Wil Wheaton, the teen actor who for years played the character Wesley Crusher on Star Trek, gained the 10th-place spot on our Twitter influence list by virtue of his lingering TV notoriety and a charismatic collection of posts on technology, video games, sports, and his personal life.

Congrats, Andy Greenberg. You made Wil grind his teeth right there.

Who did he shoot?

Tr0mBoNe: Who did he shoot?

greedo?

I really don't understand the lust most farkers seem to have for this guy.

First of all WW is no longer a teen actor. secondly I have never seen the word Twitter used so many times. I know the article was about twitter but holy shiat every other word was twitter.

/twitter

I call mine passion

farbekrieg: Tr0mBoNe: Who did he shoot?

greedo?

That guy was never too quick on the draw.

The only things more worthless than Twitter* are articles about Twitter*.



*Substitute any other social networking site

nmathew01: I really don't understand the lust most farkers seem to have for this guy.

He's been around here longer than most and has done a metric shiatload to promote the site. Unlike some other celebrities who've come and gone from here, he's unpretentious. What you call lust, I call respect.

farbekrieg: Tr0mBoNe: Who did he shoot?

greedo?

It was self defense, I saw the enhanced version of the surveillance tape at the bar.

Bob_Laublaw: Unlike some other celebrities who've come and gone from here, he's unpretentious.

May be unpretentious but also accuses famous comedians from stealing his own act without any proof (or logic, frankly). I'm sorry but Zach Galifianakis doesn't have to steal from this has been.

Stephen Fry is endlessly amusing on twitter. Levar Burton and Brent Spiner are good for a laugh too.

John Hodgman and Chris Hardwick are good as well.

xuanzhiyouxuan: Stephen Fry is endlessly amusing on twitter. Levar Burton and Brent Spiner are good for a laugh too.

Yes, Brent and LeVar are fun to follow. I followed Wil initially because he was a fellow Farker, didn't click in my head right away that he was also a TNG cast member - something I should have known right away...

Lookatme! I follow celebrity twitter feeds!

/that is all

Wheaton, also an author and blogger, sees Twitter as a platform for instant communication with his followers, a kind of real-time hive mind.

I see what you did there!

/Surprised they didn't follow up with "Resistance to Twitter is futile" or something

tl;dr

You haven't lived until you've read the comedic Twitterings of Shaq.

Link (Pops like it's hot, yo.)

/and you thought all he could do was rap
//the next Shakespeare?

Wil saw a shooting star? I guess that puts him in........bad company.

(img)Insert hot linked Penny Arcade comic here.(/img)

Im skipping BluRay and Twitter...pick me up for the next big thing.

Abe Vigoda's tweets are fun, too:

abevigoda: Sweet Crackers! I'm alive!!

More interesting than Twitter's business potential, he says, is the kind of shared experience it can offer. Earlier this month, Wheaton was throwing a Frisbee with his son when he saw a meteor flash across the Southern Californian sky. He ran inside, noted the shooting star in his Twitter feed and immediately got responses from dozens of followers around the world who had spotted the same flash of burning space debris.

"That kind of thing," he says, "satisfies the geek in me tremendously."

I love me some Wheaton, but that shiat is sad. It's like something from an Onion article.

Who did he shoot?

nmathew01: I really don't understand the lust most farkers seem to have for this guy.

I think it has something to do with the fact that even though Wheaton is a no talent geek hack who by rights never should have left his Mother's basement, he still managed to attain a status similar to Danny Bonaduce.

Who? on What?

nmathew01: I really don't understand the lust most farkers seem to have for this guy.

One of Us... One of Us... One of Us...

Why is Wil Wheaton still around? Just fire him into space already, so we can be done with him.

INTERNET ARGUMENT: Who did he shoot?

Han shot first.

Red Fist Of Harmony: Wil Wheaton, the teen actor who for years played the character Wesley Crusher on Star Trek, gained the 10th-place spot on our Twitter influence list by virtue of his lingering TV notoriety and a charismatic collection of posts on technology, video games, sports, and his personal life.

Congrats, Andy Greenberg. You made Wil grind his teeth right there.

How is that not accurate?

give me doughnuts: INTERNET ARGUMENT: Who did he shoot?

Han shot first.

Hell yes he did.

Wheaton gets a pass from most parents for taking down that annoying purple dinosaur.

He seems to get along great with the twits. Here on Fark, you're not supposed to be nice to him or about him, because it creeps him out.

"Earlier this month, Wheaton was throwing a Frisbee with his son when he saw a meteor flash across the Southern Californian sky. He ran inside, noted the shooting star in his Twitter feed and immediately got responses from dozens of followers around the world who had spotted the same flash of burning space debris."

Same flash? Around the world?

Who can spot the problem here...

"Earlier this month, Wheaton was throwing a Frisbee with his son when he"

said, "screw you, son, I have to go Twitter!", leaving his poor dejected son all alone with a tear running down his cheek.

Fnord: "Earlier this month, Wheaton was throwing a Frisbee with his son when he saw a meteor flash across the Southern Californian sky. He ran inside, noted the shooting star in his Twitter feed and immediately got responses from dozens of followers around the world who had spotted the same flash of burning space debris."

Same flash? Around the world?

Who can spot the problem here...

The Transformers have finally arrived?

Best WW rockin out picture ever.

Randal2477: Lookatme! I follow celebrity twitter feeds!

/that is all

this. twitter is useless.

Is there some sort of new troll club here?

"Hey, there's a Wheaton thread. Let's go in and trash him like he raped and killed our mom!"

"Be there in a minute, my douchey friend, I'm busy explaining why people from Pittsburgh are hateful and should die."

tagjim: twitter is useless.

It's like seeing a thousand updated Facebook statuses, and just about nothing else.

Bob_Laublaw: Unlike some other celebrities who've come and gone from here, he's unpretentious.

Celebrity? That's a stretch.

wil wheaton is a hell of a nice guy, unlike most farkers, if you met them in public; . . . oh wait they never leave their basements, never mind

VRaptor117: The only things more worthless than Twitter* are articles about Twitter*.



*Substitute any other social networking site

I myself would embrace it more if they changed the name to Twatter.

TWIT ter

We didn't miss the falling star though... :p

Only cool if Wil had brought his son in to help/watch him post the twitter and get responses.

Not cool if he ran off, leaving his son.

The headline should be:

"If you were inside following Wheaton on Twitter, you missed the shooting star".

Red Fist Of Harmony: Wil Wheaton, the teen actor who for years played the character Wesley Crusher on Star Trek, gained the 10th-place spot on our Twitter influence list by virtue of his lingering TV notoriety and a charismatic collection of posts on technology, video games, sports, and his personal life.

Congrats, Andy Greenberg. You made Wil grind his teeth right there.


He made me grind my teeth, but in my case it was due to his misuse of the word "notoriety". It's a mistake that's unfortunately increasingly common. Being noted or notable is usually a good thing, but the words "notorious" and "notoriety" carry a negative connotation. Being known for playing Wesley Crusher, for ex--

um, hmm...

On second thought, perhaps he meant exactly what he said.

I like Wil, but frankly, "Twitter" (WHO CARES?!?).

// So many attention whores and so many morons wasting my time.