Bathroom Tweet (I started it) {UPDATED}
August 1, 2008 4:05 pm Uncategorized
I wanted to get one thing straight before people start throwing around credit. I came up with two things that caught on in tech. In 1994, when I was browsing AOL and Yahoo! chat rooms on my Windows 3.1 box, I started saying “meh.” and it stuck. I see it everywhere now and someone even bought me a t-shirt that says “meh.”
The other thing I started is “bathroom tweet” and it stuck. I started posting bathroom tweets in April of 2007. People hated it at first and there was a bit of an uprising for it. People hated it so much that I stopped but there was even a point when a developer came to me and said we should start a site that tracks individuals Twitter users’ bathroom schedules. The way it would work is it would scan twitter for bathroom tweet and put that on a page for that person’s username and it would show their “schedule” day to day with graphs. I didn’t go for it but I started bathroom tweet and that’s that.
Today, I see that someone has created a shirt that says “Bathroom Tweet” I’m not asking for a cut of profits but I do hope that this doesn’t get out of hand and someone else gets credit for doing bathroom tweet first. I may have lost the battle on who gets credit for inventing “meh.” but I will not lose the battle on who invented the bathroom tweet!
David Knighton posts a bathroom tweet in honor of me
bathroom tweet mentioned during my live podcast on February 11th 2008.
from kaydub . So, I know @adamjackson was maybe the pioneer of the bathroom tweet, but a justintv bathroom visit, with audio, TMI dude!
from penny-arcade 
from jestutripup
from igerard 
fromlauraw 
from Phyrdancer 
from ajbradley 
I tried to find my first Bathroom tweet but Twitter Search only goes back 2 months. Anyone that can find my first one that was about a year ago, let me know. bathroom tweet on search.twitter.com
SO NOW there’s a t-shirt out there dedicated to the bathroom tweet. If you buy one of these, make sure you let them know who sent you. ME! buy the shirt (click here).
[UPDATE] The site selling the bathroom tweet shirts adds a credit to me 
August 1st, 2008 at 4:18 pm
This so reminds me of “I’m the real Napster”.
August 1st, 2008 at 4:18 pm
You’re seriously trying to take credit for stuff like this? What is the point? Talk about Vain.
You didn’t come up with meh, it was used on chats and BBS before then.
And people put up on Away messages that they were going to the bathroom or BRB Bathroom long before twitter.
Sorry but trying to claim “credit” for stuff like this is kind of pathetic, grow up. Web 2.0 isn’t life.