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What else does one do at a Twitter event but take a dubious selfie? #TVxTwitter #notmyusualtechcrowd @ Doltone House- Jones Bay Wharf
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A space-themed cat cafe is coming to Sydney. BEST. NEWS. EVER. http://t.co/NbLeFNE5Zz
As a famous woman once said, “Not my circus. Not my monkeys.”
(And by famous, I mean @knitterjp.)
RT @RailsGirls_SYD: Our next Rails Girls event is listed for March 6-7! Sign up soon and see you there 🙂 http://t.co/jadsAbyLo2 @RailsGirl…
@garethrhughes @knitterjp @SerriLaw Didn’t we used to use “applets” for that back in the day? I may have blocked it out.
@drkknits I suspect that you will enjoy this as much as I did: http://t.co/u43v2eycPs
w-g: AVENUE Q | Enmore Theatre – Finally a musical the Snook will happily attend! Booked for July 4th. 🙂 http://t.co/TlycRNLRZb
@drkknits I loved that pull quote. LOVED IT.
@gilmae I still remember when my blog was a UserFriendly Site of the Day. That was my 15 Minutes of Internet Fame for 2006.
@gilmae And if I thought my 15 minutes were up for good, what the hell is the point of being on Twitter anymore anyway? 🙂
RT @carlfish: The creepiest things you can do on Facebook: http://t.co/ZbGlfSCvXC
Teenage coders behind Tampon Run take their feminist game to the App Store http://t.co/rQgn0vhdKk // Installed! My commute will be fun.
Reading: “Exclusive: How This Man Got the Media to Fall for ShipYourEnemiesGlitter Stunt” http://t.co/K5kzfb8Z5n
Reading: “Under Armour acquires weight loss app, MyFitnessPal, for $475 million dollars” http://t.co/B2wbwxqrMM
Reading: “Businesses Offer A Link To The Past For Lovers Of Old Video Games” http://t.co/yeNCvpjLt7
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I finally found a musical that the Snook will happily go to! Booked in for the 4th of July. 🙂 Thanks @Alice Eller!
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The Internet is for PORN!
AVENUE Q | Enmore Theatre – I finally found a musical that the Snook will happily attend with me. We’re booked in for the 4th of July!
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OMG SO AWESOME
Catmosphere Cat Café – A space-themed cat cafe in Sydney? I hope it’s close to work. I will definitely check it out. 🙂
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Shared today on Twitter
@thisismywww A little more than 10x the normal traffic. But most stories updated link to point to official site rather than RDF.
@thisismywww Still, a nice little bump. 🙂
w-g: Viral. Woke up to find my Dahl site had been linked by Neil Gaiman and Tim Minchin. Traffic up 10x. Fun! http://t.co/3qTOydItO4
Another thing I learned today: @huffingtonpost hotlinks images from other sites. I had to block them at .htaccess. NOT COOL GUYS.
Reading: “Google’s slow fade with librarians” http://t.co/siVqo6me08
@RoseRed_Shoes His family had a lot of tragedy. His wife had a stroke and took years to recover. Son Theo’s pram was hit by taxi. Awful.
@Rellarc79 You have a woman’s leg!!!
Reading: “Fourth-grader finds One Ring to rule them all, and in the darkness get him suspended” http://t.co/XwrUeVO2Zc
Reading: “19 Questions For Men That Highlight Everyday Sexism” http://t.co/86qBk08FoP
@RoseRed_Shoes Yep. Forgot about that. And his Dad died young too.
RT @clue: We’re looking for a #CTO to join the Clue team. Know someone? Is it you? http://t.co/rb2T8UfnI5 #Berlin #startups http://t.co/6Ld…
Reading: “How to Lose Weight in 4 Easy StepsFebruary 3, 2015 9:49 AM Subscribe” http://t.co/Wbt58dsTX8
The Dahl measles story continues. My site just got linked from @Independent: http://t.co/9EvpOE2JCM. http://t.co/N55EHKY5f1
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Viral
I woke up this morning and had a look at Twitter (as you do). To my surprise, I saw this:
@web_goddess bahh! @neilhimself posted a link to your Dahl site (measles piece)! lol! 🙂
– miftik (@miftik) February 2, 2015
Wait, what? Neil Gaiman tweeted a link to my site? I went in search.
Heartbreaking and wise Roald Dahl letter to his readers about measles and his daughter Olivia. http://t.co/MdgLiLAMlb (via @timminchin)
– Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) February 1, 2015
Wow. He really did! Turns out he got it from Tim Minchin. (Tim, of course, wrote the music for “Matilda”.)
So here’s the very sad #oliviadahl letter again: http://t.co/viSDnWgpWU And now I’m off to have hot chocolate with my vaccinated kids.
– Tim Minchin (@timminchin) February 1, 2015
I discovered pretty quickly that a LOT of other people had picked up the story. They were all linking to this letter from Roald Dahl about why you should immunise your children. His daughter Olivia died from measles encephalitis. I posted that letter on the site about two years ago and then completely forgot about it. I’ve actually been following the story of the recent Disneyland measles outbreak with fascination (don’t even get me started on those stupid, stupid “anti-vaxxers”) and never remembered there was a big tie-in to Dahl. But somehow over the past three days it blew up in a really big way.
See? I’m still not sure who actually started it. People have been tweeting links to the page off and on for the past two years, but the most recent one that could have started the avalanche was from Charles Simmins. On the 30th someone wrote about the issue on Daily Kos. Was that where it picked up steam? Kottke tweeted about it, but it didn’t really go nuts until Tim Minchin and Neil Gaiman picked up on it. It spread to Facebook where it’s still trending. At some point the folks at the official site got wind of it and started emailing and tweeting sites, suggesting they instead link to the page on their site instead. (Fair enough. They contacted my site too so I happily put a note on the page.) Right now lots of sites are still writing about it but most are just reproducing the text themselves. So while my site did get a really big spike – about 10x its normal traffic – I suspect it’s not as big as it could have been. In the end most of my traffic was from Twitter and Facebook, where folks mostly don’t bother to go back and change links to things. And I’m still getting some clicks from sites like Get Off My Internets, Refinery29, Reddit, and even Metafilter.
So there’s my 15 minutes of Internet fame for 2015, I guess!
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