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Twitter, a big surprise... February 9, 2012 11:36 pm FrankC

Does anyone else here use it?

For a long time, I resisted signing up for it, because I thought it was another social networking thing, where you would tweet your friends incessantly about what you are up to at the moment. Something like texting via computer, I figured.

I forget why I decided to try it, but it has been a good experience for me. Whatever interests you, be it news, space science, politics, needlepoint, or whatever. It is a great way to get information that would otherwise take hours of surfing to find. When there is a particular person, organization, or subject that you wish to keep track of, you get short 150 character (I think) messages that may or may not have a link to follow for more detailed info.

I am currently following 76 subjects or people. Some I have unfollowed after finding that they spam you with too many tweets. History Channel being one that was telling me more than I cared about noodling for monster catfish.

So far I think it is neater’n hell.

  • Seems like too much tech just to enable the return of the telegram. n/t by alcaray 2012-02-14 17:34:54
    • EEEEGADS! Can you imagine the Zone on Twitter? by Jody 2012-02-10 12:23:28
      • You know, I hadn't thought of that. HEY ROBERT You should create a twitter account for the zone, and our political gurus ... by FrankC 2012-02-10 12:38:25
        • If a person twittered what they wrote on HZ, could a recipient of that tweet follow it back to the ... by bowser 2012-02-10 12:48:17
          • Yes Bowser! by Jody 2012-02-10 13:29:37
            • Methinks we shouldn't jump the gun here. For starters, what are we going to post? Who are we ... by VelociraptorBlade 2012-02-10 20:15:31
              • I have a blog, and my son made it so I could post my entries on Twitter or Facebook....maybe Roberto ... by Jody 2012-02-10 21:31:27
                • Googling "wordpress twitter plugin" returned 99,700,000 hits. by Robert 2012-02-10 23:45:27
                  • Search on Wordpress' internal back end plugin page. There are dozens relating to social media. Just read each summary, and ... by Jody 2012-02-11 09:36:00
                    • Thank you Jody. by Robert 2012-02-11 12:42:28
                    • You're welcome. by bowser 2012-02-11 08:14:53
                      • Ah, bowser, I'm sorry. by Robert 2012-02-11 12:40:07

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