What are your worst / most hilarious old tweets?

Posted by Nilay Patel on December 20, 2012 10:37 pm 13

So I finally got into my Twitter archive, and my god — I used the service differently in the beginning, and I was way less filtered. Patel Raw, basically.

Thought I'd post some favorites from 2007 and 2008 I found as I clicked around. What are yours?

Womp womp:

Being a lawyer is much less fulfilling than writing about gadgets. :(

— nilay patel (@reckless) December 13, 2007

Is this weird? IS IT?

It's weird to live an AIM-free life

— nilay patel (@reckless) December 14, 2007

A classic Engadget moment, spurred by this post:

I did not anticipate pissing off so many Don Cheadle fans when I woke up this morning.

— nilay patel (@reckless) March 4, 2008

Apparently nothing ever changes for me:

I would just like to say that I called Apple's copyright infringement claim against Psystar MONTHS ago and have taken shit for it ever since

— nilay patel (@reckless) July 15, 2008

Still the same:

I love when major publications say installing OS X on a netbook may "potentially" violate Apple's EULA. Willful ignorance is super-bliss.

— nilay patel (@reckless) December 15, 2008

Really. Nothing ever changes:

Attention pundits: getting a case to settle is not "winning." 70% of all cases settle.

— nilay patel (@reckless) July 31, 2008

No idea what this means or what happened:

Sure did piss off a lot of olds today.

— nilay patel (@reckless) April 22, 2008

Bold predictions!

Netflix on Xbox 360 is gonna be HUGE.

— nilay patel (@reckless) July 14, 2008

Tomorrow's headlines, today!

Cloud computing sucks when the cloud goes down.

— nilay patel (@reckless) August 11, 2008

The eager excitement of youth!

First pics of the HTC Dream! http://tinyurl.com/6s95c2

— nilay patel (@reckless) August 30, 2008

UPDATE: The belt buckle has been retired.

if I'm going to be famous for one thing, I'm pretty okay with it being this belt buckle.

— nilay patel (@reckless) July 20, 2008

Literally, nothing ever changes — we've been saying this to Josh all this week too!

@joshuatopolsky Stop working on your day off!

— nilay patel (@reckless) October 24, 2008

BONUS: Hahahahahah

The Aaron Rodgers era begins. Sigh.

— nilay patel (@reckless) August 11, 2008