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Are you on Twitter? Give us a shout here
Are you on Twitter? Give us a shout here
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Elwood
178 posts
Oct 19, 2009
4:17 PM
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Hi all,
Is anyone here on Twitter? I know at least 38 of us use Facebook, but I'm wondering how many people are using Twitter. If there's a bunch of us, it might give an indication of whether or not there's space for harp-related Twitter activity.
So, without further ado post below if you're on Twitter, and include your user name if you like.
I'm at http://twitter.com/muzhunter
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oda
149 posts
Oct 19, 2009
4:49 PM
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I clicked the link to your site. It's not bad. You've got a "voice" in your writing. I dig that.
PS. Twitter makes no sense to me. I'm getting old. I'm 21.
@muzhunter: I am looking at my pc screen. Put the good word in for me with that striptease "artist". Tell her I am a "stud muffin"
Last Edited by on Oct 19, 2009 4:51 PM
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Andrew
677 posts
Oct 19, 2009
10:42 PM
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What's Facebook?
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Bollocks, Wiglaf!
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oldwailer
921 posts
Oct 20, 2009
7:37 PM
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I checked out twitter--is it supposed to make any sense or have a purpose? I signed up, but I'm not sure why after looking around. . .
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Elwood
179 posts
Oct 21, 2009
2:02 AM
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Hola oldwailer & Co.
Thanks for checking it out, but I apologize if I sounded like I was trying to convert you. Twitter is one of those things that either works for you or it doesn't.
But in case you're interested in finding out, Twitter is a "microblogging" platform: i.e. like having your own blog except you can only say very very small things (140 characters long). Interested people subscribe to your posts (in the lingua franca, they "Follow" you): so if a user is interested in liberal politics, comedy and harmonica, they could follow the Twitter accounts of Huffington Post bloggers, the Daily Show, and perhaps a harp-related Twitter account (for instance, this guy Tony Eyers).
Different users employ Twitter for a variety of reasons:
-Individual bloggers/journalists/whatever use it to direct people to their main website where the space constraints are not so severe (e.g. You might write "Check out my new Harp Challenge submission on YouTube: [link]".) I "follow" bloggers and sites I'm interested in and get notification every time they update their site.
-People often use it to post links to interesting things they found on the net. So I follow people with similar interests to mine (let's say, politics, media, history) and enjoy reading whatever links they post (e.g. some really insightful op/ed tucked away in the NYTimes)
-Online publishers/newspapers/individual bloggers can use it to *interact* with their fans and readers, and vice versa. For example, Kevin Spacey is on Twitter and he is in regular conversation with his fans. Obama's presidential campaign made ground-breaking use of social media like this to access younger and hipper voters.
-Some people have innovatively used it as a self-contained publishing platform. For instance, ShitMyDadSays is a hilarious Twitter account run by a 29-year-old living with his 73-year-old father. All he does is post the hilarious shit his dad says, e.g. "Does anyone your age know how to comb their fucking hair? It looks like two squirrels crawled on their head and started f*ing."
ShitMyDadSays landed a book deal two months after starting.
-Activism under media censorship. When the Iran elections went to shit in June, and western media corporations weren't able to access info because of govt restrictions, it was Iranian activists on Twitter who kept the info out there.
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Having said that, Twitter is clearly not something the users of this forum are interested in for now. Not a problem - I made this announcement to test the waters. I thought there might be some traction because compared to other social media Twitter is slightly more mature in its demographics. Biggest user group is men aged 35-44, and the median user age is 31 (Facebook is 26 and MySpace is 27).
Last Edited by on Oct 21, 2009 2:03 AM
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