JNez@thirtydaes.2010

bleeding followers like i done gone & upset leona

must be the real talk my tweets are putting on ya

jnez ain’t for e’erbody & my bio done warned ya

left the back door cracked so go ‘head; begone ya

fellow twitter fam 4eva_lex & i came up with twoddlers, an endearing moniker for twitter fam whose dob is after nightline’s profile of twitter on 2.25.09. welcome all twoddlers…pay attention to etiquette and we hope you all have a long, successful twitter life

my twitter d.o.b. is october 2007. i was as intimidated with the blank blue screen as anyone that first night i signed up. abandoned it after 2 or 3 days feeling overwhelemed when i saw how many followers people had. i had no clue of who to follow or how to go about finding them.

but i returned about 2 months later, using twitter as an echo chamber for my thoughts. eventually, by perusing the public timeline, i found more and more interesting people to follow, who would in turn reply to and follow me, which led to a growing twitter family that numbers nearly 1600 now. twitter encouraged me to start this blog here and after one year, i couldn’t have predicted the success i’d have

so thank you, twitter & all of you who have cared enough about my random thoughts to follow and stay with me on this here blog for one year. happy one year anniversary family & friends! and welcome twoddlers of all persuasions to twitter!

• back home just in time 2 see serena vs. venus @ the us open. i’m going for serena but i hope she’s classier in defeat than she was last time #
• @desireedevine hey there @ceecee916 #
• @D_Rox hey you. i like them both too. wish they didn’t have to meet so early #
• @desireedevine i hope it was good thoughts lol. i’m great. what are you up to tonight? #
• @ceecee916 class was pretty good thanks. how’s the belly? #
• @ceecee916 awww…can’t wait to hear when the baby’s born. when are you due? #
• @D_Rox yeah and the luck of the draw. well at least one will advance, yes #
• @desireedevine oh that works for sure. there is a lot to do here for sure! #
• wow first set tiebreak for the williams sisters. good match so far #
• did anyone sample terence howard (yes, you read correctly) new cd yet? i haven’t but i think i wil #
• whoa! serena wins the first set #
• @notsoblonde lol i will #
• @ampalm i figured it would be blah. not sure how he’d fit in. how’s the guitar playing though? #
• @D_Rox bls is playing a cut from the cd? i think i’ll just check the itunes samples #
• @couturefreak lol…guess it’s up to me then. *puts on mask and gloves* #
• if you put it out before you think you’re there, magical things suddenly happen. you’re already there! #
• wait..i’m missing rudy guiliani’s speech at the cvntn? there was a time when my mancrush on him was alarming. i imagined him less malovolent #
• but rudy guiliani was revealed to be horribly malevolent. what could i have possibly been thinking? #
• uh-oh. & now he’s gonna mock barack obama. guiliani…there was never any admiration between us…ya hear? that’s why you’re not the nominee #
• @geekandahalf i was a disillusioned, naive young man. i renounce everything about my affiliations at that time lol #
• yeah rudy is gonna need extra security after this. not a good look guiliani. but then again, you’re just playing your part too, aren’t you #
• if rudy guiliani’s own children are estranged from him, he must be a pretty alienating, angry person #
• lol judy nathan guiliani. she came off lol. but they ripped her to shreds during the early primary and that sinked rudy’s campaign for sure #
• at least no combover on guiliani. those of you who were not new yorkers in the 90′s were spared his constant, hostile media presence. #
• holy frack was that bristol’s baby daddy? he is real easy on the eyes… #
• @karsh lol don’t he? wow…but the curly locks were hot too though right? #
• bristol’s baby daddy looks like john mayer. #
• ok all things considered, from first glance…sarah palin is a knock out!!! #
• @notsoblonde lmao!!! #
• @bun_ebombshell yeah that movie great! soul man is one of my all-time faves. he does look like c. thomas howell. #
• @karsh lol for real #
• yep…the entire palin family is easy on the eyes. no wonder bristol got knocked up #
• bristol palin is the new becky from Roseanne. don’t she look like a becky though? #
• so heather is the sister palin yelled to “oh girl no he didn’t. we gon’ fix that dude, trust” one late night a few years back huh? #
• gotta give it to the republicans though. they’re handing it to obama, race aside. interesting strategy. the gloves are off #
• sarah palin is ineffective and clearly out of her element. she’s giving a book club speech to a national audience. she is nowhere near ready #
• oh wow just turned to the us open and the second set between venus and serene is in a tiebreak now. i won’t be returning to sarah palin #
• wow serena wins. she’s in the semi’s now. what a competitive match. the best so far for sure #us open #
• @microscopiq serena did! venus wasn’t prepared for that. yay! serena! #
• serena was very poised and graceful in her victory speech. go williams sisters! #
• morning all #
• Here waiting for the second (and last) class of the day to start. Hope I can get a wireless signal on my laptop here #
• finished cooking, cleaning and sorting laundry. feeling tired but so, so ready for football tonight! mccain’s speech, not so much. #
• @kanyewest i was hoping you’d release that version as a single after the grammy awards. i really got into your performance of it #

• morning all! back up with all of you at this unnatural hour getting the kids ready for school. Make it a good one #
• good god. kelly ripa is looking gorgeous on gma right now! #
• @davidjhinson lmao! i guess looking good, cause she does it well #
• back home from class #
• headed to pick up the girls from school. i hope there’s lots of correspondence from teachers & administrators. i love reading that stuff #
• my god i look a fright. ashy knees & ankles, mandals a 1/2 size too big, cargo shorts w/ bird poop from saturday & i havent shaved in 2 wks #
• I went to class looking like this this morning & won’t do anything about it for the eve class either. Oh well #
• @notsoblonde umm…I think I am. I mean I guess. I just don’t much care about the way I look. Hopefully that changes soon #
• @TreoBenny LOL for sure. I’ll pull it together soon #
• @ImHIVPositive nap time is always good. Welcome to my twitter fam. Now I have someone to share tcell counts & med side effects #
• @notsoblonde thanks! The house is pretty clean so I can afford to slack up on the appearance. #
• @tru_ble hehe. I’ll get it together. You finished sorting through those emails yet? #
• Finished filling out school administrative forms for 3 children. Dropped the girls off at their mom’s & now headed to my evening class #
• Tonight’s my alcohol/drug class. Taught by a recovering addict and attended by a current alcoholic (me). Let’s see if it helps me stay sober #

record television ratings were confirmed today for nbc’s 2008 summer olympic coverage. The Beijing games have averaged over 30 million viewers over its first three days, according to Nielsen Media Research. This is a significant increase over the Olympic Games four years ago and nearly triple the audience the networks have attracted with summer programming so far.

The record viewership has no doubt been fueled by US swimmer Michael Phelps’ incredible run at Olympic History. The 23 year old swimming phenom has already won 5 gold medals in these Olympic Games to add the 6 he’d won in 2004. At 11 gold medals, Phelps is the athlete with the most in Olympic history. He’s got a chance to increase his lead in 3 more events before the games conclude next week.

Phelps aside, the Olympic Games this year are undergoing a sort of renaissance. The culture has always rallied around sporting events and the Olympic Games are the world’s best competing against each other. So high ratings shouldn’t be a surprise, should they?

But television viewing habits have also been dramatically altered from Olympic Games and years past. Many decry the dearth of quality summer programming options the networks have made available over the past few years. Consequently, there has been a massive shift to the internet as THE entertainment and news medium since the 2004 games aired. And it is, in fact, the collective experience sharing so well-fostered by the internet that has ignited the increase in television viewers this year.

The extravagant opening ceremony last Friday was dramatically chronicled on the popular microblogging site twitter. the broadcast was the week’s (and summer’s) highest-rated program since the American Idol finale back in May. The buzz grew on twitter all weekend as messages, or tweets referencing the Olympic Competitions dominated the twitterverse. this online interest in the olympics has only grown stronger over the first 3 days of this week, as all internet social networks are compelled to share in amazement while watching mesmerized by Michael Phelps’ record setting Olympic drive.

The Summer Olympics have returned at the perfect opportunity to unite online and real world communities around the beginning of what will be a bonanza of high-profile events scheduled for the end of summer. The ceremonies continue throughout the week and this weekend before concluding next Friday. So if you’re not tuning in, or connecting with people who are, get with it!

twitter’s popularity has skyrocketed this year. with the avalanche of twits referencing the enormously popular 2008 Summer Olympics, the micro-blogging site has become THE destination for real-time sharing of high-profile events.

if you’re not following me on twitter, you’re missing out. the diversity represented in my community of followers is staggering. august only gets hotter in the second half; check out this schedule of high-profile events that will be chronicled on twitter:

august 8-24: 2008 Summer Olympics: Beijing

august 16: madonna 50th birthday jam

august 23: us open begins

august 25: democratic national convention begins

august 25: aaliyah memorial

august 25: the miseducation of lauryn hill turns 10

august 26: hillary clinton’s democratic convention address

august 28: barack obama’s nomination speech

august 29: michael jackson 50th birthday jam

august 30: nyc tweetup