Things To Do With Twitter

Firebox Will Make a Portrait Out of Your Tweets, Or Anyone Else’s

by Eric Limer | 2:36 pm, October 21st

Got a whole bunch of tweets you hold near and dear? Not happy enough to just look at them online? Like having a picture of yourself in your house? Have a creepy stalker-crush on a celebrity or just somebody with a public feed? In any of those cases, a Firebox tweet portrait might be right for you. All you need is a Twitter account with at least 230 tweets (or someone else’s) and 25 bucks.

When you enter a username, Firebox goes out and grabs the most recent tweets from the public timeline and colorizes them to match your profile picture. The posters are 24″ by 24″ and are written in 18pt font, so they’ll be readable from a ways away, but still look remarkably like your profile picture.

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Things To Do With Twitter

Seattle Police Department Uses Twitter Like A Police Scanner

by Erin Podolak | 11:35 am, July 29th

Is Twitter the right forum for an inane list of police complaints generated over the course of a day? Many Seattle residents are considering this question in the wake of an experiment by the Seattle Police Department, who tweeted out all the calls they received for 12-hours the way they would go out on a typical police scanner.

The Police Department was trying to show citizens what a typical day of emergency calls coming into the department was like. The social media platform seemed like a good way to reach a lot of people. The only problem was that the police didn’t tell any of their twitter followers what they were doing.

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A Beginner's Guide to Diablo III's Lore

Twelve years later, the third installment in the famous hack-and-slash franchise has finally released. Though the franchise is largely known for an inordinate amount of hacking and slashing, there's actually quite a bit of complex lore backing it up. Luckily for you, we have it summed up right here. Take a gander.

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James Plafke I just threatened my mom to email me something by telling her I'd discuss with her all the lady celebrities I'd have sex with.
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Max New Hallmark Card: "I held an extended conversation with you without being able to remember your name" Inside: "I'm sorry."
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Eric Limer To any of you bros who might like to ice me, I encourage you to act on that urge, bro.
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Eric Limer If anyone is looking for some totally garbled, nigh-incomprehensible ad copy, I'm your man.
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Eric Limer What? None of my Facebook friends are on So.cl? How can this be?!
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Eric Limer "Does this mustache look creepy? Experts are blind; can't tell."
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Rollin Bishop Lin Beifong is suddenly one of the best things about Legend of Korra.
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James Plafke I just taught someone what TIL means. There's some kind of poetry to that.
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Max Preparing some mails.
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James Plafke A porn spambot named "toothsex" just spammed me.
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Eric Limer Walking my sister through the finer points of PS2 emulation as something of a birthday gift.
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Max Whoever just had The Strand pull a copy Of the Prose Edda: We should be Viking nerd friends.
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Eric Limer "That Spacex launch last Saturday was an absolute abortion."
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Max "lily_tomlin_explosion.gif"
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Eric Limer André 300 http://t.co/4HX40AEk
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Max Lowest rating for the Antz soundtrack on http://t.co/l4iFAqyD is three stars and is titled "It did not meet all of my criteria."
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Eric Limer Spotify is great for listening to soundtracks of games with licensed music. There's playlists for everything. Now playing: Guitar Hero 2.
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James Plafke I think the next Bond movie, Skyfall, should be 2 hours of Bond falling through the sky, doing action and spy movie things.
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Eric Limer I swear Xbox Live is never not offering me 2 months of gold for $2. At that price, I kind of don't even mind the dirty, auto-renew trick.
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Rollin Bishop Easily the strangest thing I've seen this weekend. http://t.co/AW7UGSQJ
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