Shitter: Toilet Paper of Tweets

http://www.getshitter.com/

by tysone • 14 years ago

267 59 14 years ago

Thanks for the link Tyson, you beat me to it.

Obviously this is fairly tongue in cheek, but we're reasonably pleased we monetized Twitter in a way that avoided advertising.

Hope the HN community enjoys!

bproper• 14 years ago

How do you create the TP. In house or outsource?

davidgillespie8• 14 years ago

We found a printer to work with, though that is what took the longest. Went all over the world and then managed to find one under our noses.

delinka2• 14 years ago

Pricing before I have to authorize the app would be nice. Sure, I can change permissions later, but I'd rather not have to.

davidgillespie8• 14 years ago

That's a really valid point delinka, hadn't considered it. Thanks for the feedback.

Tichy2• 14 years ago

I haven't signed in yet, because there is no information on the web site at all. It seems unlikely that you'd ship to Europe, for example?

In any case, why not make it any timeline, not just the user's? It would make for a great gift, for example.

simonbrown• 14 years ago

While I agree it would be nice, if your twitter account is public, you're basically just giving it your username.

shawnbaden• 14 years ago

I feel the same way. I left when I saw pricing wasn't available until I signed in via Twitter.

sdoering• 14 years ago

This just made my day. Kudos - or to say it with Dr. Sheldon Cooper: "Bazinga!"

snikolic• 14 years ago

Twitter's ToS requires third parties to respect deleted tweets, etc.

Trying to decide whether the disposable nature of this product meets that requirement...

Aaronontheweb• 14 years ago

When I read this I assumed it was a Twitter app optimized for on-the-toilet reading...

ChuckMcM• 14 years ago

This is brilliant! I checked twice to make sure it wasn't april fools day. Of course it probably slows people down during the wipe phase :-)

dlikhten• 14 years ago

Honestly, I'd love to wipe my ass with shit people say.

hanula• 14 years ago

Brilliant idea indeed! I would like to see it more customized though, especially to print #tag results... Later to choose your paper depending on your mood.

vividmind• 14 years ago

+1 on having seeing the pricing first. I wonder how you are going to keep up with orders :)

autarch• 14 years ago

I always joked about creating a twitter account named "shittr" where I would tweet a message describing every bowel movement I had.

mootothemax• 14 years ago

Like it! One quick usability fix - can you make it so that when you click "tweets", "timeline", "favourites" etc, the relevant radio button is selected? :)

You just need to update the ID in the <label> tags to the relevant radio button id, e.g. feed_feed_type_tweets, feed_feed_type_timeline, feed_feed_type_favorites etc.

davidgillespie8• 14 years ago

Excellent suggestion - and blatantly obvious in hindsight!

Thank you!

David

rrbrambley• 14 years ago

This is hilarious, but if you could replace photo links with inlined photos, I'd be more likely to buy. Nothing beats soiling photos of my friends, family, and favorite food.

meow• 14 years ago

Now rest room breaks are going to be way longer... there was a project sometime back trying to do the same with SOPA/PIPA bill text :)

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/26659043/print-the-sopa-...

davidgillespie8• 14 years ago

Meow - I love this =]

MichaelApproved• 14 years ago

How do you deal with the copyright issues of printing and selling other peoples tweets?

davidgillespie8• 14 years ago

Twitter's TOS covers this (believe me we checked with the lawyers!).

Cheers,

David

waterlesscloud• 14 years ago

It covers a third party (not the user and not twitter) selling someone's tweets?

Who wants to buy my e-book collecting celebrity tweets?

switz• 14 years ago

But does it support pull-to-refresh?

nandemo• 14 years ago

I'll only consider it when they implement infinite scrolling.

noonespecial• 14 years ago

Tail recursion. Oy.

fuzzythinker• 14 years ago

4 days too early?

tobiassp• 14 years ago

This needs QR codes for the links in tweets ;). Nice work!

thejana• 14 years ago

Love this.

Also glad HN allows us to focus on the company or story rather than who wrote it or broke it first :)

canthonytucci• 14 years ago

This combined with the little printer ( http://bergcloud.com/littleprinter/ ) and I'm in.

joshbuddy• 14 years ago

So, this is an iPhone replacement? (my preferred way to read tweets on the toilet)

nextstep• 14 years ago

I don't want to be a killjoy but this seems like a wasteful novelty. Are the tweets at least printed on recycled paper?

kprobst• 14 years ago

Well, the content is definitely recycled.

scottmey• 14 years ago

mc32• 14 years ago

How is it wasteful? Unlike most novelties, this one is actually useful, no? I have not ordered, but it seems that one can actually make use of the rolls as one would a normal roll.

oacgnol• 14 years ago

How quickly will the toilet rolls be shipped? Would it be in time for April Fool's?

epikur• 14 years ago

$35 for four rolls of @horse_ebooks is... extremely tempting.

fruchtose• 14 years ago

I laughed, but I would definitely change the name of the product to something that you could mention in public/polite company.

AC87• 14 years ago

I wonder how much it costs?

cynwoody2• 14 years ago

$35 for four rolls. Kinda steep, but then, it's the thought that counts.

Note that you are not restricted to using just your own tweets.

mapster• 14 years ago

So, Tweeting is free, but it will cost me 0.25 cents every time I wipe?

Karunamon• 14 years ago

Obligatory Penny Arcade: http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/283628430_FxJSk-L-2.jpg

seanp2k2• 14 years ago

Any chance you'll do a Pintrest version soon? Love this idea/concept.

The age of dadaism is upon us with memes and the Internet. <33

otisfunkmeyer• 14 years ago

yes I love that the art of dada/surrealism has now just bled into everyday reality--more and more, faster and faster! it's like my dream come true :) :)

Even just the complete mainstream-ization of meme culture is doing such a wonderful service of warping the minds of humanity!

may the lulz continue ad infinitum!!!

Bud• 14 years ago

This is truly revolutionary. Or at least revolving.

JonnieCache• 14 years ago

Come back when it's realtime. (I only wipe myself with recent happenings.)

http://hackaday.com/2011/09/27/toilet-paper-printer-made-fro...

cynwoody2• 14 years ago

Now there's an idea! An appliance you load with regular TP which has a button you press to get a pre-configured number of one- or two-ply 4.5"x3.7" sheets, printed with very latest tweets. Connected via WiFi. Configured via an internal web server. What kind of hardware do you need to print on TP?

drivebyacct2• 14 years ago

We might need a new protocol. TP/IP.

nullflux• 14 years ago

Taking this too seriously, but you could probably do it by hacking up a mobile inkjet printer and turning the ink volume way down to control ink bleed.

Edit: Looks like some guy already did this: http://blog.makezine.com/2011/09/26/toilet-paper-printer/

Kliment2• 14 years ago

Doable but expensive. A wifi version would need at least:

wifi chip plus antenna - $30

microcontroller + associated bits - $8-15 or so

stepper motor drivers (you need two) - $8 or so

stepper motors - $6 min

printhead and ink - $12, replaceable

Battery and charging circuitry

And that's not counting manufacturing and profit. Would you pay $70+ for printed toilet paper? If a couple people would, I'm willing to design the device, sell a couple, and open source it.

Jose_GD• 14 years ago

Tempted to start a poll about the future of this idea... Sounds like a fad (a disgusting one IMO)

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