My fifteen microseconds of not-actual-fame

[andrewducker]

Around 10am this morning I saved off the link to Google's April Fool "Really Advanced Search".

It has, since then, been retweeted about 41 times, and the link has been clicked on 7.926 times. Which, as my previous record was under 200, pretty much blows my mind.

Of course, this doesn't actually change my life in any way, I think only about three people have started following me, and nobody will even remember it within a few hours/days.

But still, it boggles me slightly.

Have some meerkats and curious squirrel monkeys from today's trip to the zoo:




(By the way, I am _loving_ the functionality whereby Dropbox on my Android phone automatically uploads any photos I take, which means that by the time I get to my computer the photos are already there waiting for me. Coupled with the unlimited uploads I get from GiffGaff it means that my photo-posting is pretty much frictionless.)

Comments

[zz]

Dropbox on my Android phone automatically uploads any photos I take

ooh, handy for situations where the filth try to nick people's phones and/or delete photos, too.

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

Huh, didn't know Dropbox did that. Downloading the app now.

[soon_lee]

With great power comes great responsibility.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Imagine if it was something you were actually saying being retweeted, rather than a link!

I hadn't realised that bit.ly gave QR codes. That's pretty neat.

[andrewducker]

I don't really use Twitter to talk to people. I find it a pretty awful medium for that.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

I know you don't, but the internet credibility that some people associate with being the person to pass on a link or to link to something quicker than others is something I find strange. I generally assume -you- don't actually care, but instead you're just deathly afraid you're posting links and no one clicks them, hence your interest in being able to track this, but I know lots of people seem to care.

I'm a bad example, since I use it mostly as personal storage rather than to garner followers, but if I find something that someone else has posted on Tumblr, say, then unless they actually -created- it in some way or if it's obscure enough that they had a hand in getting it online and available, like hell am I reblogging something and showing where it came from. There's no sense to me in advertising that I got an image from xXxhappysmilegirlxXx's Tumblr if it's just some random image -she- found online in the same way I find random stuff. I might as well just post the image itself without referencing her, to my mind.