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Are you on twitter?

Are you on twitter?

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Crispy said:
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.
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no you can have a private twitter that only people youre following can read, if you do that not anyone who just follows you can read your stuff, you have to follow them back before they can read anything etc...thats how mines set up.
 
MightyAphrodite said:
no you can have a private twitter that only people youre following can read, if you do that not anyone who just follows you can read your stuff, you have to follow them back before they can read anything etc...thats how mines set up.
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Ah ok, that's a bit better. But at that point, it's no better than a chatroom, right? Although I can see the benefit of a closed, private, recorded chatroom for a bunch of mates. I can understand the utility of that.
 
Crispy said:
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
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I posted exactly that on my twitter account and I've just had a reply from Real_Bin_Laden reading 'I fail to see how this qualifies as keeping quiet. I would like me tenner back. '

twitter is weird.
 
Good fucking grief:
Baby Tyler, who was born last week, was hooked up to something called a "Kickbee," a device invented by his dad, Corey, who is an interactive telecommunications student at New York University.

Basically, when the unborn Tyler kicked with sufficient force, it would wirelessly send a signal, via a belt worn by his mama, to his Twitter account. And, of course, all of his followers would be super excited.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10150781-71.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
 
pinkmonkey;8668442][QUOTE=Tricky Skills said:
Oh, and I've also gained a fair bit of freelance work through using Twitter ;)
My brother reccommended I join it for that - I was sceptical, but within one day, someone in the trade who I've never met, added me. So lets see - at the moment I can't stop twittering utter shite.
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If you twitter utter shite, keep it to a minimum or people will drop you after a while. Or have a "shite" account and a "proper professional thought-provoking" one.
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I signed up today, did the contacts search thing assuming at least someone I know would have it, but no, I have a twitter account with no one to listen to me. :(
 
RenegadeDog said:
I just made an account on this, and am failing to see the point of it. :hmm:
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It's like anything else, it's just a bot of software, useless on it's own, you need people you know using it to make it useful. Urban is just a bit of forum software, its the people who use it and how they use it that make it a nice place to be and makes people use it.
 
I see how it could be useful. But I already have 4 ways of contacting most of my friends: Phone, email, Gchat, urban. I don't think I need a 5th :)
 
I signed up yesterday to have a look but I haven't actually had a look yet.

Not sure I'm going to see the point. As crispy says above I have various methodsof keeping in touch with people available to me and I spend most of my time ignoring them.
 
"Telephone, Mr Edison - but why on earth would I need one of those in my house? The penny post is good enough for me!"

In the interests of proving the usefulness of Twitter, in the last week or two I have:

* Found out about an industry conference taking place in my home town
* Been given advice and links to help with installing a new version control system on my computer
* Lined up a speaker for our community meeting next week
* Shared a joke with friends around the world
* Given advice on that child tax credit form thingy
* Talked to the developer of an application I use about some feedback I had
* Got advice on finding a cheap flight provider to the US
* Found out some friends might be being made redundant
* Arranged to have a beer with a friend in Canada when we're both in the US in March
* Had a discussion about extracting video source urls from YouTube videos
* Been given advice about the best place to buy smoke alarms

all on/via Twitter. It's the perfect medium - the immediacy of IM with the asynchronicity of email, and available at your desk or on your phone.
 
dweller said:
god , every last bastard is signing up for it this week,
in my flat,
on the radio

what the hell is going on?
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The inevitable band wagon has swung into action. It'll mean a good few people signing up to it, poncing about with it, then getting bored leaving some that actually make good use of it....
 
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