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The twitter monologues - Discussion

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  • Looks like Twitter's not the only one [slashdot.org] with sockpuppets.

    I don't think you should get a life, but you should get over it. As I said before, this is Slashdot, possibly the best place on the internet to make fun of MS and its bumblings.

    Oh, and foe you? You think too much of yourself, sir. It really isn't that important.
    • I really hope you're not trying to imply that the person whose journal you linked to is also me? Do me a favor, go find me some stupidity like this [slashdot.org] or this [slashdot.org] to at least make the effort to create a link between two accounts, and then get back to me about my sockpuppets.

      You think too much of yourself, sir.

      Apparently you do too, since you had to come in here and tell me about my alleged other accounts. With user IDs lower than mine, no less.

      • I really hope you're not trying to imply that the person whose journal you linked to is also me?

        Of course I am, silly! Look at the date/time and the content, and you can see why it's worth a quick assumption, or at the very least pointing it out to you. But your word is good enough for me, so you may want to pop over there and say hello and form a guild or something with the guy. If you're going to carry on with this, might as well not duplicate the work effort, eh?

        Do me a favor, go find me some s
        • Ah, so your point is that I don't have a life. I think I addressed that in the post. Thanks for stopping by though.

          BTW, let me know when you have at least some minimal amount of circumstantial evidence that I have more than one account.

          • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

            by Captain Splendid ( 673276 )
            Cool! Almost real-time conversation on /.!

            Ah, so your point is that I don't have a life. I think I addressed that in the post. Thanks for stopping by though.

            Yeah, I know. But really, chasing Twitter (or any 'dotter) is just silly if you ask me.

            BTW, let me know when you have at least some minimal amount of circumstantial evidence that I have more than one account.

            Perhaps you read my comment too hastily, as I'm no longer making that claim?
            • Yeah, I know. But really, chasing Twitter (or any 'dotter) is just silly if you ask me.

              Oh, absolutely. Like you though, I can only deal with so much boredom. I could be doing drugs, after all. But I'm too old for that. This is much healthier anyway :)

              Perhaps you read my comment too hastily, as I'm no longer making that claim?

              You're right, sorry for the snap.

              • I can think of worse hobbies than stalking/speaking outagainst/attacking/bashing with a rock twitter. I try not to feed him too much but sometimes I just can't help it.

                He thinks I work for MS too, which is very funny since I post things critical of them as often as things in their defense. Same with Linux and Apple.

    • Re: (Score:3, Interesting)

      by RobertM1968 ( 951074 )

      I'm glad someone maintains such a list. I happen to enjoy debating topics, discussing points of view, playing "Devil's Advocate" or even just posting nonsense back and forth...

      I dont, however, enjoy having debates with the same guy using 2-4 of his 8 accounts - not when I could be talking to intelligent people instead.

      Add to that, I dont like the fact that he impersonates a non-Microsoft user... he makes every Linux, eCS, OS/2, MacOSX, Debian, etc, etc user look bad when he tries to claim he is in the sam

  • I think it would be nice to see a few links for each sock that show the relationship. God knows there are at least a dozen for each one because he's so stupid.
    • Good idea. Send them to me, formatted and everything, and I'll post them =)

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by dedazo ( 737510 )
        Well, on second thought... how about they just click on the names to look at the posting history and make up their minds? It's not like he's not replying to himself all over the place every single day anyway.

        Maybe one of these days ;p

        • Nah, just look for the posts where someone rattles on about "non-free", and insists on changing the subject line of every single reply (such as freenix [slashdot.org])
          • Aaaa-ahhh... yes, freenix's enormous body of work (12 posts from May 27th on) is a bit out of character for twitter (Iraqi scientists and jesus), but the halting style is certainly very similar (especially here [slashdot.org]), misspelling of it's/its here [slashdot.org], the changing of the topic title and always appending a period at the end, and the one you replied to here [slashdot.org] pretty much clinches it. "Intentional waste" is one of his favorite phrases (closely followed by declarations about how free software is perfect), and I've never s

  • How? (Score:2)

    by Trogre ( 513942 )
    Just curious, but how do you know these are twitter's sockpuppets? Does he use a detectable style of writing or are you doing something more clever?

    • Yeah, I suppose talk is cheap without some sort of evidence, isn't it? I tend to think it's painfully obvious that all those "people" are him, but that's not the case for everyone. I'll update the JE with some links. He just created [slashdot.org] another one so I was going to anyway. The problem is I just ran out of space in my Slashdot sig...
      • Im curious myself what you are looking for. I don't see the resemblance between freenix and twitter. twitter is always M$ and gnu and opensource blah blah blah.
        • It's hard to explain. But I know that's him, without a doubt. But in the interest of fairness, I removed it. He hasn't used the account as a *sockpuppet*, so it doesn't belong in the list. He will though, eventually.
          • I wouldn't - it's Twitter. I would severely doubt that he's going to use it for something honest, he's probably just priming it's modpoints so he can get to +1 karma to add some legitimacy.
      • "talk is cheap without some sort of evidence, isn't it?"

        Indeed. But you didn't answer the question. I see a bunch of links up above but that doesn't tell anyone why you think they are all the same person. Are you simply basing these links on style of writing?
        • I think you posted this before I updated the journal text. Please look through a few of the supporting links I added (rather than just the names) and I will be happy to clarify or expand on any of them if for some reason something is not clear.
  • all of them have membership attached....

    • Re: (Score:2, Interesting)

      by willyhill ( 965620 )
      Funniest story. When he first started working over the socks, someone bought [slashdot.org] him subscriptions for all of them (three at the time). I suppose it was one of those "poor twitter, he's being targeted by the forces of evil" thing, and in any case the problem wasn't as widespread.

      A couple of weeks later, twitter had another sock out and on one of the usual shill party threads, the same guy replies [slashdot.org] to him, not knowing it's twitter.

      Like I said, the irony just killed me.

      The other funny aspect is that he bough

  • Slashdot's reputation for harboring drooling anti-"M$" zealots might be largely based on a single guy.
    • You may very well be right. Sure, there are lots of people on Slashdot that criticize Microsoft, that's the whole point of the site's existence. But I saved this [slashdot.org] article from 2006. If you browse the posts at +3, you can see the usual level-headed, reasoned discussion that I like so much about Slashdot. Some people attack Microsoft, some defend them (depending on the tone of the submission I suppose) and some are neutral. Towards the end of the listing you'll find twitter [slashdot.org]. The only post at that level of mode
  • I can't believe you actually took the time to go through and add all the links. Good job!

  • Ben Franklin had conversations with himself in his and other publications and it's a legitimate way to explore an issue, so this never bothered me on it's own.

    This is my favorite quote. It is interesting in a perverse sort of way to look into his warped mind.

    • You're welcome. If you ever come across an account that looks like a sockpuppet, let me know.

      And sorry for the Hitler trolls here. I think twitter has finally lost it.

  • Re: Twitter et al... (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Codifex Maximus ( 639 ) on Thursday June 19, 2008 @12:13AM (#23850331) Homepage
    Very entertaining reading.

    Could it be that this twitter and his aliases are putting on a show of Anti-Microsoft sentiment to discredit anyone who disagrees with Microsoft?

    Whatever happened to MEEPT?
    • MEEPT was definitely before my time on Slashdot... I bow to your low UIN *grin*

      I did Google a bit and figured he even has an E2 entry [everything2.com]. Some funny stuff [google.com] for sure.

      I do appreciate a good troll. Back in the day on USENET (comp.lang.c!) there used to be a few good ones as well. Trolls used to have style...

  • Good (Score:1)

    by dedazo ( 737510 )
    Better to move the info to another entry. Besides, twitter's bullshit journal "troll zoo" has comments conveniently disabled. You at least gave him the chance to challenge the evidence, with the usual tepid results. (I love how he updated it to claim I have secret powers. What a sad moron).

    And BTW, I'm almost 100% sure those "jew" trolls are twitter. He's lost it. He's running a "false flag" op here, trying to associate anyone that replies to him or berates his sockpuppets with bullshit like this. One of

    • I love how he updated it to claim I have secret powers. What a sad moron

      That thing is getting weirder by the hour, it seems.

      And BTW, I'm almost 100% sure those "jew" trolls are twitter.

      Dunno. I'm thinking more and more he's not. We'll find out eventually.

      fuck it up

      LOL. I had a mental image of that scene in Heat where he's telling the guy that makes the Simpson voices "SHE'S GOT HUUUGE BOOBS!!"

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