{"id":4139,"date":"2007-12-06T10:50:53","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T18:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/12\/06\/one-hundred-and-forty-peeps\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T08:43:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T16:43:32","slug":"one-hundred-and-forty-peeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/12\/06\/one-hundred-and-forty-peeps\/","title":{"rendered":"One Hundred and Forty Peeps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:4441,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/twitter.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5704,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/mrontemp.blogspot.com\\\/2007\\\/12\\\/tweeple-are-crazy.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260308135136\\\/https:\\\/\\\/mrontemp.blogspot.com\\\/2007\\\/12\\\/tweeple-are-crazy.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2118,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/djwudi&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20210905170737\\\/https:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/djwudi&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-03 22:15:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:500},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 19:33:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:520},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 15:42:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:520},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 09:15:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:520}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 09:15:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:520},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5705,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/Twitterrific&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;pending&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5706,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/wilw&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>So far, I&#8217;m a little unimpressed with the leading contender for a collective noun for &#8216;those people I follow\/am following on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/\" title=\"Twitter\">Twitter<\/a>,&#8217; which appears to be &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/mrontemp.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/tweeple-are-crazy.html\" title=\"Ontario Emperor: The Tweeple are Crazy\">tweeple<\/a>&#8216;. To my ears, it&#8217;s rather silly, and a rather glaringly obvious portmanteau.<\/p>\n<p>Myself, I&#8217;d much rather reappropriate an already existing bit of slang, and mash together &#8216;people&#8217; and &#8216;tweet&#8217; into &#8216;<strong>peeps<\/strong>&#8216;. It&#8217;s already culturally (more or less) accepted slang, is already being used to denote a group of people (&#8220;my peeps&#8221;), and as a nice little bonus, is also onomatopoeia for the chirp (or tweet) of a smallish bird, so it fits right in with the general theme of Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>So you all can go on with your bad selves and your &#8216;tweeple.&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/djwudi\" title=\"Twitter \/ djwudi\">Me<\/a>, I&#8217;m going to be hanging with my peeps!<\/p>\n<p>(And on a slight tangent: I&#8217;d be amused if, since Twitter imposes a limit of 140 characters for tweets, they <em>also<\/em> imposed a 140 &#8216;character&#8217; limit for your contacts. Not sure if that should work out as 140 followers <em>and<\/em> 140 followees [280 total contacts in both directions], or 70 each, or perhaps just 140 total allowed and spread them out however you wish. Realistically, best would be a limit to only <em>following<\/em> 140 &#8216;characters&#8217;, but allowing for an unlimited number of followers [so that organizational Twitter accounts like <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Twitterrific\" title=\"Twitter \/ Twitterific\">Twitterific<\/a> or high-profile personalities like <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/wilw\" title=\"Twitter \/ wilw\">Wil Wheaton<\/a> can still be followed by all those who want to]. Of course, this version of the 140 character limit won&#8217;t happen, but it works in my head. Really, how many individuals can most people <em>really<\/em> keep track of full-time?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, I&#8217;m a little unimpressed with the leading contender for a collective noun for &#8216;those people I follow\/am following on Twitter,&#8217; which appears to be &#8216;tweeple&#8217;. To my ears, it&#8217;s rather silly, and a rather glaringly obvious portmanteau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-4139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}