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    if you are following someone and they are following you is it rude to jump in on a conversation if you have something to add.
    - I'd say no, it's not rude. After all, why follow someone and vice versa, if you never converse with one another outside the conversation between the both of you?

    can you reply to someone who isn't following you?
    Sure. Just don't expect a reply in kind, I think.

    -but what do I know? Those are just my opinions. Anyone else want to throw in their two cents?
  2.  (239.2)
    My personal preference: I tend to avoid extended one-on-one conversation via twitter myself, I take it to email or what have you. So my comments tend to be intended for the forum in general, with perhaps an occasional single statement to someone if fits in naturally.
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      CommentAuthorZ
    • CommentTimeMar 12th 2008
     (239.3)
    @J
    Agreed. If people want a chat room they should use one (wasn't there one associated with WC at some point?), or if they want instant messenger they should use instant messenger. Simple.

    I can't say any of my comments there are meant to serve any useful purpose, and I don't bother checking for replies. If I survive March without throwing myself out of a window I'll probably just turn the twitter thing into a PA following the instructions posted on Grinding. I don't follow anyone on twitter, I can't keep track of myself much less anyone else.

    - Z
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      CommentAuthormuse hick
    • CommentTimeMar 12th 2008
     (239.4)
    cool, that clears it up a bit. kind of a common sense deal, which is what i thought. cheers.
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      CommentAuthorremotepush
    • CommentTimeMar 19th 2008
     (239.5)
    decided to set up a twitter account after this thread and one on other board.
    i'm going to post short, short stories, a kind of snapshot and postcard system for my world.

    http://twitter.com/remotevoices
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      CommentAuthorremotepush
    • CommentTimeMar 19th 2008
     (239.6)
    anyone getting loudtwitter working with livejournal?
    twitter provides feeds for blogger and myspace easy.
    but i'm struggling to get the livejournal tool a friend suggested to work.
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      CommentAuthoriangil
    • CommentTimeMar 19th 2008
     (239.7)
    @remotepush: doing something similar; trying to squeeze full environments/moments into tweets: iangil.

    irenekaoru's interesting too, she only does haiku.
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      CommentAuthorremotepush
    • CommentTimeMar 19th 2008
     (239.8)
    added you back :D
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      CommentAuthorSteve
    • CommentTimeMar 19th 2008
     (239.9)
    I just added both of you iangil and remotepush.
    I like what the two of you are doing. I fear my feed is much less interesting.

    (but if anyone is interested in the ramblings of a high school computer guy then feel free to look.
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      CommentAuthorWil
    • CommentTimeMar 19th 2008
     (239.10)
    I use Twitter because it's just another variation of blogging. In fact, it's like instantaneous blogging, and the 140 character limit forces me to think -- and write -- concisely.

    I follow very few people, either because I know them or because they are interesting or amusing to me. Sometimes, it's all three.

    Anything more than text on Twitter would kill it for me, and I don't see how they'll be able to stay in business without adding some kind of advert onto the ends of messages. I hope it doesn't happen, but I don't know how they'll make money otherwise.
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      CommentAuthoriangil
    • CommentTimeMar 19th 2008
     (239.11)
    @steve: following you too. Yours is pretty hilarious; a look into a world I forgot all about...it brings me back to when I took a CCNA course in high school with the town's municipal net admin (my HS was kind of weird).
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      CommentAuthoroldhat
    • CommentTimeMar 19th 2008
     (239.12)
    @Steve and iangil, I just added the two of you.

    And Steve, I really like yours. I had completely forgotten about the Penny Arcade strip until you mentioned using it for your paper wallet.
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      CommentAuthorrfrancis
    • CommentTimeMar 19th 2008
     (239.13)
    To sort of second Mr. Wheaton there on a couple of points: I view Twitter as a sort of sped-up Livejournal, which in and of itself has always felt like blogging lite plus social networking (which, mind you, I like.) Indeed, I use LoudTwitter to gather up my day's worth of tweets and dump 'em into a Livejournal post once a night, the vibe is so similar. As for ads... what I fear is that the smart model will be to chunk occasional ad tweets into everyone's feed -- well, just like Facebook does with everyone's feed there, I suppose, now that I think about it.
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      CommentAuthorMegaGoosey
    • CommentTimeMar 20th 2008
     (239.14)
    I signed up on twitter and talked a bunch of friends into doing so at the same time. It's essentially turned into a giant irc room, which is entertaining but I don't think what it's really intended for. Regardless, I'm enjoying it greatly.
  15.  (239.15)
    I had a twitter account back when, but never used it, recently I came back to it and fell in love

    I had to take it off my phone because of the 50 tweets I was getting a day from Remender but still I plug into twhirl at work and home and barely notice the difference

    I only personally know a few of the people I am following, the others are people like Warren and Wil who I follow to get a healthy download of brainshit
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      CommentAuthorliquidcow
    • CommentTimeMar 25th 2008
     (239.16)
    I agree with what Paul said, I have often considered deleting my Facebook account, until I realise that for a lot of people, it's the only way they use to contact people/let them know about things. I rarely get email from friends anymore, instead I get various types of message on Facebook. It's dumb.

    However, from what I understand about Twitter, I can see that it has many creative applications as well as social ones.
  17.  (239.17)
    I'd say the Twitter is in the eye of the beholder. It's certainly far too early to say it's "X" with any degree of certainty.

    If you look at Web 2.0 gurus like Scoble and Calacanis, they're using it far more aggressively than most folks. Not sure if I'd do it their way, but it's nice to watch them experimenting with the tool.

    Wil, if you don't mind a little criticism, I think that your tweets read a little too much like blog entries. For my $0.02, one of the biggest advantages of Twitter is that it's a tool for "talking with" instead of "talking at" people.
  18.  (239.18)
    Wil, if you don't mind a little criticism, I think that your tweets read a little too much like blog entries. For my $0.02, one of the biggest advantages of Twitter is that it's a tool for "talking with" instead of "talking at" people.

    I don't know that Twitter really supports an "it's this not that" reading... Honestly, I use it for both, and I know a lot of people who get a lot of use out of it precisely as a "talking at" function...
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      CommentAuthorZ
    • CommentTimeApr 1st 2008
     (239.19)
    Personally, I never 'reply' to tweets or send personal messages. I've only used it for micro-blogging type posts.

    - Z
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      CommentAuthorFC
    • CommentTimeApr 1st 2008
     (239.20)
    I find twitter to be an all-purpose utility for anything i don't really want to be verbose about, personally. This can include info on what i'm doing, my opinion on something, how i'm feeling at the time or my response to someone else's tweet.

    Limiting one's self to one format on twitter... is an interesting exercise, and to each his own, i guess. But part of what appeals to me about Twitter is the fact that it can be so freeform in its simplicity.

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