• ABOUT
• CONTACT
• SUBSCRIBE
• HOME

Friday, March 16, 2007

Best of SMS Livedating: Twitter Breaking News Again

filed under: SMS Livedating by Melissa Gira | Leave a Comment

We’ve spent too much time this week actually dating to liveblog our dating, but something we first were tipped to via Twitter — you remember, Nick Douglas’s stirring endorsement of condoms — we hear again now via Twitter (on Lux’s phone, to be exact, standing next to me) that the San Francisco Chronicle has picked up the bit.

They forgot one important thing, of course, meriting Nick’s vital clarification: DISCLAIMER: I USE THEM.

Oh, old media. (You can get the Chron link via Twitter if you really, really want to.)

Friday, February 16, 2007

Best of SMS Livedating: Twitter Still Waiting To Bring Sexy Back

filed under: Web Sex Index, SMS Livedating by Melissa Gira | 4 Comments

We’re still feeling out Twitter’s utility for reporting sex and pre-sex (and the post-game, too) live.

Based on these samples from the ramp-up to the weekend (and the comedown from Thursday’s hangovers), I wonder, is all the action going down among “updates only to friends right now”, or is the eros of Twitter elsewhere?

True, there’s something sweet in the juxtaposition (based on its current userbase and its current hivemind) of frantic calls for wordpress templates and reportbacks from emo Skype calls to long distance lovers. But does knowing what geeks eat make us want to ring them up for a date?

Or, maybe, can we only take the sexual pulse of Twitter from within the hot, pumping context of our own feeds?

Our Sexerati challenge to to you, then, ramping up to next week’s report: seduce us in 160 characters or less. You don’t have to be too obvious; it’s better if you aren’t. Like Liz Henry direct messaged me, flirting on Twitter all about ‘plausible deniability.’

Friday, February 9, 2007

The Best of Livedating SMS: Twitter Edition

filed under: SMS Livedating by Lux Nightmare | 1 Comment

First there was the web.

Then there was text messaging.

It was only a matter of time until these two media merged, spawning a new generation of web2text applications.

Of these applications, one of the most fascinating (at least for the purposes of this feature) is Twitter, which ultimately functions as a broadcasting/archiving system for text messages (or, if you prefer, LiveJournal in 160 characters or less).

For those interested in examining a cross-section of Twitter users, the site provides a public timeline of the last 100 updates posted to Twitter. While many of these tend to be boring — mundane, even — you do occasionally get to watch something saucy unfold:

twitteruser: browses Craig’s List, just for free porn.
twitteruser (31 minutes later): Awesome! Babeland is having a mixer tomorrow.
twitteruser (2 minutes later): wonders how loosely “single” is interpreted.

Or this:

twitteruser: [name redacted], what are you doing?
twitteruser (1 minute later): where do you live you hot thing you?

And occasionally, you get a bit of dating philosophy:

twitteruser: pssssha….. guitars aren’t girls. they’re too easy to play.

Want to help make Twitter sexier? Add Sexerati as a Twitter friend, and keep us updated about your dates! Our favorite updates will get posted here every week… and who knows, maybe we’ll even send you a pony.

Friday, February 2, 2007

The Best of Livedating SMS: Phone Cam Edition

filed under: SMS Livedating by Lux Nightmare | Leave a Comment

We all know that beer is a social lubricant… but what happens when you’re out and you start to think you might be in need of that other kind of lube?

We at Sexerati highly recommend considering the benefits of many types of lubricant… but we at Sexerati are also accustomed to receiving photo texts like the following:

On date: Lube + beer = fun times!