Fridays on Twitter usually mean one thing: Being bombarded with “Follow Friday” messages. You know the ones, they contain usually no information other than a bunch of Twitter names followed by the #followfriday hashtag. But this Friday brings a new potential challenger: Robot Pickup Lines.
Thousands of messages are coming across the network tagged with #robotpickuplines. As you might expect, they are suave lines a robot might say to pickup another robot. Here are a few choice ones:
jamesBurton #robotpickuplines what’s your IP address? cause I’d sure love to ping you sometime.
JRadimus #robotpickuplines I was drawn over by your GUI, but I stayed for the data exchange.
BadAstronomer: “Your lips say 0 but your eyes say 1.” #robotpickuplines
paulrandal Hey, baby, ever do it AIBO style? #robotpickuplines
I have a feeling that the countdown to backlash against this meme is already on, so get your witty line out there before you’re ridiculed for it. I, for one, like this meme just because it beats the boring Follow Friday one, and reminds me of Conan O’Brien’s old Pimpbot 5000 routine.
Can’t we do pirate pickup lines instead?
Lol..TechCrunch you site doesn’t needs such news to be posted. :0
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Can’t this MG idiot write about something that is more relevant.
I mean plleeeeaaaaaaaaaase come on SIEGLER… pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease. WTF
This is probably relevant to him and other people who get punked for their lunch money and get kicks out of robot pickup lines. These are the same people that hang out all day on 4chan and anonboard.com so what do you expect?
MG should get a daily post: “Today’s Twitter Trends”
Where he covers the top ten trending hashtags of the day.
I see a lot of potential. Maybe even an appearance on David Letterman.
Haha.. I managed to capture a screenshot of some really funny #robotpickuplines You gotta move the mouse to read ‘em- http://uurl.in/RoboZoom
oh come on techcrunch surely there is some more relevant twitter plugging you can do or something more interesting you can spend your time on than a post like this.
I really hope twitter reaches the milestone of being worth more than people using it to pass time. Then we can all move on to enjoying what techcrunch used to be.
Agreed. Techcrunch used to be a place of quality posts about up and coming start-ups, I’m so sick of Twitter and how much coverage Techcrunch gives them..
I’m fine with Twitter posts that are “business-worthy” and relates back to the industry, but this post and others similar to it have absolutely no place here.
Keep it going TC – You are doing a great job of alienating your faithful long time readers that expect much more than this crap.
Friday musings.. No thanks, I’ll find relevant content elsewhere.
Twitter has peaked already, can’t wait for people to get over this hugely over-hyped site. Twitter to challenge Google, laughable..
Why does everyone whine so much about this?
No one’s forcing you to read every post, there are plenty of good posts on this site. Let’s have Michael come over and personally apologize that he’s not meeting your needs.
It’s not even taking away from content, who cares if they do an extra post about twitter every day? It’s not like there’s not other stuff going up.
Its not about whining over that its a twitter post so much as techcrunch (to me) has never been about a post like this. Yes that its about twitter drives me slightly sideways but getting back on topic.
Its about my right to comment and provide feedback to techcrunch which does a great job and it has been my go to site for tech news. Lately I am not so sure about that anymore.
Having said that on the first page of mashable are 3 posts about twitter and one is about LPGA players not being able to tweet while in play. Seriously….
Please can someone suggest some other sites I can go see….
Depends on what kind of tech news you like. If you’re into intellectual property, go check out TechDirt. For general nerdy crap and a broken UI, go to Slashdot.
Believe it or not, this is the only Twitter post on the front page today… Please don’t make MG annoyed where he will start back to posting 3 Twit posts a day.
Agreed. MG is in New York now too. There are tons of startups here that I’ve never heard about on this blog. Hell, it’s Internet Week here and there hasn’t been one mention of any silicon alley activity. I don’t mind this post so much(its just a fun post), but TC can always cover more startups outside of twitter(btw, according to a recent study nobody really tweets ).
I don’t think it’s so much TechCrunch as a whole writing about such “news”. On the contrary, Michael Arrington’s posts are very well written and matured to the point of this blog; Eric Schonfield’s reports lend themselves to a didactic tone; Roi Carthy’s analysis of funding is fairly interesting and useful. Following the trends in posts about trivial uses of twitter, we see that MG Siegler’s culture driven blogging seems to focus on this topic more than the other reporters (read: reporters). Agree or disagree, going through Mr. Siegler’s posts only supports this contention in an objective manner.
…lol!
On the subject of pickup lines, check out a new site that is just launched.
http://www.pickuppundit.com
Let’s give credit where credit is due … @grantimahara (of mythbusters fame) started the whole thing.
agreed! Glad to see TC still hasn’t updated this.
Here’s my robot pick up line:
skremer #robotpickuplines My name is Michael Arrington and I have this tech blog…
lolz..(really?)
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I think Bugs Bunny has the original robot pickup line right? “She’s mechanical. (pause) So she’s mechanical! (chases after robo-bunny)”. If you don’t remember that one go ask your parents.
Ya true. I loved watching Bugs Bunny when I was in my childhood. But Now I don’t watch Cartoons anymore :-]
This trend was started by accident by Grant Imaraha from Mythbusters
Go-go-gadget-Grant!
I enjoyed this a lot. Thanks.
GMC dpu s–:– a+++ C+++ P+ W+++ w— PS+ G- e+++ r- z? #robotpickuplines
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Robot pickup lines
I think I’m getting idea 
MG, I pity you. It’s sad.
Great job at picking out some of the better ones from the mess out there
For the love of christ, what is this garbage doing on TechCrunch?
TechMeme anyone?
It’s all in good fun… Especially when you can listen to real robots reading Robot Pickup Lines like this: http://bit.ly/TalkRobot
Rock on MG
What’s PCMCIA stand for?
People Can’t Memorize Computer and Internet Acronyms.
(that’s my only tech joke)
I think these pick up lines are hilarious! Funny thing is one of my friends has actually tried out:
“what’s your IP address? cause I’d sure love to ping you sometime.”
To his disappointment he went home alone that night.
How can you not love Conan? these are great.