Sat, 25 May 2013 05:12:43 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=232751#Comment_232751 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=232751#Comment_232751 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:01:09 -0700 IsaacSher
And immediately upon creating my account, I was getting porn spam. Joy, shipmate, joy.

So, how's this work, really? I don't have an internet-capable phone (just a cell that costs WAY too much to get online), so this is something I'd just be checking at my home desktop for now. What's the etiquette? What are some classic noob mistakes to avoid? What are some interesting things to follow?

And hell, for that matter -- where's a good place to go to learn the basics of how to *use* the silly thing properly?

Much obliged, Whitechapel. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=232757#Comment_232757 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=232757#Comment_232757 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:24:05 -0700 Adam K
Honestly, there's not a whole lot to learn about it. You've got 140 characters to spout off whatever the absolute fuck you want. Go nuts.

Being that you're here, the obvious "interesting thing" to follow is http://twitter.com/warrenellis

I follow this list if you wanna read the random thoughts of a bunch of comics people types: http://twitter.com/#/list/iFanboy/comicscreators ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=232758#Comment_232758 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=232758#Comment_232758 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:49:22 -0700 oddbill
1) Have a large group of friends who also tweet - you can all follow each other and then you always have a more or less real time spatially diffused conversation going on, and you always have an idea where each other are and what everyone is doing. This is actually very nice.

2) Are semi famous (i.e. - well known among a small group for doing something creative or clever) - you can easily use twitter as a tool to increase your follower base, and connect with other people doing things in your creative space.

3) Super famous - you can collect advertiser dollars for casually mentioning products and drive traffic to websites or events that will profit you, while maintaining an illusion of a "real" connection with your fans.

I don't fit into any of those categories, and so twitter has proven to be fairly useless to me. I follow a bunch of people here because they do interesting things, and once in a while I learn about an interesting thing near me and occasionally that improves a day.

But I go weeks sometimes without checking in on it. You'll know it's working for you if you find the thought of that surprising. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=232769#Comment_232769 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=232769#Comment_232769 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:25:05 -0700 rfrancis
I actually intensely dislike the conversational element of 1) -- twitter is pretty much the worst possible social network for discussion. It's just not made for it at all. Doesn't stop people from using it that way, though, for sure.

(My personal use of it is as I say above, plus #2 -- moderate sized fish in a small pond that might care what I'm doing. Having said that, I pay pretty indifferent attention to it these days.)

R ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=232794#Comment_232794 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=232794#Comment_232794 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:04:33 -0700 Drew_badly
My only tip would be careful connecting all your accounts up (flickr, youtube etc), it can turn into a tautological nightmare!

Collect & enjoy,

@drew_badly ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=232804#Comment_232804 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=232804#Comment_232804 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:39:14 -0700 Labyrinthine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=232806#Comment_232806 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=232806#Comment_232806 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:44:39 -0700 keyofsilence http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=232813#Comment_232813 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=232813#Comment_232813 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:42:54 -0700 James Puckett http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=232883#Comment_232883 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=232883#Comment_232883 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:37:52 -0700 jeremiah
as far as advice goes, I would say follow people who care about reading your posts, because if nobody ever replies to your posts and nobody acknowledges things you reply to then your really just lurking people and not actually "social networking"... ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=232895#Comment_232895 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=232895#Comment_232895 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:39:00 -0700 bramclark @juliaroy. She's pretty much the queen of twitter from what I can tell. She has a show on youtube about it too. Her website is a good place to start.

I have my Twitter tied into Facebook and i'm trying to find a way to tie it into myspace. It posts in the status update field that way. It lessens the time you have to spend with these social networking things. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=232901#Comment_232901 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=232901#Comment_232901 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:17:16 -0700 Paul Duffield http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=232989#Comment_232989 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=232989#Comment_232989 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:38:00 -0700 Dmitri
@IsaacSher- Welcome to the twitterverse. I'd say follow me, but that's only true if you're into my weird art or horrible good morning links. (I feel the world at large should be abused when I'm pre-coffee. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233004#Comment_233004 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233004#Comment_233004 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:31:28 -0700 Rootfireember http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233084#Comment_233084 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233084#Comment_233084 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:53:15 -0700 IsaacSher
Say I'm following a Celebrity (minor or worldwide household name, doesn't matter) on Twitter. Celebrity says something or asks a question or whatnot, and I have a thought or comment about what they just said. If I understand this right, I could just click on Reply, fire off a response, and it goes right to that Famous Person.

Or have I just made a grevious faux pas by sending a tweet to a person who doesn't know me? Perhaps it would be considered acting too familiar?

Or is that the whole POINT of Twitter? That some random shmoe like me could throw a comment out there to WIl Wheaton or Stephen Fry or Warren Ellis or whomever, and maybe they'll think I had something interesting to say, and thus more involved conversation can begin?

I mean, logistically, some of these folks might be getting FLOODED with folks who want contact with a Famous Person. How would they manage it?

This is why I'm still a neophyte (if that) with networking -- I don't want to be That Guy. The creepy fanboy who comes across as "Long Live The Batman" fodder. The stalker who offers waaaaaay too much personal info to famous strangers and then demands reciprocation. The leech who doesn't give a crap about what people actually say or want, they just use Person A as a stepping stone to meet their REAL person of interest, Person B, who can get them a job doing DreamComeTrueStuff. I don't want to be any of those, but I do want to be social, and figure out networking.

Any thoughts? ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233208#Comment_233208 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233208#Comment_233208 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:54:57 -0700 rickiep00h
Just don't get your knickers in a twist if they don't respond. Some people, like the Avatar Press folk (I think it's Mark behind the Twitter, but I don't remember off the top of my head) or Ben Templesmith will reply quite often. Some people, like Wil Wheaton or Stephen Fry or, I don't know, Simon Pegg, won't necessarily reply. It depends on a lot of things. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233213#Comment_233213 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233213#Comment_233213 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:23:10 -0700 Argos http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233214#Comment_233214 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233214#Comment_233214 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:24:26 -0700 David Matthew
You're only going to be That Guy if you respond to *everything* someone says while acting highly sycophantically, or with incoherent cursing. That'll likely get you blocked right quick. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233222#Comment_233222 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233222#Comment_233222 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:54:09 -0700 Rootfireember http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233308#Comment_233308 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233308#Comment_233308 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:20:01 -0700 IsaacSher
I wouldn't expect a Famous Person to reply to me -- it would be AWESOME, but one can't assume or demand it.

Here's another question -- are there some web-based ways to check Twitter accounts without going to Twitter.com itself? The reason I ask is that my workplace blocks anything related to Twitter, Facebook, or related social network sites, and I don't have a mobile that can handle online function inexpensively. So if I can find a webpage that *isn't* blocked that lets me check Twitter, that would be pretty cool. I'm not really sure how to google for such a thing, what I'd call it exactly. A twitter emulator? ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233519#Comment_233519 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233519#Comment_233519 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:45:35 -0700 David Matthew http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233769#Comment_233769 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233769#Comment_233769 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:41:58 -0700 Argos http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233792#Comment_233792 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233792#Comment_233792 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:59:22 -0700 icelandbob
i wouldn´t worry too much if Warren, Neil or anyone else "famous" doesn´t always reply to a tweet in their direction. When warren asks during the day how us scumbags are, i assume he probably gets a couple hundred replies so it would be folly for him to try to reply to EVERYONE. I´m sure he knows we´re out there though. He watches us....

As for my use of twitter. I mostly use it for guff, forwarding interesting sites, blog posts etc and little chats with other whitechapelers. I don´t assume that what i write isn´t worthy of being preserved in the British library for posterity. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233869#Comment_233869 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233869#Comment_233869 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:20:38 -0700 IsaacSher

Here's an odd question. Has anyone used Twitter as any sort of storytelling medium? Telling a tale, one tweet at a time -- perhaps writing the tweets of a fictional persona, like Alan Moore writing a Twitter as if it was Rorschach writing it.

"@NoCompromise tweets: Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face." Stuff like that. Self-narrated noir might work well, but other types of stories could fit as well. The tales of Average Office Guy, as told in his tweets. A Truman Show sort of thing, where the subject's ordinaryness makes his life story somehow more compelling.

It might not be feasible -- but the thought crossed my mind to see if anyone's even tried it yet. I'd think you'd have to put a MASSIVE disclaimer on your profile -- "This is a work of fiction", in case someone misinterprets a particularly grim story-tweet as a very real cry for help. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233878#Comment_233878 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233878#Comment_233878 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:00:52 -0700 Argos http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233912#Comment_233912 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233912#Comment_233912 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:54:13 -0700 icelandbob
http://twitter.com/God_Damn_Batman - imagine bruce wayne with neurotic issues....

http://twitter.com/TheBig_Sam - A (ficticious) account of the Hyper-Macho Blackburn football manager. Example: "Get in - my vintage WWF Legion of Doom spiky shoulderpads have arrived from the internet. Lets see that cunt in Homebase throw me out now." ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233929#Comment_233929 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=233929#Comment_233929 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:58:53 -0700 Drew_badly http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=234197#Comment_234197 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=234197#Comment_234197 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:24:06 -0700 David Matthew CharlieHuston did two short stories in 140-character bursts, but appears to have given that up for now. One a twisty little sci-fi character sketch, the other a little story about families. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=234211#Comment_234211 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=234211#Comment_234211 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:03:44 -0700 Nicodemus_Cain Just The Doctorstarted to work their way through the entire Doctor Who collection in the form of twitter updates, starting at the very beginning (An Unearthly Child). ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=234326#Comment_234326 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8099&Focus=234326#Comment_234326 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:23:11 -0700 Vaehling Here's an odd question. Has anyone used Twitter as any sort of storytelling medium? Telling a tale, one tweet at a time -- perhaps writing the tweets of a fictional persona, like Alan Moore writing a Twitter as if it was Rorschach writing it.

I sometimes post a 140 character short story, but not regularly. (The last one was here for World Book Day.) There's a lot of twitter fiction online. Some serials, but also one-shots. @VeryShortStory and @twitterfiction are good places to start. ]]>