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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. :P

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? :)
:lol: I'm with Apollo

Re: Do you Tweet on Twitter.com?

Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 12:28 pm
by Christopher
John Cartwright wrote: :lol: 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.