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Rappers on Twitter

posted by Doug Pfeffer
Doug Pfeffer
Doug Pfeffer

Developer : Boston

topics: Mobile, Process, Technology Industry, Software, and Programming Languages

on December 06, 2008 at 10:38 PM
I’m not really that big into Twitter, but I am into the fact that MC Hammer posts a ton.
I also think that every stupid observation (“Huh, some rappers have Twitter accounts.”) deserves a website.
Hence forth, rappersontwitter.com is live. Built in a few hours with Merb, DataMapper, and some elbow grease.
PS: Look here, a Photo Booth image of the original sketch that was still on my kitchen table when I wrote this post:

6 comments

That's sweet. My favorite part might be Diplo's user photo being ALF.
On December 09, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Daniel Schutzsmith wrote:
Awesome! I love it so much I twittered about it!
Brilliant showing. Thoughts on what gets created next in line with this? TeachersOnTwitter, GrandparentsOnTwitter or the such. Pownce recently announced the closing of the service http://blog.pownce.com/2008/12/01/goodbye-pownce-hello-six-apart/ having posting instructions on importing you data into Vox, TypePad, or WordPress. Everyones beloved Twitter the clear winner - I smell a take over.

I'm placing my bets on FaceBook.
I just found this site this morning by way of a tweet. I love the whole concept and think you've actually got something that could be successfully duplicated across other industries. The appeal it has for me is that there is one place I can go to find all of the rappers on Twitter. Sure there are things like the Twitterpacks listings and Twellow, but this actually makes it fun to find and discover new users to follow.

Great work on this and props for posting the original sketch mockup. Brilliant!
Sorry guys, http://TweetHop.com kind of takes the cake here.
@Matt - haha. You mean "bites the cake," or "steals the cake":

domain: tweethop.com
created: 24-Apr-2009


Four months later? ;)