Are you on twitter?

[editor]

I just joined.

Now what?

Start posting up every dull detail of your everyday existence.

Quick! It's important!

 

[mack]

Start posting up every dull detail of your everyday existence.

That's what Urbans for!

 

[fractionMan]

Start posting up every dull detail of your everyday existence.

Quick! It's important!

unimportant detail


mundane comment


useless fact

Done!

 

[editor]

Done!

Copy'n'pasted into my Twitter.

 

[fractionMan]

Copy'n'pasted into my Twitter.

I am now a follower of the mighty u75.

 

[MightyAphrodite]

I'm still finding it very hard to muster up any enthusiasm for it, but here's a load of Twitter apps if it's your bag:
http://www.techradar.com/news/inter...s-to-tame-your-tweets-513526?src=rss&attr=all

thanks.

 

[skunkboy69]

I'm finding it useful for the latest footy transfers.

 

[Tricky Skills]

Twitter is far more than a micro-blogging platform. Just like U75, it's a whole community; or rather communities within a community. It's a great resource for instant knowledge.

Yeah, sure there's the 'had my breakfast' tweet, but you get to filter out the people that are of no use for you to follow. If it's not worth saying in 140 characters, then chances are it's not worth saying via Twitter.

Twitter works best for me for breaking news. If something is happening in the world, you can bet someone will be tweeting about it, usually from the ground. I learnt about the Hudson river crash well ahead of traditional media. Plus the sacking of Kevin Pietersen (not everyone's thing, but I'm a cricket man.)

Oh, and I've also gained a fair bit of freelance work through using Twitter

You need to see Twitter as a pub conversation. Dip in and dip out whenever. Plus access Twitter through a third party app such as Tweetdeck or twhirl, and you've got a whole new instant experience.

Try it.

@Jason_Cobb

 

[Crispy]

But there are millions of people tweeting, so how do you know what's good? Right now, someone we've never heard of might be saying "Just saw Bin Laden on the high street, and he gave me a tenner to keep quiet" but how would we know?

And I look at your twitter page and see nothing like a pub conversation. It all seems so one-way. Just a way to broadcast your mind 24/7

 

[Tricky Skills]

Like I said - Twitter stops becoming a broadcast medium once you step outside of the main Twitter page itself.

Use the search function on Tweetdeck to find an issue or a user that is of interest to you. See who they are following, then see who they are following. You will soon find a network of use to you.

This morning I have been asking my local councillor to actually make a public statement about a meeting last night, rather than just offer vague statements. Yeah, not earth moving, but that connection is there. He managed to fix some flooding on my road last week after I tweeted him with some pictures.

It's not for everyone, but it works for me.

 

[Scarlette]

Just joined it to see what it is. And discovered my dad is on it. Scary.

 

[Dillinger4]

Just joined it to see what it is. And discovered my dad is on it. Scary.

You joined? I am going to join as well then.

 

[editor]

Too busy to write your own 'tweets'? No problem: http://www.techradar.com/news/inter...-to-write-your-tweets-513976?src=rss&attr=all

 

[Crispy]

I have joined. Here comes the future in my face!

 

[Dillinger4]

I am going to watch you all, and all the important things that are happening to you that are so important that I need constant updates.

 

[Dillinger4]

Wait a minute.

This is rubbish.

I am sure I saw it on the telly and it was a big map with lots of speech bubbles popping up everywhere.

I hope I didn't just dream that.

Because that would be one massive waste of a dream.

 

[Detroit City]

I am but I cant see a good reason why yet...

don't even know what it is

 

[Dillinger4]

I like how everybody's comments are something like "WTF IS THIS SHIT"

 

[Crispy]

hang on, is this thing showing my real name? Why have a fucking username? Fuck off website showing my real name!

*edits*

 

[Dillinger4]

crispy: I can't see your real name.

 

[Tricky Skills]

I have joined. Here comes the future in my face!

Ah, hope you find something of interest. If not, then there's nothing really lost. It really is all about the network and who you follow, and the sharing of information.

Have fun.

 

[Dillinger4]

I don't have any followers.

I have important things to say.

 

[Crispy]

Hmm, it's looking like a big chatroom of people in my list now.

 

[MightyAphrodite]

its a well known fact (well in twitter world!) that Shaquille O'Neal is a tweeting addict...


http://twitter.com/THE_REAL_SHAQ

ffs.

 

[Dillinger4]

This is fun, in a wasting time kind of way.

 

[Tricky Skills]

hang on, is this thing showing my real name? Why have a fucking username? Fuck off website showing my real name!

*edits*

Sure, it's your choice, but the accountability of Twitter is important for many users. If someone wants to be a spamming knobber, chances are people won't follow them if they have some nonsense Dungeons & Dragons type name.

 

[Dillinger4]

Oh crispy, I was wrong. It does show your name, when I hover my cursor above your picture/profile thingy.

 

[Crispy]

Yeah well fuck that! The internet's not having my real name!

 

[netbob]

ludites the lot of ya

 

[Crispy]

Sure, it's your choice, but the accountability of Twitter is important for many users. If someone wants to be a spamming knobber, chances are people won't follow them if they have some nonsense Dungeons & Dragons type name.

Good!

It's completely privacy free isn't it? Anything I say on twitter, whilst under my real name, can be seen by anyone who fancies. So unless I keep all my twitter activities sepeperate from my other online activities, people who know me on the internet can find my real identity and vice versa. That's something that matters a great deal to me.

So, I'm Mr. Monkey with Glasses now. I'll only tell someone my real name voluntarily.