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Watch LILTwitter - I'm relaying posts from other people with good leads on the Rammstein show #LoveRammstein ;)

#LoveRammstein @LILTrammstein

I'm conducting a whimsical and spur-of-the-moment experiment. Please ask your followers to tweet #LoveRammstein. I want to see what we can pull off with this as a Twitter trend.

Full of Twits?

If you've been watching my Twitter feed over the past couple of hours you will have noticed an insane escalation in activity. I felt it would be a good idea to relay selected tweets from the fans at MSG, and those wishing they were there, so the better traffic was available in one place. I am exhausted! It's pretty much over now, as the show has ended. Thanks for your patience, if this wasn't to your taste. I note that I didn't lose any followers, and actually gained a few new ones. I can't promise to be as assiduous when I attend the BDO show in January...

All A-twitter

Crafty Omega has pointed out a Tweet from Wes Borland that might interest you lot:

Just got back from dinner with Joe Letz (Combichrist) and Richard Kruspe (Rammstein). Believe it or not we talked music. nudge nudge

My Website Has More Tweet-Cred' Than me

Okay, so we're in a slow Rammstein news period. They're between live legs (yeah, I really posted that), work-demands have left me limp, and I haven't had a lot to say. Apparently The Gauntlet will be getting some news very soon, but this place has been idle for a few days, and I need to stay up late to sort out a client's MX, so I thought I'd ruminate a little.

I signed up with Twitter 'as me' before I created The LILTwitter, and I never use it. I don't use it for chat or really have anything to say that I think those following my personal account give two shits about, so all my bombast ends up here, going out via LILTrammstein. As a result, the site's account has way more followers, is listed, and generally generates traffic, while my personal account languishes in obscurity.

The same goes for my Facebook accounts. I have two of them also. One for me individually, and another for this site. Attached to both is the LILTrammstein page. As with Twitter, the FB site profile is the one I am almost always logged in as, and to top that off almost all of my FB activity is on the page, rather than either profile.

I also signed up for MySpace, since it seems such a musically oriented SN site, but I don't log in.

I'm a Social Networking retard. Note the capitalisation there. I network socially as readily as I breathe. I just don't do it as I am probably supposed to.

I've decided there is a very simple reason for this: I don't share my personal life. This isn't a bad thing, but for someone whose main avenue of communication is the internet, both professionally and personally, I had expected that Twitter would possibly eat into my time, Facebook would hold my attention, and that I would probably waste far too much energy and effort with both. This has not happened. I am someone who networks fairly well, but I do it via email and forums. Given that my own forum is a small, dusty ghost town there is a certain level of strangeness to this.

I have to wonder why it is that the media designed for doing what I do fairly well don't capture my attention nearly so much as the basic, old school dinosaurs of internet technology. The original concept of BBSs is as old as the hills, as is the idea of email. I'm not old enough (shut up) yet to be stuck in my ways. I make very good use of both FB and Twitter...for the site. LILT definitely has way more use for the newer methods of communication though.

Bored yet? Okay, I'll put a plug in it. I wouldn't want to become one of those self-indulgent, self-involved bloggers who thinks people care about my life ;)

By the way, I will post whatever it is The Gauntlet serves up as soon as I get out of bed in the morning...

Combichrist are Twits

I've been so slack. When I was linked to the Combichrist blog recently I said to myself that I must find out if they have a Twitter account, and then proceeded to do no such thing. As it happens they do, and it's called demonstoday. These guys are much more verbose than Rammstein, so if you want a good insight into the workings of a Rammstein tour, or even more insight into Combichrist themselves (heaven forbid), then follow them and read their blog.

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Scoopage Ahoy!

The Gauntlet Tweeted earlier to say:

Speaking with Richard from Rammstein, lots of scoops.

Get ready for some Richardisms...

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Twitter DoS

This is just an update on the issues with my feed and Twitter. Twitter is still under attack and TwitterFeed has been asked to ramp back their connections to the Twitter API. As a result my TwitterFeed account is only connecting every two hours. I see one post has got through to Twitter since I last checked, but it's obviously still pretty munted.

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Twatted

I have no idea if I joined Twitter and TwitterFeed on a bad day, or if they're just not talking to each other at the moment, but my feed isn't getting posted to the Twitter account. I'm going to post the later stuff to Twitter manually, and I guess I'll have to put up with duplicates later. Bear with me!

Update: It appears to be Twitter. I can't post to it manually either. From Twitter status page:

We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly.

Update: the site is back up, but we are continuing to defend against and recover from this attack.

Update (9:46a): As we recover, users will experience some longer load times and slowness. This includes timeouts to API clients. We’re working to get back to 100% as quickly as we can.

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LILT Tweets

I'm a slave to technology. As though RSS feeds and site subscriptions are inadequate in this e-tastic time LILT has now got a Twitter account, which feeds directly from the site. It's terribly camp and horribly trendy, but I'm doing it anyway. I like foodling, and Twitter seems suitable foodly.

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