We were tweeting before Twitter

the groutch

anyone else remember Tweet.ie?
when Boards was down for "maintenance" back in the day, we used to all congregate there.

admiralofthefleet

no

kfallon

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

no

What he said! How long ago are we talikng?

Piste

Hah I remember that, that was a long time ago. Must have been 3/4 years ago.

Scioch

I tried to congregate there now and I ended up back here. Fcukin thing sucks !

admiralofthefleet

Piste wrote: »

Hah I remember that, that was a long time ago. Must have been 3/4 years ago.

im on boards 6 years and this thread is the first ive heard of it

Scioch

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

im on boards 6 years and this thread is the first ive heard of it

Maybe everyone was really just trying to ditch you.

GoldFour4

I typed tweet.ie into chrome and it redirected me to boards ?

Xavi6

Yep, remember it well.

Fromthetrees

Since when did 3/4 years become a long time ago?

af_thefragile

Why did the hipster burn his tongue?

Because he drank his coffee before it got cool!




/getscoat

Washington Irving

Twitter was around 3/ 4 years ago

Miss Lockhart

So, was Tweet.ie around before Twitter?

If so, is the name similarity just coincidence?

4zn76tysfajdxp

Boards used to be a lot more bloated with weird little side-sites like an email service, Tweet, the Biki and all the different boards.uk/nz/usa stuff. I guess they took it all down because they were shite.

I miss the biki and tweet.ie. It was a lot of fun when people would chat while boards was down for maintenance.

Probably fell victim to the boards hack a few years ago - the international sites went at the same time.

BlitzKrieg

I remember tweet.ie

It was during the dark days when boards.ie's server couldnt handle it's popularity and was going down quite often

4zn76tysfajdxp

It's funny how much the site's changed in the last two or three years. Nobody pisses off in a strop anymore because the site's gotten all "corporate." No big goodbye threads when people move on either. They all just quietly close their accounts and slink off into anonymity. There aren't any sitewide scandals either like with the flight of the Poker forum users or whatever happened with the Lolocaust forum. The average user nowadays just doesn't have the same unhinged attachment to the site as the old guard did.

admiralofthefleet

Leslie Loud Dirt wrote: »

It's funny how much the site's changed in the last two or three years. Nobody pisses off in a strop anymore because the site's gotten all "corporate." No big goodbye threads when people move on either. They all just quietly close their accounts and slink off into anonymity. There aren't any sitewide scandals either like with the flight of the Poker forum users or whatever happened with the Lolocaust forum. The average user nowadays just doesn't have the same unhinged attachment to the site as the old guard did.

still going strong

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

I've often heard of the poker scandal but I didn't witness it... Could somebody link me some relevant threads?

chin_grin

So when boards went down it just directed to the twitter account for boards.ie?

Amazing.

Also I do vaguely remember this...

BlitzKrieg

chin_grin wrote: »

So when boards went down it just directed to the twitter account for boards.ie?

Amazing.

Also I do vaguely remember this...

It wasnt a twitter account it was a sort of a chat page custom made for boards while it was down where you could leave tweet like messages and a message from devore or someone kept people in the loops on what was happeneing

Seaneh

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

still going strong

He meant when Chris and a few others left the site.

delta_bravo

If I remember tweet.ie was heavily spammed any time I went onto it. Only realised now the biki is gone. It was popular around 2004-2006 I think. Trailed off then.

What was the lolocaust scandal? Remember a load of stuff about poker and plenty of soccer things but not lolocaust one.

Snowbat

I vaguely remember it. The Wayback Machine has some snapshots.... looks like it was registered by Boards Ltd. in February 2008. Twitter launched in July 2006.

Mr Magners

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

I've often heard of the poker scandal but I didn't witness it... Could somebody link me some relevant threads?

This^

Gummy Panda

the groutch wrote: »

anyone else remember Tweet.ie?
when Boards was down for "maintenance" back in the day, we used to all congregate there.

I remember it. Someone pretended to be Degsy, slagged off cult and got him sitebanned until it was all cleared up.