explained.

‘This stuff is a big deal. If a user doesn’t want some superficial Kanye West app to read and download all of her private direct messages, she should be able to expressly restrict that. The same goes for apps tweeting from her account.’

‘although it’s clearly an official corporate Twitter feed, instead of trying to persuade its followers that they should be playing online poker, it offers a surreal picture of life in the Betfair Poker office and some curious philosophies’

‘My workflow for using Twitter is this – pick through the stream, load interesting-looking links in tabs, send them all to instapaper. All of which could be easily automated. So that’s what I did.’

So that’s how they’re going to make money.

‘We have no idea why a lad who should be wanking, drinking Merrydown cider in a graveyard and listening to Radiohead is writing plausible memos for an evil merchant bank.’ Glorious.

A dark, artistic rendering.

‘TwitterEcho allows you to configure an account to re-tweet any direct message it receives. This is perfect for running an internal company wide twitter account.’

‘[O]nly a particularly virulent form of social fascism would ask me to put that notebook down and begin “sharing ideas” with the people next to me.’