(no subject)

[growler_south]

WTF is twitter about? What am I doing right now? I'm sitting here with a laptop on my lap, updating twitter. Duh.

If you want to see how often I update twitter by telling it I'm updating it, I'm growlerbearnz on there.

Comments

[taobear.livejournal.com]

I'm geekbear on there. You're cute when you twitter.

[beg1n.livejournal.com]

Even though I have it turned off when you're doing most of your twittering (9pm - 9am pacific), I'm JeffSFCA. I'll just read about you picking your nose at a later time.

[beg1n.livejournal.com]

Oh wait - you were making fun of those who twitter!
And I totally fell for it...you got me!

[growler-south.livejournal.com]

Whenever I'm near a computer I update my journal anyway- i cant see Twitter getting more attention than LJ from me. But I'll try.

[beg1n.livejournal.com]

I use it 99 percent of the time on my mobile. I leave the text strand active and the new messages just scroll into that.

Do I want to know when someone just farted? Not necessarily. However, do I enjoy the fact it's woven into an ongoing thread of friends actively keeping in touch with each other? More than you can imagine.

[sinnabor.livejournal.com]

Why have all the bears been sucked into twitter recently?

I just got a twitter invite from Dax, so I made an account, and followed the "follows" relationships to discover that dozens of SF bears have all added themselves in the past week. It's like a disease of some kind.

I predict it will be as successful as Orkut and Friendster. A lot of folks will join... and then not be able to find a use for it.

[growler-south.livejournal.com]

I'm still trying to figure out what it's for. Its like livejournal, only with less space? Or is it the mobile-notifications features that make it more appealing? i figure if i want to know what someone's doing, i'll check their journal.

[sinnabor.livejournal.com]

It'd be way cool as a feature of something else. Like if it was part of LiveJournal, or MySpace, or my cell phone's plan.

Standing on its own, it's... lame. I guess you can display your twitter messages on yer blog or something, but it just seems a bit half assed.

Now, if folks could call my cell phone and get a synthetic voice reading off my status message, like "Watching horrible movie at theater, send text message", that'd be worthwhile. Except... I'd still have to remember to update that stupid status all the time. Maybe status messages should all come with a built-in expiration.

[growler-south.livejournal.com]

if folks could call my cell phone and get a synthetic voice reading off my status message, like "Watching horrible movie at theater, send text message"

You mean, like updating your voicemail message? ;-)

[sinnabor.livejournal.com]

Yea, but it's under a password and three levels of menus, and you gotta be in a situation where you can speak to do it. Huge PITA - nobody ever changes it.

I wonder if the iPhone's visual voicemail interface lets you swap those messages around quickly.

[growler-south.livejournal.com]

True. Though the call firewall program I installed on my phone had the option to automatically send a text message to callers when the ringer was turned off- that's if they're calling from a mobile, of course.