Time for the March installment of Fake Follow. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s the first Fake Follow of spring, whether it feels like spring outside or not.
This month saw tweets with funny pictures, tweets announcing client launches, and of course, random other 140 character observations about technology and web design.
If you still get your MTs confused with your RTs, check out the first fake follow post for the Twitter jargon. All the tweets are ones I sent or “retweeted” to the masses.
This one took me a moment:
programmers: 1, lawyers: 0 pic.twitter.com/xITrOPu6l2
— alios (@alios) March 3, 2014
I love the classic tech support thread interrupter response: "This is exactly my problem except for these five things…"
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) March 6, 2014
"Why Women-Only Tech Events Are a Good Idea" http://t.co/3z2xaCnRVA
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) March 7, 2014
Repeat after me: Formatting text is not an appropriate means for expressing your personal identity and creativity.
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) March 7, 2014
This takes me back! (See also: Golden Ratio.)
attention @gerritklyn RT @Cryptoterra oh my god pic.twitter.com/H1xrc0Y15X
— dan klyn (@danklyn) March 12, 2014
Just noticed that "ASAP" is not equivalent to "soon." Maybe we should distinguish between "ASAP" (yelled) and "asap."
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) March 19, 2014
I can't stand the punctuation-inside-quote-marks grammar rule. Makes tech things so confusing: "Your password is 'password,' and…"
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) March 24, 2014
Because I can’t. Can you?
Honestly, can anyone actually read those stories that alternate paragraphs of text with animated GIFs?
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) March 27, 2014
You know what they say: A watched file transfer never completes.
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) March 27, 2014
Congratulations to client The Harder Foundation on their new site! http://t.co/CCLc6yr4wP
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) March 27, 2014
Truth.
When in doubt, use a cat picture
— ipstenu (((Mika E))) (@Ipstenu) March 27, 2014