Ian Padgham and Jeremy Briggs made this horribly awesome Twitter recruiting video featuring Twitter CEO Dick Costolo. But wait, there’s more, Twitter is actually hiring. Here are the current positions that are open.

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@StealthMountain ; Get The Fuck Out My Mentions Damnit

— Kam P. Ford (@Oo_Kam_oO) January 4, 2012

@StealthMountain IM HIGH FUCK YOU.

— SHE MUST BE GAY!? (@Squeeeeeeeeze) December 25, 2011

@StealthMountain shutup for a pull out da heat on you, might just chip yo booty

— Kevin Boehner (@kevinboehner) December 31, 2011

“@StealthMountain: @JuddApatow I think you mean “sneak peek”” I am on back medication. It looked right to me.

— Judd Apatow (@JuddApatow) January 4, 2012

Stealth Mountain is a Twitter bot that helpfully informs other Twitterers when they mistakenly write “sneak peak,” rather than the correct term, “sneak peek.” The enraged responses from the Twitterverse are delicious.

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Comedy writer Jon Hendren of Something Awful retweeted post-Christmas messages on Twitter from random disgruntled people complaining about the lack of iPhones, iPods, cars and other expensive items under their tree. Song-a-day singer and songwriter Jonathan Mann went one step further and wrote WTF?! I Wanted An iPhone!!!, a humorous song that uses the original tweets as lyrics.

what the fuck, i wanted an iPhone
what the fuck, i wanted a car
fuck you mom, fuck you dad
the economy sucks but i should get what i want

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Toronto filmmaker Graydon Sheppard stars (in drag, no less) with actress Juliette Lewis in Shit Girls Say, a comedic web series based on a Twitter feed of the same name. Sheppard and his partner Kyle Humphrey have been writing the one-liner tweets that poke fun at the ‘shit girls say’ starting back in April 2011.

Freelance writer Giles Turnbull had an idea to respond to his Twitter feed by snail mail using postcards. For each tweet he received from the lot of pre-chosen volunteers, he responded with a mailed postcard and urged them to do the same. The project, Twitter-by-post, “wasn’t an attempt to reject the internet—it was a way of celebrating it”.

Giles described the entire project on The Morning News with plenty of images:

The mechanics of it took a while to work out. Most difficult was replicating my personal Twitter timeline—how could I post the same thing to everyone? Well, by writing it out lots of times.

For those “public” tweets, I wrote the same thing out 15 times, on 15 cards, and sent them to 15 different people. This took every moment as long as you might think; possibly a little longer.

Other tweets were easier to do. The analogue of sending an @reply or a DM is simply sending one card to one person. Much simpler. Soon after starting the project, I settled on these as the best way of communicating.

Timehop is a web service that sends a daily email of the user’s activity on Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and Instagram, from exactly one year ago. Timehop combines the features of three previously separate services: 4SquareAnd7YearsAgo, And7YearsAgram, and pastposts.

The Gentlemen’s Rant: Twitter

Twitter is starting to roll out a simpler new design that will be consistent between the web and mobile versions.

We’ve simplified the design to make it easier than ever to follow what you care about, connect with others and discover something new. You’ll see this new design both on Twitter.com and mobile phones, so that you’ll have a familiar experience any time, anywhere.

Twitter has posted visualization showing how tweets mentioning 11:11 on 11-11-11 spread around the world.

This clip is a visualization of all the Tweets mentioning 11:11 on 11.11.11. Each “1” is a location that moves with the conversation on Twitter. Their scale varies depending on the volume of Tweets posted from the location they represent. You can see the main wave move from right to left, and then a second one that occurred at 11 p.m. around the world.

Mile 17.3: Readers, if one of you has a banana, pls meet me on NW corner of 125th and 1st ave. I am at 80th now.

Mile 23.8: Hallucinating.

I made it!

Mile 26.1: Finished.

The New York Times cartoonist Christoph Niemann not only ran the 2011 New York City Marathon but live-tweeted his on-the-fly drawings of the entire experience. Towards the end of the race, he had to create a new Twitter account because he was apparently over-posting on his original account. His accounts @abstractsunday and @abstractsunday1 house all of his race illustrations.

On November 6 I will attempt to live-draw the New York City Marathon. How will I finish the race? Curled up on the sidewalk in Park Slope? In an oxygen tent on First Avenue? Or actually in Central Park? Before sunset?

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photos and image via Christoph Niemann

Louis C.K. was a guest on Conan last week where talked about why he hates Twitter.

Twitter has launched the new website Twitter Stories, highlighting interesting stories behind tweets. You can submit a story by mentioning @twitterstories or by using the hashtag #twitterstories on Twitter.

Read about a single Tweet that helped save a bookstore from going out of business; an athlete who took a hundred of his followers out to a crab dinner; and, Japanese fishermen who use Twitter to sell their catch before returning to shore. Each story reminds us of the humanity behind Tweets that make the world smaller.

Charity Swearbox is a virtual swear jar that encourages Twitter users to donate to their favorite charity every time they drop a tweet bomb (video). The site was created by James Dow, Rameet Chawla, Jay Gelardi, and app developer Fueled.

It works pretty much the same as a real life swear box. Charity Swear Box is constantly on the look out for naughty swear words on twitter. When you enter your twitter name in the search box on our homepage we check all your past twitterings for any sign of a swear word. We add them all up and give you a suggested amount to donate to your favourite charity.

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MLKSHK co-founder Andre Torrez has just launched “Later, Spam!”, a website that turns reporting Twitter spam into a game.

Wanna help fight spam? Got some annoying spammer in your Twitter mentions? Use this tool to mark them as spam. We’ll keep track of who you’ve marked as a spammer and whether or not Twitter has deactivated their account. Neat!

Twitter made a cute video showing how fast news of earthquakes can spread via Twitter.

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This Twitter cartoon in The New Yorker by Gregory is probably not too far off from reality.

Twitter has released a new user photo gallery feature that shows photos you’ve uploaded in grid and detail views.

Here’s the @laughingsquid photo gallery on Twitter.

Avatar Portraits is an HTML5 Canvas script by web developer Kent Brewster that generates Impressionist-style portraits of Twitter avatars.

Aaron Wood has created a really cool series of Twitter, Facebook and Google+ Propaganda Posters.

See Also:

- Twitter Themed WWIII Propaganda Posters
- Retro Future Advertisement For Twitter
- Retro Future Ads For Facebook, YouTube & Skype

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Eric Fischer created See Something or Say Something, an amazing series of map images showing geotagged Flickr photos and Twitter tweets from around the world.

Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both.

images via Eric Fischer

Bas van de Poel and Daan van Dam aka Wonder Years came up with a clever hack to get creative directors to notice them on Twitter. Here’s how they did it.

Column Five and InboxQ take a look at what US cities might be called if named by Twitter users.

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Peanutweeter is a collection of hilarious and vulgar tweets from the Twitterverse inserted into classic Peanuts cartoons.

UPDATE: Peanutweeter has been shut down due to a DMCA copyright claim.

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images via Peanutweeter

Twitter has announced a new photo sharing feature and improved search. Liz Gannes posted some screenshots of Twitter’s new photo service on the All Things D blog.

Twitter brings the most meaningful information in the world right to your pocket. And, it’s never been easier to get a sense of what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world, or to share what’s happening in your world. Twitter search now delivers more relevant search results, alongside related photos and videos. And, you will soon be able to upload a photo and attach it to your Tweet directly from http://twitter.com.

Buffer is a web and mobile app for Twitter that automatically holds your tweets and posts them on a schedule, preventing tweet fatigue amongst your followers.

We designed Buffer to offer you a both personal and yet more efficient solution to handle twitter.

Buffer makes your life easier with a smarter way to schedule tweets. Work out all your tweets at one point in time during the day. Then fill up your Buffer with your tweets and Buffer schedules them for you. Simply keep that Buffer topped up and you will then be tweeting consistently all day round, all week long.