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nytimes got a twitter map for during the superbowl, interesting you can do thouse things
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009 ... ref=sports

I'm slowly penetrating Twitter. Have one called Skeptobot - obviously.

But I may make that more 'pretend-work' related and push my New Fart into it. Or something. Dunno. In that case I may make another one for idle chatter.

EDIT: OMS!!1! This is the live twitter feed, but replacing God with Science. It is awesome

I think I'm addicted to Twitter

Stupid question time - it is free isn't it?

It's 50p a message plus £2 for every celebrity you follow.

Haha. Yes. Until they run out of funds and try to figure out how to make some money.

I am enjoying Twitter enormously.

They could sell our personal information like Facebook does. Oh wait.

Cunt

You can't use that word unless you have one!



Hang on*.



*now, am I talking about your ladybits or Myp?

Who is http://twitter.com/SandwichAM?

Me.



(I lie, My twitter is MrDaveXXVIII. It's not currently very interesting.)

Me, joining the Twitter bandwagon today.

I'll change the name to something more recognisable later. I wanted to put my toe in the waters, you see.

ah that explains it, confusing all those different names..

did someone from here add me on facebook todayyesterday called dave?

I signed up the other day and a couple of people have added me. No idea who they are though. Is this how it works?

You add random people until your page becomes full with the lives of people you don't know?

Well, if you do it at random then it's not going to be very satisfying. Instead, add people you know in real life, people you know from other internet places (like here). Then consider looking at friends-of-friends, or perhaps cruise favrd and add some funny people.

Or use search to look for people talking about stuff that interests you and add them if you like what you see. Twitter emails you when you someone adds you but not when someone removes you -- this is a clue about how you are supposed to add people. Add them on a whim, then remove them if they bore you, write too much, don't write enough, whatever.

Thanks for the advice I have added Lily Allen (Phooarrrr!) and Stephen Fry. If anyone wants to read my drivel then I am GrooveVandal this is my alt when some git has already taken Nemmie.

dr G. added tumblr now too, seems a good way to integrate it (as does friend feed), see,ms awfully slow at importing stuff though? doesn''t it? and don't you ge tmany double things? referring to youtube photos in your blog etc.?

It only polls RSS feeds about once an hour I think, probably for performance reasons.

Depends what you hook it up to. I stopped it following my flickr when it occured to me that I often write a blog post around a flickr picture anyway and that would just end up as a duplicate.

Is Twitter down for everyone or just me?

It's down for me, too.

Jonathan Ross's tweets haven't been that great in general, but this one made me chuckle:

Fry is in danger of overtweeting. The man's entertaining, but a solid page of tweets from him, most of which are dull, is too much.

I've already unfollowed Greg Grunberg, and I might ditch a few more of the other celebs too. That one of Ross did make me chucle though.

Don't get me wrong, I think he's great, but does anyone else think the same about his podcasts, too? I can't listen to them because they make me fall asleep.

I've been unfollowing (defollowing?) quite a few celebs. Don't they have anything better to do than Tweet all day?

They do seem to think they can make dull tweets interesting entirely through being famous. Doesn't actually work like that, chaps.

I didn't realise until today that if you follow him, he'll follow you back. Given that he has 175,085 followers, I've no idea how he keeps up. His page/interface must be constantly changing.

Lily Allen's twitter is entertaining but I might be biased.

I agree about Mr Fry but I have found a crazy American woman who is very entertaining. Apparently she is a bit of a Youtube star.

I too am growing tedious of Fry. For a man so respected for his wit his constant updates about the minutia of his life are quite tedious and dull. I think I'm going to kick him.

I think I'm going to make a second Twitter account for Bezzies and one for Skeptobot, because I've managed to make my last twatter be posted on the site, and so I won't it to stay on target rather than me being all silly.

I expect Stephen Fry will get tired of Twitter at some point and his traffic will drop accordingly.

It's interesting how differently people use the thing, though. Given that my feeds are 90% microblogging, I haven't actually 'followed' anyone as yet, although I have replied to people, 'cause I can see what they've sent to me via Twitterific and Blogo. I can't imagine what Fry's feed is like with all those followers.

(In a moment of madness, I nearly started a third feed the other day, for more 'friend oriented' stuff, and decided to lump it. Two feeds are enough, and reverttosaved can be 'me', I think.)

I'm dropping celebs left right and centre at the moment. Some are good value, though, with the mix of ordinary life and occassional WTF? moments.

I've put a list of links to Beex Twitter accounts in the first post of this thread. Shout if I've missed you off.

FeeX

You missed both of mine. *sob*

I'm twitter.com/reverttosaved and twitter.com/iphonetiny.

missed me too..

what's the best mac desktop thingy, i use twidget now
(but mainly twinkle on the iphone)

Yep.. missed me too!!

http://www.twitter.com/thexboxvision

All added. And I already followed all four of those accounts, so I can only plead "incompetence" as a reason for missing you off. Sorry!

OK. Meezie! http://twitter.com/throughsilver

I just reviewed Blogo for MacFormat. It's iffy for blogging, but fab for Twitter.

Add me to Page One!

http://www.twitter.com/DoctorCuriosity

I think I am now following everyone on that list. Apologies if I missed you off. Let me know and I'll add you.

There are blogging apps? That is so obvious but it never occured to me.

Is there a short answer for the best one, O wise Grannell?

Just added 8 people from the front page that I didn't have before.

I do wonder if my post total will ever exceed the number of people I am following plus the number of people following me.

MAlc

The short answer is "I don't know". Blogo seems pretty good (and affordable) at $25, although it didn't work with every WordPress blog I tried it with (and I couldn't figure out why). Judging by what Cult of Mac's authors have told me, most of the other Mac clients are garbage of varying degrees.

If you have access to a Windows partition, Windows Live Writer from Microsoft is free and (shockingly) really really good.

Online Networking Harms Health. Discuss.

The gentleman is making the idiotic mistake that if we weren't messing around with computers, we'd be out having face to face interaction with people. Whereas we'd actually just be staring at the gogglebox instead.

I would be talking to 'Eliza'. I think she loves me.


No, what's interesting is how social network sites make going out and having kinky and casual encounters doing things with people easier. You can quickly arrange things online, discuss things, then afterwards send everyone the pictures and stuff, without ever having to recourse to the dreaded telephone.

My first follower, before any of you lot, was some lass with a porn site.

I clearly attract a high class of reader.

username pls

http://www.twitter.com/BeexSwear

That's fucking rubbish.