I presume it's meant to push the video link to that twitter account for promotional purposes. I tried it but it doesn't appear to link back so I'm not sure what the point is.

press retweet to publish it to your twitter account. (if you have one)

this is how it shows:
http://twitter.com/maatc/status/1715019825

"tweets" counts the number of times the clip has been posted to twitter via this method i think...

oh and it does link back! it just shortens the url via bit.ly

All I get is;

RT @tweetmeme http://twitter.com

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It's something we're trialing - we've had some suggestions about making it easier to link to social networking stuff.

Why would we want to invite the tweeting community? I thought there were bandwidth problems as it was. Besides which, I detest Tweeter, it's a fad that will die out, hopefully.

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Twitter may be a fad, but there are quite a few members here who are using it now. (me sometimes) It's nice to have a one click method to share. http://search.twitter.com/search?q=videosift

fucking right you should promote the sift on twitter. it's the fastest growing network on the tubes and it'd be foolish to not at least attempt to integrate the site some way or another.

i find the anger towards twitter pretty strange. i mean fair enough if you don't choose to use it but why get annoyed by its presence? it's just another way for people to communicate but the character limit actually helps to trim the excess from a message that potentially would've bored you otherwise. and yeah, there's spam and inane conversations going on but fuck it, you don't have to look.

i remember when email got slammed because it was 'killing conversation' and now most people couldn't survive without it.

^Email could be vastly reduced in importance if, as it seems, large numbers of people communicate via Facebook, Twitter et al.
I like the idea of Twitter. People say it's about people's trivial updates but of course it can also be about anything you type into the box, but in a concise format. If this sort of messaging/networking platform isn't the future then I don't know what is.

Ah, now it works, http://twitter.com/SillyCasper/statuses/1715750019

I understand the need to connect the sift more to other social web platforms but it should be done tastefully, right now it looks horrible and smells of feature bloat, why can't it be relegated to the bottom of the videos like all the other options? And that green? ugh.

Either way its hilarious how people develop a real identity because they communicate with others in solitude. I mean Twitter is another in the long line of pretentious web 2.0 apps that lionize peoples everyday mundane activities to a level of some interest mostly for the benefit of other people whose lives are even more boring then your own.

Too much?

On a separate note I don't think Twitter is going to last much longer, the recent astronomic growth its had is straining its ability to stay afloat with no real plan to monetize the service. How many folks would still twitter under a subscription based model? What price point would assure growth and stability at the same time?

>> ^Farhad2000:
Either way its hilarious how people develop a real identity because they communicate with others in solitude.

welcome to the internet mate. surely you haven't just noticed?


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I mean Twitter is another in the long line of pretentious web 2.0 apps that lionize peoples everyday mundane activities to a level of some interest mostly for the benefit of other people whose lives are even more boring then your own.
Too much?


believe it or not there are interesting people using twitter to broadcast interesting material on a regular basis to a lot of people. you may have to do some searching and, god forbid, look at some normal, everyday people on the way through but they are there. if these people had a blog that consisted of the same material, i'm pretty sure a lot of twitter's naysayers would read them. it seems to me that the app itself really rubs people up the wrong way to the point where they refuse to acknowledge the possibility that it may be a useful tool.

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Twitter is an interesting phenomenon. I refuse to hate it just because it's popular and over-hyped.

It appeals to my notions about hive minds, group consciousness and the nerd rapture.

Also, Twitterfall is amazing when something immediate like an earthquake happens.

To me it's an unobtrusive feature (even though I don't use Twitter), so it doesn't bother me one bit. If it can produce a few more paying members, all the better.

50 points >>>>DAG for using the term "nerd rapture"

My name is FartHead2000 and everything you do sucks.

^ that comment would have been much funnier if you hadn't acted like a 5-year old and called him FartHead.

My name's rasch187 and I overanalyse EVERYTHING!

Oh yeah?! Well... I'm rash18poopyface and I have a hat in my avatar.

I've got nothing.

^
you two should just do it and get it over with

I'm slipperypenis and I tell people to do it in the butt.

Still got nothing.

If you have adblock plus you can filter it.

There's rumour that Apple is going to absorb Twitter. Maybe they'll make it useful.

Mashable had this on the Apple-Twitter rumor:

http://mashable.com/2009/05/06/twitter-not-for-sale/

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Also, Twitterfall is amazing when something immediate like an earthquake happens.

Nice, reminds me of
http://labs.digg.com/bigspy/
and Flickr apps

I refuse to not call them "twits", rather than tweets. I'm thinking of joining facebook but I don't really want all my old friends back. Eh, maybe. Plus, I don't want you all to meet my IRL friends, because they'll tell you what a dick I really am.

>> ^schmawy:
I refuse to not call them "twits", rather than tweets. I'm thinking of joining facebook but I don't really want all my old friends back. Eh, maybe. Plus, I don't want you all to meat my IRL friends, because they'll tell you what a dick I really am.


I'm going to find you on facebook and rape you with my status updates! Bwah-haw-haw!

Oprah is on Twitter so it must be good....
So is Ellen....

Here is the top 100 list of "Twitterholics."

http://twitterholic.com/

^Jesus, Ashton Kutcher has the #1 following. The 7th seal has been opened. I can see the wall of flame coming now.

The Challenge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QRyNWLZZmo
Ding Dong Ditch = http://twitter.com/aplusk/status/1512945135

Broadcast of Kutcher going over 1,000,000.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Ashton-Kutcher-beats-CNN-to-1-000-000-Twitter-Followers

Ted Turner response:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WxFODs3mgg

yay, worked for me

paul4dirtRT @Blanketfort @videosift Wonderful Animation with Praxinoscope & Record Player • videosift.com http://bit.ly/e1uE7 (via @tweetmeme)

and it shows up as 1 tweet in the video ( http://www.videosift.com/video/Wonderful-Animation-with-Praxinoscope-Record-Player ), pretty neat.

so, i can add stuff, but what can i clear (for example the 'via tweetmeme' ?) so i have more characters to add a bit more description

I don't use twitter, and I consider my facebook page to be a platform to allow my friends easy access to phone number. (Maybe I'm living in the 90's but I telephones are still my favorite way of getting a hold of someone in another building.)

If this twitter stuff brings more people to the sift, and that somehow makes life easier for Dag and Lucky, then I'm all for it. I think it would be nice, though, if there was a little bit more space between the twit logo and the channels. They seem to be running mighty close to each other now, and I'm concerned that it might chaff wheels or catsanddogs, or vintage, or whichever one is hanging out at the bottom. Would the social networking links look better if they were justified with the bottom corner of the video rather then directly underneath the channels?