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Comment on Open Letter to Reed Hastings & Netflix by Larry Kahaner

Larry Kahaner — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:00:15 +0000

I thought you might be interested in my latest blog entry on business leadership titled “Why Netflix Lost 800,000 Customers” which appeared on the William G. McGowan Charitable Foundation website

http://blog.mcgowanfund.org/

Larry Kahaner

Comment on Cursebird Leaderboard by JESSE DZIEDZIC

JESSE DZIEDZIC — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 06:15:03 +0000

That was interesting piece of writing!

Comment on Open Letter to Reed Hastings & Netflix by Dbo

Dbo — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:33:24 +0000

This is a very well written response to recent Netflix actions. Nice job!

Comment on Open Letter to Reed Hastings & Netflix by mandee pearson

mandee pearson — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 23:05:05 +0000

this is a very well written letter. well done.

Comment on I cursebird more than you do. by Mathias Bynens

Mathias Bynens — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:26:28 +0000

You should really alter your bot to make it use multiple curse words in every tweet. That way, you’ll gain more CurseBird experience points while still using the same amount of tweets.

Comment on I cursebird more than you do. by The Top 100 Most Annoying Twitter Accounts – Artifacting

The Top 100 Most Annoying Twitter Accounts – Artifacting — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:17:21 +0000

[...] is using to climb to the number one spot on the Cursebird leaderboard. This is actually a somewhat interesting project but is still a very annoying twitter [...]

Comment on Cursebird Leaderboard by Brian

Brian — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:55:20 +0000

All the best of luck to you!.Thanks for the information.

Comment on I cursebird more than you do. by streamliningprocesses

streamliningprocesses — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:49:13 +0000

You’re the worst, shithead – what a fuckin knob!!!

Comment on I cursebird more than you do. by Open Mouth, Insert Soap | twitter fail blog

Open Mouth, Insert Soap | twitter fail blog — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:59:03 +0000

[...] cursebird.com, one such person has made it a full-time job. ThinkingStiff shares the story of his quest to climb to the top of Cursebird, and keep that treasured spot. There are others who have given him a run for his money, but Thinking Stiff is actually the least [...]

Comment on I cursebird more than you do. by Sean Vanity

Sean Vanity — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:00:47 +0000

Matt!
You are too fucking much!
We gotta collaborate on something
Do you have any ideas!
Your a silly fucker!!
Keep in touch mother fucker

Comment on I cursebird more than you do. by thinkingstiff

thinkingstiff — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:33:48 +0000

I removed my location for you. Let me know if that works (at @mattwalton). If not, I’ll check-in in Antarctica or something.

Comment on I cursebird more than you do. by James

James — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:51:27 +0000

At first I was starting to think I was reading the disgruntled tweets of a web dev in Sacramento, but it turns out I was only half right. Your project is fascinating and I’m glad to see that you’re getting results, however I have a slight request to ask of you. The twitteriffic iPhone app has a Nearby feature that filters all of the tweets by location (or geo tagging within a radius of an iPhone). While your tweets are funny, after the first few months, they’ve lost their luster being spammed into the local feed every minute. Would it be alright if you changed your ThinkingStiff’s account location to something other than Sacramento?

Comment on I cursebird more than you do. by Alex Covic

Alex Covic — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:25:25 +0000

Duder, I use the swear bots to find cool people. I hope you and the rest of you wannabe-researchers and achievement-whores will finish your experiments or become bored, b/c I really like to see real people cursing. It shows their true nature and makes me interested in their tweets.

try this when bored, instead:

http://www.william-shakespeare.org.uk/a1-shakespearean-insults-generator.htm

Comment on I cursebird more than you do. by Web2.0 Junkie

Web2.0 Junkie — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:53:56 +0000

No wonder you featured in http://tweetfuckers.com/ so regularly.

Comment on I cursebird more than you do. by J

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:51:24 +0000

I just come back to say thanx ;)

Comment on I cursebird more than you do. by thinkingstiff

thinkingstiff — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:41:45 +0000

I have removed that tweet for you.

Comment on I cursebird more than you do. by J

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:09:59 +0000

can you remove “It’s called a fixed-gear. No it doesn’t have any brakes. Yes I can fucking stop.” from your list please? I d like to display “fixed gear” tweets on a site . It would save me some developing time. thx.

Comment on I cursebird more than you do. by Awesome By Default » What the #$%! is happening on Twitter?

Awesome By Default » What the #$%! is happening on Twitter? — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:17:18 +0000

[...] Many users are deleting posts in order to protect the sanctity of their accounts, while others are indulging in naughty language in hopes of having the one account with the most curse words. Swearing on public forums has always [...]

Comment on Cursebird Leaderboard by I cursebird more than you do. « Thinking Stiff

I cursebird more than you do. « Thinking Stiff — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:49:12 +0000

[...] this is just from seeing people come up on the live feed. Many people have asked for a Top 10 list (thoughts on a leaderboard). I wouldn’t mind seeing one either, but after staring at it for hundreds of hours, [...]

Comment on I cursebird more than you do. by shiteatingfuck

shiteatingfuck — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:24:26 +0000

I am going to have to agree with Sir Issac here, however I do not include racist quotes from movies even though they make me laugh. They are just words and it depends on the context they are used. George Carlin explains it very well here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_ZwYueNkR0.

Comment on Cursebird Leaderboard by thinkingstiff

thinkingstiff — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:34:09 +0000

I also just noticed that on a cleaned list, with my original hand-typed 700 tweets, I still would have been on the top. An example of the “cussing their hearts out” tweeter being able to take the top.

Comment on I cursebird more than you do. by Isaac Z. Schlueter

Isaac Z. Schlueter — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:30:23 +0000

@richard: What racism? None of Fuckbot’s content said anything about anyone’s race. How can a single word, out of context, without any semantic content whatsoever, be racist? Why is one “magic word” acceptable, and another is not?

I wasn’t claiming that you removed fuckbot from the running intentionally. I remarked that you got offended on the basis of this tweet of yours: http://twitter.com/richardhenry/statuses/1157660792

Again, I maintain that a single word, out of context, to no one, about no one, cannot possibly be racist. Use of “the n-word” doesn’t make fuckbot racist any more than use of the j-word makes it Christian, or use of the f-word makes it sexual.

Just a few decades ago, saying “fuck” would elicit pretty much the same reaction. A few decades before that, “damn” was off limits. Now we look at the offense previously caused by those terms, and think it’s silly.

What will our grandchildren think is absurd about our time?

Comment on Cursebird Leaderboard by thinkingstiff

thinkingstiff — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:22:23 +0000

I’ve also thought that maybe I’m overestimating the staying power of the bots. Perhaps manual cleaning won’t be that big of a deal and the bots will get tired of trying.

Two lists might work.

Comment on I cursebird more than you do. by Richard Henry

Richard Henry — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:18:32 +0000

@Isaac: Twitter removed fuckbot from the public timeline because of the unnecessary racism; I haven’t done any filtering on my end.

Comment on Cursebird Leaderboard by Richard Henry

Richard Henry — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:52:10 +0000

@bollocks is on the list of bugs to fix before I release the leaderboard. It’s caused by the Twitter API returning swears matching a username in addition to the text body, which isn’t the desired result. It was only when someone tweeted me about it that I realised things weren’t happening as expected.

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Possible Solutions:

1, 2: These are both possible solutions; and it’s always better to automate rules if possible to keep a level playing field. I’m thinking about a couple things myself.

3: Unfortunately this is pretty much impossible. Grabbing follower counts for each user would require far too much API interaction above and beyond that I’m already doing; and I would quickly hit the rate limit.

4: It would be too easy to evade that by having an array of random dictionary words inserted into tweets to prevent duplication.

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Conclusion:

Perhaps I could publish a filtered list alongside a raw list?

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Good article, you’ve said a lot of things I wanted to say myself in a post but never had the time.

Richard

Comment on I cursebird more than you do. by Cursebird Leaderboard « Thinking Stiff

Cursebird Leaderboard « Thinking Stiff — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:36:56 +0000

[...] to see a leaderboard, but they haven’t necessarily thought through what that means. As I was working with @ThinkgingStiff, I thought a lot about the problems of creating one. Most people want bots excluded, and that seems [...]

Comment on I cursebird more than you do. by Isaac Z. Schlueter

Isaac Z. Schlueter — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:05:17 +0000

I’m pretty sure @fuckbot was removed from the public timeline due to complaints about the use of the “n-word”. My goal with it was to test taboos and see what kind of blowback it would get. And, it was amusing as hell. Deep down inside, I think a lot of us are still about 7 years old. A randomized fount of dirty words made me chuckle whenever I looked at it.

I decided to play fair, I released the bot’s code (minus the content itslef) on github: http://github.com/isaacs/screambot/

After well over 11,000 updates, it was clear that @fuckbot would never climb up the charts, since it was stopped at 1612. Even @richardhenry was offended.

I’ll leave you with @fuckbot’s closing remark: http://twitter.com/fuckbot/status/1174386209

Comment on I cursebird more than you do. by thinkingstiff

thinkingstiff — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:32:54 +0000

Yes. The first 700 were manual. 200 of those were the “fuck” “shit” ones.

Comment on I cursebird more than you do. by Matt Youell

Matt Youell — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:06:03 +0000

Do I understand the chart right? You made 700 curse-filled tweets by hand before writing a bot?

Congrats on your victory.