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Dr. TweetLove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the @Ev Bomb
- jrockway 17y agoI love the "Guest Author" byline. I guess their software doesn't support having a name unless you are employed by TechCrunch. I also thought this article was going to be complaining to Ev ("@ev: <whine whine whine>", meaning "at ev: <message for ev>"), but apparently people are using "@foo" to just mean "foo". Good thing they don't use IRC...
- qeorge 17y agoI guess their software doesn't support having a name unless you are employed by TechCrunch. TC runs Wordpress. They could give one time posters their own account, or use a workaround like custom fields. I'm sure they're aware and its intentional. One nice side-effect is that you can easily find all guest posts. apparently people are using "@foo" to just mean "foo" @qeorge has become a convention meaning "qeorge on twitter", but it does arise from the @ reply functionality. It became common to link twitter accounts in a message for context, i.e.: Drinking a @drakesbrewing IPA with @jrockway