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growler_south ([personal profile] growler_south) wrote2008-04-04 01:55 am

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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.

[identity profile] growler-south.livejournal.com 2008-04-03 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] sinnabor.livejournal.com 2008-04-03 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] growler-south.livejournal.com 2008-04-03 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
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? ;-)

[identity profile] sinnabor.livejournal.com 2008-04-03 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] growler-south.livejournal.com 2008-04-04 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
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.