[Cialug] OT: Twitter users?

[David Champion]

Old Man Champion's views on Twitter:

Darn kids! Too much signal-to-noise ratio! Attention whoring! *shakes fist*

:p

I can see how some people might like it, but it's not my thing.

-dc

Bryan Baker wrote:
> Late to the conversation here. I started using it this spring when I 
> got an invite from DMMC. As a musician I can see some utility here as 
> it's possible to get people out to shows or call their attention to 
> other things of interest.
>
> I know it at least resulted in one of the Nadas (whichever one runs 
> their twitter account) listening to the stream of one of my Second 
> Life shows - I know this because they @ messaged me and said they were 
> confused as to "where" this was but they were listening.
>
> I think the instant (ADD) nature of it lend itself pretty well to 
> music and other social activities - the "tweetups" I also just manage 
> my access by usually viewing it via rss and only using the regular 
> site (and sms) to send. If I end up on a better data plan I might 
> experiment with turning on the "firehose"
>
> http://twitter.com/ka_klick/
>
> On May 19, 2008, at 7:07 AM, Matt Millard wrote:
>> Just curious if there were any Twitter users out there on the list.  I
>> know that at lease one  person that has interacted with the LUG is on
>> Brett Trout http://twitter.com/bretttrout.  There is actually a great
>> group of people using the hashtag #dmtweetup (http://dmwteetup.org) if
>> your interested.
>>
>> I'm most interested to see how well it works while at the Red Hat Summit
>> conference next month.
>>
>> http://twitter.com/gocyclones
>>
>> Matt
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