Twittering in the Dark: Lance Armstrong, Andy Dick Weigh In

August 7, 2009 at 7:05 am PT

Twitter went silent for a few hours on Thursday, and popular Tweeters had plenty to say about it.

Comedian Andy Dick complained that the outage kept him from blocking a user who had taken a swipe at his celebrity status. Mr. Dick says he usually blocks someone about once a week for writing rude comments, calling himself “an easy target” and the offenders “haters.”

When Twitter wouldn’t let him obstruct a particular insulter Thursday, Mr. Dick persisted. “I tried it about 10 times in a row,” he said, to no avail.

Read the rest of this post on the original site

Tagged with: Andy Dick, celebrity, digital, Digits, Elizabeth Holmes, Emily Steel, frontpage, haters, Internet, The Wall Street Journal, Twitter

Must-Reads from other Websites

Why Apple Should Buy China’s Xiaomi

Panos Mourdoukoutas, Contributor, Forbes

What I Didn’t Say

Paul Graham, Founder, ViaWeb

We Need to Talk About TED

Benjamin Bratton, Journalist, The Guardian

I, Glasshole: My Year With Google Glass

Mat Honan, Senior Writer, Wired

All Together Now

Chris Ware, Writer, The New Yorker

The Sculpture on the Moon

Corey S. Powell and Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Contributors, Slate

About Voices

Along with original content and posts from across the Dow Jones network, this section of AllThingsD includes Must-Reads From Other Websites — pieces we’ve read, discussions we’ve followed, stuff we like. Six posts from external sites are included here each weekday, but we only run the headlines. We link to the original sites for the rest. These posts are explicitly labeled, so it’s clear that the content comes from other websites, and for clarity’s sake, all outside posts run against a pink background.

We also solicit original full-length posts and accept some unsolicited submissions.