To Tweet or not to Tweet? Is twitter useful?

[girl]

@fearandwhiskey

[theartlessmonster]

just type twitter dot com slash username in the address bar

eg. in Myke's case, http://twitter.com/miceincars

thanks! did it!

now onto linking it to my new blog

[Greg Nog]

LNIK IT TO A BLOG USING THE AJAX CODE #TWURT

[Andrew_TSKS]

@buzzorhowl

[donblood]

i am @donred and i am sitting in the bathroom

[Chet]

I've pretty much only used Twitter so far to try and get Shaq to be my friend, but I might start using it more.

@MFianpatrick

[mixed cats]

i am @squishythings

[theartlessmonster]

LNIK IT TO A BLOG USING THE AJAX CODE #TWURT

what's that mean?

[donblood]

Pollo and Greg often send barely-comprehensible missives to twitter and label them #TWURT - Greg exclusively so.

[sassymcassface]

My Twitter (@sassela) is locked and not very interesting. I post a lot of pictures of my clothes.

[lastclearchance]

my username is my name, and i don't want this page to show up in google results for my name, so just find the dude following mary whose username is his real name

[Anne the Man]

Pollo and Greg often send barely-comprehensible missives to twitter and label them #TWURT - Greg exclusively so.

I should stop going on about it, but this is really the correct way to do Twitter. In conversation the other night after reading some of them I kept talking in caps lock about choking on twurts that went down the wrong way twurts can be lethal lol and such-and-such.

[Nick Ink]

promptly hated myself for joining and deleted my account.

I did this with Facebook, but Twitter is quite good fun. I mainly follow funny people ( @serafinowicz, @DrSamuelJohnson, @RealBillBailey @jupitusphillip ) or news sources, music ( @machinebabriek, @cjf = Fennesz, @Hyperdub, @Fiery_Furnaces, @mapsadaisical = great blog pal), or sport.

As for usefulness, I follow a few work-related people (Scott Thornbury, for example, leader of the Dogme in ELT movement is on there, as is Jeremy Harmer a well known ELT writer), including authors and materials sites and so on.

Also, there are useful one-offs. A Premiership footballer recently caused a stir by tweeting his dissatisfaction with his manager. Another one was Phillip Hughes, the  Australian opening batsman, who during the current Ashes series tweeted thet he'd been dropped before any of the mainstream media got the story. Things like that, when all the PR men and spinners that surround famous people are taken away, make it potentially quite anarchic at times. Another one was during the British Golf Open. The on-course reporter was on twitter posting all kinds of updates before they were broadcast anywhwere else.

Of course, I have one or two personal contacts on there, but only one or two. There's a beardy bad man who used to hang around here a lot (though not so much these days) who I dog relentlessly.

[Chet]

In what alternate reality is Phil Jupitus funny?

[Nick Ink]

In what alternate reality is Phil Jupitus funny?

He seems to have made a lot of money out of being a comedian. So I suppose it's a matter of opinion. Once again yours and mine do not intersect.

[theartlessmonster]

i'm so amazed and slightly amused now that i have followers! thanks! 

[lastclearchance]

[Thermofusion]

Man I hate to be all "death of society", but, death of society

Also welcome back Mary!

[Andrew_TSKS]

I don't see it. What's so inherently bad about twitter?

[Thermofusion]

I was joking, but I didn't mean twitter in general so much as the senatorial exchange lcc posted

[diesel_powered]

I'm thinking about taking the plunge, but I don't know whether to do it with my actual name and have to worry about what I say or whether to do it with an alias and worry about what kind of alias I should pick.

[Greg Nog]

Obviously, I advise using your actual name and letting everyone assume you've incurred a brain injury.

[diesel_powered]

"Because of my stroke, I now end every sentence with #TWURT. #TWURT"

[girl]

You should pick the alias "Greg Nog"!

[theartlessmonster]

you know i had a photo up and i wanted to change it, now it won't upload a photo for me.  anyone else ever have this issue?  is it me?  I checked my photo size it's under 700K - help!  I need people to see me!