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Twitter
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 3:20 pm
by Ollie Saunders
I've recently started using Twitter and now I'm looking for interesting people I can "follow" my user is olliesaunders. Exchanges usernames here. Complaints/comments about the concept of twitter are also acceptable responses to this post.
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 3:52 pm
by alex.barylski
What the heck is twitter?

Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 2:08 am
by ptrpan
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 2:52 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
http://twitter.com/padraicb
Half of PHP is on Twitter. It may be one of the few social networking gimmicks I actually bother to use regularly.
Twitter is basically a bunch of people stalking each other. You post short <256 updates on what you're doing, and everyone who bothers to follow you receives the update on their timeline. A pretty good client is Ed Finkler's Spaz (those of us in the UK and Ireland may take exception to the name

) which is an Adobe AIR app.
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 3:14 am
by alex.barylski
I was kidding...

Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 3:33 am
by Ollie Saunders
You know what, having used it a bit now, I think twitter is really cool. I remember when it first came out I read a lot of blogs about it and thought the idea was kinda ridiculous but now, having experienced these things I've bought in. Thanks for sharing Paddy.
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 4:21 am
by Kieran Huggins
http://twitter.com/kieran
It auto-updates from Facebook... thats the only reason I use it.
A bunch of us in the T-dot tried using Twitter once as a way to stay relatively organized during a summer "BarSwarm" but it ultimately failed us

Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 10:04 am
by RobertGonzalez
I'm stalking you now Kieran. Thanks by the way. I really needed another web application to get addicted to.
By the way, I am not stalking, er, following Ole and Maugrim too.
Dudes, forgot to add that my twitter handle is everah as well. (
http://twitter.com/everah )
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 10:18 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
Added you in

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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 10:40 am
by RobertGonzalez
I saw that. Twitter can easily become a new addiction. I had to close it because if I didn't I'd be searching all over the place for people and not writing a single line of code.

Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:28 pm
by Kieran Huggins
mutual group stalking.... I get this image of all of us sitting in parked cars, staring at each other with binoculars.
I'm going for coffee, who wants one?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:36 pm
by RobertGonzalez
I'll have a Peppermint Mocha with Whipped Cream and Chocolate Syrup on top. Thanks.
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:47 pm
by Kieran Huggins
Twitter wrote:Kieran is drinking Everah's Peppermint Mocha with Whipped Cream and Chocolate Syrup. Mwahahahaha!!!
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:50 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Twitter wrote:Everah is cursing at Kieran in Canadian aboot his coffee, eh.
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 3:16 pm
by Kieran Huggins