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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: Bart on December 19, 2007, 12:36:42 am
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I'm sure some of you use Twitter.com
If so, post your name, I need more people to follow. I am becoming a twitter addict very quickly :(
here is mine !!
http://www.twitter.com/truebosko
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Twit whaaaaaaat?
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This Twitter, it looks dumb, sir
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already have facebook.
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This Twitter, it looks dumb, sir
but all the cool people use it :(
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thats what they said about facebook
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heh...... I wasa member back when it wasn't even cool.....heh that'll show ya
no but really how is this any different than the little ASE IS CURRENTLY STUDYING FOR FINALS things on the minifeed on facebook?
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It is much different because Faceboko is gay and I hate going on it ok
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Twitter - akamike (http://twitter.com/akamike)
Jaiku - akamike (http://akamike.jaiku.com/)
Pownce - akamike (http://pownce.com/akamike/)
Everything else - you should see the theme by now, though I'm really only on Twitter/Jaiku since I can post to both using TwitKu (http://twitku.com/default.asp)
Something for the uninformed, undecided, or those lacking Pownce/Jaiku invites: Micro-blogging - Comparison of Services (http://akamike.net/2007/12/14/micro-blogging-comparison-of-services) (warning: long)
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Do you work for Twitter, Bart?
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Bart just wants to keep tabs on what we're all doing.
Partying? He may want to join you...
I don't have it and judging by the site description it doesn't seem like anything I'd have much use for. Eventually I'd end up with 500 retard friends changing their status every two minutes like I already do on facebook.
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What's twitter?
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Are you being Sirius?
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I just signed up for this thing at the behest of the topic.
Honestly it looks pretty gay. Don't get me wrong, Facebook has gotten gay as well, but why use this when I'm already connected to literally almost everyone I ever met through Facebook? What does this (or what will it) offer me that Facebook doesn't?
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Guys, instead of going URGH WHY SHOULD I USE THIS it would be a lot cooler if you just took up on the offer or didn't! But yeah an explanation of what kind of application Twitter is would be useful.
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Twitter is a micro-blogging application, which is basically an easy and quick way to send out an update or share something, similar to what you would do on a blog but much more lightweight. Though it does come without all the weight of a full social network, Twitter offers things like SMS updates, IM updates and a range of applications built on their API, so you have many ways to interact and update. You can also send direct messages to users and easily reference/reply to others by using @username (such as "@akamike: great blog post!").
An example use would be when you have acquaintances or "fans" whom you like to keep up-to-date on various things, to embrace them in some way without giving them full access to your life (i.e. Facebook). You could have them all follow your Twitter account and keep them up-to-date from there.
Another would be for stubborn friends who won't "conform" to the social network of your choosing. You all still need a way to share status updates and links/cool stuff. You could all follow each other on Twitter and just send out a message to them all (free, excluding SMS) quickly and easily. You may argue that you can just do that with SMS, but as I said that isn't necessarily free like Twitter and you don't really want to send an SMS to all your friends saying "lol im playing wow ^^".
It could also be used by businesses as a way to keep fans/users up-to-date with products and happenings with said business. BBC News (http://twitter.com/bbcnews) is aggregated on a Twitter account, for example, though it's an unofficial account.
In my blog post on micro-blogging, which I linked to in my earlier post, I analysed a number of services, since Twitter is not the only option, and broke down the features they offer.
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http://twitter.com/ink_slinger
That's my Twitter feed.
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Wow, never heard of Twitter before (I live in a cave). Sounds like some Game Dev logger's dream...
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Here ya go:
http://twitter.com/iaman
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http://twitter.com/casiotone
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https://twitter.com/HybridZero
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grow up bart
bart grow up
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I have a twitter :P
https://twitter.com/Archeia_Nessiah
But I rarely use it so I think it's pretty useless for me to give :<
Damn I have to make a new one since I forgot my old one X_X;
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All I have to say is, the testimonials are awesome.
I really love Twitter.
Twitter is the first thing on the web that I've been excited about in ages.
It's one of the fastest-growing phenomena on the Internet.
And yeah, it's like someone made a site based off of one of Facebook's/MySpace's most annoying features (status updates). I don't think I've ever put a serious status on FB, like, "heh, doing homework ttyl."
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And yeah, it's like someone made a site based off of one of Facebook's/MySpace's most annoying features (status updates).
Actually, Twitter came before Myspace/Facebook/Bebo status updates, so they based it on Twitter.
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I am bumping this because I realized I never even put my Twitter name in the original post!
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I've heard alot of people mentioning the productivity functions and other hacks involving Twitter. Google Remember The Milk, its a Twitter based to do list, which I guess with Twitters mobile features becomes handy.
Theres alot of posts and uses at lifehacker.com, just search for twitter post there.