![]() ![]() It doesn’t seem that these linked topics are moderated. If you tap or click on a status, you can see other tweets that used the same one. The status messages also work in the same way as hashtags. The feature works in the same way as Facebook’s “is feeling” feature: the selected status, together with its accompanying emoji, appears above the actual tweet. and Australia but declined to comment on the size of the group. Twitter confirmed that this test is running for a limited time with a select group in the U.S. “So whether you are about to drop a hot Tweet thread, share your shower thoughts, or have a bad case of the Mondays, your Tweets can better convey what you are up to.” “For a limited time, we are testing a feature that allows you to add a status topic from a predetermined list to your Tweets to provide more context for your followers,” Twitter told TechCrunch. ![]() Some of these statuses include “Spoiler alert,” “Shower thoughts,” “Picture of the day” and, for some reason, the very redundant “Current status.” Right now, users can’t customize their status - you’ll just have to choose from Twitter’s existing list. Some users are reporting that they can now post Twitter statuses, which lets them tag posts like they’re retro MySpace moods. Twitter is bringing us back a little bit of Facebook (or LiveJournal or Myspace). TechCrunch playfully suggests that while Facebook is trying to be TikTok, Twitter is trying to be Myspace. But we're still working.A new Twitter status feature has been spotted in testing, with the company saying that it is being made available to some users in the US and Australia … I’ll happily stay there again, but it was a very practical reminder to sift through as many impacts of outside forces as well as internal interactions within building systems as we design new structures, and work within existing ones. It only showed up a decade into the building’s life, and it may only have manifested itself on the south facing bathrooms, but it did mean that we checked the tub before every use. This wasn’t a building collapse causing mistake on the building designers part, but it was an oversight that led to inconvenience. Over time, these unexpected stresses started to cause small cracks in the plastic, which eventually knocked loose a couple of pieces while we were staying there. This uneven heating and cooling added a lot of stress to the plastic blocks. As the sun rose and heated up the little greenhouse between the window and the block, the window side of the block would then be much hotter than the interior side. ![]() To add insult to injury though, the big problem was bitter cold winter temperatures making the window side much colder than the heated interior, particularly at night. While the outer glass window cut some of the UV and IR hitting the plastic, the plastic block was exposed to much more solar radiation than an interior product would normally be subjected to. The plastic block were not designed for exterior use, and while they were not outside of the building envelope, they were exposed to a lot of high altitude sun on the south side of the building. ![]() I eventually attributed them to something having broken by the cleaning staff before we checked in and the pieces being dislodged from the shower curtain or possibly a towel. I was certain they hadn’t been in the tub the night before, but couldn’t find a source for them. Reasonably certain that I had not, I went to investigate, and found several small pieces of what appeared to be shattered safety glass in the tub. On the first morning of our stay in a hotel, my wife asked me if I’d broken a glass in the tub the night before. Sometimes though, a design flaw will introduce problems on its own. Regrading part of the yard may direct more water towards the house, turning a formerly dry basement wet. A tree planted too near may shift the soil enough to crack a previously stable foundation. Hopefully it was designed with a drainage system that takes into consideration the soil and local precipitation to provide a dry basement for the life of the building. In a building, the foundation provides a stable base for the walls and first floor, and still provides that steady base as it deals with the ground moving as it freezes, thaws, dries out, and becomes water logged. On a gross scale, it seems obvious that all of the bits and pieces are important, but as things change (and age), their relationships can become more important. A building has myriad parts, even glossing over the nails and screws that hold much of it together. Until something breaks, we stop thinking of a car as an assemblage of parts, and as one item. In a well-designed object, these elements often disappear into the whole. Different elements in every system perform different tasks and interact with each other (and the world around them) in various ways. ![]()
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