Anyone use Twitter?

MrDeVil909 wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

I'm in, @clockworkhouse.

The Twitters can't find you.

He's there. I'll retweet something so you can see him

ClockworkHouse wrote:

I'm in, @clockworkhouse.

The Twitters can't find you.

I would just like to take a moment to say how much I love Twitter. In the last 6 months it's become the way I get most of my news, I've had conversations with great authors and journalists and learned things I would never have known.

Tanglebones wrote:
MrDeVil909 wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

I'm in, @clockworkhouse.

The Twitters can't find you.

He's there. I'll retweet something so you can see him :P

Weird.

MrDeVil909 wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

I'm in, @clockworkhouse.

The Twitters can't find you.

I signed up literally minutes before posting, so that might be part of the problem. I see you did find me eventually, though.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

I'm in, @clockworkhouse.

DSGamer wrote:

Ooh, I want on the GWJ list. @PrestonCrawford

Ok, followed and added to my GWJ List - ahead of Legion! I'll beat his list.. one day

Might as well throw my name in the pile, I suppose: @garden_ninja

Add me please. Finally signed up, mostly for use at PAX East.

@TigerBill_13

Tigerbill wrote:

Add me please. Finally signed up, mostly for use at PAX East.

@TigerBill_13

Just sent you a follow request - friend me up so I can add you to my version of the GWJ Twitter List

avggeek wrote:
Tigerbill wrote:

Add me please. Finally signed up, mostly for use at PAX East.

@TigerBill_13

Just sent you a follow request - friend me up so I can add you to my version of the GWJ Twitter List :)

I'm following you, but I don't see anywhere to accept you following me. Help I'm a newb!

Tigerbill wrote:
avggeek wrote:
Tigerbill wrote:

Add me please. Finally signed up, mostly for use at PAX East.

@TigerBill_13

Just sent you a follow request - friend me up so I can add you to my version of the GWJ Twitter List :)

I'm following you, but I don't see anywhere to accept you following me. Help I'm a newb!

SMH. this is what happens when you protect your tweets.

I couldn't even tell you, mine are open. You probably get an email or something of the sort, telling you that you need to approve a request.

Kannon finally talked me into signing up after trying for so long. @SaintHillary

MrDeVil909 wrote:
Tigerbill wrote:
avggeek wrote:
Tigerbill wrote:

Add me please. Finally signed up, mostly for use at PAX East.

@TigerBill_13

Just sent you a follow request - friend me up so I can add you to my version of the GWJ Twitter List :)

I'm following you, but I don't see anywhere to accept you following me. Help I'm a newb!

SMH. this is what happens when you protect your tweets.

I couldn't even tell you, mine are open. You probably get an email or something of the sort, telling you that you need to approve a request.

Yeah decided to go with protected because of work. Would it help if I actually tweeted something.

OK, figured it out; the app (Plume) I was using on my Droid X didn't have the notifications for followers. When I logged on through the web, they were there.

I'm all Twitterified! I'm far too lazy to read through this thread, but I'm following Goodjers as I come across them.

@IanDorsch

Podunk wrote:

I'm all Twitterified! I'm far too lazy to read through this thread, but I'm following Goodjers as I come across them.

@IanDorsch

FOLLOW HIM NOW OR THE GODS OF METAL WILL REMOVE YOUR GALL BLADDER BY REACHING THROUGH YOUR EYE SOCKETS

*sigh* OK.

HedgeWizard wrote:
Podunk wrote:

I'm all Twitterified! I'm far too lazy to read through this thread, but I'm following Goodjers as I come across them.

@IanDorsch

FOLLOW HIM NOW OR THE GODS OF METAL WILL REMOVE YOUR GALL BLADDER BY REACHING THROUGH YOUR EYE SOCKETS

Not again!

St.Hillary wrote:

Kannon finally talked me into signing up after trying for so long. @SaintHillary

Thanks for adding me to your follow-list! +1 to my GWJ list

Tigerbill wrote:

OK, figured it out; the app (Plume) I was using on my Droid X didn't have the notifications for followers. When I logged on through the web, they were there.

I Haz your tweets in my timeline

HedgeWizard wrote:

FOLLOW HIM NOW OR THE GODS OF METAL WILL REMOVE YOUR GALL BLADDER BY REACHING THROUGH YOUR EYE SOCKETS

DOUBLE POST FOR METAL

I follow some people through RSS feeds to google reader. So I won't show up on your follow list, and I thus don't follow private accounts.

I stop following people if the majority of their twitters are replies to other tweets. Twitter is a lousy way to hold a conversation.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

I follow some people through RSS feeds to google reader. So I won't show up on your follow list, and I thus don't follow private accounts.

I stop following people if the majority of their twitters are replies to other tweets. Twitter is a lousy way to hold a conversation.

Twitter's an especially lousy way to converse if you access it via RSS feed.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

I follow some people through RSS feeds to google reader. So I won't show up on your follow list, and I thus don't follow private accounts.

I stop following people if the majority of their twitters are replies to other tweets. Twitter is a lousy way to hold a conversation.

There's a setting to hide replies to other people, if it's annoying to you.

I finally caved today and signed up for Twitter (VZ iPhone). Can someone please indicate how I follow the GWJ headliners?

*edit: holy crap that's awesome! Got an answer to a tech support question by Twitter way, way faster than calling or emailing. The company is even closed today for inclement weather. Maybe this Twitter thing might catch on after all.

Keithustus wrote:

I finally caved today and signed up for Twitter (VZ iPhone). Can someone please indicate how I follow the GWJ headliners?

*edit: holy crap that's awesome! Got an answer to a tech support question by Twitter way, way faster than calling or emailing. The company is even closed today for inclement weather. Maybe this Twitter thing might catch on after all.

Look for lists; if you want people following you, post your own twitter (I was able to find you with a search). Avggeek and KaterinLHC both have Goodjer lists, IIRC

@Jeremy_Ginger

I appear to finally be hitting my twitter stride... I'm using it so much more than I thought I ever would.

I just joined, 80 million egyptians cannot be wrong. I'd also like to cut short my time surfing the web without actually missing on things, so I'm making the kind of a non-smoking commitment to severaly cut down browsing during office hours, twitter seemed like the most with-the-times choice as I have never used an rss feed and twitter has permeated down enough to have me partially know how it does function.

I also have a question, as someone not likely to post much, do I really need followers? can I block them altogether if I want to? I ask because after registering a few hours ago and following some things here and there, while reading this thread, I was followed by someone who picked me from imdb's followers. Any precautions I should be taking?

Any precautions I should be taking?

If you don't know the person or a link looks like BS, don't click it.

If you're worried about privacy or want to control who follows you, then set your account to Private mode.

If you leave your account Public, you'll inevitably get spammers. I average 2 - 4 spammers a day but they eventually get banned & weeded out by Twitter.

And my Twitter link's in my signature. Welcome

You can block followers on a case-by-case basis, or make your tweets secure, in which case you'll have to approve anyone before they can follow you. I've just started following you, and I'm on a few of the Goodjer lists, if you want to gather more people from them.