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Ask YC: Whats your Twitter handle?
As recently as two weeks ago, i didn't really get what twitter was all about nor did i care. I reluctantly gave it a shot and i must say, I'm hooked. If you're a twitter user and would like to be added by other YCers, post your Twitter name below.
http://twitter.com/cbomb
- manvsmachine 19y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=134808 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=134808 Mine is http://twitter.com/manvsmachine http://twitter.com/manvsmachine
- brk 19y agoNotoriousBRK - just signed up.
- edw519 19y agoI'm at the "I don't get what twitter is all about nor do I care" phase. What was it about twitter that got you hooked?
- samwise 19y agoit's a less formal more personal rss feed. Real Simple People Syndication.
- manvsmachine 19y agoI was really skeptical as well; in fact I've only had an account for 2 or 3 days now. Part of the appeal is similar to that of HN. For the most part, it's still mainly used by the early adopter, tech-savvy crowd. And, from what I've observed, the brevity of the messages actually seems to encourage dialogue: people are a lot more willing to to say something to you or read something you send them if they know it only involves a couple of sentences.
- xekonic 19y agoThe hooking element is really based on intermittent variable reward. eg: when someone responds, direct messages you, etc. you can't really predict it. Twitter's kind of like a message board that, instead of filtering by categories or topics, you filter by people. So you can also imagine, the more people you find interesting or to interact with, the more addicting it becomes. @NathanSnell
- andrewparker 19y agoThe hook is the serendipity the service creates in your life.
- jamesbritt 19y ago"The hook is the serendipity the service creates in your life." Could you give some detail? Doesn't Twitter demand at least some time and attention? From what I've seen, most of what shoots past is astonishing in its lack of content and value. So, while some posts may be useful, I don't see that the results justify the attention required. Is there some preferred way to avoid the drivel and catch only the good stuff?
- slim 19y agoyes. follow only interesting people. here is the workflow : 1- create a twitter account 2- find people you already know on twitter and follow them (try googling their name + twitter) 3- setup alerts on topics you like (hint : setup an alert for your geographic area) 4- manage people you follow : if somebody sucks, unfollow him. if your receive an alert, follow the user who sent the twit for some time and decide later if you want keep following him. after some time (about six months) you'll find only interesting topics on your twitter feed.
- wallflower 19y agoCan this be automated? I love Techmeme. A system for surfacing new conversations from interesting twitter users. I assume twitter pied pipers like Scobleizer would need to be weighted (downwards). Kind of a TechMeme for twitter. Has anyone done this yet?
- slim 19y agogo to http://twitter.com/public_timeline http://twitter.com/public_timeline. see "featured"? choose one (i suggest @zefrank). then click the "With others" tab. thus you see @zefrank and the people he is actualy following twits. this is techmeme the twitter way.
- chrisbroadfoot 19y agohttp://twitter.com/chrisbroadfoot http://twitter.com/chrisbroadfoot
- nilobject 19y agohttp://twitter.com/nilobject http://twitter.com/nilobject
- jasonlbaptiste 19y agohttp://twitter.com/jasonlbaptiste http://twitter.com/jasonlbaptiste
- cbryan 19y agohttp://twitter.com/waltz http://twitter.com/waltz Woop. Let's go Twitter-verse.
- alex_c 19y agohttp://twitter.com/purrp http://twitter.com/purrp
- bfioca 19y agohttp://twitter.com/bfioca http://twitter.com/bfioca
- mosburger 19y agohttp://twitter.com/mdesjardins http://twitter.com/mdesjardins
- initself 19y agohttp://twitter.com/initself http://twitter.com/initself
- justindz 19y agohttp://twitter.com/justin_dz http://twitter.com/justin_dz Just loaded twhirl, which runs on Adobe AIR. Twitter is fun for doing neat things with. Check out "Foamee" for pseudo-beer-sharing fun.
- raju 19y agohttp://twitter.com/looselytyped http://twitter.com/looselytyped
- petercooper 19y agohttp://twitter.com/peterc http://twitter.com/peterc
- bmaier 19y agohttp://www.twitter.com/bradmaier http://www.twitter.com/bradmaier
- borga 19y agohttp://twitter.com/nuin http://twitter.com/nuin but I'm not (yet) in the hype.
- alarmist 19y agoWhat part of New Jersey are you from?
- samwise 19y agoacross the bridge from philly
- truebosko 19y agoMost people on my twitter are either local, friends from afar, or a bunch of techies http://twitter.com/truebosko http://twitter.com/truebosko
- Human_USB 19y agohttp://twitter.com/Human_USB http://twitter.com/Human_USB
- andrewparker 19y agohttp://twitter.com/andrewparker http://twitter.com/andrewparker It's generally just random musings, but some VC tidbits and tech news mixed in.
- hooande 19y agoI posted on the other one, but here's my twitter again: http://twitter.com/hooande http://twitter.com/hooande
- aheilbut 19y agohttp://twitter.com/Adrian_H http://twitter.com/Adrian_H
- igrigorik 19y agohttp://twitter.com/igrigorik http://twitter.com/igrigorik
- dstillz 19y agohttp://twitter.com/dstillz http://twitter.com/dstillz I got it a long time ago but started using it very recently.
- nweiner 19y agohttp://twitter.com/IdeaShower http://twitter.com/IdeaShower
- jdg 19y agohttp://twitter.com/jdg http://twitter.com/jdg
- laktek 19y agomine is http://twitter.com/laktek http://twitter.com/laktek
- topa 19y agohttp://twitter.com/topa http://twitter.com/topa
- naxxtor 19y agohttp://twitter.com/goldfishs http://twitter.com/goldfishs
- slim 19y agoit would be better if everybody added his twitter handle on their user page.
- slim 19y agohttp://twitter.com/slim_amamou http://twitter.com/slim_amamou
- aaroneous 19y agohttp://twitter.com/aaroneous http://twitter.com/aaroneous Twitter reminds me of listening to a police scanner, that said, there's usually some interesting things you can pick up.
- xugglybug 19y agohttp://twitter.com/xugglybug http://twitter.com/xugglybug
- jdg 19y agohttp://twitterjump.com/communities/hacker-news http://twitterjump.com/communities/hacker-news :-) (it's just a prototype, tossed it together in a couple of hours...)
- zealog 19y agohttp://twitter.com/zealog http://twitter.com/zealog http://twitter.com/aaronh http://twitter.com/aaronh