Twitter
 

Anyone here playing around with this social networking option? I keep running across it and ask myself if I really need that sort of constant barrage of status messages. And yet, it's popularity and use means I may sign on to better understand how it might be used or abused in the workplace, since keeping up with such things is part of my job duties.

I've resisted thus far. I think I'd forget to update it after a few days. Or minutes.

Another one? *sigh* :rolleyes:

..I'll see if it works at work.

ETA:
OK, not blocked, but I don't know if I want to join a site where I have to let people know when I'm reading a mag, eating soup, or wiping my bum....

I recently signed up & trying it out.

I'll let you know after a week.

it's kind of fun, but the IM feature is currently not working, so I can't really keep up with it. I don't have free texting on my cellphone.

Huh?

I signed up for work. When I realized it was just a site for posting status updates, I didn't really get it. But I don't (as yet) have a smart phone. So when I sign in to leave a status update, what comes to mind is, "Sitting in front of a computer..." Some people use it to post status updates to their Facebook while they are on the go. Maybe I'll have more fun with it when I have a new phone, but I don't currently understand the appeal other than "Twitter" is a cute word. Heh.

Twitter is definitely on the way up. It's seriously a new way of staying in contact. The hype says that people that subscribe to each other's Twitter streams are so up to date on each other's doings that they get to know each other in a whole new way.

I kind of want to check it out but I've been resisting in an "I'm too old for this" fashion. I thought Facebook might fill this niche for me but it hasn't. If this is something I can do from my phone it makes it much more viable for me. To be honest, if others here are even vaguely interested, it bumps my interest up a few notches.

I'm vaguely interested. But I never update my Facebook or myspace... too many cute apps that just don't ring my bell, float my boat, or tickle my fancy.

That's the thing - this is entirely stripped down, no apps or cutesyness (I'm in total agreement, btw)

I have a few friends who use it and have it echoed to their LJ so I see it.

I have yet to see a single Twitter post where I've said "wow, glad to know that."

But then I don't have any desire for people to know what I am doing at every given moment. Nor do I have an active spontaneous social life that would need to be updated on the fly. When I go out for dinner with friends I am not hoping that others will find out and tag along.

The site is blocked from work so no work value there (though I'm constantly on the work filtered IM so they have constant immediate access anyway).

But then I've never even been to the Facebook web site so I am definitely now in the "too old" school of internet users. Left in a corner mumbling that things were better with telnet, DOS command lines, and gopher was the pinnacle of networking on the internet.

It feels a bit like stalking, or reading a laundry list journal where the person only writes:

7:00 a.m. I woke up.

7:30 a.m. I am finished getting dressed and now I am eating a bagel.

9:00 a.m. Back at the office. Bah. Traffic was horrible.

I too don't have a desire for people to know what I'm up to every hour of the day; I'm sure it would bore. And I lack the desire to know what you're all up to every hour of the day. I suppose it could replace the postcard if one is away on vacation. I keep waiting for the day when most people use Evite for wedding invitations to save some money.

But some use Twitter to post humorous 1-line observations, and they can be playful and fun. I don't much like the idea that a friendship between two people can be reduced to 1 sentence. And why bother when you can come to the LoT to carry on an actual conversation, or read a thoughtful blog post with the ability to respond, as if there was a pony express dialog taking place (albeit in "public").

MySpace has become a place I go to find new music.

Facebook is something I mostly use for work, though I am having more fun playing around with it than I thought, and long lost acquaintances who didn't find me through MySpace and Friendster have contacted me on Facebook. Mostly it feels like yet another place where everything seems to happen at once but nothing is really happening at all. I do enjoy Text Twirl and Scrabulous, though. Some of the game apps are amusing.

There was a long article in USA Today about electronic wedding invitations. It was the weekend edition out when we were at Kings Canyon (someone left that section in the snack bar and I read it when I was eating breakfast Saturday morning).

Apparently Evite is considered kind of crude for it but there are several "classier" services available. Experts were split on whether this marked the end of civilized society or not.

Don't really know what it means but Wil Wheaton (of Star Trek fame) posted this on his blog today:

Yeah, I don't agree with CP that it's on the way up. I think it was trying to be on the way up, and might've been interesting (if you were a jetsetter or, like mp, went to concerts all the time, etc.) but like Friendster, it doesn't have the technology to keep up with itself.

Maybe I am showing my age and curmudgeonliness, but what is the point for a boring old guy like me? I am really not interested in knowing where all of my friends are at every minute of every day. And I guarantee that my life is nowhere near interesting enough for someone to want to know what I am doing right now.

What am I missing?

I am mostly interested in the tweets done by people on the move - Pop Candy Blogger Whitney Mathison tweets while she is at conventions, etc, so she can say "just bumped into this famous celebrity and they said this interesting thing." Otherwise I am not that interested in it.

Oy vey. And hah!

If it saves money to print up a save the date card for people's fridges (if civilized people insist on having something in print) and have the bulk of the info and responses online, I say more money for vacations, etc.

Granted, I don't want to get married, so maybe I'm not the best judge.

I think wedding invitations of the future should just go on people's calendars automatically.

And before you plan the date you can use the software to scan the calendars of your guest list to find the date most people [who you want to attend] are free. You could also set it to find the dates that the people you don't want there but have to invite are busy.

I am in favor of good ol' fashioned engraved wedding invitations (which you actually don't see much any more). But I am biased.

Besides, who needs Twitter when we have the Soooo thread ??

I had the same thought here a few months back.

I use Twitter a lot. I get updates on basic things, plus use it to promote my own blog. I know a lot of others that use it for promotions or alerts. Yesterday while in LA I was able to get some information just by asking the cloud a question.

Sean Bonner wrote a good post on how he uses Twitter (and it has links to other Twitter based articles)
The LA Fire Department uses it to alert of fires, and used it a lot when we had the wildfires.

Nano-blogging or Micro-blogging as it has become known as is the way things are heading. While message boards are fun and informative, the on the fly conversations and events seem to be catching on.

While it is having its growing pains, I think it will survive. I wrote a post on my blog about it yesterday in fact. The only other one I use regularly is Brightkite

Once more GPS enabled phones are out, I think location based social networking (like brightkite) will really take off. It also helps with the geo-tagging of pictures and events.


I know a lot of people who are frustrated with Twitter, but also know too many people to try and get everyone on another service. And posting the same updates on multiple services gets really old to those who follow you on multiple services. I have tried others.
Each of them has its own purpose.
Pownce is good for sharing files and music, but not as good with the text updates.
GO!TeamInternet is just too much to set up and doesnt seem fluid to me.
Even the new ones like Plurk are bound to run into issues as they get more users. I really don't like the feel of it either.

To follow me on any of those, check the link on my site under "Social Networking"

You can chose who you get updates from, and also which of those updates you get to your mobile device, if you so chose. Also it is real easy to turn the mobile updates off/on with an "off" or "on" text message.

Twitter would actually be great for Disneyland updates. Create LoT account and update where the group will be, or anounce an impromptu Swanking. The updates can be locked so only those approved can see them. Direct messages can be sent to those who are being followed also.

my $0.02

I think I need to avoid twitter as I don't trust myself enough to resist the urge to sneak a peak at my phone during a meeting so I don't miss a € one liner.

Seriously - and I often skip reading that thread and barely post in it, so what does that say? heh

Isn't that was NotAfraid is for?

Considering my recent el jay rant about the inanity of facebook, something tells me twitter isn't for me.

I am intrigued by some of the applications Fej lays out. My original inquiry stems from reading an article on Google looking to the phone becoming the most common tool for accessing the internet. Twitter seems uniquely designed for "phone browsing" though both MySpace and Facebook have greatly improved their mobile interfaces.

I'm still at odds about the willfull loss of privacy - and wonder when the google earth integration and cell phone GPS will let you see your friends moving about a virtual globe in real time. I haven't check out all the links yet, but it seems that's already in the works.

Perhaps I'm also attracted by the fact that I've started and ditched a half dozen blog entries in the last week and like the idea of distilling things into a series of real-time one-liners. Of course, we all know some people's writting is more compelling than others, and my self consciousness might prevent me from keying in 140 characters that seem dull - I have a facade to maintain afterall.

Anyway, still on the fence, but maybe when I get my new cell phone I'll add this to my list of applications.

12:15 - took a giant poop

3:45 - changed my tampon

4:15 - Embarrassing burp in front of a client

7:23 - Thurston took a giant poop

9:34 - Thurston peed

ok... i'm pocketsymphony on twitter. let's see what happens...

I'm Zenarchist

My Space, Facebook, Twitter - all of these things seem like work to me. Homework, even. And my phone? I mostly want to use it to actually call people. (I am looking forward to getting a G3 iPhone, which will be a big leap for me. My current model has zero bells and whistles. Maybe that will change my current attitude.) Anyway, as soon as someone mentioned "constantly updating," I knew Twitter was not my bag.

2:12 AM - post awkward not-well-thought-out resistance to Twitter.
2:13 AM - Remove cat from keyboard (repeat every two minutes)

You're just going to have to read it to find out.

From the beginning so that you have everything in context.

Whose poops are you guys taking?

Exactly.

As long as I've got more meaningful ways to connect with friends on the net, these so-called social networking panaceas will be meaningness drudgery to me.

And I don't see the phone becoming the gateway to the internet for me either. I don't have much of an appetite for the net when I'm on-the-go, and I wouldn't much care to carry around a device large enough to have a screen suitable for that purpose.


For once, I'm satisfied being old enough to be horribly backwards.

Google Android. It's definitely in the works.

Haha, that pushed me over the edge. jenniesloan77

Y'all broke twitter. I can't get the page to load.

It's been down for about an hour. I guess we weren't the only new joins this week...

With the current Twitter outage, I thought I'd try out the new site "down for everyone, or just me?". The site was created in March, but started getting big press this week.

In a beautiful web coincidence, I got a 502 server error.

Sigh. I'm in. dudecantdraw

I love twitter! Since I don't have an unlimited txting plan on my phone I just use the mobile browser interface to view and post tweets. Different people use it in different ways and it's interesting to be able to hear about what my friends are doing- especially those in other states. I've learned of rad bars and places I want to check out when I visit the cities where my non-Vegas friends live. It's also nice to be able to update my Facebook status on a whim. Now if only MySpace would allow Twitter to update my status as well... I can dream!

http://twitter.com/keithsuperk

Like SuperK said, if you have the web on your phone there's no need to use texts, which is good news. Already I think I'll use it...whether anyone will deem my messages interesting is up for debate.


Do I really have to call them "tweets"??

Doesn't using your phone to access the web cost way more than texting on a non-web phone???

I believe all web access plans are unlimited access. I know mine is on T-Mobile. And I don't have unlimited text messaging ($0.10 per text I believe).

Depends what kind of phone you have.

My BB with data and texting costs less then my regular phone with texting.

We happen to have both unlimited web and text access.

Technology is failing me today - Our Portal is down, I can't seem to update twitter, but I can sign into LoT. It must be a sign.

Merging Traffic Ahead?

So my unlimited texting costs $5/month. What does web access cost??

I think we're paying $15/month for unlimited data.

Grrrr.

I can't access twitter from Wachovia cause it's 'adult content'. :rolleyes:
Takes too long to load on my razr v3i.

Maybe I will get an iPhone.

Depends on the provider.

My basic phone service is $39.99 a month. I pay $19.99 a month for unlimited texting and data. But remember, I have a Blackberry.

I think PDA phones have different data rates then regular phones.

And....my phone is dead. :) Guess I'll have to charge it more often...

Wait. If you're phone is dead, how did you access the internet???














oh.

I *think* I pay $40/mo for phone internet.

Better than twats...

OK, darn you all. Lashbear (well, duh !)

This is from someone who can't use her Bluetooth without accidently calling the mean Voice Recognition Lady, but I have to ask...

Are Twitter users known as twits?

:evil:

The terms 'knit twit' and 'twit wit' comes to mind.

;)

I have unlimited texting ;)

ETA - I also have a BB and their data plans are different then the other PDA plans.

I've been on it for a while and follow it for the benefit of my career, but on a personal level, I find little value in it. But I never update my facebook, don't LJ or any of that stuff. I guess I feel I am too busy doing boring unintersting work stuff to have time to post about doing boring uninteresting work stuff.

Damn.

Damn.


DAMN.

NotAfraid

So one day in and I get tweets about a theme park decapitation well before it hits the normal media - I guess I'm sold on this one.

Watching €uro and NA stand next to each other at the Viper Room as they simultaneously Tweet: priceless.

People next to me at movie theater tweeting during WALL-E: infuriating

In looking into it I found out that someone I wish I interacted more frequently with, even if it is just this, is on there. So I've joined just so I can interact there. Time will tell if I actually use it regularly for myself. If I do, it will probably be becasue LJ, my normal outlet, is blocked at work.

My phone died, again. I'm not even twittering that much, but now I seem to care when my phone is unavailable. Hmm.

I thought you would like that one.

I'll bite, I'm mickeyfan97.

So, I'm sort of surprised that I would attract any follower I didn't already know personally - is there something I don't know about the Twitter stalking community?

I signed up - we'll see. I'm bornieo

Some people use it for marketing reasons. You can block stalkers if you want, or make your posts friends-only. It seems that most of the people I might be interested in twittering with are posting when I'm asleep, so I miss most of the action.

Well, since I just got a myspace page up a few weeks ago, I calculate that I'll likely be using Twitter no sooner than 2010. That's how "cutting edge" my lifestyle apparently is.

I am more Luditey than you: I have no:

• Myspace
• Live Journal
• Skype
• Twitter
• Life

Twitter is the new Haiku.

How much can you pack into 140 characters?

Here is my two cents on the twitter matter:

My better half uses it to keep up with his contact at SND (society of newspaper design). He also used it to update these contacts (friends) during the WB repo cruise. You can do a private post to only your fiends. Its like a public blob, but you can make it private.

I'm just getting into posting and LoT is my first and will stay my first and only.

Hope this helps.

I scummed to peer pressure. DucksChickie. No idea if I'll update it on a regular basis. I suppose it wouldn't be much harder to update them MySpace and Facebook. Since I think Twitter would update Facebook. I should look into that.

I already find it annoying to get updated on my phone through SMS.

Will stick to checking the site via mobile web.

How did I miss this the first time?

Yeah, I never turned the sms updates on.

I signed up with Twitter and have no idea what it is.
:D

So, what's your name Mister?

You have no idea what Twitter is or what you name is?

One person on my LJ flist recently started posting Twitter updates. Based on my experience thus far... well, let's just say I didn't even bother clicking on this thread till today when I saw it had gone on for 3 pages. But I'm game, I'll give it another chance.

Morrigoon

GeminiCricket

Don't you know me, NA? Do you have amnesia?
:D


Just kidding, but it is GeminiCricket.
:)

Now, post something fascinating....... or something about your bodily functions.

I once pooped in a zen garden.

You've inspired me. In order to justify my signing up for yet another social networking site, I've decided to try to write my updates in haiku.

(That'll last, what, a day?)

Do any of these social networking annoyances help you meet NEW people???


I don't need less expressive or useful ways to keep up with the people i already know (though cloning would be the biggest boon to my misteps in that area) ... but meeting new people would make some of this junk perhaps worthwhile.

Sure you can browse people tweets - search on them by location, see who tweeting about you and stalk them

Sounds like work to me

Twitter is down for maintenance. What will we do?

LoT?

Have we twit our last **** for the day?

Sigh, snowflake is taken, dammit.
Rudyfan is me, duh

Dunno if Twitter will do that but you can try.
I've met an unsually large number of young men thanks to other message boards, Facebook, and especially MySpace. Just give it a try iSm.


Here's just a few of the guys that I found online (or did they find me ?) over the past few months:


Now will you consider social networking ?

They all have the same haircut...

LOL!

I never realized that !

As I've never dated online, I'm curious - Did they really look like their photos?

And you're still single, why????



(Ok, so we'll have a bit to talk about on the ride to Vegas.)

Of the ones I've met, pretty much. Usually they look better in person....because that's what I want right now. If you like, you're welcome to my disgard pile. LOL!

I'm already a member of a million other sites. I can't take it! Make them go away!!

So, if you meet someone on Twitter and fall in love will you be Twitterpated?

And I've decided to sign up. I'm on there as blueerica.

I'm in - Snoozinvil

Hmmmm - didn't think Ericalive was you

So, our mousepod has explained Twitter to me and now I'm Twitterfied. I still don't now if I completely get it, but oh well. I can be tracked now...
lol!

My twitter name:
GeminiCricket

Pretty original, eh?
:D

Changed mine to codexjen

Been twitterified. If you can't figure out my user name (hint: just remove the space), you do not deserve to tweet me.

HEY GC: since you are private, I was unable to add you.

No dorks allowed.
:p

I must not be a dork then because I can see you now :snap:

No, you still qualify for dorkitude. I just felt sorry for you.



:D

Who is mickeyfan97?

Oh, this sucks. Everyone's on twitter but me. I don't have internet on my portable device. I have no desire to really telegraph my every move, even when it might be mildly interesting.

But I get the feeling all my friends are cyber-hanging out all day, and I'm exlcuding myself and missing out on lots of fun.


This is making me very :(

Only cool people Twitter, Steve. Just an fyi.

:D

We don't want you to sign up as we are talking about you. :D

My mobile web is almost never able to log me in to Twitter. But I post by text or online, and check online. So, Steve, you should certainly be OK to use it. (I don't enjoy when people tweet about, say, bowel movements. [how many will we get now after I've said this?] but I do enjoy seeing people's patterns, their immediate updates, and the strange things they see, etc.)

I mostly update from the web.

You can also update via text, you don't need mobile web.

H, are you trying to go to m.twitter.com (without the wwws)?

I suggest you not follow KevyBaby. :)

I prefer posting about dog and cat bowel movements as well as stray hairs found in inconvenient places.

Bridgette.

TY

The thing is, if I can't post from my mobile, I will have nothing to post. You see me on the LoT all day ... i am in front of a computer at work and at home 90% of my weekday life. But nothing is going on except that I'm stuck at work or sitting at home. Perfect for random and general topics such as are found here on the LoT.

But not good for twitter updates. I'm still sitting here at work? I'm posting on the LoT? What kind of boring sh!t is that?

No, I'm afraid the only fun stuff I could twitter about would be when I'm on the go.

I guess I could add internet to my mobile device, but ... and please get out your violins now ... I'm in such poor financial shape that $10 extra a month on some bill is an extravangance I can't justify.


:(

If you can send text messages you can post from your phone.

I'm mickeyfan97 :) I only post the most riveting things that happen around here though ;)

So if you're on Twitter, does that make you a twit?

It was decided that a previous tweet would be called a twät

It is really weird getting all these emails saying that so and so is "following you." I keep looking behind myself to see who is stalking me.














Yes, I know I can turn the notifications off, but I am too insecure and need to know who loves me and who is snubbing me.

Aww :)

I've had a couple people randomly follow me, which is a bit odd, I blocked the ones I didn't know, so if it was someone here, sorry, let me know who you are next time ;)

I love that song ! I really must get the Dick Tracy album one day... just to get that one and "I'm going bananas"

Don't worry about it, Isaac, Kieth and Leigh Ann have got you covered

That depends on what your definition of fun is.

Even I signed up, not that I'll ever use it

I'm debating giving up on the haiku. (Big surprise, right?) Just a lot of trouble and it keeps me from updating.

How about switching to Iambic Pentameter?

Or how about onomatopoeia?

my dear morrigoon
why give up on the haiku?
no one else does it

When I said "haiku", I meant that Twitter is a form as haiku is. As I said, Twitter has its own limitation - 140 characters.

Does this mean I have to sign up, if only to defend myself??


Or do I cede twitter to zapppop, while I claim the high ground of el jay?


(It has already been determinined that the LoT is the Switzerland of CyberWorld.)

Well, yes and no...

Gimme some fondue already then!

[DERAIL]Believe it or not I have never had fondue before. I bet it is fantastic[/DERAIL]

Or it could suck ;)

It also tends to be a bit cheesy.

Oy, I'm such a cloying, pathetic follower.


ZliKiSm




but twitter has already "told" me I can't text them with my "current" cell phone plan ... so I already doubt I'll be using this much, because my own-the-go ability has been pre-stifled.

I guess we should stop talking smack about you there then

@ KevyBaby why start now?

I'm such a follower.

I'm also ethelberga.

This post made me crack up the first time I read it and again now. Visible mojo.

Are you sure? I could not find you as either Prudence or ethelberga

Ok, I'm liking Twitter. So now I must dump T-Mobile and get a service that let's me twitter from my phone (and, ya know, call directory assistance. Sheesh.)

I couldn't find ya either.

I'm positive. I hadn't put in an update yet, though. Maybe that was an issue?

You should still show up. Is the spelling correct (ethelberga)?

Yeah. I just started following you, btw, so hopefully I'll appear there. None of you were showing up in a search either, so I added folks by skimming through other people's lists of followers and whatnot.

And there you are. Not sure what is happening with Twitter today. I tried searching for people I know exist and Twitter sez they don't.

If I see the whale with the birds one more time, I'm gonna riot.
:D

I believe if she has "protect my updates" clicked, her username won't show up in a search, you'll only find her once she adds you.

I believe.

I believe too, GD. I do.

I think it must be a Twitter problem. She is not locked. Earlier, I couldn't locate anyone in a search (but that is not a problem anymore). It could just be that the Twitter search database is slow in indexing.

I don't have updates protected yet - although I will soon for obvious reasons. I wanted to get y'all added first.

Twitter is currently down for maintenance.
We expect to be back in about an hour. Thanks for your patience.

I think the update broke Twitter. It says I am following no one and only one person is following me.

I'm having the same problem. I'm unfriended :(

Maybe no one likes you.

LOL J/K ;)

Interesting. I've lost all my connections but if I search them out I see they all still have all of theirs except for me.

It's a conspiracy I'm sure of it!

I did the same search, but most of people I looked at had the same problem. Fej was one of the people with a lot of followers/followees.

BTW Alex: what is your Twitter handle?

Not to be rude, but I'd rather not say. I'm not looking to expand my circle of participation beyond what it already is.

Interestingly, I just went to another one who still has their followings/followers and I'm listed there but they still aren't listed on my page.

I show 2 followers and 2 following. But all my friends are listed below and all the updates are there.

Hmm, I didn't delve, but I just twittered, and it seemed like there were updates from most of my usual followees.

I have 6 and am following 6, but all are still pictures below. Can't see their updates, though. Ah me, oh my.

Did you see this?

I'm not hurt. No.

I'm fine



<sniff>



Really... it's not a problem




<sniff sniff>






My feelings aren't hurt

OMG, if twitter fails, how will we know what the rest of us are up to each 10 minutes or so?

We can't go back to no cell phones. Can we go back to no twitter???

Add me back, people! First you get me addicted, then I'm rudely cut-off with nary a warning!

It's still showing everyone's updates on the front page but I'm having to go back in and click follow for everyone.

I'm just leaving it alone until at least tomorrow. hopefully they'll have it back up to normal then.

When they first came back up, i had all my followees still faithful. It was only after i read about the troubles in this thread that most of them went astray.


I blame the LoT.

I noticed that I am blocked out due to too many tweets a lot of the time.

No observation other than that.

I will go back in and check at some point.

Interesting - a few of my followers show up on the list. Not all, not none, but a few.

Yeah, and, well ... with how dreary most of my tweets have been this horrible week for me, I suspect a fair number of people will not re-enlist to follow me.


Sigh.



What does the U.S. Military do about this problem??

To test, I posted a Tweet for €uroMeinke (he used to follow me, but doesn't show as following me now). Let's see what happens.

I am getting twits from some of the people I follow even though they don't appear on my home page list. But they do not, in return, get tweets for me.

At least not with the one person I've tested with.

My homepage says I'm following one person (who I added on Saturday), but since midnight, I have gotten tweets from LSPE, GeminiCricket, €uro, Kevy, CP, FEJ... and a couple of others.

Um, if the LoT were this buggy, we'd be out of business in a week.


F A I L

On my profile everyone I was following still had the photo at the bottom of the profile thingie. I clicked on each one and added everyone I was following back.

Did the same thing.

Nope, doesn't work for me. Only the four "leftovers and two new adds of this morning have their pics at the bottom of my profile.

Ugh, I'm going to have to comb thru this thread to get the names of everyone I used to stalk ... er, follow.

Hmm...

Earlier, I posted a test Tweet and asked Chris to respond. He has posted two tweets since then, but has not responded to me.

However, MousePod (who is not currently listed as following me) DID see the test. KatieSue also saw the post, but she is listed as a follower.

On the plus side, the mysterious spammer that I had blocked but still showed up on my follower page is gone.

Now I have 6 pictures but it shows I am following/followed by 9 people.

I started to re-add everyone... then I realized I was simply to lazy to go on with it. :) I'll wait until its fixed more before I take that kind of time out of my day off... hehe..

Ok, I'm getting updates from people who's pictures don't show as my followees. Just to be on the safe and pain-in-the-butt side, I re-added everyone who's pictures don't show. Sorry if this causes any inconvenience ... tho i guess it shouldn't.


This is why I'm a late adopter. I like the kinks to be worked out.








(Sometimes I like them to be worked out on me .... but that's a different story.)

Eh, I'm not touching anything for a few days at least.

Your husband won't be happy to hear that.

Yeah, but by then, it will be passé

Hmm... maybe I'll give you a call.

Weird. MOST of the people who used to follow me are back (I manually added back in all the people I wanted to follow). There are two people who I follow that are still showing as not following me (I'm pretty sure those used to follow me).

So, I *think* they fixed things. Mostly.

Well, that explains a lot

See, it's this game you play, where your hands are restrai.....




eh never mind

Apparently the problems are due to their efforts to boot twitter spammers. Rather inelegant execution, IMO. I had to readd a bunch of people. I hope it sticks today, since I can't access twitter from work.

Ironically, if that was their plan, they've even failed at that. The one spammer that I had blocked but was still showing up in my Followers is indeed gone...only to be replaced by another one.

I guess I am not that interesting. No one is stalking me.

Whoa, twitter just wigged out on me. For some reason, I had to sign in again, and it took me to some code page with no way out. WTF?


Can we just tweet on the LoT and have done with it??

This happened to me, so I just typed in twitter.com again and BAM, it's all back to normal, I think.

Yes, you can tweet on the LoT, it's called the Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo thread.

Yeah, but if post there, Alex might see it. If I tweet on Twitter, I know he won't see it.

Fixed for me, too. But I don't feel like tweeting today. It may, as my early-morning tweet says, be my first drama-free day in a long while, but I'm so sad from yesterday and I want to wait till my tweets can be more upbeat.


(I've no such compunction about LoT posts apparently)

Looks like it's fixed.

This thread is amusing.

How so?

I mean, any more than any other thread on LoT?

For the fans of Eureka, you can follow SARAH on Twitter.

In other words, you can sign up to receive commercials? Spam is getting cleverer.

People Magazine beat 'em to it by several decades.

I am hoping that (now that we are past ComicCon) that the Tweets will be interesting. If not, I shall delete.

Anyone else following celebrity or informational twitters? I just signed up for Barack Obama's. Too bad I didn't do it earlier so I could follow his world travels.

You should be able to at least go back and read about it now. Not as much fun as following it in "real time" but could still be an interesting read.

Wow, I have just as much desire to follow celebrity twitters as I have to read about their personal lives in supermarket newstand rags .... i.e., none.


Are their twitters juicier than ours? Do they post about themselves the same things the press does? Ya know, adultery, wife beatings, breakups, nude bathing???

Twitters are just like blogs - there are some on all fronts.

Yeah, we're starting to do Twitter feeds for some of our movies now. (That was why I got on Twitter originally.)

I follow Pop Candy blogger Whitney Matheson, for her real-time convention/etc updates. I also follow LAUpdates for info on what's happening around town.

Since Twitter is only of use to me by text message (it is blocked at work) I need to keep the volume down or I'll start missing actual important text messages and phone calls.

All I ask of any data stream is that the contents are of interest to me. When limited to 140 characters, the realm of potentially interesting stuff is drastically reduced. Almost to the point that the only reason it is interesting is because of who is saying it, not because of what is said. There are exceptions (a prominent film critic twittering first reactions while exiting each screening would be interesting to me independent of the exact person involved) but a Barack Obama press aide twittering as Obama isn't one of them. Nor is a fictional character.

A quick defense - The twitters say where Obama is, what he's up to. Not "Gotta pick up drycleaning" or "Stupid line at Starbucks", but "gave speech" etc. It doesn't have to be the man himself twittering. I think of it as news feed.

I am on. Sigchicken is my name in the twitter world.

Oh, I know what it is. That just isn't a stream of content that is any interest to me. Obama really twittering what his day is like might be. I don't care that he just landed in Pierre, North Dakota.

Currently down for "Unplanned" Maintenance. If all my contacts are erased again, I'm going to consider quitting twitter till they get their sh!t together.

I just started following Xeni Jardin. She's my boingboing.net crush.

Ha ha - our earthquake twitters bumped everything off my front page, all within 1-2 minutes.

The Earthquake made Twitter a hero. Evac'd the building everyone on their cell phones - Disaster recovery people running around trying to get ahold on things - and here I stand, cell phone in hand - refreshing and reporting my Tweets:

Looks like it was felt in Santa Monica...
Brea...
Long Beach...
Preliminary estimates 5.8
Chino Hills...
All MY loved ones are safe...

It was that awesome joy of childish one-upmansship.

What's that - oh I'm using twitter - but it's blocked by our company as a "dating" site - dating and disaster recovery

Heh

I was giddy for hours even if dissappointed that we didn't hit the 6 mark

The earthquake has finally brought me over to the darkside....my ID is swanies.

:)

Ok.... I'm a twit now. JWBear (What else?)

YAY for Twitter being the ONLY form of communication available post-earthquake.

Funny, I was so single minded about getting home to check on the buns that I didn't think to twitter.

Twitter and text. The news had someone from VZW on last night and suggested that people become more familiar and comfortable with "alternative methods of communicating via cell phone" for future reference.

Well, there was the LoT as well! It never went down.

I am now twitterpated.

gn2dlnd (What, you thought I'd change it?)

LSPoorEeyorick, did you post a twit id? Wherefore art that?

It didn't matter that the LoT and Twitter didn't go down in the quake, because my cell phone service and internet access did.

LoT required dinner and a movie first.

What's proper twitterquette for not really wanting requesters to follow you and not really wanting to know what they do minute to minute?

I have several people who's follower requests I've simply ignored, as opposed to denied. I'm not sure what to do without causing offense.

Probably just ignore them without posting them.

One of the updates allows you to accept people to follow you, but you don't have to follow them in return anymore.

€ and NA aren't following me. I feel like the Plain Jane at the school sock hop....

I don't see you?

Well JW isn't following ME, either!

Me too!! Same name, belleh5.


I had no idea what twitter was, until I talked to Zap earlier on phone......

What's your name on Twitter?

Is James Legacy somebody here or a stalker?

Why do strange people want to follow me?

A cool way to find other people you want to follow is to look at the Followers/Following lists of other people you follow/are following you.

I will tell you that one of my followers you might be interested in is powerful and wet ;)

yeeeeeAH, baby!

Is it Shamu?

Get out of my head!

Which one of you is porn_website24 ? I thought not.

Scaeagles.

I think several of us have been hit with variations of that (just with different numbers).

i really want to twitter on the go. my current cell provider won't let me text to twitter. i'm on the verge of sucking up the more expensive plans and getting an iPhone. i played with one last night. they are nifty, alright.

BUT ... they are too darned big. i want my portable devices to be small, literally pocketsize. i have enjoyed the last decade of my cell phone getting smaller and smaller ... and i'm not yet willing to start moving in the other direction just for incremental increases in functionality (oooh, i can check the LoT and post on twitter while i'm out in the world having fun!)


Sorry, not yet.



Anyone know of a SMALL web-access phone device??

Blackberry Pearl.
Verizon has a bunch of phones with web access about the size of the Pearl as well.

The BB Pearl is 4.2" x 2" x 0.57" (but no QWERT keyboard)
The iPhone is 4.5" x 2.4" x 0.48"

Not much of a size difference.

Thanks KB.

I tend to not think of my BB as being a big phone. It fits nicely in my jeans pockets.

At some point you won't be looking for functionality so much as just the ability to see the damn screen. I'm lusting after an iPhone for the screen size as much as for the functionality. Sprint really, really wants to sell me a Samsung Instinct which seems to have much of the same functionality as the iPhone but the screen is a little smaller and that could end up being the deal breaker.

Just got an iPhone and am already loving the functionality as well as form factor - it's thinner than my razor

Uh-oh. Be careful out there in Twitterville.

Who exactly sees a twitter with a link to porn and thinks, "Oh thank, GOD! I've been looking all OVER the internet for pr0n and just haven't been able to find any. Finally, this kind stranger has provided me the link I need!!"?

I just redecorated my Twitter page.

Who's Rayanna?

CrazyLegs

Thanks. I'm not sure why she added me. I haven't met her. Oh well.

I know you know people I know, so I may follow you for that reason. (Have I ever met you? If I'm not remembering, forgive me, but I know I see you around the LoT alot.) I'm following a cat named socks. Never met him, but he's entertaining.

You probably have not met...Steph moved to the Bitter East Coaster camp long ago :)

Is godaddygo anyone we know? He is following 1287 people, so I suspect it's spam.

I'm going to block him, so if it's someone here, I apologize.

Some pentecostal dad panicking over the gays. He probably did a search and found some people who would "benefit" from some witnessing.

Anyone have any idea who Rock_Star_69 is? He's only following one person, and it's me.

Remember that creepy guy from the metro you posted about forever ago? It's probably him!

No his tweets are about passing out poolside amidst naked women - Hmmm maybe it's one of my imaginary lives going off on a bender

http://www.fotolog.com/rock_star_69/

or perhaps

http://www.facethejury.com/profile.a...e=ROCK_STAR_69

One of the "people" I subscribe to is SARAH - the house from Eukeka!. They are only one or two a week, and it amuses me.

Today's tweet is about a missing person (on the show) and includes a phone number. I am tempted to call it, but don't want to get my phone on a auto-dial list.

Among the fictional twitterers I'm following are: Sockington, a cat (I called him/her Socks earlier by mistake,) Stephen Colbert, Dr. Horrible, Barack Obama, and Alex.

The only one following me is Barack Obama. Wait! I think I hear his footsteps behind me now!

Am i cheating if i tweet 4 times in a row?

I threw in the towel on Twitter the other day. An interesting experiment but ultimately unsatisfying.

I guess the account is active so if I'm kidnapped int he woods I'll be able to let people know but I'm not getting them anymore.

The noise to signal ratio was atrocious and since a fair number of people don't use the @ I couldn't filter out the significant portion that were me just seeing one side of a conversation.

I'm enjoying posting into the ether and seeing if anything comes back. Most of the people I'm following are following each other, so, even if @ gets dropped, I can usually follow the connection. Once in a while I enjoy a good non-sequiter.

Oh look, a penguin!

I've severely cut back on my twittering frequency but still enjoy checking in on occasion and throwing the odd post in.

Within the circle I was in, I had two glaring omissions in who I had no interest in following but most others did.

Plus, since the text messaging function is the only way the service was of use to me (no access by web at work) with following just 10 people I was getting more than 100 text messages a day and so even vibration was annoying which made me turn off my ringer completely meaning I wouldn't know when I was getting actual calls or text messages of value.

I have only a few of my followees set to alert me, otherwise the damn phone would be constantly going off. That way, when I do check in, 10 or so msgs have stacked up and I can read 'em all in one fell swoop. I guess this wouldn't work if your phone doesn't have internet, though. I also don't receive alerts between midnight and 9 AM.

my biggest block to twitter is i can't twitter on the go. i have no mobile 'net connection, and my current cell plan won't even let me text to twitter.

I'd really like to get some friends tweeting who i don't see enough of in real life, and who i don't message board with anymore. It would be a good way to maintain some connection. Right now, most of the people i follow or who follow me are from here, the LoT ... and we have, well, the LoT.

So i appreciate my 3 las vegas friends on twitter who don't post on the LoT (well 2 are technically members, but they hardly ever post here). And i'd like to convince some of my other non-LoT friends to join twitter.


I love the haiku aspect of the character limit. Even though i posted 4 tweets in a row a little while ago, they were each on a different subject.


But i wouldn't have to play catch-up like that if i could just tweet in real time like everyone else. But i'm not sure that twitter is enough reason for me to go to the expense of getting a device and plan with mobile internet access.


Yes, i still have a plain old cell phone. How 2006 of me!

If I had a phone like Alex or iSm I'm sure I wouldn't enjoy twitter either.

Twitter has definitely fit a very specific niche for me. I only tweet selectively, when I have something interesting to say that fits the 160 char lim style. If I have something major I'll say it elsewhere, I don't respond to tweets very much at all, and I don't follow everyone. I cut back a bit and may cut more. Doesn't mean I don't care for the people involved, just means I can't keep up.

I forget about it most of the time. Then I'll tweet like crazy and then forget about it again.

I don't have a smart phone either - and I've only managed to log into mobile Twitter once. So for me it's not so much the on-the-go following of friends. I don't get any updates via phone - though I do tweet via text if there's something interesting going on, particuarly if I'm out and about doing things that are unusual. I like seeing people's habits and patterns, and unlike LoT, if there's something urgent or upsetting or very cool going on in someone's life, it's gathered in the one spot (unlike here where I have to make it through all of the appropriate threads before I know all the big news. Which I don't mind doing, but don't always have time for.)

Like car wrecks, monsoons, or Victor Garber...

Would that fall under urgent or upsetting or very cool?

I'm diggin' the tweets

Yes. Yes it would.

I went to see who two new people were that decided to follow me. When I clicked on their account names. I saw this for each:

BTW: the people were "nikebren42" and "goodrichrich45"

Twitter is now officially so five minutes ago.

dlindyhop

^ Sez the woman doin' the lindy. ;)

Damn! I was suspended again? I hope goodrichrich46 is not taken yet. :(




(Yes, that was just a joke, I actually don't have a twitter account.... )

So I was just checking up on my following/followers list. Found a few folks I knew and decided whether to add them or not. A few spammers, and a couple... who are these people? And why are they following me? Like the OC Register reporter. WTF?

I'm a little weirded out.

For some reason, I decided to look at what EVERYONE on Twitter is posting (click the "Everyone" link on your Twitter Home Page).

A post came up from a user with the name "UnWantedChild." Seems someone has written a program/script that will post a series of rotating messages ever couple of minutes or so:

Why?

Stab in the dark: It's probably tied to an anti-abortion campaign or person.

Oh, I guessed similar. But what is the point? It is the same five Tweets repeated over and over.

Why are people following this person? Do they really need to see those Tweets over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over?

I'm not sure how highlighting the abandonment of unwanted children would be anti-abortion.

Those are usually hypotheticals of the pro-choice side. My guess, and it is based on absolutely nothing, is that someone did something similar for a fetus being aborted (maybe this one found with a guess at a user name) and this is a response to that.

I'm thinking it's related to safe haven abandonment laws where you can leave a newborn (or is it up to 3 days old) at a hospital, police station or fire station with no repercussions. And maybe anti-prop 4 (I think) that requires parental notification for minors to have an abortion.

In other news, don't accept a friend request from bin Laden. Twitter can be used for terrorist activities.

If a three-day-old baby is not considered a newborn, then what is the cut-off time-frame?

But your assumption is correct: the safe haven laws allow up to three days after birth to drop off with no repercussions to the mother (at least in California - I don't know the laws in other states).

While researching this detail, I ran across some interesting facts from the State of California on the Safe Haven law:

• This is from the California Department of Social Services web site.

Nebraska hurriedly trying to revise their safe haven law so parents will stop dropping off their teenagers, including one from out of state. I'm not kidding, really I'm not.

(Apropos of not much, just an interesting tidbit on unintended consequences I heard about over the weekend.)

Take away the fact that it is really sad and this is really quite funny.

Actually, from the first link:(emphasis mine)

Not that it makes it okay, but if I remember correctly, the guy with 9 children dropped off either 6 or 7 of them. His wife had just died and he felt completely overwhelmed. Within a few days, he returned to reclaim his children.

Did that kid get voted off the island? Was he hogging the rice or just slacking around camp?

If I were his kid I'd have a hell of a time forgiving him.

I can't find any story on them being reclaimed (not that it didn't happen). Though I did find a story of another out of state kid (a girl from Iowa) being reclaimed.

About them being dropped off

Apparently they were taken in by an aunt, not the father.

It was a big brooha around here, maybe they thought lots of KS parents would be heading over the state line.

New Twitter;


isaacv3

I totally forgot that I signed up for twitter.:blush:

I'm lame, I don't Twitter. I can barely keep up with MySpace.

Damned Twitter is down

Yes, but seeing the Fail Whale again made me smile

Back up

it's beyond the fail whale - I got this:

"My Stalker just Grunted on my Twitter" :D

I loathe MySpace, love Facebook- and do not understand Twitter.

Twitter is just basicallly Facebook status updates that can be sent to you on the go (or not, if you so choose.) I use it more than Facebook because I have lots of work clients on my Facebook and I don't wish them to know as much about my personal life (or, say, when I'm taking a lunch break instead of "in a business meeting.")

Yeah Facebook is too public.

The few times I've posted an eyebrow-raising status, I've gotten flooded with email.


I was going to link Facebook and Twitter, but decided against it. I hardly ever update my Facebook status now.


Lately, I've been far too busy to tweet. My life is rapid, interesting, and commentable, but I can't. Ironic.

Yeah, when I realized that I was easy enough to find on Facebook that my Mom possesses the technical skill to find me, I realized I would not be jumping on the "link everything into Facebook" bandwagon. I know I could do some things with privacy settings, but I don't want to spend my time micromanaging it like that. Instead, I just have a simple rule about the kind of info I put on Facebook - it's the same level of personal info that I'd be comfortable sharing at a party where the people on my friends list are guests. Anything beyond that I either don't put on the internet, or only post in place where I can be more selective about who's around.

The simple fact that Facebook is linked to my real name is enough to make me cautious about it.

I spent the time (cause I have it) to lock down my Facebook pretty well. Those who are on it now can like what I say or remove themselves. My former co-workers are only those who knew me well enough before to know how I am in real life, vs. corporate world.

I have two Twitter accounts, one for the majority of my friends and one for a sub-sect. I doubt most of you guys would love hearing about all my hockey stuff... though it's going pretty good now hehe. Trade deadline is today; things will slow down soon.

Geez, I can hardly maintain my Facebook and MySpace pages. In fact, both are sadly neglected. Linked In? I don't even remember how to log in. My LJ has been abandoned entirely. I can't even imagine starting with Twitter.

Two days ago I was distressed to have been tracked down on Facebook by someone from the dark past, who should not have even known the name I use there. I know I don't have to confirm the request, but the personal message begs a response of some kind.

I went ahead and linked Twitter with FB. Like everyone, I got cautious when I started friending more distant acquaintances. So I disconnected the Twitter updates. 2 days later, I was too annoyed by not having it cross posting that I decided it's easier just to be careful what I say on Twitter or start private stuff with an @something so it doesn't cross post. So I reconnected the updates.

The nice thing is, Twitter pulls up easier on my phone (I use the web app on my phone, rather than the text app), so I can update FB quickly and easily. I enjoy the fact that on FB you can get responses.

I'm so much of a luddite, I rarely change status on Twitter as I find it cumbersome on the web and my phone is not on often enough to update. I'm a textOphobe, I would need a new phone to text like a normal human being. iPhone is what I want, but not in the budget right now. So for now Facebook works and I've reconnected with some great people from my past, so it's been useful. LinkdIn has not done much for me, if I end up being axed in a layoff, it might be useful then since most of my contacts there are business variety.

I've become quite the fan of Oversoul. No more tedious typing because with the painless insertion of sub-cranial implants, I can hear what everyone in my network is thinking as soon as they think it.

As to Facebook, I think I've got it pretty well locked down, and I have no plans to post anything particularly personal.

No Facebook
No Live Journal
No My Space
No Oversoul
Don't update Twitter that often

Just the trusty ol' LoT. If it isn't posted here, I pretty much don't know it is happening.

I think it's broken again :(

Okay, I've had a FB account for 2 years and never did anything with it. Today I moved into the latter half of the decade. If anyone wants to find me, my last name is Withers.

Not good enough, unless you haven't graduated high school yet. (eg: I can't find ya)

The iphone has definitely made a difference in which apps I use and how I use them. Twitter & BiteKite rank 1st. I'll read Facebook & MySpace feeds, but usually won't do anything beyond change a status. Live Journal has suffered the most without a quality text editor that can cut and paste - I may need to get a netbook for that.

My settings were for friends only. Can you try again?

Ah! I found 7 of you, but not you. You know? I'll try again now.

Huh. Well, now you show up (I like that pic of you, you look so sasseh) but with no option to add you as a friend.

I got the same thing

Well, $*%&*@&$*!

Lemme try again.

Alright, would you mind trying one more time?

Works!

Thanks! :D

if anyone wants to follow me (I got tired of following others so I only look at replies with twitterfox now) I'm on there. twitter.com/Figment1986

I mostly say random things, or update a lot when I'm at a themepark and even though it's tied to my facebook... no one reads that anymore. lol

I just went to a "Tweetup" last night and learned all about how important it is to be apart of the social networking scene. Who knew?! Luckily I'm on Facebook, Linked In and twitter. I try and keep all my social networking about work but its not easy!

Twitter
@Misstjg

But you aren't regular enough on the single most important social networking site: the LoT

So true! I used to be. I haven't been on in ages and finally remembered to log in. How can I overlook the LOT?!!!

We know when we are snubbed



:sniff:

Weird: the most recent post on Twitter that I can see (via Twitter.com/home) is one from four hours ago made by StanfordSteph about not rinsing all the soap out of her coffee carafe.

The post itself isn't weird, it is the fact that either 1) none of the people I am following have Tweeted in the last four hours (highly unlikely - you are a effusive bunch), or 2) Twitter is broken.

I'm a twitter failure. I only noticed yesterday that 18 people have reqeusted to follow my tweets, some of them over a month ago. Ooops. Well, they're going to be awful disappointed. I hardly tweet anymore.


That may change once i finally break down and buy an iPhone when the new version comes out. But I think it will take more than that. I'll have to change behaviors from someone who just flows with what's happening to someone who pauses now and then to tweet about what's happening.


I've already noticed how much of a behavior modificiation it's going to take now that I finally have a camera again to become the person who pauses the flow of things that are photo-worthy to actually take those photos. It's a big and annoying step for me, and I don't know if I'll succeed. So the camera may prove to be a waste. And the cell-bill-doubling iPhone as well.


I'm a walking anachronism of hasbeenhood.

Someone I follow did report a Fail Whale sighting this morning.

No one tweeted. We were at Lisa's bday.

My post was at 10:30 this morning - that means that none of my peeps posted from 6:30 to 10:30


ETA: Taking another look, it appears nobody had anything to say then.

Perhaps they have you on ignore?

:sniff:

Nobody loves me

I do ;)

Eh, you've got a mother

At best, she tolerates me.

Again with that avatar? It hurts my eyes. I will pledge my undying love if you retire that thing.

http://www.instructables.com/id/The-...-Office-Chair/

No comment.

Fine. I changed it!

I love you for-evah and evah!

(In a totally innocent, platonic way -- natch)

I much prefer the naked butt dancing baby to that other mutant thing.

Thank you, Kevy!

Damn

Now he just needs a nipple ring in the right nipple (was it?) to hang his car keys from.

Thanks for the new shoes, KB. I hope my feet will grow into them, as well as other parts of my anatomy. You know what they say about men with big feet.

Yes, it is the right side that is pierced.

Why I felt compelled to answer that; I don't know.

Ever the cutting edge crudmudgeon that I am, I've joined up: TWA_Moonliner.

Follow me and see how wonderful your life really is.

So other than Lot'ers who's following who?

To start with I have added:

CNN Breaking News - cnnbrk - Breaking news from CNN
WTOP (local news) - wtop - News from Wtop.com
Daniel Negranue - RealKidPoker - Professional poker player.
Bad Astronomer - BadAstronomer - Astronomy blog
XKCD - xkcdrss - Web comic

I follow @anaheimducks

At first I thought this was something about cross-dressing. Which I would expect from you.

So if you tweet while in the woods and no one is following you, does it make a sound?

I still giggle over Euro's query as to whether a past-tense Tweet would be referred to as a ****?

Wow, I used to not follow anyone bot LoTters/friends, but suddenly I've got a pretty hefty list -

TheDoLab
coachella
woot
wootoff
wootsellout
DougBenson
JohnenV (Johnen Vasquez)
Johnny_C (Johnen Vasquez in character as Johnny the Homicidal Maniac)
ThatKevinSmith
smosier (Kevin Smith's producer, Scott Mosier, who has never tweeted anything on the account)
tinytwitter (which is just an account for updates on the twitter client I use on my phone)

I tried to add you, but you don't come up in a search. TWA_Moonliner, right?

TWA_Moonliner - Correct. I was afraid I'd made a typo in my own name. I guess it takes some time to index.

Interesting thing however, I just blocked my first follower. (no not GD)
I'm guessing that anyone can see who is following anyone else? I had a follower from "Bluff Magazine" a poker rag that I'd guess picked up on me from my link to the poker player.

Yes, you can view who is following anybody. But you can set your account to private so that you have to approve any followers before they can see your tweets.

As I see you have done. Mr. Draw.

You came up as Steve_C.

That account was a first try as I was playing around with twitter.

All my witty and charming comments will be flowing from the official TWA_Moonliner account. At least until I can locate the scallywag that took the "Moonliner" name on twitter and set them straight.

Teeny Weenie Airlines - isn't that what TWA stood for?

Currently I am following:
ALBTMdotCOM / Julie Rasmussen

DitaVonTeese / Dita Von Teese

vermillionlies / Vermillion Lies

TheDoLaB

coachella / Coachella

And Occasionally

kogibbqKorean BBQ Taco Truck

I'm not finding you

I am now being stalked by someone new...

I found you. Which should make it easier to find me.

You just bring out the best in everyone.

Is anyone here named PUADude? Because otherwise I"m gonna block his @ss (I block followers I don't know, because I have to leave my updates public for the cross-posting stuff to work)

uh-oh - the robot kitty has lost his claw

Hello LeannTrimble nice to have you following me but I wonder who you are....

Huh, you are following over 2,000 twitters. Wow that's a lot to read.

Let's check out your website....

Why it's Revtwt.com

Ahhhh! You are a Twitter whore.

Blocked!

Twhore?

Twit?

Spam followers are a primary reason that I protect my updates. Kind of a pain when I want to participate in something like #rejectprop8 and have to temporarily unblock them, but worth it in terms of not constantly getting spam followers.

Tw@t?

winner!

Commodore says: "Twoot!"

Twollop.

I use hashtags even though I remain locked. I hope that these tweets are counted towards overall numbers for my topics even though they aren't viewable outside my friends.

If not, oh well, fun anyway, and gets others who aren't locked to use them.

OK, I'll bite: Hashtags?

Don't bite hashtags; they leave a nasty aftertaste.

Thinking that Apple may have their own Twitter feed, I decided to look what the user name "Apple" might have to offer.

If you know some of the history that predated LoT, you too may be amused by the Twitter user "Apple"

:cakes:

Has anyone started a "six degrees of twitter" game yet?

Who can connect William Shatner to Ashton Kutcher in the fewest moves?

"-->" = follows

Shatner --> Elizabeth Taylor --> shannonlynn39 --> Britney Spears --> Ryan Seacrest --> Ashton Kutcher.

Can you do it in less?

If I become friends with Ashton Kutcher, it would be William Shatner --> me --> Ashton Kutcher.

And yes, I am friended to William Shatner.

For that to work, Shatner would have to be following you and unless you are really Fran Drescher I don't see you on his list. ;)


And why in the hell is Shatner following the Nanny anyways?

They have the same representation and it is an intern their who actually does all the celebrity twittering?

Ahh, so it has to be mutual... Then I dunno how well that would work. It would have to be just mainly between celebs and people who are in their circles.

Just need to find the celebrities that autofollow everybody and then hook in.

Hummm... Let's test that.

I'll try and connect Disneyphile with Weird Al.

I follow Lance Armstrong. That's it. I'm about 239 degrees of separation from anyone.

I'm a freak. Who's that connect me with?

Amusing...

Good thing I don't have ADHD.

Are you a narcissistic stalker?

Well, I do almost always know where I am. And I'd likely ignore a restraining order requiring me to stay 500 feet away.

So, apparently.

No wonder I love Twitter.

I guess where "poor body image", "lack of conversation skills" and "mansion envy" overlap you have the Sims. ;)

You forgot "God complex"...

New use for twitter:

(well new to me anyways..... )

Instant movie buzz.

Bruno bites, Beth Cooper seems to appeal to woman more than men etc...

*Grrrrrrr*

OK, I give up. I've been trying to keep my profile open assuming that only people that somehow know me would care to follow me.

Obviously that is not the case. Pretty much daily I'm forced to block yet another twit on twitter. I actually spent some time trying to figure out how they were finding me. After all, I'm not what you would call a high profile twitter user.

My first thought was that they were just grabbing all the names from one or more of the high profile people I was following. That is obviously part of it. After following a couple of professional poker players (the World Series of Poker is happening now) I was followed by a number of poker/gaming/gambling related twits. However others seem to come literally out of the blue. Looking at who they were following/followed by showed no clear connection. Then last night I sent a tweet that mentioned "Super Soakers". This morning I find two new followers who, shocker, sell super soakers online. Wow.

It makes me wonder what would happen it I sent a tweet with the word 'Viagra' in it.......

Anyway I'm tired of the constant fight to ban these twits. So I'm going to change my profile to locked. I'm not sure that effect that will have on anyone that is already following me.

Viagra Update:

Ok, so I sent a Twit with the word "Viaga" in it at 10:00am.

10:01 - First new follower.

I've been looking at the trending topics lately and it's kind of neat to know what's going on in the world at that moment. I had no idea the men's final at Wimbledon was happening, but after I saw the trend I decided to watch it that day. When authorize.com went down I found out what that was. It's interesting what stuff other people are into that I didn't know existed.

11:00 - Still just the one new follower. I'm kinda disappointed.....

Twitter is great for finding out about travel deals before they hit elsewhere. Typically you get first crack. JetBlue has a new ID JetBlueCheeps just for super cheap fares, some as low as $9 oneway.

I (blocked profile) had 2 follow requests after my friend (unblocked profile) mentioned wine and Trader Joes as an @ reply.

Yeah, as a blocked profile I still get 1-2 follower requests per week. Usually t!tty girls (I assume... I refuse to click on their profiles, but their avatars usually involve cleavage)

Funny, I don't get many spam ollower requests. It's been months since my last. Perhaps because I don't tweet about brand names or something?

Aren't your tweets private?

Also funny, I have been followed by exactly zero new twits since I sent the "Viagra" tweet. Even the one twit that followed me one min later removed themselves.

I might be on to something here... :D

Mine are and I still get one or two spam followers a month.

My current issue with Twitter is the people I really do want to follow but that also about half their tweets are just retweets. Once in a while is fine to alert me to someone I might want to follow but after that I grow annoyed.

Does anybody know if a tool that filters out retweets?

I do have a second account that is public and it is amazing how any tweet seems to draw a half dozen marketing twitter account followings. Mentioned Providence once and got three different Providence night clubs following me.

They would seem to be. I did a search for "lunner" and a number of results came up but nothing from her.

Ah, I was confusing "blocked" with "private".


Speaking of which - I went private so I can be absolutely sure that I can be honest and real without compromising my job and family relations. But I do feel like I'm missing out on the very public side of it. My hashtags are pointless. If I'm following someone and they aren't following me (celebrities) I can't respond to them. If people are searching for info on something, I'm of no help.

And now there are possibilities like this one. Sigh. Unless Twitter adopts a per-message privacy setting, I just won't be able to participate in the next step of net evolution.

Open two accounts and use one for public activities and one for more private with a select list of people allowed to read. A hassle, sure (my phone twitter app handles multiple accounts pretty well since it can keep multiple instances open at the same time) but would allow you a venue for saying "Head Librarian Bob Jones can go blow himself" as well as "Oh, @Wil, you're so dreamy and geeky!"

Yeah, I could do that, but just considering it gives me a headache. Already I have a distinction between Twitter and Facebook, as FB includes family and acquaintances and has my real name attached....which means I post very little there. I know I would just use the "real me" one and not have enough energy for the "public me" one. Plus, would my friends have to follow both, or do I have to cross post everything "public"? Wouldn't demanding that my friends follow both seem douchebaggy?

Perhaps a good app would make me feel better about it. Next phone, perhaps.

Do you follow any celebrities? Because I follow a couple: Lily Allen, Grant Imihara, etc. That might be the reason I get more spam followers.

Demanding they do certainly would be douchebagery. Simply saying "some topics I'll discuss under this name, some under this one, follow if you'd like" isn't really. Any more than it is douchebagery for you to post some things on Twitter and somethings on Facebook and some things on LoT. It isn't like following two accounts for creates some great Twitter burden for them.

As for the pain in the butt of separating your speaking between two accounts that certainly is a hurdle (though some good apps will make it much easier).

I would like it if Twitter added some level of finesses privacy control, and it should be relatively simple. Perhaps just if you are set public you can limit to followers only by starting your tweet with @f and if you are followers only you can display a tweet public with @p.

I think the individual tweet privacy setting is inevitable. If they did it that way we'd lose two (three, with the space) characters per tweet, which sucks.

It need not. Twitter would just have to not count "@p" towards the 140 character limit and then filter it out from what it shows when posted. 140 is not the hard technological limit for SMS message lenght, 160 is.

But any individual tweet privacy setting would have to be included in the tweet or exclude use by SMS users.