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Are you on twitter?

18 points by ivankirigin 19y ago

I'm starting to love using Twitter. There is something liberating about the constraints. I'm @tipjoy http://twitter.com/tipjoy

bootload 19y ago
"... I'm starting to love using Twitter. There is something liberating about the constraints ..." I've used twitter from Nov2006. Some of the constraints I don't like: - how they handle urls [0] - how they handle people who you like but talk to much [1] The rest is pretty good. Not too much info, uptime ok (well when I use it) and api is simple & works ~ http://twitter.com/bootload http://twitter.com/bootload [0] I don't know a good solution but if google created their own shortcuts like tinyurl the web would be a better place. [1] stacks of quick posts one after the other why not group them by person after a threshold of say 3?
- dcurtis 19y ago
  I can see the reason for footnotes on a long post for meta information, but why do you use them in your little messages? Why not just explain what's in the footnote when you first mention it? Not an attack, just a friendly question. I've noticed you do this fairly often. I agree with [1] though; Robert Scoble is the worst offender, seconded closely by Guy Kawasaki. Bundling messages together would screw up the API and break things like twitterific, probably. I wonder if there's a better solution.
  - bootload 19y ago
    "... Why not just explain what's in the footnote when you first mention it? ..." good point, I'll see what I can do. "... I wonder if there's a better solution. ..." friendfeed does the obvious thing that is it restricts view to the latest 3 by person so as to not clutter the page. Another idea I can think of would be allow you to select who you want to clamp. "... Not an attack, just a friendly question. I've noticed you do this fairly often. ..." to stop adding ellipses (that mess up the text especially if there is a lot of them) allowing you to read. This is especially for links or side notes that relate to the main text but is added interest. Also I use hackernews as a scribble ( http://flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157600280904949/ http://flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157600280904949/ ) for later posts on flickr "... Bundling messages together would screw up the API and break things like twitterific ..." No just the display, not the data itself. Just grab the latest submission. If more submissions occur in "N" minutes time frame just display the latest 3, have a click & fetch more if required. It shouldn't break app using the api doing this. Friendfeed does this well.
- ivankirigin 19y ago
  I agree. They should get the shortest domain names possible. For tiny utls. For the web view. they should just have a single character as a link, like a #. iv.an is available for 450 euro! Is u.rl available? I'd like parallel streams, with people that update too much pushed to the sidelines.
  - nikete 19y ago
    You can just implement a client that does that. No need to wish, there's an api, it's use is encouraged, go hack! http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/web/api-documentation http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/web/...
    - ivankirigin 19y ago
      You're right. I actually have big plans to use the API. It'll be awesome.
- danw 19y ago
  Jaiku had [1] sorted. Replies would be displayed as a thread of comments under the original message. Pownce has a good approach to [0] with its enclosures/attachements which can be files, events, etc as well as links.
jraines 19y ago
Peronally I've gotten a lot more utility out of Friendfeed so far. Twitter is neat though -- I'm building a site that will scrape replies to a Twitter user called @rating and put them in a database of ratings. The reply just has to look like this: @rating 5 "Thing Being Rated" Mini-review goes here. I'll post it when the battle of Rails deployment is over. I'm 'jraines' on Twitter and Friendfeed.
avinashv 19y ago
I'm @avinashv. Most of my friends tend to use more traditional IM or vanilla email, so I don't use the thing at all.
earle 19y ago
im obviously partial to http://www.groovr.com http://www.groovr.com but i generally prefer sending and receiving photos, especially form mobile. other then that, i still use twitter from time to time.
cyberhill 19y ago
I'm @rosshill http://twitter.com/rosshill http://twitter.com/rosshill
samwise 19y ago
I don't get it. There is no real need for it. I also don't see how you could easily monetize it.
- ryanspahn 19y ago
  It's description and the inane posts I originally read made me think the same thing! But, after much use it's a great piece of technology. It allows you to survey a crowd, use it for emergency purposes (San Diego Fire Dept did just this), learn about what your friends are reading/sharing, where they are going for the evening, how they feel, etc...
npost 19y ago
It gets interesting when they start offering commercial services around it. What a great platform for project teams, or even disaster notifications (civil services), etc. It would be great for emergency services to coordinate their activities. However, that is assuming that it can handle the volume without going down! http://twitter.com/npost http://twitter.com/npost
pkaler 19y ago
http://twitter.com/pkaler http://twitter.com/pkaler But I use Jaiku a whole lot more. Seems to be more of a Vancouver area tech phenomena though. http://pkaler.jaiku.com http://pkaler.jaiku.com
webwright 19y ago
I'm digging Twitter too. Here's me: http://twitter.com/webwright http://twitter.com/webwright If you care about marketing, learn to use Twitter Track (google it). I get an SMS every time ANYONE mentions RescueTime on Twitter (friend or no). It's slightly creepy when I immedietely pounce on them and thank them. ;-)
a-priori 19y ago
http://twitter.com/codergnome http://twitter.com/codergnome I don't update a whole lot.
walesmd 19y ago
I only use Twitter to integrate with beanstalkapps.com - this way my clients can see my SVN commits in real-time (since I'm cheap and don't pay for them to have an account to the beanstalkapps.com backend).
dcurtis 19y ago
Yeah, @dcurtis. Recently, I've become addicted.
danielha 19y ago
http://twitter.com/danielha http://twitter.com/danielha holler @ me. Also subscribe to the RSS of your company name (or keyword of choice) at http://terraminds.com/twitter http://terraminds.com/twitter. My favorite Kirigins have Tipjoy on that badboy.
- ivankirigin 19y ago
  Hell yah. Terraminds twitter search is actually pretty useful. Searching for your company name is particularly valuable. Go tip 'em.
- joshwa 19y ago
  Astounding that that's not an actual twitter feature.
danw 19y ago
http://twitter.com/iamdanw http://twitter.com/iamdanw Who's on tumblr? I'm http://tumblr.iamdanw.com http://tumblr.iamdanw.com on there
- iseff 19y ago
  http://twitter.com/iseff http://twitter.com/iseff And, on tumblr, http://featureorbug.com http://featureorbug.com (recently became a Tumblr staff pick!).
  - blinks 19y ago
    http://twitter.com/hackerblinks http://twitter.com/hackerblinks Tumblr: http://adam.blinkinblogs.net/ http://adam.blinkinblogs.net/ (And, on Pownce: http://pownce.com/hackerblinks/ http://pownce.com/hackerblinks/) (Does this mean I win teh Internets? I have social networking fever. (And the only cure is more cowbell.)) (Need caffeine.)
- avinashv 19y ago
  twitter @avinashv http://avinashv.tumblr.com http://avinashv.tumblr.com is Tumblr
hassy 19y ago
http://twitter.com/hasanv http://twitter.com/hasanv Started using it recently, still haven't worked out what it's really about.
timothyandrew 19y ago
twitter.com/timothyandrew Twitter is amazing.
nkohari 19y ago
http://twitter.com/nkohari http://twitter.com/nkohari
stejules 19y ago
Hello I am @stejules and wanna have more friends! ;D
hooande 19y ago
Twitter has been great for our startup. It's true what they say, news travels fast on there. I'm here: http://twitter.com/hooande http://twitter.com/hooande
darreld 19y ago
http://twitter.com/darreld http://twitter.com/darreld Love it.
lbrdn 19y ago
It's an amazingly fast way to spread info.I'd recommend it to all you start-up guys if you're not on it already. I'm twitter.com/lukebrdn
statikpulse 19y ago
http://twitter.com/yansarazin http://twitter.com/yansarazin Just started using it more often.
abarrera 19y ago
Wow a lot of twitter guys here. I wished you could a) Import an opml file with Twitter accounts. b) Create groups of Twitter friends you can message like @group1 If someone knows of any webapp that implements a) please let me know :D I'm putting all the twitter accounts so far together here: http://twitter.com/tipjoy http://twitter.com/tipjoy http://twitter.com/danielha http://twitter.com/danielha http://twitter.com/iamdanw http://twitter.com/iamdanw http://twitter.com/codergnome http://twitter.com/codergnome http://twitter.com/jraines http://twitter.com/jraines http://twitter.com/yansarazin http://twitter.com/yansarazin http://twitter.com/lukebrdn http://twitter.com/lukebrdn http://twitter.com/darreld http://twitter.com/darreld http://twitter.com/hooande http://twitter.com/hooande http://twitter.com/nkohari http://twitter.com/nkohari http://twitter.com/timothyandrew http://twitter.com/timothyandrew http://twitter.com/hasanv http://twitter.com/hasanv http://twitter.com/dcurtis http://twitter.com/dcurtis http://twitter.com/webwright http://twitter.com/webwright http://twitter.com/pkaler http://twitter.com/pkaler http://twitter.com/npost http://twitter.com/npost http://twitter.com/rosshill http://twitter.com/rosshill http://twitter.com/avinashv http://twitter.com/avinashv http://twitter.com/bootload http://twitter.com/bootload http://twitter.com/stejules http://twitter.com/stejules And I'll add mine: http://twitter.com/abarrera http://twitter.com/abarrera
- mosburger 19y ago
  Chris Brogan tried the group idea with "Twitter Packs"... he implemented it quickly and dirtily using a Wiki though, so editing it runs into some obvious pitfalls (e.g., contention when a page is edited by more than one person)... http://twitterpacks.pbwiki.com/ http://twitterpacks.pbwiki.com/ I toyed with the idea of implementing it as an actual standalone service without the wiki... but I have too many other "side projects" right now! :) Here's my twitter account: http://twitter.com/mdesjardins http://twitter.com/mdesjardins
jeffisageek 19y ago
I am on twitter. feel free to add me http://twitter.com/jeffisageek http://twitter.com/jeffisageek
jfoutz 19y ago
@jfoutz http://twitter.com/jfoutz http://twitter.com/jfoutz just started using it last week.
PStamatiou 19y ago
http://twitter.com/Stammy http://twitter.com/Stammy
engtech 19y ago
http://twitter.com/engtech http://twitter.com/engtech -- bitching and moaning http://twitter.com/et http://twitter.com/et -- link dump
engtech 19y ago
For tumblr I am http://engtech.tumblr.com http://engtech.tumblr.com -- lifestream, kinda messy http://rubeh.tumblr.com http://rubeh.tumblr.com -- ruby/rails links
joshwa 19y ago
http://twitter.com/joshwa http://twitter.com/joshwa Though I think that their potential as messaging glue has yet to be realized-- payloads would be a start, as Winer has suggested, incorporating Yahoo Pipes, Twitterfeed, etc, and make twitter the social messaging bus for the entire web. My hypothesis is that Obvious is working on this stuff (since it's so, well, ovbious!), but isn't ready to release it until they get their infrastructure stuff sorted out, sign up partners, etc.
glasner 19y ago
http://twitter.com/glasner http://twitter.com/glasner
orion 19y ago
Twitter is pretty darn cool, especially if you use it to keep friends and collealleagues up to date with what's going on in your world. It cracks me up to hear people ask "how can I monetize this?" If you have something of value to offer it will monetize itself. Nobody truly enjoys being "sold." If nothing you do is of any value, attempts to monetize are just wasted effort.
Mistone 19y ago
I'm @mistone http://twitter.com/mistone http://twitter.com/mistone no massive posting activity but not stale
izak30 19y ago
http://www.twitter.com/issackelly http://www.twitter.com/issackelly and http://twitter.com/servee http://twitter.com/servee
brk 19y ago
I'm NotoriousBRK ...
astrec 19y ago
@cammacrae http://twitter.com/cammacrae http://twitter.com/cammacrae

Are you on twitter?

18 points by ivankirigin 19y ago

I'm starting to love using Twitter. There is something liberating about the constraints. I'm @tipjoy http://twitter.com/tipjoy

bootload 19y ago

"... I'm starting to love using Twitter. There is something liberating about the constraints ..." I've used twitter from Nov2006. Some of the constraints I don't like: - how they handle urls [0] - how they handle people who you like but talk to much [1] The rest is pretty good. Not too much info, uptime ok (well when I use it) and api is simple & works ~ http://twitter.com/bootload http://twitter.com/bootload [0] I don't know a good solution but if google created their own shortcuts like tinyurl the web would be a better place. [1] stacks of quick posts one after the other why not group them by person after a threshold of say 3?

dcurtis 19y ago
I can see the reason for footnotes on a long post for meta information, but why do you use them in your little messages? Why not just explain what's in the footnote when you first mention it? Not an attack, just a friendly question. I've noticed you do this fairly often. I agree with [1] though; Robert Scoble is the worst offender, seconded closely by Guy Kawasaki. Bundling messages together would screw up the API and break things like twitterific, probably. I wonder if there's a better solution.
- bootload 19y ago
  "... Why not just explain what's in the footnote when you first mention it? ..." good point, I'll see what I can do. "... I wonder if there's a better solution. ..." friendfeed does the obvious thing that is it restricts view to the latest 3 by person so as to not clutter the page. Another idea I can think of would be allow you to select who you want to clamp. "... Not an attack, just a friendly question. I've noticed you do this fairly often. ..." to stop adding ellipses (that mess up the text especially if there is a lot of them) allowing you to read. This is especially for links or side notes that relate to the main text but is added interest. Also I use hackernews as a scribble ( http://flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157600280904949/ http://flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157600280904949/ ) for later posts on flickr "... Bundling messages together would screw up the API and break things like twitterific ..." No just the display, not the data itself. Just grab the latest submission. If more submissions occur in "N" minutes time frame just display the latest 3, have a click & fetch more if required. It shouldn't break app using the api doing this. Friendfeed does this well.
ivankirigin 19y ago
I agree. They should get the shortest domain names possible. For tiny utls. For the web view. they should just have a single character as a link, like a #. iv.an is available for 450 euro! Is u.rl available? I'd like parallel streams, with people that update too much pushed to the sidelines.
- nikete 19y ago
  You can just implement a client that does that. No need to wish, there's an api, it's use is encouraged, go hack! http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/web/api-documentation http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/web/...
  - ivankirigin 19y ago
    You're right. I actually have big plans to use the API. It'll be awesome.
danw 19y ago
Jaiku had [1] sorted. Replies would be displayed as a thread of comments under the original message. Pownce has a good approach to [0] with its enclosures/attachements which can be files, events, etc as well as links.

jraines 19y ago

Peronally I've gotten a lot more utility out of Friendfeed so far. Twitter is neat though -- I'm building a site that will scrape replies to a Twitter user called @rating and put them in a database of ratings. The reply just has to look like this: @rating 5 "Thing Being Rated" Mini-review goes here. I'll post it when the battle of Rails deployment is over. I'm 'jraines' on Twitter and Friendfeed.

avinashv 19y ago

I'm @avinashv. Most of my friends tend to use more traditional IM or vanilla email, so I don't use the thing at all.

earle 19y ago

im obviously partial to http://www.groovr.com http://www.groovr.com but i generally prefer sending and receiving photos, especially form mobile. other then that, i still use twitter from time to time.

cyberhill 19y ago

I'm @rosshill http://twitter.com/rosshill http://twitter.com/rosshill

samwise 19y ago

I don't get it. There is no real need for it. I also don't see how you could easily monetize it.

ryanspahn 19y ago
It's description and the inane posts I originally read made me think the same thing! But, after much use it's a great piece of technology. It allows you to survey a crowd, use it for emergency purposes (San Diego Fire Dept did just this), learn about what your friends are reading/sharing, where they are going for the evening, how they feel, etc...

npost 19y ago

It gets interesting when they start offering commercial services around it. What a great platform for project teams, or even disaster notifications (civil services), etc. It would be great for emergency services to coordinate their activities. However, that is assuming that it can handle the volume without going down! http://twitter.com/npost http://twitter.com/npost

pkaler 19y ago

http://twitter.com/pkaler http://twitter.com/pkaler But I use Jaiku a whole lot more. Seems to be more of a Vancouver area tech phenomena though. http://pkaler.jaiku.com http://pkaler.jaiku.com

webwright 19y ago

I'm digging Twitter too. Here's me: http://twitter.com/webwright http://twitter.com/webwright If you care about marketing, learn to use Twitter Track (google it). I get an SMS every time ANYONE mentions RescueTime on Twitter (friend or no). It's slightly creepy when I immedietely pounce on them and thank them. ;-)

a-priori 19y ago

http://twitter.com/codergnome http://twitter.com/codergnome I don't update a whole lot.

walesmd 19y ago

I only use Twitter to integrate with beanstalkapps.com - this way my clients can see my SVN commits in real-time (since I'm cheap and don't pay for them to have an account to the beanstalkapps.com backend).

dcurtis 19y ago

Yeah, @dcurtis. Recently, I've become addicted.

danielha 19y ago

http://twitter.com/danielha http://twitter.com/danielha holler @ me. Also subscribe to the RSS of your company name (or keyword of choice) at http://terraminds.com/twitter http://terraminds.com/twitter. My favorite Kirigins have Tipjoy on that badboy.

ivankirigin 19y ago
Hell yah. Terraminds twitter search is actually pretty useful. Searching for your company name is particularly valuable. Go tip 'em.
joshwa 19y ago
Astounding that that's not an actual twitter feature.

danw 19y ago

http://twitter.com/iamdanw http://twitter.com/iamdanw Who's on tumblr? I'm http://tumblr.iamdanw.com http://tumblr.iamdanw.com on there

iseff 19y ago
http://twitter.com/iseff http://twitter.com/iseff And, on tumblr, http://featureorbug.com http://featureorbug.com (recently became a Tumblr staff pick!).
- blinks 19y ago
  http://twitter.com/hackerblinks http://twitter.com/hackerblinks Tumblr: http://adam.blinkinblogs.net/ http://adam.blinkinblogs.net/ (And, on Pownce: http://pownce.com/hackerblinks/ http://pownce.com/hackerblinks/) (Does this mean I win teh Internets? I have social networking fever. (And the only cure is more cowbell.)) (Need caffeine.)
avinashv 19y ago
twitter @avinashv http://avinashv.tumblr.com http://avinashv.tumblr.com is Tumblr

hassy 19y ago

http://twitter.com/hasanv http://twitter.com/hasanv Started using it recently, still haven't worked out what it's really about.

timothyandrew 19y ago

twitter.com/timothyandrew Twitter is amazing.

nkohari 19y ago

http://twitter.com/nkohari http://twitter.com/nkohari

stejules 19y ago

Hello I am @stejules and wanna have more friends! ;D

hooande 19y ago

Twitter has been great for our startup. It's true what they say, news travels fast on there. I'm here: http://twitter.com/hooande http://twitter.com/hooande

darreld 19y ago

http://twitter.com/darreld http://twitter.com/darreld Love it.

lbrdn 19y ago

It's an amazingly fast way to spread info.I'd recommend it to all you start-up guys if you're not on it already. I'm twitter.com/lukebrdn

statikpulse 19y ago

http://twitter.com/yansarazin http://twitter.com/yansarazin Just started using it more often.

abarrera 19y ago

Wow a lot of twitter guys here. I wished you could a) Import an opml file with Twitter accounts. b) Create groups of Twitter friends you can message like @group1 If someone knows of any webapp that implements a) please let me know :D I'm putting all the twitter accounts so far together here: http://twitter.com/tipjoy http://twitter.com/tipjoy http://twitter.com/danielha http://twitter.com/danielha http://twitter.com/iamdanw http://twitter.com/iamdanw http://twitter.com/codergnome http://twitter.com/codergnome http://twitter.com/jraines http://twitter.com/jraines http://twitter.com/yansarazin http://twitter.com/yansarazin http://twitter.com/lukebrdn http://twitter.com/lukebrdn http://twitter.com/darreld http://twitter.com/darreld http://twitter.com/hooande http://twitter.com/hooande http://twitter.com/nkohari http://twitter.com/nkohari http://twitter.com/timothyandrew http://twitter.com/timothyandrew http://twitter.com/hasanv http://twitter.com/hasanv http://twitter.com/dcurtis http://twitter.com/dcurtis http://twitter.com/webwright http://twitter.com/webwright http://twitter.com/pkaler http://twitter.com/pkaler http://twitter.com/npost http://twitter.com/npost http://twitter.com/rosshill http://twitter.com/rosshill http://twitter.com/avinashv http://twitter.com/avinashv http://twitter.com/bootload http://twitter.com/bootload http://twitter.com/stejules http://twitter.com/stejules And I'll add mine: http://twitter.com/abarrera http://twitter.com/abarrera

mosburger 19y ago
Chris Brogan tried the group idea with "Twitter Packs"... he implemented it quickly and dirtily using a Wiki though, so editing it runs into some obvious pitfalls (e.g., contention when a page is edited by more than one person)... http://twitterpacks.pbwiki.com/ http://twitterpacks.pbwiki.com/ I toyed with the idea of implementing it as an actual standalone service without the wiki... but I have too many other "side projects" right now! :) Here's my twitter account: http://twitter.com/mdesjardins http://twitter.com/mdesjardins

jeffisageek 19y ago

I am on twitter. feel free to add me http://twitter.com/jeffisageek http://twitter.com/jeffisageek

jfoutz 19y ago

@jfoutz http://twitter.com/jfoutz http://twitter.com/jfoutz just started using it last week.

PStamatiou 19y ago

http://twitter.com/Stammy http://twitter.com/Stammy

engtech 19y ago

http://twitter.com/engtech http://twitter.com/engtech -- bitching and moaning http://twitter.com/et http://twitter.com/et -- link dump

engtech 19y ago

For tumblr I am http://engtech.tumblr.com http://engtech.tumblr.com -- lifestream, kinda messy http://rubeh.tumblr.com http://rubeh.tumblr.com -- ruby/rails links

joshwa 19y ago

http://twitter.com/joshwa http://twitter.com/joshwa Though I think that their potential as messaging glue has yet to be realized-- payloads would be a start, as Winer has suggested, incorporating Yahoo Pipes, Twitterfeed, etc, and make twitter the social messaging bus for the entire web. My hypothesis is that Obvious is working on this stuff (since it's so, well, ovbious!), but isn't ready to release it until they get their infrastructure stuff sorted out, sign up partners, etc.

glasner 19y ago

http://twitter.com/glasner http://twitter.com/glasner

orion 19y ago

Twitter is pretty darn cool, especially if you use it to keep friends and collealleagues up to date with what's going on in your world. It cracks me up to hear people ask "how can I monetize this?" If you have something of value to offer it will monetize itself. Nobody truly enjoys being "sold." If nothing you do is of any value, attempts to monetize are just wasted effort.

Mistone 19y ago

I'm @mistone http://twitter.com/mistone http://twitter.com/mistone no massive posting activity but not stale

izak30 19y ago

http://www.twitter.com/issackelly http://www.twitter.com/issackelly and http://twitter.com/servee http://twitter.com/servee

brk 19y ago

I'm NotoriousBRK ...

astrec 19y ago

@cammacrae http://twitter.com/cammacrae http://twitter.com/cammacrae