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Sign up. Have an account? Log in ». Close Two-way sending and receiving short codes:. Close Confirmation. Skip all. Welcome home! Ed Sharron What is it? The state bird of Vermont and a little smaller than a Robin, the Hermit Thrush has grey-brown upperparts and a contrasting white underside.

The breast and lower neck are slightly buff-colored with dark brown spots. They have a complete, thin and pale-white eye ring, and feature a rump and tail that are chestnut reddish-brown.

Their bills are narrow and straight and are used to feed on insects and fruits. They spend much of their time in the underbrush or forest floor, only heard or seen when perched on a branch singing their beautiful song.

When startled from the forest floor by a passing hiker, they often fly several yards away and land on a low branch. The give-away it is a Hermit Thrush that has been flushed is the way they flick their wings and quickly raise then slowly lower their reddish tails while cautiously eyeing the intruder. Ethereal and Haunting Members of this bird family are all known as eloquent songsters.

It begins with a single high note, followed by a downward cascading, double-noted slow trill. Thrushes are able to accomplish their vocal acrobatics through the employment of a double voice box, unique to this bird family, called the syrinx. It allows them simultaneously voice independent notes which blend together, letting this incredible bird harmonize with itself.

There's the "weird twitter" subgroup and they like humor, but they also really really like the camaraderie. And it's kinda like high school. All information is present. You see this when a new great tweeter comes along and suddenly people start using their tropes and vocabularies and forms! New people do not diminish it, but they add to it, they mutate it. I deleted my twitter account because I no longer had to learn about data! People are on the internet for serious business! I mean for me I'm seeing these little masterpieces among a stream of discourse about poetry and literature.

Or like "socially hacking" it or something. Is there a word for that? Like they've figured out how it works so perfectly that they can push it to its absolute limit.

It's like the epicenter is moving. And then as it grows you get more people involved. And I'd like to think the best influence is not whatever stupid meme its about diapers, etc but more about joke formats. What I think is currently being referred to as "Weird twitter" is some sort of third wave shit. Then you got stand up comedians that tweet one liners. So even though I'm blessed to make a living doing comedy, I absolutely recognize the total necessity of nurturing and supporting other comics and writers, especially the younger ones, which I think a lot of what people are calling "weird Twitter" are.

My dream was always to have my own talk radio show but practicality won out. I find humor in scenarios where the people reverse roles. Parents acting like teens etc…. I'm no face for the movement, as its face is faces. I don't think it's just meaningless blurts of subversive nonsense.

I think there's true talent there. It's just clear distinct original voice. It might be a bit of a buzzword and some people complain about it being a "label", but the sense of humor it refers to and the style of interacting with social media has captured some imaginations in a broader way than small forums like FYAD couldn't.

I spent the next 3 hours adding vegetables into song titles until they wanted to throw me out of the car.

I did that on twitter and people loved them. The negative reaction to being characterized as well as whether or not the map was "accurate" was huge. Oh man the reaction. Oh lordy jesus.

It was 2 AM when I posted it. When I woke up, somebody really big must have RTed it and then somebody added it to one of the articles about Weird Twitter, and the next thing I know Adrian Chen from Gawker is making snide remarks in my interactions tab. AdrianChen [ Bio : "Gawker staff writer. Newinquiry editor. I like watching them simultaneously not give a fuck but give a huge fuck.

It's one of the interesting things about the scene. Follow for news updates about celebrities and pop culture. It's very silly. The whole "weird twitter" thing causes a knee jerk reaction in the form of non-stop eyerolling.

Like "Super Troll Crew" and "Beandog Crew" and all that other silly shit, It's just a bunch of bored people trying to connect with one another. I think he also suffered from the same thing I was complaining about, being taken too seriously. But I wont deny that I was somewhat ticked, I mean, I like the sort of underground undocumented vague nature of whatever this is and I don't want to see fuckyeahweirdtwitter.

Somehow this rumor started on Weird Twitter and eventually "normal" twitter was tweeting about it as if it were true. My favorite reaction from a person who thought it was real was "are you sure it was actually Lucy Lawless or just someone dressed like Xena?

I was sadly asleep when that became a worldwide trending topic. We killed a LOT of celebrities for a while. RIPScottBaio was a stunt in which Twitter users tweeted the hashtag ripscottbaio so many times it became a trending topic, sending fans into mourning.

The prank became national news. A popular trolling style was to tweet at corporate Twitter accounts with increasingly ridiculous complaints in an attempt to get an earnest response. It was soon discovered that XboxSupport replied earnestly to any complaint, making it the biggest target.

The Xbox account is self-aware now; it's not as funny as it once was. I mean, every company using twitter to promote shit absolutely deserves being trolled. Not to get all banksy on you here, but seeing an advertisement is a very tiny theft of your attention and brainpower, and it adds up over time. It's pretty much everyone's responsibility to fuck with companies all the time, and I say this coming from a background where I did social media work for a large company. So the morality of it isn't black and white but there's a definite sense that some commercial behavior needs to be regulated through humiliation.

At first people were just asking them completely audacious things and reveling in getting a legitimate response in exchange, it's a perfect setup for the sort of "one-sided vaudeville act" methodology of trolling corporate twitter accounts.

But at a certain point you could start to tell that whoever was writing for xboxsupport1 was in on the joke?

Though Weird Twitter isn't particularly interested in celebrity culture, there were a few celebrities who became targets, either because they tended to actually reply to people on Twitter such as David Draiman, the singer of Disturbed or because they were generally considered awful, like Nickelback.

Like just tweeting weird stuff and see if you get a response and some of it has been golden, like the tweets to Dog the Bounty Hunter. The problem with trolling is that for every time Dog the Bounty Hunter threatens to put you in a coma or Scott Baio freaks out there are ten times where they just don't respond or whatever.

He used to plug them incessantly. Nickelback blocked me because Jon and I would retweet them being horny to their female fans. Dog The Bounty Hunter blocked me because I took a picture of a piece of poop and told him I spotted his wife out on the street. Stone Cold Steve Austin blocked me and I don't know why. He got one about a contest where Pitbull was teaming up with Walmart. Pitbull will go to any Walmart store in the US that gets the most likes.

So we talked it over, and it seemed natural to ask people to vote for the most remote Walmart we could find, which was Kodiak, AK, and that store ended up winning. Walmart's folks contacted Dave and told him he's welcome to come along to Alaska, but he'd have to pay his own way. They said this would be an "excellent opportunity for you to build your own brand" or some marketing horse hockey.

Then Pitbull's people contacted Dave and told him that Walmart had said not to associate with him because he's "anti-establishment" but Pitbull's folks were like, "we're anti-establishment too. He had a fantastic time. Walmart's awful marketing team probably still hates him though. They got their promotion, David had fun, we all had fun. I think someone else paid a few bucks to link to the pig poop balls pic. The guy deleted it, then he immediately filled his timeline with a raft of banal tweets in the hopes of absolving his precious account.

After I raised a stink about it he refunded my money. Someone from Daily Dot or some other fake news website wrote about it. Actually, Adrian Chen did. It got old, for me, when every other tweet in my feed was ". TacoBell hey my taco had a human foot in it. Chobani's twitter account replied to him, and he immediately replied, "fuck you Chobani". And not in a way that other people were necessarily going to see, it was a direct -message. It was the fucking best.

TricialLockwood: It was literally a tweet from my life, where I had just gone bikini shopping or something. Please look into someone possibly rigging the elections" and then something about Crime in McDonaldland. I don't remember why. It was maybe cough syrup or whiskey.

Anyway, they replied and I retweeted it. Then all these people started doing it. I'm friends with the woman who works for McD now, so that's a cool thing that came from it.

That set off this thing of harassing Xbox Support, etc.