- RT @dougal: VISHUS ATTAK KITTEH GARDS MAH SERVR! http://bit.ly/134XUb #heh #
- Just noticed the ALA's Banned Book Week has started! http://is.gd/3KBf1 #
Tag: Twitter
- Just realized I didn't have a replies/mentions column open in Tweetdeck. Oops. #
- Computer scientists model Rome in a day, using 150K Flickr images http://is.gd/3q6zI #amazing #popsci #
- What Teabagger Signs Say Vs. What They Mean http://is.gd/3xnc8 (via @lesjenkins) #
- Will Ferrell's sticking up for the "real" victims — the super-rich health insurance executives: http://bit.ly/sW8uN #sickofit (via @MoveOn) #
- A real-life Calvin & Hobbes moment? http://bit.ly/16LuEq (via @DesignerDepot) #
- RT @BadAstronomer: Am I angry? *Damn right I'm angry!* http://is.gd/32DQ4 #
- RT @jcauditor: No one should die because they cannot afford health care or go broke because they get sick. If agree please tweet this today #
While working on my changes to the VectorLover theme I happened to look at CoffeeBear’s stats; where I noticed somethng odd. An ancient post (all the way back to ’04!) was receiving a couple of hits from Twitter of all places. Now I’ll admit the post was not my best piece of writing — in fact it was mudune and rather dull — so I was curious as to why it got somebody’s attention.
I checked out the tweet but that didn’t make any sense. It didn’t help me to figure out what was going on that the tweet used is.gd to shorten the URLs. Eventually I realized that the person who tweeted my post just made a typo. Yup, they used a lower-case “k” in the shortened URL when they should have used an upper-case “K”. That’s all it took to send their traffic my way vs. their intended destination. Oh well, I guess nobody really is listening to me reading my posts. *sigh*