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Ask HN: Do You Twitter?
I'm curious to know the twitter names of other Hacker News readers to add to my following list. I've just started "twittering" recently, and it seems to have potential. Mine is at: http://twitter.com/gibsonf1
- brandonkm 18y agohttp://twitter.com/keithkay http://twitter.com/keithkay
- brk 18y agoI've been using Twitter in bursts. http://twitter.com/NotoriousBRK http://twitter.com/NotoriousBRK
- billroberts 18y agoThe problem I find with it is that if you follow more than a handful of active tweeters, then there are too many tweets to read in a reasonable amount of time. That said, I find I get useful information from people with similar (work-related) interests to mine, and a way to 'get to know' people, which can lead to more in-depth conversations when you have something you want to converse about. (twitter.com/billroberts)
- yan 18y agome: http://twitter.com/yan_i http://twitter.com/yan_i
- jwb119 18y agohttp://www.twitter.com/jboehmig http://www.twitter.com/jboehmig
- vincentpants 18y agome: twitter.com/vincentpants
- ObieJazz 18y agomtinkerhess
- mattmcknight 18y agomattmcknight how's that for branding? however, my twittering is not very interesting.
- gibsonf1 18y agoYou look a little young for twittering :) But your latest comment is pretty good.
- rickharrison 18y agoive been addicted to twitter for a while me: twitter.com/rickharrison
- poppinphresh 18y agohttp://twitter.com/poppinphresh http://twitter.com/poppinphresh
- Zev 18y agoI'm more interested in knowing if anyone doesn't have a twitter (and if so, why not) also, http://twitter.com/zadr http://twitter.com/zadr is mine if anyone's remotely interested.
- unalone 18y agoI have one, but all it does is parrot my Tumblr account. I don't check it, don't actively use it, and until I got the ability to parrot Tumblr posts, I didn't use it. Reason being: Tumblr does everything I'd want to do with Twitter, but it's more flexible. I can write more, express myself. I don't see the point in small blurb updates, I don't care to post small, clever quips, and above all I find the interface bland after more than 5 minutes of usage. I tried Twitteriffic, but I had applications that do nothing but connect to the web. EDIT: /unalone/
- nx 18y agoI don't, because I don't feel necessary to post every single thought I have, because I might not know what to post, or just basic laziness. But I'll probably get one in the near future.
- bdotdub 18y agoI feel like thats a common misconception. It certainly not every single thought of mine, and very little substance even. It's nice because the whole system is async, so you can get to it when you can, if you want, care or not care. the barrier to tweet is non existent :)
- nx 18y agoI know. So maybe some tweets are interesting, they usually contain links to blog posts worth checking out. I'll get to them through Reddit or HN, maybe I just don't like to be so connected.
- bbgm 18y agoI know very few people (that I follow or care about), who tweet all their thoughts. With search tools and things like Tweetdeck, following is not even that important. You follow a keyword, and it works wonders.
- joshuarr 18y agoJoshuarr - I'm still trying to decide if it's a sink hole or not though.
- evanjacobs 18y agohttp://twitter.com/evanjacobs http://twitter.com/evanjacobs
- IsaacSchlueter 18y agoCan't we just put our twitter URLs in our profiles?
- wesley 18y agoIf only links in profiles would be clickable.. (Lazy)
- rayvega 18y agoApparently, they can be. Check out this user's profile: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cstejerean http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cstejerean
- ejs 18y agoThis is only because the links where put there before pg changed the rules to not allow them... it is just an artifact of a profile that has not been changed recently.
- ashleyw 18y agoYep but a single page is a cool place to add everyone! It'd be awesome if Twitter had group support like FriendFeed though....a HN group would rock! http://twitter.com/ashleyw http://twitter.com/ashleyw
- azharcs 18y agohttp://twitter.com/azharcs http://twitter.com/azharcs I mostly used to tweet content i liked from HN, maybe with more HN users following, i will have to stop doing that :)
- abstractbill 18y agoI think I do. Honestly can't remember! I believe I set up an account and had something else push some kind of status update to it... perhaps even comments like these... through FriendFeed maybe? So, uh, who is working on an online service to keep track of all the online services I use? ;-) Edit: Found it - http://twitter.com/billmoorier http://twitter.com/billmoorier
- mikecuesta 18y agohttp://twitter.com/mikecuesta http://twitter.com/mikecuesta
- okeumeni 18y agoI just started twitter as well, though I’m not very active I created one for one of our products http://twitter.com/errorkey http://twitter.com/errorkey.
- wesley 18y agohttp://twitter.com/improvingtheweb http://twitter.com/improvingtheweb
- sspencer 18y agohttp://twitter.com/sm_spencer http://twitter.com/sm_spencer Generally pretty profane and/or nonsensical, but I let the occasional nugget of wisdom slip out.
- adityakothadiya 18y agoOf course I do - http://twitter.com/adityakothadiya http://twitter.com/adityakothadiya
- enra 18y agoStill trying, but with Twirssi, I found myself using twitter more frequently. me: http://twitter.com/karrisaarinen http://twitter.com/karrisaarinen
- AndrewHampton 18y agohttp://twitter.com/andrewhampton http://twitter.com/andrewhampton
- pskomoroch 18y agohttp://twitter.com/peteskomoroch http://twitter.com/peteskomoroch mostly tweets on python, machine learning, general data crunching topics.
- davidw 18y agoAt first twitter just seemed useless, but then I figured out what it's good for: "spamming" people. I signed up for rss feeds of various search terms I'm interested in, and when something goes by, zing, off goes an URL. I don't think this makes for very interesting reading, but in any case, I'm here: http://twitter.com/davidnwelton http://twitter.com/davidnwelton
- maximumwage 18y agoI'm not on Twitter, but I enjoy following the feeds of top entrepreneurs and investors. Here are a few good lists and rankings: http://www.bigwinner.org/twitter-leaders/ http://www.bigwinner.org/twitter-leaders/ http://buzzmarketingfortech.blogspot.com/2008/12/c-level-tweeters.html http://buzzmarketingfortech.blogspot.com/2008/12/c-level-twe... http://twittercounter.com/pages/100 http://twittercounter.com/pages/100 http://twitterholic.com/ http://twitterholic.com/
- dylanz 18y agoI refuse. It's one of those things that comes along that I know I don't need (time sink), and stick to my guns and ignore it. Didn't have a Facebook profile for the longest time... then started working with a client who wanted to build a Facebook application. Created a profile, and it snowballed from there :/
- wesley 18y agoCan I hire you to build a twitter app? :)
- newy 18y agohttp://twitter.com/euwyn http://twitter.com/euwyn give me a shout (or an @, whatever the cool kids call it these days) if you're in nyc.
- jeffbarr 18y agoI am http://twitter.com/jeffbarr http://twitter.com/jeffbarr - a combination of news about the Amazon Web Services (70%) and my own stuff (30%).
- ucdaz 18y agowww.twitter.com/nickleung www.twitter.com/feedbackjar
- swombat 18y agohttp://www.twitter.com/swombat http://www.twitter.com/swombat (duh)
- swombat 18y agoWorth adding that my tweets are of course, by far, the most interesting here, and everyone should follow me right now so that they get the benefit of my infinite wisdom and mansuetude. Don't listen to the others! I am the one true prophet.
- BinaryPie 18y agohttp://twitter.com/binarypie http://twitter.com/binarypie
- danw 18y agohttp://twitter.com/iamdanw/ http://twitter.com/iamdanw/
- flexterra 18y agoenglish / español / "spanglish": http://twitter.com/gcollazo http://twitter.com/gcollazo
- entelarust 18y agohttp://twitter.com/entelarust http://twitter.com/entelarust
- pyroman 18y agohttp://twitter.com/greg_allard http://twitter.com/greg_allard I mostly do @ replies, links to my blog posts, or what beer I'm drinking (microbrews, nothing boring)
- immad 18y agohttp://twitter.com/immad http://twitter.com/immad
- geuis 18y agoI'm http://twitter.com/geuis http://twitter.com/geuis
- jfornear 18y agoTwittering makes me a better person, duh. http://twitter.com/smujesse http://twitter.com/smujesse
- shergill 18y agoYup.. i twitter; @shergill if you want to follow my exciting life. :)
- ghostz00 18y agohttp://twitter.com/greghos http://twitter.com/greghos
- dhess 18y agoI'm using Twitter to keep a record of interesting URLs, along with a couple of hashtags and a brief description. I've been trying this with Delicious for the first time, too, but so far I prefer Twitter, probably because more people use it, and it's easier for my friends to peruse. It's just links, mostly to technical-, math- or education-related things. I try to keep the off-topic stuff to a minimum (I think there are maybe 4 or 5 tweets total out of a few hundred that don't follow the formula.) http://twitter.com/dhess http://twitter.com/dhess I do have a couple of concerns about using Twitter for this purpose: * according to the Twitter API docs, they only keep 3200 tweets "online" at a time for any given account. * the dependency on the TinyURL service. * Twitter has historically spotty reliability. So I'm working on an archiving solution, which I hope to make available soon. If you're the hacker type, it might appeal to you, too. I'll give a pointer to it on my Twitter feed when it's ready for testing.
- tomh- 18y agohttp://twitter.com/intellicode http://twitter.com/intellicode
- darreld 18y agohttp://www.twitter.com/darreld http://www.twitter.com/darreld
- jaxn 18y agohttp://twitter.com/jaxn http://twitter.com/jaxn
- ericwan 18y agohttp://twitter.com/ericwan http://twitter.com/ericwan don't twitter often, but try to understand its appeal and user dynamics.
- wheels 18y agoI was slow warming to twitter, but really I've found that there's a pretty huge overlap between my LinkedIn contacts and my Twitter followers. It's largely my online-geek-entrepreneur persona and it's a nice way of letting other folks in the world keep tabs on what stuff we've got coming down the pipe and doing the same for other startups / geeks. Available in full flavor and low fat: http://twitter.com/scotchi http://twitter.com/scotchi http://twitter.com/directededge http://twitter.com/directededge
- lsemel 18y agoI'm at http://twitter.com/semel http://twitter.com/semel, I'm also cofounder of the 'Oscars for Twitter': http://shortyawards.com http://shortyawards.com. My feeling is that Twitter is what you make of it. People use it for professional networking, sales, customer service, keeping in touch with friends, organizing events, letting people know what they're doing at the moment, or any other number of uses.
- vicaya 18y agoNo. It's my opinion that people who twitter are either egomaniacs or who have something to sell. I have much higher respect for people who actually maintain strictly technical blogs these days.
- abyssknight 18y agohttp://twitter.com/abyssknight http://twitter.com/abyssknight Might I suggest #hn for hashtag categorization?