Do You Twitter?

[dgridley]

I twitter something everyday.. usually links or posts I'm promoting.. I use twitter to "broadcast" what I'm doing online or where I've been..

Here's my Twitter profile with my latest tweets:

David Gridley (daveincarthage) on Twitter

[Latina]

I have a twitter, but i don't want to broadcast what i do online to anyone, not that i'm naughty on here lol but because it's no ones business...

I use it to follow some news sites & radio stations, for updates on what's what with concerts & breaking news and such, both on my phone & online.

[dgridley]

In my case, when I tweet a post here at theBubbler, it's helping to promote the site.

[Latina]

Originally Posted by dgridley

In my case, when I tweet a post here at theBubbler, it's helping to promote the site.

Oh i realize that & it makes sense when promoting sites & what not. This is the reason i have radio stations & such that i follow, first hand concert info & news updates etc...

For me it wouldn't make sense, because i don't need to share my online activity with anyone & i'm not promoting anything.

[Blue Baboon]

Latina, you should use Twitter to tell everyone when you get up to go to the bathroom LOL. This is what one of my friends jokes about that she finds stupid on Twitter.

[dgridley]

For some, it's like texting.. just like some people will text every little thing (my neighbor's hands are glued to their phones), some people tweet everything they do as well.

Originally Posted by Blue Baboon

Latina, you should use Twitter to tell everyone when you get up to go to the bathroom LOL. This is what one of my friends jokes about that she finds stupid on Twitter.

[Latina]

Originally Posted by Blue Baboon

Latina, you should use Twitter to tell everyone when you get up to go to the bathroom LOL. This is what one of my friends jokes about that she finds stupid on Twitter.

Funny you should mention that... The radio station dj's & comedians i have aded to mine tweet EVERYTHING... In the morning it's "good morning...", after each meal (or snack) "i just ate this or that" OH and at night it's "i should be in bed" 10 min later "i cant sleep" 10 more min "i'm gonna try to sleep again" another 15 min "couldnt sleep here i am again" LOL what a dork... seriously... maybe if you didn't tweet your every fart you could get some sleep!

I tend to forget to check it unless i hear of something i want to know about, like a radio station give away or concerts etc...

[Latina]

Originally Posted by dgridley

For some, it's like texting.. just like some people will text every little thing (my neighbor's hands are glued to their phones), some people tweet everything they do as well.

I had only heard of twitter as a text/phone thing until recent when it seems to have blown up & all the reality shows, talk shows & businesses started using it to advertise.

[dgridley]

My latest Twitter stats:

daveincarthage's Rank: #2,934 (97%)
Permalink to these scores: Twinfluence - Twitter Influence Analyzer

Name: David Gridley
URL: BubbleTweet
Location: SW Missouri
Bio: Tweeting from Carthage, MO!

Friends: 1,898
Followers: 2,039
2nd-order followers: 16,257,284
Velocity: 26,869 second-order followers/day
Social Capital: 7,973.2 +3.4 Very High
Centralization: 7.76% / 0.0 Average - Resilient

[Blue Baboon]

One of my beefs with Twitter is that you can't search profiles by location or interests. I'm trying to add people from Wis. that are in graphic design and have to end up searching through everyone's followers. It's time consuming. Is there a better way to search that I don't know about?

With Twitter Getter are you getting targeted people or is it random. I don't need random people that aren't going to be of any use to me.

Dave, how many Wis. people do you have on your followers? Is it mostly people from all over or has you been able to get mostly Wisconsinites? I know you might not care where your followers are from as much, but in my case I'm using it to network with people close by and the same industry as me.

[dgridley]

With Twollow.com you can autofollow people based on keywords, such as "Wisconsin" or "graphic design".. add yourself to GeoFollow.com as well for geographically based followers.

You might also check here for more ideas:

Twitter - WebLoggers WebLogging Forum

Originally Posted by Blue Baboon

One of my beefs with Twitter is that you can't search profiles by location or interests. I'm trying to add people from Wis. that are in graphic design and have to end up searching through everyone's followers. It's time consuming. Is there a better way to search that I don't know about?

With Twitter Getter are you getting targeted people or is it random. I don't need random people that aren't going to be of any use to me.

Dave, how many Wis. people do you have on your followers? Is it mostly people from all over or has you been able to get mostly Wisconsinites? I know you might not care where your followers are from as much, but in my case I'm using it to network with people close by and the same industry as me.

[pk]

dave...I keep meaning to check it out but I have yet to 'twitter'. lol

[Latina]

Originally Posted by Blue Baboon

One of my beefs with Twitter is that you can't search profiles by location or interests. I'm trying to add people from Wis. that are in graphic design and have to end up searching through everyone's followers. It's time consuming. Is there a better way to search that I don't know about?

With Twitter Getter are you getting targeted people or is it random. I don't need random people that aren't going to be of any use to me.

Dave, how many Wis. people do you have on your followers? Is it mostly people from all over or has you been able to get mostly Wisconsinites? I know you might not care where your followers are from as much, but in my case I'm using it to network with people close by and the same industry as me.

I agree with ya, i don't like that you cant just search for people like on facebook or myspace or whatever.

I see Dave already posted the auto follow option and the geographically based one, but that makes you follow people you don't want to follow in order to follow a few you might want to actually follow, who wants to follow every WI twitter or every designers (in your case) who tweets? not I.. I would think with all the hype of twitter that they would make it more user friendly... I only twitter on my phone with a few select friends who also use theirs on the go. We use it as a social community kinda, not to tweet stuff we do online like many do, unless we want to share a link with the group or what not. Those who i know that use twitter use it to keep in touch with our group of friends all at once... much better if we could search people out by location & use it as more of a social message site... maybe they will go that route some day

[Latina]

Set your DVRs: Twitter to develop reality TV series

If scientists got the correlation models together, I wonder if they would find a blisteringly harmonious relationship between those who loathe reality TV and those who loathe Twitter.

Critics of the microblogging service declare that, like reality TV, tweets are just mindless ego-fodder being released on the masses by the second.

Well, now the two ego-fodder receptacles appear to be coming together for the further enlightenment of the world.

[j10asen]

Originally Posted by Latina

I agree with ya, i don't like that you cant just search for people like on facebook or myspace or whatever.

I see Dave already posted the auto follow option and the geographically based one, but that makes you follow people you don't want to follow in order to follow a few you might want to actually follow, who wants to follow every WI twitter or every designers (in your case) who tweets? not I.. I would think with all the hype of twitter that they would make it more user friendly... I only twitter on my phone with a few select friends who also use theirs on the go. We use it as a social community kinda, not to tweet stuff we do online like many do, unless we want to share a link with the group or what not. Those who i know that use twitter use it to keep in touch with our group of friends all at once... much better if we could search people out by location & use it as more of a social message site... maybe they will go that route some day

I think theBubbler should apply you ideas with a new twitter and call it "BubblerSquirts" or "bSquirts"
{8^)

[Blue Baboon]

Originally Posted by pk

dave...I keep meaning to check it out but I have yet to 'twitter'. lol

You're not missing much LOL. I'm only doing it for job hunting and networking purposes. So far I've had 2 places (from Twitter) ask for a link to an online portfolio which I'm working on. I've worked in print all along, so online portfolio didn't seem that important since most that interview you want to see the actual printed pieces or sometimes they ask you to email samples like a pdf.

[Blue Baboon]

I guess I must have added myself to geofollow the other day. Is that all they give you at once is a page of people?

I see Twollow you have to pay for. Not that expensive, but still have to pay. Is it worth it is the question?

[dgridley]

GeoFollow starts with a page then people add you as they search for the same areas you specify.

I'm pretty sure Twollow started out free.. I rarely recommend a paid service. Will check again.

Originally Posted by Blue Baboon

I guess I must have added myself to geofollow the other day. Is that all they give you at once is a page of people?

I see Twollow you have to pay for. Not that expensive, but still have to pay. Is it worth it is the question?

[dgridley]

My latest stats:

06/24/09 Twinfluence - Twitter Influence Analyzer score for @daveincarthage: Reach=20,116,462, Rank=#2,315

[keith]

Originally Posted by Twoaday

I though I posted this the other day. But my twitter account is:

Twitter / Twoaday
I've got a rank of 97.7
19114 out of 1,025,709

I use twitter everyday, generally to find out or spread some news article

I also have an account for my blog UrbanMilwaukee.com


http://twitter.com/urbanmilwaukee

Been following Twoaday for awhile I believe.

Will follow urbanmilwaukee too, if not already!

Originally Posted by Latina

Funny you should mention that... The radio station dj's & comedians i have aded to mine tweet EVERYTHING... In the morning it's "good morning...", after each meal (or snack) "i just ate this or that" OH and at night it's "i should be in bed" 10 min later "i cant sleep" 10 more min "i'm gonna try to sleep again" another 15 min "couldnt sleep here i am again" LOL what a dork... seriously... maybe if you didn't tweet your every fart you could get some sleep!

I tend to forget to check it unless i hear of something i want to know about, like a radio station give away or concerts etc...

LOL!

Originally Posted by Blue Baboon

One of my beefs with Twitter is that you can't search profiles by location or interests. I'm trying to add people from Wis. that are in graphic design and have to end up searching through everyone's followers. It's time consuming. Is there a better way to search that I don't know about?

With Twitter Getter are you getting targeted people or is it random. I don't need random people that aren't going to be of any use to me.

Dave, how many Wis. people do you have on your followers? Is it mostly people from all over or has you been able to get mostly Wisconsinites? I know you might not care where your followers are from as much, but in my case I'm using it to network with people close by and the same industry as me.

I run a constant "Wisconsin" search column in TweetDeck - new since this weekend. Very helpful retweeting Wisconsin stuff, mixing that up with theBubbler stuff. My interest "cloud" always has "Wisconsin" and "theBubbler" ranking well.

Will be looking for ways to integrate that info here.

What happened to your twitter signature, Dave?

Regards,
Keith

[dgridley]

It wasn't updating so I removed it temporarily.

Originally Posted by keith

What happened to your twitter signature, Dave?

Regards,
Keith

[Latina]

When my old pc crashed & burned i had not saved my info for twitter, allowing the pc to log me in whenever i'd go there... I realized last night that it's not any log in or usual password i normally use, i tried sending myself a password reminder & apparently it doesn't recognize any of my email addys.

I wonder if it wasn't the old Charter email that i dont have anymore since disconnecting my service with them... in which case it could be 1 of any 10 addys & i dont even remember half of those lol oh well, wasn't like i had anything important on there so i started over

[Blue Baboon]

I haven't tried Tweetdeck yet, but I was going to. I've heard a few complaints about tweets not showing up or whatever, so I hesitated.

I may need it to keep people sorted since I'm up to 200 people I'm following and there are 2 people that are on there constantly that should just go to IM since the whole convo is between them and never interesting, but they both are in the design industry so I keep them. They will probably end up in the not so important category.

[dgridley]

I never tweet from Twitter.com.. I always use Tweetdeck and love it!

Originally Posted by Blue Baboon

I haven't tried Tweetdeck yet, but I was going to. I've heard a few complaints about tweets not showing up or whatever, so I hesitated.

I may need it to keep people sorted since I'm up to 200 people I'm following and there are 2 people that are on there constantly that should just go to IM since the whole convo is between them and never interesting, but they both are in the design industry so I keep them. They will probably end up in the not so important category.

[Blue Baboon]

I'd rather not use Twitter, but am only doing it for networking purposes. Once I find a job, I'm out of there. It's not that interesting.