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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

This may be a little late for some of you, but TwiLOL has had a major makeover!  We’ve had some time to test out the new features, and so have you.  We’d like to thank those of you who emailed us and helped work out the little glitches.  Please continue to let us know about anything that’s not working right, or anything you’d like to see that might make the site work better for you.  We’re listening!  To prove it, here is a thank you to a few individuals in particular who have sent us extra love since the new site has been up.  This is for you, Jadey, newtonscricket, Jocasta, Kristol, Swestie, Savannah, Jen, Erika, and NotExactlyEdward:

 

Back to business.  Here’s an overview of the new features, in case you’ve missed them:

 
General Features:

Homepage (www.twilol.com) - Always shows the most recent post, and tells which page the post will be found on once it is bumped.

Affiliates – Become our affiliate!  If you’d like to help spread the TwiLOL happeez, use our buttons on your website and send us one of yours.  We lub frenz.

Post Features: 

Comments - You don’t have to login to comment, but if you are a frequent commenter, it will save you a lot of time.  To make a single comment and give us your opinion of a specific LOL, just click the comment link underneath the LOL on the lefthand side.  You can also login and have the site recognize you each time you visit the site.  Login with the widget on the sidebar.

LOL Ratings - You’ll see five stars underneath each LOL on the lefthand side.  Click the number of stars you give the LOL, and your score will be added into the average.  See which LOLs are rated highest in the widgets on the sidebar.

Retweet – If you want to share a LOL with Twitter friends, just click the retweet button underneath the LOL on the righthand side.  All it takes is a few clicks, and TwiLOL will hook up with your Twitter account.

Meebo – This is a seriously sweet feature.  You can share LOLs on Twitter, Facebook, IM, Yahoo, or email with a simple click-and-drag.  When you hover the mouse over a LOL, you will see the little “drag to share” instruction.

Click and drag the LOL, and you’ll see this:

Drop the LOL on one of those icons and you’ll be redirected automatically to where you can post it!  It is sweeeeeeet.

Sidebar Widgets:

My personal favorite – the TwiLOL Translator!  If you come across a lolspeak word that you don’t recognize, put it into our translator.  Make sure you’ve spelled it the same way that we did in our LOL.  The translator will then give you the English version of the word.  If our translator doesn’t recognize the word, please let us know and we’ll add it!

FanLOL Submission Form – This should make submitting fanLOLs much easier.  You can either submit a LOL that you’ve made or found, or you can send us a quote and a picture and we can make the LOL for you.  Even if all you have is a quote with no picture, send it!  We are always happy to get ideas from you.  We’ll credit you when your LOL is posted.

 Tag Cloud – This is an easy way to find your favorite LOLs based on frequently used tags that we put on our images.  You might want to quickly view all of our LOLs from the baseball scene in Twilight, or all of the LOLs that use the common lolspeak word “srsly.”  Just find the tag in the cloud and click!  (Hint:  Words are spelled correctly unless they are a common lolspeak word or phrase.  Common tags are locations, scenes, props, people, and lolspeak words.)

Twitter Feed – TwiLOL isn’t the only place we are funneh.  View a feed of our tweets, or follow us on Twitter by clicking the link.  (Our feed and Twitter links are also available via our Twitter link in the top navigation bar.)

 

New Moon Update:

Lastly, we wanted to let you know that we’re just about peeing in our pants to show you our New Moon LOLs.  The time is getting closer – looks like the release will be in March.  We may decide to sneak peak a New Moon LOL or two to some special viewer…just stay tuned.  And don’t worry, you’re not alone:

Tags: affiliates, comments, fanlol submission, features, ratings, retweet, tag cloud, translator, twitter feed, Updates
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New Moon in 3…2…um…2 and a half…

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Okay…it’s come to our attention that we need to clarify something.  You may not like it, either.  But I have a plan.  To soften your defenses, I present you with this verrah kyoot kitteh:

Are you softened?  Have your brainz turned into a sloppy pile of lovey mush?  Good.  On with business, then. 

 I think some of us have had a misunderstanding.  The New Moon movie comes out on November 20th.  *squeeeeeeees*  Unfortunately, New Moon twilols DO NOT come out on November 20th WOAH BACK OFF LET ME EXPLAIN.  To make twilols, we need screencaps.  And if you take a look at what we already have up on TwiLOL.com, you’ll see that we use legal screencaps.  To be clear, we will not be in the back of the theater on November 20th illegally taping the movie to get some janky-looking footage to make janky-looking screencaps for janky-looking twilols.  We’ll wait for the real thing, which means that whenever your favorite fansites get the whole movie capped, that is when we will begin putting up New Moon twilols.

 Q:  But I’ve seen some screencaps for New Moon already – why don’t you just start with those?  Can’t you just use the screencaps from the trailers that are out?

A:  In short, sure we can.  But we’ve already written New Moon in lolspeak, and we might need to alter it a bit once we see how the movie’s chronology may differ from the book chronology.  Trailers can be decieving – you don’t always know what scene they are cutting from.  For example, I doubt that the scene in the trailer where Jacob jumps over Bella’s head and transitions is actually the scene where the wolves save her from Laurent.  We want our twilols to make sense to everyone, whether you’ve just read the book, just seen the movie, or both.  And we don’t want to start making twilols, only to find out that the PERFECT screencap is now out, but we’ve already used a not-so-perfect one for that caption.  Most importantly, we want this to flow.  We want to continue posting one a week when the New Moon movie is capped, and we don’t want to have to break at odd times when we run out of screencaps.  We are waiting for the whole thing to be done before we start.  Simply put, we want you to be able to count on us.  We want you to know that you’ll have lols from the movies EVERY FRIDAY.   

Q:  So when will the movie be capped?

A:  We have an estimation…just based on how long it took for Twilight screencaps to become available.  But we aren’t going to throw out that date on a timeline because it’s not for sure.  We don’t have any insider info.  Your guess is as good as ours.  But based on when we *think* we will have New Moon screencaps, we are pretty sure that we can keep one Twilight lol coming each Friday until that happens.  We’ve planned ahead as much as we can – please keep the faith! 

 Just to be clear, it will be the same process for Eclipse and Breaking Dawn – we will wait for the legal, good quality screencaps from reputable sites.  We’ll be on the lookout for screencaps, but it’s very possible they won’t come out until the movie is out on DVD.  You can understand why that might be, right?  But if you want to speed the process along, feel free to watch for screencaps, too – and let us know if you see something we don’t. 

 U haz a mad?  Plz 2 luk at mai fren, heer:

Fanks, we lub u srsly,

Julie and Hayley

Tags: FAQ, Updates
Posted in Blog

FAQ: Ceiling Cat, Basement Cat and NOM

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Hi readers!

Hayley and I try pretty hard to read all of your emails, comments, tweets, and re-tweets.  Okay fine…we are obsessed with them and spend many emails back and forth to each other talking about them.  We can’t live without them.  So keep it up! 

 There were a couple lolspeak questions that popped up – understandably so.  As all of our teachers always tell us, if you have a question, someone else surely has the same one, so ASK it.  We will answer!

 Q:  What the heck is the Ceiling Cat/Basement Cat thing?

A:  This is definitely a lolcats thing.  Have you been to icanhazcheezburger.com?  If not – go there.  Ceiling Cat and Basement Cat are basically a loose reference to…good and evil?  A cat to be worshipped vs. a cat who is doing evil deeds and will corrupt you?  Something like that.  Cats on the floor pray to “Ceiling Cat” – usually a cat who perches up high and looks down upon the minions.  Basement Cat is usually black, with glowing eyes, lurking in the darkness ready to steal your soul.  Our TwiLOL characters have adopted Ceiling Cat and Basement Cat, so plan on seeing them again when they are in need of help, be it for good or evil. 

Q:  What is “nom?”

A:  Another lolspeakism.  Nom is both a noun and a verb.  You nom your pizza.  Pizza is a nom.  When you eat your pizza, the sound you make is “nom.”  Our TwiLOL vampires nom humans…or bears, mountain lions, elk, etc. if they are vegitarian.  The humans prefer more traditional noms.  And when Bella saw that mushroom ravioli, she was like “NOM.”

 Feel free to ask us more questions anytime, and keep commenting!

 Love,

Julie

Tags: Basement Cat, Blog, Ceiling Cat, FAQ, nom
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TwiLOL Posting Schedule

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Hello readers!  We thought it only fair to update you on our TwiLOL schedule, since you are kind enough to visit.  Basically…we don’t want to get too ahead of ourselves.  We plan on waiting for movie screenshots before doing New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn.  Luckily, they are planning to crank all of those out, so the wait shouldn’t be too painful. 

 After some impressive math done by Hayley, she figured we have enough Twilight TwiLOLs stored up to post ONE a week until New Moon screen shots are out.  So we’ll post those every Friday.

 That doesn’t mean we won’t have new TwiLOLs every weekday, however!  We have plenty of random TwiLOLs, and with your help, we’ll be posting fan TwiLOLs regularly as well.  So there should be something new for you to check out every day, and if you follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/TwiLOL, we’ll point you directly to the new stuff. 

 Thanks for being here!  Your comments are seriously like crack, so keep them coming!  (That was a joke – drugs r bad.)

Love,

Julie

Tags: Blog, posting, schedule, Updates
Posted in Blog, Updates