15 Responses to “Tweeting!”

1. donmc Says:
   February 25th, 2009 at 3:11 am

   Hey Thomas, Give it 48 hours and you’ll be amazed!

   It certainly isn’t a fad and it’s a great way to reach out and communicate but you will need to be disciplined though as it can be an immense time sink.

   Suggest you get a copy of TweetDeck, it’s an Adobe Air app but besides that, it’s a great way to manager a large number of followers and tweets.

   Looking forward to seeing you on twitter!

   @donmcallister

2. nthmost Says:
   February 25th, 2009 at 3:30 am

   whether it’s a fad or not, Twitter’s an interesting development in communication.

   i consider it micro performance art. thoughts in 140 characters or less, a restriction which lends well to haiku.

   and if one is engaged in a duel of @ replies and re-tweets, then one is more or less doing conversation as performance art.

   i suggest NOT managing your tweets. don’t try to drink from a firehose. just dip your feet in the stream.

   –Naomi, who subconsciously wrote each of these paragraphs to Twitter post specifications.

   http://venixflytrap.net

3. regis Says:
   February 25th, 2009 at 5:22 am

   seconding tweetdeck — the big win with tweetdeck, imo, is the ability to establish ‘groups’, so you can have one window with the half dozen or dozen people you want to track closely, another window with @replies to you from whomever, a third window with the entire hoipolloi of folks you follow, etc.

   i have a separate window for just the various NASA projects that twitter, for instance. (http://www.nasa.gov/collaborate/ has links to all the nasa twitter feeds)

4. regis Says:
   February 25th, 2009 at 5:23 am

   the only complaint i have about tweetdeck is the inability to resize columns and fonts as i’d like to. i blame adobe.

5. chuckfrain Says:
   February 25th, 2009 at 7:15 am

   I like the idea that you’ll be microblogging. However I would like to encourage you to explore the Free (AGPL) platform Laconica as represented by http://identi.ca and see what you can do with that software.

   Out of the box, you can post to that account and have the message sent to both identica user and twitter users.

   There is also the option to take the Laconica software and build your own microblog community from your site. Then users of any other Laconica instance can subscribe to your feed and vice versa. You will control all of your content and are not beholden to twitter and their whims. As you may be aware, they are looking to monetize their site and we do not know what form that may take.

6. Tam Pollard Says:
   February 25th, 2009 at 12:34 pm

   Twitter is great. I don’t feel much need for a desktop app, but Twitterfon is great on the iPhone.

   I find twitter good for several things. First, following other people (though I don’t really use it for friends as facebook has that pretty well covered). Second, it’s good for blogging things that are two small to write a full post about but you still want to say. Third, I use it to nearly live blog my reaction to concerts and the like.

   @wheresrunnicles

7. merujo Says:
   February 25th, 2009 at 4:23 pm

   Nah, you’re not a sheep. Twitter can be fun, but like someone else said, it can be a total time suck. (Not as bad as Facebook, though, which can eat amazing amounts of time out of your life.) I had to cut off a friend on Twitter because she Tweets so much, it’s like an OCD.

   Just remember: http://www.someecards.com/upload/encouragement/i_hope_you_can_handle.html

   =)

8. funkydolby Says:
   February 26th, 2009 at 12:36 am

   You’ll get hooked. ;-p

   @mtlb

9. duckorange Says:
   February 26th, 2009 at 2:39 am

   Twitter’s got loads of uses – even if it’s only to alert your followers to a new blog post or a piece of news.

10. Elaine Says:
    February 26th, 2009 at 12:18 pm

    Glad to see you tweeting, Thomas! It’s fun. Creative folks such as yourself can really get inventive, too. GIve it some thought!

    Regarding whether or not to manage tweets: IMO it’s a reflection of your own personality. Either you like to juggle thousands of constant comments, categorizing them to your liking, or you like to maintain a set limit of conversations amongst people you ‘know.’

    Right now, I personally am with Naomi. I’d rather pare down, determine tweetworthiness and keep it simple. I can see the value of both, though. I figure I’ll eventually try the Tweetdeck or other similar app. What I can’t really figure out is the point of web-based apps which post to Twitter for you. Why not just post to Twitter.com in the first place?

11. bricameron Says:
    February 26th, 2009 at 6:11 pm

    I just can’t keep up! Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Bebo, Blogs, Youtube…
    How do you manage your day?!!

12. georgelenzer Says:
    March 2nd, 2009 at 12:47 pm

    Nice to see you on Twitter. I’d been avoiding a lot of the Web 2.0/Social media world as I’d seen it all before in the late 80s and early 90s. However, there are more people of all walks of life involved now and it seems to be reaching critical mass. I’ll be following you for sure. Welcome!

13. bfosgood Says:
    March 5th, 2009 at 6:10 pm

    I’m sorry – No one’s interested in the Tony Levin/Jerry Marotta doing a crappy version of Airwaves?

14. shackledtodesk Says:
    April 24th, 2009 at 12:35 pm

    Don’t do it! Twitter is destroying the planet with highly inefficient code. They wrote the base service in Ruby on Rails and it requires huge amounts of system resources (read hundreds and hundreds of servers) which, in turn, means they use huge amounts of electricity and water to operate.

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