The Story (so far) of Twitter: the day after

It was a fun graphic, and it’s getting a great response. Here’s some thoughts…

• Wow. Blogging must eat itself. When Techcrunch picks up your content, it gets happily reposted in full by dozens of other blogs, as you can see from the pingbacks in yesterday’s post. But those reposts are simple cut-and-paste jobs… no commentary at all in most cases. Are these bloggers or bookmarkers or just SEO vampires?
• Our client, Sean Percival at Manolith, has been happily twittering and singing our praises, for which we thank him profusely. The work has been awesome fun. And @seanpercival happens to be one of the more entertaining writers on Twitter. Good client, funny guy. Double bonus.
• The day after publishing, Sean just blogged the analytics of the piece — Digg is still the monster truck of media sharing.
• And speaking of Digg, the comments there this time around were awesomely bilious. Only a few were critical of the graphic itself (even though it was a strategic assault on the eyes), but Twitter-backlash is in full effect. One in particular stood out for its depth of profanity and twisted genius, so much so that I’ve decided to reprint it here. But in the hopes of keeping this blog relatively friendly, I’ve edited it just a little bit.

Posted by thisismydigg:
“i [really like] twitter, i hope one day all the domain names of the internet get together and [have a surprise party for] twitter and give it [presents]. then everyone who uses twitter will [party] and [give each other presents]. after a long while of [fun] breathing [people] posting worthless [fun], everyone will have [presents]. then the fun begins, the [friendly bird reaches] through your screen with its twitter [wing] and [friendly thoughts] from your printer travel up your [consciousness]. [excitement] then blasts out your pores and [a warm sense of fulfillment] seeps up the walls and onto the ceiling forming a monster truck michael jackson [internet friend] who [gives you] the starbursts out of [the kindness of its heart]. the [funny feeling] then begins to travel into your nipples and slowly starts [building a nest of happiness] in your heart. all while having to watch every mother [loving] movie made by aaron seltzer, then a [really] big ass blue bird shoots laser beams through your house and [lights up] everything you ever loved, [hugs you] with his [feathery wings], leaves you with the [best present ever], then [cries tears of joy] all over your face which is 93% [pure awesomeness].”