It’s not much to look at, but it’s hilarious to read through the site and hear the statements taken out of context that people have overheard.

The site was developed by Mark Jaquith one late night at the b5ranch during SXSW 2008. There was an ongoing joke where various people would say things that were funny through the week and we’d keep repeating them. The best is when the statement had some additional meeting when you removed the contextual statements surrounding what was said.

The wasoverheard site works in conjunction with twitter. All you have to do is follow @wasoverheard on your twitter account. Then, when you hear someone say something funny, you just tweet it to @wasoverheard anonymously.

So, your twitter udpate would look something like:

d wasoverheard @bnpositive I hear funny people

If you don’t include the person’s twitter name the statement will be attributed to “someone”.

If you find someone really interesting that always seems to put their foot in their mouth you can see all of their statements by entering their twitter name as a sub-domain path:

• http://sheaj12.wasoverheard.com
• http://technosailor.wasoverheard.com
• http://jeremywright.wasoverheard.com
• http://scobleizier.wasoverheard.com

These things are always more interesting when you’re with a bunch of friends that also twitter. You know, at things like conferences. Hopefully we’ll see a lot more action on the site during Blog World Expo next week.

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One of the more interesting applications I’ve been using lately is twitter. At first I didn’t really get it. I was already using IM and blogging and e-mail of course, so the ability to blast out a short little “tweet” about what I’m doing just seemed like a waste of time.

I didn’t really catch on to the power of the application until I attended SXSW a few weeks ago in Austin and the entire b5 team used it as a sort of GPS tracking and status update mechanism for anyone in our group. We used it for quick information like:

• Where’s everyone at?
• We’re doing dinner at __________ at 6pm?
• Heading back to the ranch, who needs a ride.
• and of course @wasoverheard

Since coming back to the “real world” away from Austin and SXSW, I’ve been using twitter to stay in touch with everyone I met and what they’re up to.

Just today though Darren Rowse, the Problogger, alerted me, via twitter of course, that he was enjoying twittervision.

Twittervision let’s you see various tweet’s coming in from all over the world. People who I don’t know of at all, but it’s interesting to read what people are saying thousands of miles away.

Careful! It’s addictive.

If you’d like to follow me on twitter, just go here.

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