plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

[dsrtao]

The lurkers support me in email!

has now been replaced by:

There are plenty of people on Twitter who share my view!

Comments

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Would that be "Twidiots" or has some neologism for that already been invented?

[dsrtao]

I dunno, I don't Tweet. Guess I'm a hopelessly reactionary neo-luddite.

(We now have 7 running UNIXoid computers in the house for 4 people. Oy.)

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

I don't tweet either. I don't know how many computers we have here that are running -- at least four. Or perhaps five. And I shudder to think how many are lurking, unused. Metageek had this clever idea once, and his company was dumping slightly old equipment, and....