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What Is That? Twitter!
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First a video of how to use twitter and the benefits of twitter versus myspace, facebook and blogging: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYHUOESHpVk
And the twitter wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter
Twitter in general (straight from wiki):
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (or "tweets"; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (e.g. on a cell phone), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook.
Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and instantly delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender can restrict delivery to those in his or her circle of friends (delivery to everyone is the default). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, instant messaging, SMS, RSS, email or through an application. For SMS, four gateway numbers are currently available: short codes for the USA, Canada, and India, as well as a UK number for international use. Several third parties offer posting and receiving updates via email.
Penny arcade and twitter:
Before I get started - let me say that I’m still new to it as a medium. I’m in a phase of experimenting and finding my voice. But I do think it's a very cool way to keep in touch. I have a feeling not to many people here are using twitter and the people who are on it and are experienced with it would enjoy having other members from the penny arcade forum on twitter with them. I was thinking we could all learn it together and help each other out.
So lets use this thread to talk about or experiences getting on twitter, to exchange home pages and accounts and to help each other out!
(I have been with penny arcade for a very long time and this is my new thread postif i have done anything wrong please just let me know. But I searched for and could not find a thread so i thought it would make a good first thread for me, thanks!
So hit me up on twitter! http://twitter.com/thenewjamesbond
And the twitter wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter
Twitter in general (straight from wiki):
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (or "tweets"; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (e.g. on a cell phone), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook.
Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and instantly delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender can restrict delivery to those in his or her circle of friends (delivery to everyone is the default). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, instant messaging, SMS, RSS, email or through an application. For SMS, four gateway numbers are currently available: short codes for the USA, Canada, and India, as well as a UK number for international use. Several third parties offer posting and receiving updates via email.
Penny arcade and twitter:
Before I get started - let me say that I’m still new to it as a medium. I’m in a phase of experimenting and finding my voice. But I do think it's a very cool way to keep in touch. I have a feeling not to many people here are using twitter and the people who are on it and are experienced with it would enjoy having other members from the penny arcade forum on twitter with them. I was thinking we could all learn it together and help each other out.
So lets use this thread to talk about or experiences getting on twitter, to exchange home pages and accounts and to help each other out!
(I have been with penny arcade for a very long time and this is my new thread postif i have done anything wrong please just let me know. But I searched for and could not find a thread so i thought it would make a good first thread for me, thanks!
So hit me up on twitter! http://twitter.com/thenewjamesbond
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Dude even if you are just a user and wanted to talk about it, you realise you wrote this out in the most shill way possible
Also you've been here a pretty short time, at least with that username.
Anyways uh, I dislike social networking sites because people won't even communicate using IMs anymore. It's facebook walls and messages or nothing... maybe text messages.
I'm of a like mind; I don't see the need for any form of "social networking" as we know it in the form of Facebook and the like. IMs and email are the pinnacle in my book.
140 characters I can handle.
HAY GUYS DEUS IS A SPAMMER
I KNEW IT
At first, I struggled to see why this could possibly be useful. But then I saw others using it, and I sorta warmed up to it. Posting little thoughts as tweets is alright. I guess, it really depends on how interesting your own life is. I actually don't have any followers, so I'm just using it as a repository for thoughts I get. I'm just hoping someone will stumble onto it and read.
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I just felt like mentioning that.
It's odd. I'm too good for Myspace, but Twitter? I'm all up in it. Despite it being the one with the bloody character limit.
However, I'm not against the CONCEPT of Myspace and web 2.0 and such, I just think the goddamned normies muck it up.
heh, I know, I was being teh silly on purpose
what's different about twitter
Depending on your ISP, there was a very good chance it didn't exist to you.
My Twitter is the same as my forum name, here.
http://twitter.com/gilrain
Feel free to follow me, and I'll do the same. I reserve the right to stop following you if you wind up sucking. ;-)
Steam BoardGameGeek Twitter
http://www.twitter.com/Raingel
I think I'm just getting to that age where new things come and I'm an old codger about it. "In my day we didn't need no myspace to blog our feelings, we used AOL chatrooms and LIKED it!"
http://www.twitter.com/aridhol
http://www.twitter.com/lordjezo
I KISS YOU!
I have no idea what the shit this thing is for.
If anyone wants to follow me, then feel free:
http://twitter.com/duchessprozac
Where Madness and the Fantasical Come to Play
www.twitter.com/Torgodevil
It's a glorified "AWAY STATUS" message. That's all the creators said it was for on NPR.
http://twitter.com/TalonLardner
Perhaps, but it is a fun little diversion to tool around with. It's not meant to replace blogs or anything, but rather just to simply accent them.
Anyway, I've been on Twitter since it was beta. Not that I write much interesting stuff.
EDIT: Nevermind, turns out the active namechecking deal was just borked.
https://twitter.com/Woodroez
As it was with Second Life.
I can beat that! I wrote a script that lets me twitter from within Second Life!
On my virtual laptop!
I do not do anything interesting and nothing interesting ever happens to me.
Amazingly neither do I. That has not stopped me from posting inane little things all day.
Where Madness and the Fantasical Come to Play
When has that stopped anyone from blogging?
It's pretty ridiculously convenient, although it serves no real purpose.
http://twitter.com/RaoulDo0k
My only subscriptions are Jonathan Coulton and Veronica Belmont. JoCo cause he's JoCo, and VB cause she's just so darn cute.
twitter.com/martintsang
I used my real name cause in a state of delirium, I figured it might actually lead to something bigger, and didn't want it associated with my internet handle.
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I wanna eventually set up my cellphone. But I'm afraid of what my texting bill will say.
Zetx's twitter
My twitter name is the same as my forum name JimJimBinks