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Are you on twitter?

Are you on twitter?

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From what I've seen (on people's blogs, or their actual twitter pages) it's a load of fucking shit, a load of wanky bollocks
 
Didn't we do this thread already?

I'm on Twitter, and I love it - it's probably the web service I use the most beside Gmail. It's a way to stay connected with friends and colleagues, keep up with the buzz in your own industry without needing to read news sites, and participate in the casual conversations that would be a part of working together if we were all in the same place. It's also an incredibly fast way to get peer feedback or answer a tricky question; equally you can help out others with a quick one-line answer if Google has let them down.

Sure, most tweets are inconsequential LiveJournal-style "today I had cornflakes, my cat is poorly" updates - but if knowing that your friend's cat is poorly would be a natural conversation in meatspace, why shouldn't it be part of the online conversation too?
 
Buddy Bradley said:
Didn't we do this thread already?

I'm on Twitter, and I love it - it's probably the web service I use the most beside Gmail. It's a way to stay connected with friends and colleagues, keep up with the buzz in your own industry without needing to read news sites, and participate in the casual conversations that would be a part of working together if we were all in the same place. It's also an incredibly fast way to get peer feedback or answer a tricky question; equally you can help out others with a quick one-line answer if Google has let them down.

Sure, most tweets are inconsequential LiveJournal-style "today I had cornflakes, my cat is poorly" updates - but if knowing that your friend's cat is poorly would be a natural conversation in meatspace, why shouldn't it be part of the online conversation too?
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yep @ the bit in bold. thats spot on why i use it...

i was chuffed though when best@ twitter added me :p

you can also easily text stuff to twitter from airports etc. and the people on your list knows whats happening etc, it is good for stuff like that.
 
Buddy Bradley said:
Didn't we do this thread already?

I'm on Twitter, and I love it - it's probably the web service I use the most beside Gmail. It's a way to stay connected with friends and colleagues, keep up with the buzz in your own industry without needing to read news sites, and participate in the casual conversations that would be a part of working together if we were all in the same place. It's also an incredibly fast way to get peer feedback or answer a tricky question; equally you can help out others with a quick one-line answer if Google has let them down.

Sure, most tweets are inconsequential LiveJournal-style "today I had cornflakes, my cat is poorly" updates - but if knowing that your friend's cat is poorly would be a natural conversation in meatspace, why shouldn't it be part of the online conversation too?
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what industry do you work in?
 
Yep, have been for a year or so. It's great, like the status feed in Facebook but not closed off, it's great for quick updates on things, getting titbits of info from journos on their movements and other stuff...
 
Buddy Bradley said:
I work in the online travel industry, but I'm a web designer so my 'industry colleagues' are designers all over the world. Twitter is by far the easiest way to keep up with what they are up to. :)
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Same. I've only been "tweeting" for a few months now, but I've become addicted (probably not a good thing!). I follow lots of designers that either work with my company or whose work I really like. That and I have a few friends on there and have made some more o_O which is odd, seeing as you only really talk in one liners.
 
I registered and then made a very long, "Meeeeeehhhhh" noise and haven't touched it since.

Actually, I've just gone back to add my second pointless update and note that there are 7 people following my exciting activities.
 
Buddy Bradley said:
I work in the online travel industry, but I'm a web designer so my 'industry colleagues' are designers all over the world. Twitter is by far the easiest way to keep up with what they are up to. :)
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Yes, me too; more for more esoteric Internet Things, personally, rather than web design, but it can be very helpful. Of course, it all depends on who you know, but I can post about something new I'm working on and people will regularly express interest or comment. And vice versa.

Also it can be _extremely_ good for breaking news, if you like that sort of thing - somebody is bound to twitter anything that happens, particularly if you have journos or other media types on it.

I've been on it long enough (over 4,500 updates now, blimey) to have seen people get pissed off with the reliability several times and move onto various similar things, like Jaiku and Pownce, but those have tended to die - quite likely because of their lack of APIs. The Twitter API is very easy to work with and has been open since the start.

A lot of people have moved to Plurk I've noticed and not come back. Plurk is good but I'm pretty embedded in Twitter now.

Incidentally, there's a "corporate Twitter" called Yammer (not afaik done by Twitter but it's _so_ similar) for people to post internal messages.
 
I can *kinda* see the attraction for Kevin Rose or Stephen Fry, and fanboys /girls of them, but for us norms... Ugh, dross...

Unless you've been in an exciting plane crash of course. :hmm:
 
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I registered and then made a very long, "Meeeeeehhhhh" noise and haven't touched it since.

Actually, I've just gone back to add my second pointless update and note that there are 7 people following my exciting activities.
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I'm surprised you haven't tapped it to promote the Offlines...
 
Eh, it's not very good for promotion unless you also do a lot of other twittering so that people follow your feed. Tweets are too short-lived.
 
I joined ages ago and did nothing, but I've now discovered that a few mates are on there so have rekindled my interest.

I think I 'get' it now, but like anything, a bit pointless until you have enough links.
 
I don't even know exactly wtf it is
A blog for very short posts? Why should I care?
 
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