I think I'm addicted to Twitter
Stupid question time - it is free isn't it?
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| Author: | romanista [ Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:49 ] |
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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 |
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| Author: | Dr Lave [ Thu Feb 05, 2009 14:59 ] |
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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 |
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| Author: | Ange [ Mon Feb 09, 2009 18:26 ] |
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I think I'm addicted to Twitter Stupid question time - it is free isn't it? |
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| Author: | myp [ Mon Feb 09, 2009 18:26 ] |
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It's 50p a message plus £2 for every celebrity you follow. |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Feb 09, 2009 18:28 ] |
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Ange wrote: Stupid question time - it is free isn't it? Haha. Yes. Until they run out of funds and try to figure out how to make some money.I am enjoying Twitter enormously. |
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| Author: | myp [ Mon Feb 09, 2009 18:29 ] |
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They could sell our personal information like Facebook does. Oh wait. |
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| Author: | Ange [ Mon Feb 09, 2009 18:33 ] |
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myp wrote: It's 50p a message plus £2 for every celebrity you follow. Cunt 
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| Author: | Malabelm [ Mon Feb 09, 2009 18:37 ] |
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Ange wrote: myp wrote: It's 50p a message plus £2 for every celebrity you follow. Cunt  You can't use that word unless you have one!Hang on*. *now, am I talking about your ladybits or Myp? 
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Feb 09, 2009 20:58 ] |
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Who is http://twitter.com/SandwichAM? |
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| Author: | Mr Dave [ Tue Feb 10, 2009 0:29 ] |
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote: Who is http://twitter.com/SandwichAM? Me. (I lie, My twitter is MrDaveXXVIII. It's not currently very interesting.) |
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| Author: | Hero of Excellence [ Tue Feb 10, 2009 0:37 ] |
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote: Who is http://twitter.com/SandwichAM? 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. |
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| Author: | romanista [ Tue Feb 10, 2009 13:20 ] |
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ah that explains it, confusing all those different names.. did someone from here add me on facebook todayyesterday called dave? |
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| Author: | Nemmie [ Tue Feb 10, 2009 13:29 ] |
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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? |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Tue Feb 10, 2009 13:32 ] |
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Nemmie wrote: 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. |
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| Author: | Nemmie [ Tue Feb 10, 2009 14:23 ] |
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote: Nemmie wrote: 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. |
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| Author: | romanista [ Tue Feb 10, 2009 14:53 ] |
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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.? |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Tue Feb 10, 2009 14:58 ] |
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romanista wrote: see,ms awfully slow at importing stuff though? doesn''t it? It only polls RSS feeds about once an hour I think, probably for performance reasons.Quote: and don't you ge tmany double things? referring to youtube photos in your blog etc.? 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.
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| Author: | The Rev Owen [ Wed Feb 11, 2009 11:18 ] |
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Is Twitter down for everyone or just me? |
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| Author: | myp [ Wed Feb 11, 2009 11:21 ] |
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The Rev Owen wrote: Is Twitter down for everyone or just me? It's down for me, too. |
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| Author: | myp [ Wed Feb 11, 2009 13:27 ] |
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Jonathan Ross's tweets haven't been that great in general, but this one made me chuckle: Wossy wrote: Am going to have lunch with my wife now. Red mullet. That's what we're eating, not what I call her.
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| Author: | Cras [ Wed Feb 11, 2009 13:29 ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Wed Feb 11, 2009 13:33 ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | myp [ Wed Feb 11, 2009 13:35 ] |
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Craster wrote: 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. 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. |
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| Author: | The Rev Owen [ Wed Feb 11, 2009 13:39 ] |
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I've been unfollowing (defollowing?) quite a few celebs. Don't they have anything better to do than Tweet all day? |
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| Author: | Malabelm [ Wed Feb 11, 2009 13:47 ] |
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They do seem to think they can make dull tweets interesting entirely through being famous. Doesn't actually work like that, chaps. |
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| Author: | Nik [ Thu Feb 12, 2009 20:39 ] |
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Craster wrote: 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 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. |
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| Author: | Nemmie [ Thu Feb 12, 2009 20:44 ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | Dr Lave [ Thu Feb 12, 2009 23:11 ] |
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Nik wrote: Craster wrote: 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 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. 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. |
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| Author: | CraigGrannell [ Fri Feb 13, 2009 0:53 ] |
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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.) |
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| Author: | The Rev Owen [ Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:20 ] |
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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. Quote: Ok no more replying have to get dressed & get my network on.I luv you guys for the pick up.I'll have all ur kind words in my head all day. Quote: who can I go visit in the valley? Traffic is a bitch right now. By the way tried to post a video via twitpic guess it didn't work Quote: So I missed some stuff that at the conference so I'm not going today. I'll go 1st thing tomorrow. It starts at 10am speed networking. Quote: Watching episode #2 of for the love of Ray J. Nothing happened so far. Quote: Back at the crib after a long day of errands.It was cool because my little sister kept me company all day.Now settling in we'll tweet soon! Quote: Just had @enterbelladonna's whole hand up my butt and then she squirted...I mean pissed in my asshole. Good times!!! Quote: oh yeah and its fucking traffic!! Uhg...stopping at the medical store for trees. LMAO.
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Wed Feb 18, 2009 18:10 ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | Mr Dave [ Wed Feb 18, 2009 18:17 ] |
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Quote: This bit added later in an edit. Beexers on Twitter (in order of descending awesomeness) http://twitter.com/MrDaveXXVIII http://twitter.com/AngelaRudd http://twitter.com/Skeptobot (Lave) http://twitter.com/Craster FeeX |
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| Author: | CraigGrannell [ Wed Feb 18, 2009 19:04 ] |
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote: 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. You missed both of mine. *sob* I'm twitter.com/reverttosaved and twitter.com/iphonetiny. |
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| Author: | romanista [ Wed Feb 18, 2009 19:55 ] |
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missed me too.. what's the best mac desktop thingy, i use twidget now (but mainly twinkle on the iphone) |
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| Author: | TheVision [ Wed Feb 18, 2009 21:08 ] |
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Yep.. missed me too!! http://www.twitter.com/thexboxvision |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Wed Feb 18, 2009 21:11 ] |
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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! |
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| Author: | throughsilver [ Wed Feb 18, 2009 22:41 ] |
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OK. Meezie! http://twitter.com/throughsilver |
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| Author: | CraigGrannell [ Wed Feb 18, 2009 23:14 ] |
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romanista wrote: what's the best mac desktop thingy I just reviewed Blogo for MacFormat. It's iffy for blogging, but fab for Twitter. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Thu Feb 19, 2009 0:13 ] |
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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.
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| Author: | Dr Lave [ Thu Feb 19, 2009 0:39 ] |
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CraigGrannell wrote: romanista wrote: what's the best mac desktop thingy I just reviewed Blogo for MacFormat. It's iffy for blogging, but fab for Twitter. 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? |
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| Author: | Malc [ Thu Feb 19, 2009 10:38 ] |
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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 |
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| Author: | CraigGrannell [ Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:37 ] |
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Dr Lave wrote: 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? 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. |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:44 ] |
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If you have access to a Windows partition, Windows Live Writer from Microsoft is free and (shockingly) really really good. |
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| Author: | myp [ Thu Feb 19, 2009 15:21 ] |
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Online Networking Harms Health. Discuss. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Thu Feb 19, 2009 15:23 ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | Kern [ Thu Feb 19, 2009 15:27 ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Thu Feb 19, 2009 16:00 ] |
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My first follower, before any of you lot, was some lass with a porn site. I clearly attract a high class of reader. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Thu Feb 19, 2009 16:26 ] |
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Curiosity wrote: My first follower, before any of you lot, was some lass with a porn site. username pls |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Thu Feb 19, 2009 17:00 ] |
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http://www.twitter.com/BeexSwear
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| Author: | myp [ Thu Feb 19, 2009 17:12 ] |
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Grim... wrote: http://www.twitter.com/BeexSwear That's fucking rubbish. |
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