Type tees aren't going away. If anything, they're just expanding. Votes are down, yeah, but they're down on the whole site, not just slogans. If you notice older designs, some will have 2000+ votes. Now, you're lucky if you get over 700. I think it's just a slow time which will eventually bounce back.



I'm not a huge fan of the Twitter thing, but I just choose not to participate in and focus my time on good ol' Threadless. Who knows, some gold might come out of this whole Twitter experience. You never know.

I think you can blame the piles of horrible slogans for the lowering of votes.

I voted around for you: Love this oneFlailing limbs may indicate dancing not drowning

Taking part in blogs has helped mine alot!



No time to Tweet - too busy doing Threadless and Naked and Angry :)

So far for shirts I'd wear if given them for free. It's typetees like 100 twitter 0.

WarDrobeInSpareOom on May 27 '09 at 1:06am

I think you can blame the piles of horrible slogans for the lowering of votes.



Yeah, and the same can be said for designs. Honestly, I used to vote on designs and slogans all the time, but I noticed a steady decline in value (of both of them) to the point where I was wondering, "Why am I wasting my time looking at this crap?"



I will go vote on yours now though :)

I think you can blame the piles of horrible slogans for the lowering of votes.



Haha. yeah, that'll do it.

Was Ross's speech good?

Sigh SJ - we should have got an invite for tonight?

What were they thinking!

All bloggers should automatically have scored invites!

I agree that type tees aren't going away. The twitter thing is probably only going to pop onto my radar every Monday when i head on over to the thankfully mostly unconnected twitter tees site and see what kinds of ideas Threadless feels are different enough from your average type tee slogan to warrant a 140 maximum limit. That's like two full sentences of type allowed on a tee, i wonder if threadless will actually print a twitter that takes up the entire shirt front, lol. But that's my main interest and ultimately only involvement i think with the threadless-twitterverse, one of partially interested curiosity. Out of the 6 tees printed there so far, none have come close to anything I'm interested in wearing, and maybe that's the point. I don't twitter, I think the whole idea of twittering completely narcissistic and oversaturation of technology and information in our already-clouded and crowded brains, and so maybe the ideas expressed on the tees shouldn't be something that appeals to me anyway.



The only thing I'm kind of steamed about is that you have a monetary incentive to comb through the billions of twitters whereas you only vote on things in the good ol' fashioned type tee world for fun, some laughs, and to support your fellow sloganeers. Also, it's really ridiculous that twittererererer's get the same amount for a printed tee as type tee people do, but that's none of my business really so I won't dwell on it...well, any more than i have been for a week or so now.



All in all......don't worry about it is my main point.



There's always been piles of horrible slogans, so I don't think that's the issue. I rarely if ever go to the slogan wasteland that is the main voting page, preferring to just vote on the 50 or so slogan steadies in the OSC the 365 club and The Shoguns that i know produce quality ORIGINAL material and get my fill that way.

There's always been piles of horrible slogans, so I don't think that's the issue. I rarely if ever go to the slogan wasteland that is the main voting page, preferring to just vote on the 50 or so slogan steadies in the OSC the 365 club and The Shoguns that i know produce quality ORIGINAL material and get my fill that way.



quoted for agreement... i vote on everyone in the shoguns and osc as often as they update their slogans pages, to the point where i'm losing sleep and girlfriends over it! there's still plenty of us good decent sloganeers active, and as long as we group together and don't disband because of twitter then we'll keep creating quality slogans that will hopefully get printed one day!

I've pretty much given up on slogans, I've never really been into slogan tshirts as it is.. and I'm definitely not going to be migrating to the twittertees side of things. I'm one of the rare few I reckon to actually vote through all the design subs these days, which is an arduous and demotivating task as it is what with the amount of crap subs coming up these days, so I'm increasingly finding less and less time to go through peoples' slogans unfortunately. Though I do occasionally drop into the slogan shoguns' pages to see what's new, aswell as checking out any new sloganeers who pop up every now and then on the blog forums.

I thank the OSC for helping me wade through the slog of (mostly) garbage polluting the typetees site, but I have to admit, typetees is a great pick-me-up whenever I feel down about my writing skills.



As for twitter, the big kerfuffle around it now will die down, as it happens for every new thing. I do give Threadless credit for trying new things, though.

squatterjohn on May 27 '09 at 6:41am

Was Ross's speech good?

the speech was interesting, he talked about some really interesting things but the crowd was a bunch of design/academic snobs with one or two cool people (me!), it would have been more fun with some real people there, so I felt kinda alienated. and the interviewer was really haphazard with his questions, but he did keep it on track. strangely, Ross seemed really down to earth and cool, so I liked him a lot... may have gotten a little man crush on him...

I also think its strange how we only heard about it the day before it was to start in Melbourne, what's with that!

its an interesting new idea for threadless imo, but not quite sure how exactly it will work.



as we all know (and have highlighted above) there is a HUGE amount of crap/rubbish/horrible slogans. however the only way good slogans are rising above the rest are groups like OSC.



on the other hand, for twitter there are probably just as many (if not more) crap tweets AND if you say see one of the rare good tweets and decide to visit the user's own page, you get greeted with the user's normal tweets that are just random and no where near printable standards....since they are just that...tweets!!!



and given that this twitter/threadless thing is completely seperate from threadless something like OSC will be extremely hard...



what i'm interested in is how many votes (and percentage) these prints are getting!

I just blogged about this in my blogon tumblr. It pretty much follows the same vein as your post and some of the comments in here actually.

interesting blog post you've got there brentendo - it'll be interesting to see what the next twittertees are since the current few are rather disappointing.

Noticed the twitter tees tab has vanished from Threadless -can't find it unless you search for it, but there are still losers posting tweets as type tees! grrr.



The recent voting debacle suggests the Twitterverse is getting closer than we'd like to think!