POSTED AT 12:20 AM September 17, 2007

Hey, look, it's Boing Boing on Twitter!

You can now follow Boing Boing headlines via Twitter if you are so inclined: Link .

Do keep in mind that there are generally around 20-40ish posts on any given day at BB, so that means 20-40ish tweets from us a day will show up in your "following" thread. Yes, we're update sluts.

Tech notes: I set this up in a jiff with Twitterfeed, an excellent and free service created and hosted by a fellow named Mario, who maintains a blog here.

(Special thanks to Evan Williams and Biz Stone from Twitter, and to Ivan Kanevski from Federated Media for turning me on to twitterfeed)

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Flying Squid | #1 | 00:34 on Mon, Sep.17 | Reply

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Or, I can just follow them by coming to Boing Boing...

cha0tic | #2 | 04:26 on Mon, Sep.17 | Reply

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So you bought the name from the person that was cyber squatting it? I looked for a boingboing Twitter the other week & found an "If you want to buy this..." message.

Xeni Jardin | #3 | 04:56 on Mon, Sep.17 | Reply

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We did not buy the name. That guy did something that was a violation of Twitter's TOS (squatting/poaching/selling names), and lost control of the BoingBoing "domain." We then obtained it.

Stacyj | #4 | 06:30 on Mon, Sep.17 | Reply

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Ha, that's actually rather cool, I'm glad to hear that Twitter isn't tolerating cybersquatting. Good for them (and as for you guys, carry on with those slutaliciously frequent updating ways! I never realized how addicted I was until I started feeling deeply irked by the approach of the weekend and its concomitant lessening in the steady stream of BB posts =P

chrisbloom7 | #5 | 14:55 on Tue, Sep.30 | Reply

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Noticed today that your Twitter account has been suspended? WTF?

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