A’Twittering we will go
I’ve just joined Twitter — for technical reasons, I hasten to add.
A pair of lovebirds twittering
The technical reason is that I discovered that the username “Syntagma” had not been taken, so I secured it in perpetuity — or as long as any social network lasts, whichever is the shorter.
I’ve sprayed my entire Gmail address book with invites, so you may get one. Since it’s still over 300 addresses long, even after drastic pruning, I’m awaiting the results with some trepidation.
So far, I have one tweet on my sheet, a brilliant piece of literature about what I’ve been doing today. Please don’t all rush at once to view it or you may bring the server down.
If anyone wants to follow or be followed, just send a tweet to Syntagma. I’m sure the system will handle all the techie stuff. I still haven’t found my way around it all yet.
I will, naturally, produce a comprehensive analysis of the service soon. In under 140 characters, of course.
You know, maybe that’s where they’re going wrong.
Don’t forget to check out .. http://twhirl.org
I tried Feb1/08 to seriously give twitter a go, and was about to give up because I don’t like the web interface. Someone pointed out Twhirl and Twitterfeed and now I like.
By HART (1-800-HART) on April 20th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Thanks, HART. I’ll try and “follow” you too, if I can work out how to do it.
By John Evans on April 21st, 2008 at 7:35 am
g’Morning.
It’s pretty easy to follow people - the username just follows the twitter URL, like I used on my name for this post.
[shameless promotion on] I started a basic BlogCatalog tweeter group, that has a few other tips and collection of useful posts, if you have the time http://www.blogcatalog.com/group/twitter [shameless promotion off] but basically if you want a good tip - find a ‘popular’ blogger with thousands of followers and click on faces and icons you are familiar with to start ..
Also - in your settings at http://twitter.com/Syntagma/ .. under notices tab .. make sure “Show me All @ Replies” are selected. This way, if you chat with people (place @ before their username) if they chat back you get the message. Otherwise, they have to subscribe first.
By HART (1-800-HART) on April 21st, 2008 at 7:57 am
And Good Morning to you.
Thanks I’ll do that. I suspect that like all simple interfaces, there’s a lot of complexity down in the engine room.
By John Evans on April 21st, 2008 at 8:05 am