Twitter

[Gn2Dlnd]

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!

[innerSpaceman]

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

[Alex]

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.

[Gn2Dlnd]

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!

[Ghoulish Delight]

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

[Alex]

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.

[Gn2Dlnd]

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.

[innerSpaceman]

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!

[Cadaverous Pallor]

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.

[BarTopDancer]

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