It’s inevitable. A platform becomes popular, gains mainstream appeal, and the race to the bottom begins. We saw this happen with the iPhone, where a plethora of farting applications hit the store. But it happens, at least in part, because people enjoy the humorous, crude app every once in a while. The success that iFart and other apps of that ilk point to this — or at least to their novelty. Now Twitter is getting it’s own gross apps. But they’re not wasting their time talking about farting — they’re going right to the shitter.
Twishitter is a service meant for one purpose: To collect people’s tweets while in the bathroom. If you use Twitter, you’ve probably done it, or seen someone at a bar doing it. Now, there’s an app to follow all the action live.
To use it, simply include either “@twishitter” or “#poo” in your tweets, and they’ll appear in the Twishitter timeline. Of course, I’m looking at the site right now and it appears that it’s just aggregating any tweet that includes words like “crap,” which most of the time is completely unrelated. You can easily retweet Twishitter tweets from the site, or leave comments below the tweets on the site itself.
Yeah, it’s stupid, and yeah it’s gross, but at least the creators have a sense of humor.
Here’s a few choice bits from the site:
- “25% of all tweets are twooted via twitter whilst the twitterer is on the twoilet… ~ Fartner Independent Research”
- “When I use public restrooms, I love the thrill of tapping the feet of those occupying neighboring stalls. I also enjoy twishittering!” – Senator Larry Craig
- “Michelle and I TwiShitter all the time from the White House.” – Barack Obama
It also, hilariously, has an ad for ExecTwshitter — ripping into ExecTweets, the Twitter service for execs that was the first third-party to be sponsored in ads on Twitter.
apps on iPhone , apps on face book , apps on twitter..I think the number of platforms offering the users to build app is huge and everyone wants to hit the million$$$$ jackpot.
We have more apps than the people whom we know or who are really interested on what we do day to day basis.
Web 2.0 , churn out something meaningful.
Twitter from the shitter.
Wow! What else is going on with Twitter!?
Honestly this is nothing new. There are whole forums written entirely from the crapper, like http://www.f2bb.com and the like. Complete despicable garbage. The internet needs to be regulated and stuff like this cleaned up.
“twooted” ???
I thought the past tense of the verb was tweeted. It beats “twatted” which Colbert says.
We need to figure which one is the right terminology soon…
Twatted…
makes sense. do they offer a widget.
NaturalLocator.com – nature reigns
commitsuicidelocator.com — why won’t you just go away!
Why is this on Techcrunch? This is simply stupid. This guy *thinks* he’s funny, but he’s actually the real joke.
Your reaction is hilarious.
I have to agree. This is really stupid. Not funny – just stupid.
TechCrunch, could you please stop this shit and talk about something useful? It appears as if you are bribed to talk anything about Twitter. Even if it’s all about shit and toilets .. Holy Crap!
I completely agree. Techcrunch is full of shit posts these days. In fact, I searched for “TechCrunch Shit” in http://www.boilingpage.com (the real-time search engine, one of the useful twitter apps) and here’s an interesting article:
http://www.boil...lts&n=24442
TechCrunch Rocks! funny Twitter app.
Hey Emma Beld
TechCrunch doesn’t talk about everything on Twitter…they haven’t talked about our site.
@techcrunch thou art perilously
close to being blocked because of this foul, lame, tacky post.
please
i loves this app, as i love Iphones fart app very much. i will trying to use this daily everyday while shittering.
Seriously? Do we really want to know about this? There are a lot more worthy applications being made out there which really need the press – unlike this #poo.
Really? Name one. They all suck. Twitter is complete garbage and this app does nothing good or bad for it.
Surprisingly… as of now, TwiShitter has not raised any venture crapital funds
crazy
I love it, a bit of humor, guys take a chill pill.
Check out Poop Stream also
A sense of humor is a good thing, even in the tech sector. Hey, with all the layoffs, it’s a necessity these days.
#Poo
“With a capital P, because Poo is case-sensitive.”
Twitter news on Techcrunch needs it own subdomain. This is pretty ridiculous.
The following news outlets have found PersonRating.com newsworthy since we launched last month: Ars Technica, ABC News, Fox News, Der Spiegel, The Register, The Globe & Mail, TechFlash, King5 News (NBC), and many more. TechCrunch is to be congratulated for having the high editorial standards to refrain from covering our site. If you did, there would be less room for poo talk.
Hey, you can also “stumble” #Poo http://stumblet...ets.php?tag=poo
aaaaaand…. you went there.
worst post ever.
wow, quite the distinction!
This “writing” is awful. I can overlook it’s/its confusion, but really:
“To collect messages from people tweets while in the bathroom”
lol… this is exactly why I bought the URL tweetmyfinger.com not that I will ever make the app.. one of those moments where you wish you didn’t have your paypal hooked to godaddy…
Is this friggen serious? How is this news?
I can’t stand this twitter stuff so much that I made a greasemonkey script to filter it out. http://www.iizu.../notwit.user.js . Enjoy.
Anyone who admits to twittering on the can is definitely an oversharer!
Genius!!
This would be a great idea…if Penny Arcade hadn’t gotten there first.
http://www.penn...omic/2008/4/23/
And of course there’s also a group of Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) attendees who have adopted the name Twitter Shitters (TSers for short) – across Ning and Facebook.
This, from just over a year ago:
http://www.penn...omic/2008/4/23/
So much to poop. So little time.
whats next ? Tweetfuck/tweeshag ? Or its already exists? If its not I want my royalties.
David
LMAO. Love it.
People that dont get the humor need to ***ing relax!
The guy who made this app is a terrible writer. Do they not teach grammar in school anymore?
Sure, this guy made an app in hopes of showcasing his comedic skills. I’m sorry though, it’s just not very well executed and not that funny either.
It would not surprise me in the least if this guy was unemployed.
It’s called the bathroom tweet and I invented it. I stopped a year go after too many people complained.
http://twitter....tatus/497193892
They even made a shirt which I proudly wear.
http://www.zazz...820268588612112
I still take full credit for starting this and challenge everyone to find a “bathroom tweet” prior to May of 2007. I think #poo is a huge turn-off
Wow congratulations, you really made something of yourself. Hopefully your contributions to the internets will earn you some internets money!
I’ve made millions in Internet dollars!
why did you write this article? this app is crap (literally) and not even a bit fun as the fart apps were.
but you just gave them a new audience. there are hundreds of twitter-related, and unrelated sites out there. it’s a shame wasting the time of your visitors like that.
And since this thread is really shitty, i think i ‘m allowed to spam it: we’re looking for beta-testers for our new service, SocioCal: http://sociocal.com It’s basically a calendar that works like twitter. All comments welcome
seriously? another calendar app? as if there aren’t enough of them… good luck monetizing that…
Put whatever spin on this service that you would like but in the end it’s simply stupid.
Hey TC, How about profiling http://www.twitstore.com
Lotsa useless sites get diapers for no reason. Indue time, credibility matters. TC is losing it ever so slowly.
Re-focus on your posts. Seriously. Compare TC from 2 years ago to now. Need I say any more!
i ‘m with you 100%
Laptop spelled backwards is potpal, and it serves as your companion when you are on the throne.
ah shit are you shitting me ?
Holy crap! You can’t make this ship up!
Ahhh shit! What I meant to write:
Holy crap! You can’t make this SHIT up!
Twishitter — for me to poop on
If you think this site is funny, you may very well be fucking retarded.
Yet another shitty app for people to check out and forget about in 3 days…
Hilarious? That video is hilarious? Let me guess…you also love the comic stylings of Charlie Sheen on Two and Half Men.
I see you’re still making pointless and stupid videos.
You are a complete narcissistic.