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The more I use twitter the more I find myself changing the way I communicate within it’s 140 character limit.
First of all I dropped capitalization, just for the sake of speed. Spelling is one of those things that gets forgiven by everyone due to the nature of the medium I think, pretty much like text messages on a mobile device. Same goes 4 using nmbrs and abbr 2 shrtn msgs.
As twitter is part life-streaming, activities such as what you are listening to, eating, watching, or doing all come into play. For listening I'm now using the prefix “ipod=” which seems to fit and putting the track or album name in quotations seems to be an accepted way to separate it from the artist.
e.g. ipod=“blue moon station” by solar fields
So why should you be interested in this? Well, I'm not the only person who is re-thinking the way they communicate. Others are too and there are sites and services springing around twitter up to accommodate this.
Some I’ve noticed others using and coming to the fore are:
There are also a number of blogs devoted to twitter. One of the new kids on the block is Twitter Thoughts by Roger Harris.
Any of these can used to get a look at and track what's going on around you, but unless you participate you'll never fully appreciate the new conversations. And that could be an EPIC FAIL.
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Happy CSS Naked Day!
It kinda crept up on me this year, hence not doing it on my blog or freelance web design site, though it still brings traffic to DMWebsites from last year. Not sure if it’s just the word naked though ;-)
Other news today, Flickr has now started showing videos people have been uploading. I like the way you can play the thumbnails and how they have kept the whole Flickr esthetic rather than going all YouTube. Flock will have to do some catching up as their bar doesn’t recognise the videos yet.
Finally two twitter realted items:
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As I lost the original post (will be sending a report to those involved) here's some other links:
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I’ve noticed a change in they way I’ve been communicating with people in my extended community online.
Now this is not a trend I’m seeing with everyone online or that would spread to the general populous ant time soon, but it is definitely spreading to those that build and use the web on a day-to-day basis.
Personal web pages have given way to the mighty blog, though social networks are claiming a little of that back now, and video use seems to be on the rise with sites such as Y!Live, DialedIn etc. though it still seems a little too much like a fad.
Daily communications are the things that I have seen the most change in and the delivery methods are in a state of flux.
I’ve mentioned my initial reception to twitter before, but since adopting Snitter I find myself using it more and more. I’ve tried organizing lunch meetings through it which didn’t go to well (eh, Joe) and ended up using the phone. So for long-term planning (are you going to XYZ next week?) and general communication I find Twitter does fine. Also the fact that this is easily used with portable devices, like mobile phones, only adds to it's adoption.
I was a bit of a hold-out on IM initially too (see a pattern?) but internally it proved a very good method of communicating between the coders & designers here. Since moving to different digs the use has dropped off as none of the account teams seem to use it that much. I still keep it open & have found Trillian a great tool for managing the different connections including IRC.
This (for me) originated from a tweet I saw by Tantek Çelik. He’s since backed it up by a blog post expanding his view on this. Now I don’t agree with everything put forward there, but as with everything, it’s a reaction to how you use the tools or how they are used at you.
This sparked me to view Merlin Manns’ Inbox Zero video. It’s well worth watching and since trying the method out today, seems very effective.
Now I don’t think we’ll ever be free of email or that we’ll be doing important client communication via Twitter, but I do think as more of these alternatives seep into every day adoption within companies and the space where we do business continues to shrink - we’ll see email’s sense of immediacy erode and more general discussion moving over to a new medium.
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Every wondered who's really following you on Twitter?
Well now with Twitter Karma you can see and bulk follow them in return.
Found via @warrenellis.
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So this morning I checked my Gmail and found I had some new followers on Twitter. Cool I thought, I'll check them out.
One name that stood out was DennisKucinich4. Now I know the name from living in Cleveland but it couldn't be the same one could it? Clicking on the profile revealed a lot of political links so it must be him or an aide (or someone who really, really likes him).
A funny fluke for the morning right, until I checked out some of my new followers - MikeHuckabee47 & SamBrownback4. Now I've heard of Mike but I have no idea who Sam is, needless to say another politico. One common thing amongst these was the lack of profile information. If you're a politician, tell me.
So overnight I have been targeted by political camps. Now its cool that they are using Twitter along with blogging etc. but I think the random buckshot approach of signing up people is doomed.
For one I'm still a British citizen and can't vote. Also there is so much out on the web that politicians should be fixing that randomly choosing people to follow in the vain hope of you responding and not tying back to your site is going to fail. Do some research, there is a lot of information about everyone out there so just tap into it and target the people that will respond and truly be your followers.
BTW - no links to the profiles is on purpose and I have blocked them on Twitter (another cool thing about Web2.0 and the social scene).
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I first was really exposed to Twitter at SXSW earlier this year. It seemed to be everywhere -big flat panels in the halls streamed what everyone was doing. In the evening it was being used to let everyone know which company sponsored event was closing and where to head to next. Not being a great "txtr" I could see my bill going through the roof so I steered clear.
After we had set up our Director blogs at Optiem, Clyde wanted to have Twitter on his site and I again started thinking if I should be into this or not. Same barrier - I'm just not a great user of my phone.
Then I found Snitter by Jonathan Snook.
Snitter is a desktop application powered by Adobe-AIR for using Twitter. After setting up my page, I can post from my laptop (where I spend too much time, sorry hon) and follow other peoples posts without having to keep going to the page or running up a big bill.
Few things I like about Snitter is the different options it offers such as:
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Hopefully back to my regular blogging schedule...Here's some links to items I wanted to cover but didn't have the time:
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I'm the Director of Emerging Technologies at Optiem, an interactive marketing firm based in Cleveland, Ohio.
I'm British. Love spicy food. Live and work in the US and have been "on the web" for over 10 years now.
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