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The Mountain Goats now on Twitter

chad2501
November 03, 2010 11:19AM | The Mountain Goats now on Twitter
I didn't see this directly posted anywhere, for those not aware you can now follow

@mountain_goats on Twitter

You now have to join Twitter



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/14/2010 02:09PM by chad2501.
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DanMcGee
November 03, 2010 11:30AM | Re: Mountain Goats now on Twitter
I call shenanigans 'cos it's too good to be true


It's just a noise. A noise you hear. When everything is awesome
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DanMcGee
November 03, 2010 11:30AM | Re: Mountain Goats now on Twitter
and I was raised to question everything by default


It's just a noise. A noise you hear. When everything is awesome
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Johnp
November 03, 2010 11:34AM | Re: Mountain Goats now on Twitter
"I know you're changing.
Damn you.
I know you're changing.
God damn you for that."
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Wild Creature
November 03, 2010 12:43PM | Re: Mountain Goats now on Twitter



The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone. - Martin Amis
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Zopilote Steel
November 03, 2010 01:33PM | Re: Mountain Goats now on Twitter
I love/hate how JD can make you want, no, need to read something you never realized existed five minutes ago.

[twitter.com]


[kidsteel.bandcamp.com]
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betamax
November 03, 2010 02:28PM | Re: Mountain Goats now on Twitter
Ah, shit. I bloody hate Twitter...
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Tiggy-Winkle
November 03, 2010 04:56PM | Re: Mountain Goats now on Twitter
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Wild Creature

Jumping the shark to assume that this is legit or jumping the shark on JD's half for finally getting a twitter?

CLARIFICATION PLEASE.

Edit: I hope it's not in response to JohnP's perfect quote.



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sunkenships
November 03, 2010 05:53PM | Re: Mountain Goats now on Twitter
Ahhhh! I have, until today, shunned all forms of social media (I don't even have a facebook, much to the astonishment of my friends). I am now tempted to sign up for Twitter for the sole purpose of "following," John, but remain hesitant, because is there any way we can know if it is truly him?
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dreamboatcaptain
November 03, 2010 06:01PM | Re: Mountain Goats now on Twitter
The fact that the latest tweet is a vegan recipe on the ISKCON site leads me to believe this is either really John, or an impostor who is so good at what they do that it might as well be John.
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betamax
November 03, 2010 06:09PM | Re: Mountain Goats now on Twitter
I've just bookmarked his twitter as i don't want to sign up directly.
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erikdardan
November 03, 2010 08:42PM | Re: Mountain Goats now on Twitter
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sunkenships
Ahhhh! I have, until today, shunned all forms of social media (I don't even have a facebook, much to the astonishment of my friends). I am now tempted to sign up for Twitter for the sole purpose of "following," John, but remain hesitant, because is there any way we can know if it is truly him?
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dreamboatcaptain
The fact that the latest tweet is a vegan recipe on the ISKCON site leads me to believe this is either really John, or an impostor who is so good at what they do that it might as well be John.

I heard about it directly from the Merge feed, so like it or not, seems like it's the real deal.



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shlack
November 03, 2010 08:45PM | Re: Mountain Goats now on Twitter
Also if you listen to the tone of the tweets in the way they are constructed-- it seems pretty clear to me that JD is actually writing them.
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nigel
November 03, 2010 09:25PM | Re: Mountain Goats now on Twitter
So excited about this. I wonder if he will get a "verified" badge? or maybe he's too cool and indie for twitter to give him one.


do I have to hit you over the head with it?
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Achillius
November 03, 2010 10:40PM | Re: Mountain Goats now on Twitter
I feel like the only downside of this is that inevitably there will come a day, weeks or months from now at three in the morning when John will decide to Tweet about cows or something, that my phone will wake me up with a text notification and for a brief moment in the blurry darkness I will, half-asleep and squinting, believe that John has personally sent me a text message. The realization that this cannot possibly be true, and that to have even entertained the thought was lunacy, will maybe crush me a little bit.
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AlongtheVerge
November 03, 2010 11:12PM | Re: Mountain Goats now on Twitter




But my heart tells me to be a skeptic because this might be too much fun to handle....
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Wild Creature
November 03, 2010 11:30PM | Re: Mountain Goats now on Twitter
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Tiggy-Winkle
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Wild Creature

Jumping the shark to assume that this is legit or jumping the shark on JD's half for finally getting a twitter?

CLARIFICATION PLEASE.

Edit: I hope it's not in response to JohnP's perfect quote.

jumping the shark for joining twitter, i'm pretty sure it's him -- i'm really half-joking, as i am an avid twitter user. but i just feel like JD has resisted this sort of advertising for so long, it seems like this is a merge marketer pushing him to do it. maybe i'm wrong, but it just seems a little, i don't know. i don't want to say contrived, but perhaps maybe a little . . . forced?

i do like the recipe thing though. hope he keeps that up. and i do love some of lalitree's twitters (though I think I pissed her off once with some political thing i said), so there you go.


The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone. - Martin Amis
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Wild Creature
November 03, 2010 11:32PM | Re: Mountain Goats now on Twitter
i also think it's cool because the tone is totally JD, whereas a lot of bands and other celebs hire people to twitter for them. . .


The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone. - Martin Amis
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erikdardan
November 03, 2010 11:34PM | Re: Mountain Goats now on Twitter
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Wild Creature
jumping the shark for joining twitter, i'm pretty sure it's him -- i'm really half-joking, as i am an avid twitter user. but i just feel like JD has resisted this sort of advertising for so long, it seems like this is a merge marketer pushing him to do it. maybe i'm wrong, but it just seems a little, i don't know. i don't want to say contrived, but perhaps maybe a little . . . forced?

I dunno, it feels pretty relaxed to me... an outlet for random thoughts, sort of like a micro-version of Last Plane to Jakarta. I certainly didn't get the sense that the primary impetus would have come from outside! Maybe he was just really amused by writing back and forth to Franklin that one time on the Extra Lens account?
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AlongtheVerge
November 03, 2010 11:40PM | Re: Mountain Goats now on Twitter
Yeah I dunno. I definitely feel like what happened was as soon as the ink was dry on merge contract they started in about getting on to that whole twitter thing.....


I just hope it becomes fun for them and not like really lame or oppressive.
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AlongtheVerge
November 03, 2010 11:42PM | Re: Mountain Goats now on Twitter
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erikdardan
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Wild Creature
jumping the shark for joining twitter, i'm pretty sure it's him -- i'm really half-joking, as i am an avid twitter user. but i just feel like JD has resisted this sort of advertising for so long, it seems like this is a merge marketer pushing him to do it. maybe i'm wrong, but it just seems a little, i don't know. i don't want to say contrived, but perhaps maybe a little . . . forced?

I dunno, it feels pretty relaxed to me... an outlet for random thoughts, sort of like a micro-version of Last Plane to Jakarta. I certainly didn't get the sense that the primary impetus would have come from outside! Maybe he was just really amused by writing back and forth to Franklin that one time on the Extra Lens account?


Or this.
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shlack
November 03, 2010 11:55PM | Re: Mountain Goats now on Twitter
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Achillius
I feel like the only downside of this is that inevitably there will come a day, weeks or months from now at three in the morning when John will decide to Tweet about cows or something, that my phone will wake me up with a text notification and for a brief moment in the blurry darkness I will, half-asleep and squinting, believe that John has personally sent me a text message. The realization that this cannot possibly be true, and that to have even entertained the thought was lunacy, will maybe crush me a little bit.

OR you could turn off twitter notifications. Problem solved / lunacy dodged?
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mike5998
November 04, 2010 12:30AM | Re: Mountain Goats now on Twitter
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imagine what this world would have been like, had the fonz humped the shark.


don't clap between movements
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blackliner
November 04, 2010 01:28AM | Re: Mountain Goats now on Twitter
Johnp FTW


i just sit here in my cave and absorb your facts and figures.
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chad2501
November 04, 2010 01:12PM | Re: Mountain Goats now on Twitter
Despite the fact that I definitely jumped the gun after posting the Mountain Goats had a twitter after two tweet (a terrible word) had gone out, it looks like it's legit. I'll quote @owenpallett

"Jumpin Jesus it's about time @mountain_goats joined us!"

I feel like as social networking goes twitters about as honest and bearable a format as it gets, unlike facebook I don't have to see thousands of pictures of people I went to highschool with's babies in different costumes and outfits.

I'm only sad that John's first tweet appears to be directed at Sarah Silverman. I don't know about you guys but everything about that woman grosses me out.
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