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Re: First Steps in Twitter

hellobabul — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:42:29 -0000

Dan, been reading your articles and have to write telling you I also love your writing style, very funny and very real. I recently started twittering myself and find it really good fun. Keep up the good work!

Re: First Steps in Twitter

Dan Lester — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:50:38 -0000

Thanks all for your kind words and helpful suggestions!

As I just Twittered, my concerted effort to try Twitter is off to a bad start because I'm without my phone charger for a few days. I'm under self-imposed limits on phone usage...

Re: First Steps in Twitter

Jimmy — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:19:48 -0000

Sorry, Dan, I didnt look at who wrote the post ..

Re: First Steps in Twitter

Leslie Bradshaw — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:13:13 -0000

Dan - I totally hear you on this. You make a number of good points. I have also "squatted" on my own account for months, updating it only when going to workshop sessions on or about new media stuff/twittering. Until just a few weeks ago...

I have taken the wise counsel of friends and colleagues who are active Tweeters (not to be confused with Tweakers) and let these two tenants guide me:

1. Twitter when you are doing something interesting, or have something interesting to say to a friend or your micro community. At a concert, watching breaking news, etc.

2. Twitter AT people, like you would a rolling IM-meets-email convo. This can be endless fun.

I also highly recommend the Twitterberry App if you have a blackberry... great for when you are in lines or on the metro. Easy to update, see what friends are up to, etc.

PS - I am as verbose as they come and if I can do it in 140 chars, so can you! Best of luck :-) L.

Re: First Steps in Twitter

Josue Sanchez — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:00:06 -0000

Dan, I love your writing style! =)

Re: First Steps in Twitter

Joe Grossberg — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:56:20 -0000

So many smart people like it, and there is so little to lose by trying it out, I say "fake it until you make it".

I'd heard about it a good year or so before I used it. By then, I had a half-dozen friends (mostly the techie coworkers at Mindshare/Virilion) on the service.

Now, I have posted 4,598 Tweets in about 7 months.

Re: First Steps in Twitter

Jimmy — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:54:25 -0000

Hi Nick,

good post. In reference to a client that will automatically shorten url's, I have started using snitter. It is an Adobe Air App so it is cross platform and built in it has a nice url shortener for you to use. It is quite nice, lots of keyboard shortcuts, etc

regards,

jimmy