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Do you Tweet on Twitter.com?
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:02 pm
by onion2k
We have a Twitter thread of sorts
viewtopic.php?f=36&t=90781 but it's buried over in Enterprise. If you use Twitter.com sling your name in here so we can build up a little group of PHPDNers.
http://www.twitter.com/onion2k <- Me! I should warn you though, I do tend to use it
alot. And rarely for coding stuff, just general life stuff.
Re: Do you Tweet on Twitter.com?
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:04 pm
by s.dot
I tend to use it a lot for internet marketing stuff (great marketing tool), so I won't add my name onto the list.

Re: Do you Tweet on Twitter.com?
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 6:06 pm
by Chris Corbyn
I'm @d11twq
I've got @onion2k on my list and I can confirm he does tweet a lot! I'm not sure how you get any work done dude

Re: Do you Tweet on Twitter.com?
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 6:50 pm
by onion2k
Chris Corbyn wrote:I'm not sure how you get any work done dude

Oh that's easy.
I don't.
Re: Do you Tweet on Twitter.com?
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 7:32 pm
by Benjamin
I'm not a tweeter... maybe someday...
Re: Do you Tweet on Twitter.com?
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:14 am
by Apollo
I never even visited that site, it's seemed so incredibly useless to me
I don't blog, and I certainly don't realtime-24/7-mini-blog to keep the world informed whether I'm working, sleeping, or taking a sh*t. But apparently there are other uses to Twitter..? Can someone explain?

Re: Do you Tweet on Twitter.com?
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 12:15 pm
by John Cartwright
Apollo wrote:I never even visited that site, it's seemed so incredibly useless to me
I don't blog, and I certainly don't realtime-24/7-mini-blog to keep the world informed whether I'm working, sleeping, or taking a sh*t. But apparently there are other uses to Twitter..? Can someone explain?


I'm with Apollo
Re: Do you Tweet on Twitter.com?
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 12:28 pm
by Christopher
John Cartwright wrote: 
I'm with Apollo
Though I do wonder what he is doing right now...

Re: Do you Tweet on Twitter.com?
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 12:46 pm
by jayshields
Apollo wrote:But apparently there are other uses to Twitter..? Can someone explain?

It can be used to track stuff geographically. So, for example, the swine flu thing is pretty big on Twitter right now. So if everyone who lives in a town that gets struck down posts a message with #swineflu in it, then someone could create a mash-up of a Google Map and those messages. Effectively tracking the outbreak faster than the news. This same technique was used to track where it was snowing in the UK a few months ago.
Re: Do you Tweet on Twitter.com?
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 4:57 pm
by Bill H
I blot because it gives me a place to vent politically.
But I'm not a twit.
Edit: apparently I am a twit. That should be "I blog because..."
Re: Do you Tweet on Twitter.com?
Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:50 am
by maneetpuri
Hi Guys
I think twitter accounts can be used effectively for business promotion and brand building. check out my account and know how it works.
http://www.twitter.com/maneet_p
Re: Do you Tweet on Twitter.com?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 5:32 am
by Chris Corbyn
Twitter has almost become a substitute for an RSS reader for me. Following some high-profile developers they always tweet links to other sites that they've found something interesting on. A lot of sites are using it to put out a tweet when a new news story/article appears.
Twitter was amazing for us during the black saturday bushfires earlier this year too. 774 Melbourne + the CFA were providing near-realtime status updates and where the fire(s) were spreading and when people should be choosing to flee or defend their homes.
I used to think twitter was pointless too. I signed up for it probably 6 months before I ever actually used it. I think it became much more interesting to me when I started following some interesting people like Scot Stevenson, Josh Catone and Francisco Tolmasky (and other 280North guys). Twitter seems to have an abundance of interesting geeks worth following.
Also, I think I use it much more since downloading a native Mac twitter client and having it just running in the background while I work. It's a good way to give your mind a break when you're frustrated over some coding issue you've been working on all day. Just bring up your twitter client, scan a few tweets, read a couple of articles and then get back to coding.
You can use twitter without actually tweeting. For me it's more about reading the content that gets posted there.
Re: Do you Tweet on Twitter.com?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 6:05 am
by jayshields
jayshields wrote:So, for example, the swine flu thing is pretty big on Twitter right now. So if everyone who lives in a town that gets struck down posts a message with #swineflu in it, then someone could create a mash-up of a Google Map and those messages. Effectively tracking the outbreak faster than the news.
Funnily enough this has actually happened now.
Re: Do you Tweet on Twitter.com?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 10:19 pm
by JAB Creations
What does RT mean on Twitter? I can't seem to find it looking on Google.
Re: Do you Tweet on Twitter.com?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 11:49 pm
by Chris Corbyn
JAB Creations wrote:What does RT mean on Twitter? I can't seem to find it looking on Google.
Retweet. It means you didn't write the tweet, you're merely repeating what somebody else tweeted. Say for example, somebody posts a link to a website and you open the link, think it's cool, so you decide to tweet it too. It's courteous to "RT @original_user <actual tweet here>". Some people just put "(via @original_user)" after the tweet instead.