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Paul Graham is now tweeting
- tlammens 16y agohow do we know it's him?
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- malte 16y agohttp://twitter.com/avibryant/status/22303889283 http://twitter.com/avibryant/status/22303889283
- hnote 16y agoIn Life of Brian Pythons elaborate on this question: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uMJYQ9LKGQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uMJYQ9LKGQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjz16xjeBAA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjz16xjeBAA
- btilly 16y agopg has now responded in this thread at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1640658 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1640658 which is solid evidence that this is real.
- ciupicri 16y agoA verified account would be nice.
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- jacquesm 16y agoIt's funny to watch the follower count shoot up. A lot of HN'ers are out of 'stealth' mode on twitter after this.
- tlammens 16y agothe human addiction to statistics :-)
- jacquesm 16y agoI know... I'm really bad. If I see a counter somewhere I start tracking it. Professional disease.
- sz 16y agoYou should post a plot of it somewhere 8-) (That's not creepy, is it?)
- jacquesm 16y agoIf I had thought of that earlier it would have been useful, but I did not save the timestamps, sorry! That would have been an interesting experiment to do.
- PanMan 16y agohttp://twittercounter.com/paulg http://twittercounter.com/paulg should do that, although its not updated yet
- jacquesm 16y agoThe interesting part would have been the first couple of hours. After a week it's neat but no longer as interesting because you can't really see how fast the news spreads within seconds of making an announcement like this. I really am a dunce for not timestamping.
- amirmc 16y agoLooks like the old owner was a Paul Gardi. http://www.flickr.com/photos/amirmc/4933057153/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/amirmc/4933057153/
- novum 16y agoHis first tweet: http://twitter.com/paulg/status/22300310058 http://twitter.com/paulg/status/22300310058 Pretty sure he meant @avibryant, not @avi.
- avibryant 16y agoIf only I could get @avi for myself as easily as I got @paulg for Paul.
- sz 16y agoHow did you do it? Just emailed the owner?
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- Elite 16y agoHow'd you get paulg?
- novum 16y ago@avibryant works at Twitter.
- yan 16y agoNow if only we can get a way to claim inactive usernames when we aren't famous ..
- kmfrk 16y agoPretty much. I've seen this with Angelina Jolie and pg (how's that for company, Paul?), but not with any of us mere mortals. I also have an account that has never been active that fits my domain - and site - name. It's not the end of the world, but the floodgates have already been opened. An auto-purge feature would also work.
- Tichy 16y agoGood timing, just days after announcing a deal with Facebook :-)
- mrduncan 16y agoThe day after, in fact.
- scruffy323 16y agoWow I don't think I have seen follows grow by double digits live before. Might be a first. At 4pm was just over 300
- thibaut_barrere 16y agoYou could have seen even more digits: http://twitter.com/billgates http://twitter.com/billgates
- truebosko 16y agoPretty sure http://twitter.com/oprah http://twitter.com/oprah was well in the 6 digits in her first day.
- gcampbell 16y agohttp://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/19781239949 http://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/19781239949
- Locke1689 16y agoSome of the 600 best friends you'll ever have! ;)
- nkassis 16y agoI hope he didn't put a real email address on his twitter account cause that just got flooded ;p
- nprincigalli 16y agoNot really, being mailbombed with 1k emails was a dramatic and painful experience in the early 90s, tho. Some ISPs had only POP3 access back then, and many MUAs didn't had a "delete without retrieving" feature.
- mkr-hn 16y agoI wonder how many are people, and how many are followbots.
- d0m 16y agoI remember following PG long time ago.. and then finding out he was a fake.
- joshbert 16y agoAs long as it wasn't a fake account a la @fakecarolbartz or @fakeparamount I'd guess PG wouldn't have that much of a problem with it.
- zcopley 16y agoHe should use identi.ca :)
- noahlt 16y agoSurprising that it took this long. PG's quotes page includes several by "Tara Ploughman", an anagram for "Not Paul Graham". When this was discovered, PG lamented the lack of a socially acceptable way to publish "single sentence essays". Twitter fills the gap nicely.
- samstokes 16y agoNicholas Nassim Taleb (author of The Black Swan) uses Twitter for exactly that purpose: http://twitter.com/nntaleb http://twitter.com/nntaleb "(I use twitter to test philosophical aphorisms/epigrams)."
- DanielBMarkham 16y agoBe still my throbbing heart (down-vote me all you want, this title was hero-worship lame)
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- hnote 16y agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uMJYQ9LKGQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uMJYQ9LKGQ it's just so funny how they use the same verb for it. God bless Pythons for Life of Brian! "I'M NOT THE MESSIAH!!!" "Well I say you are and I should know, I've followed a few."
- randomwalker 16y agoFor those who might be confused by this comment, the original title ended with "... be one of his first followers."
- dscape 16y agoWho?
- dkasper 16y agoWonder how many of those followers are real and how many are spam...
- vaksel 16y agoyou are welcome HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1632531 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1632531
- pontious 16y agoI think it is cool his web tweets are "via web"... very close to viaweb...
- PStamatiou 16y agoGet pg's tweets pushed to your phone with Push.ly and Notifo :)
- Mazy 16y agoOr just use Twitter's SMS feature.
- akulbe 16y agoI don't want to rain on anyone's parade... but how do we know this is the real Paul Graham? Call me a wee bit skeptical.
- pg 16y agoIt's interesting how different it feels from commenting on HN. The box is so tiny, and you can't edit stuff afterwards. But you also don't have to deal with replies or worry about getting downvoted if you say something unPC. I'm still not sure what to use it for, to be honest.
- jacquesm 16y agoThe box on HN already feels tiny! > But you also don't have to deal with replies or worry about getting downvoted if you say something unPC. Or getting banned ;)
- pkaler 16y agoWhat did you have for lunch? Inquiring minds want to know! http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/4/23/ http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/4/23/
- csallen 16y ago
- kfarzaneh 16y ago30 new followers in one minute? PG gets the HN effect!
- grovulent 16y agoWrite Haikus with it: Start a company / listen to your user base / create destruction
- gdltec 16y agoTwitter is great to share links and short messages/news. It is not intended to be used as a conversation tool or long comments. Use it you feel the need for it, or don't.
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- Empact 16y agoI'd like to think I had some small hand in this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1640314 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1640314 i.e. I offered the "thepaulgraham" account, since deleted.
- tyng 16y agoThis is awesome news! I hope Paul will have the time to tweet often
- maximilian 16y agoI now know about convertible notes, so there you go.
- Evgeny 16y agoEven that will not make me create a twitter account ...