Twitter C/D

my favorite tweeter is "Brian Eno," who sends me an oblique strategy every morning.

He just old me to breathe more deeply.

I am not going to start following any more Big Name Producers. I am not. Oh, fuck it...

Grimly - have you given up on your desire to have them all sent to your phone as texts like the old days?

There are a few "brian eno"s on twitter. No idea if any of them are brian eno.

I'd like an oblique strategem every morning. That I would like.

Twitter is only good if you follow people you know well enough to actually care about the tiny minutia of their lives. I'd find it intrusive to follow a stranger. (latest big crush excepted, of course.)

http://twitter.com/Brian_Eno

Eddie Izzard gets it. He would, wouldn't he?

http://twitter.com/EddieIzzard

I didn't realise he was where the phrase "pears can just fuck off" came from.

Grimly - have you given up on your desire to have them all sent to your phone as texts like the old days?

Oddly, yes.

(Funny how an entire dynamic can change, though, isn't it? Twitter now is something very different to Twitter then.)

i am hoping brian eno oblique strats will change my life, thankig u, kenan.

Dean Gaffney definitely gets it.

http://twitter.com/Dean_Gaffney

"my 1000th follower will get a mars bar in the post from me"

Amusingly, it's now stuck on 997.

He already ate the Mars bar, dowsn't want to own up to it

twitter more like twatter

damnit, domain name taken by a stupid "agent"

a cylon agent?

How do I get all the twiiters I'm following to appear on one page.

ha, never mind. http://www.techcentral.ie/img/thumbnail%5Ccorporate%5Cold_person_computer.jpg

I was going to say.. I just type in twitter.com and boom, there they are ;)

damnit, domain name taken by a stupid "agent"

http://livingromcom.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/agent_smith_poses04.jpg

Seems a bit anachronistic of Twitter to keep asking 'what are you doing now?' when that's clearly not what makes Twitter interesting.

Depth:

Can we agree that most Twitter posts are about little beyond the fact of their own occurrence? Is it too much of a stretch to suggest that something existential is afoot? Is the sum of human knowledge much advanced by learning, instant by instant, that Marc Jacobs is having his hair dyed black, that Marc Jacobs is eating a McDonald’s burger and drinking a Diet Coke, that the beautiful Patti Smith look-alike model Jamie Bochert just got engaged, that the handsome and heavily-inked hairdresser Lorenzo Martone is not Marc Jacobs’s boyfriend?

This piece then goes on to say that things are not well in the NYC fashion world because there's some sort of economic problem.

Every time I resolve to remove Stephen Fry he redeems himself with something like this:

Only trub with TwitterBerry is that I can't post pix. Bah, poo, botty and tit.

lol ned

Brian_Eno Do something boring

i guess this means i should write my thesis?

MC Hammer is twittering up a storm tonight.

list of musicians (some fake) on twitter: http://www.eachnotesecure.com/twitter-musicians-you-should-follow-and-some-you-should-not/

mike skinner's my fav so far.

http://twitpic.com/1mhxu

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/twittering-celebrities-take-fans-backstage-in-their-lives/?hp

LOL "UPDATED 2:00 p.m.: Corrected: Shaquille O’Neal is not retired, but currently plays for the Phoenix Suns."

MC Hammer is twittering up a storm tonight.

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i had to drop him, he was going nuts

Why is it so important for someone to follow you back anyway?

mutual respect and love

Where does etiquette stand on replying to people who dont follow you and whose feed is locked?

Christ that was an awful sentence. Anyway.

i think you can do it all you want but they won't see it?

Ah, okay. Ta.

Key words you can use to locate other ilxors:

1. ILX
2. Geir

Ha ha, is that how you found me? I mentioned Geir while shouting at Charlie No. 4 this morning?

OK, wait - if you are following someone, but they are not following you, and you stick their screenname as an @username in your post (to clarify who you are talking about) - they don't see your reply, right?

Do people who are not following you see you when you reply to them?

I dunno. Getting mad at Shaq for not following me back is kinda like getting upset with Bob Mould because he didn't bookmark my blog in return.

In other words, Shaq needs to concentrate on -- in order -- maintaining his twitter and playing basketball, and NOT worrying about what lil ol me's gotta say about anything.

k8 I found you last week.

We've been talking for days in fact.

I know, I'm JOEKING!!!!

Guys, PR people are obsessed with Twitter. This UK journo is taking pitches for 2 days only via his Twitter:

You know what, I think my interest in Twitter is bordering on an obsession. This is the third blog post in a row that I've focused on the site and I'm sure it won't be the last!

It's getting to the point that the only time I don't tweet is when I'm asleep although I'm sure it won't be long until some bright spark creates an app that means I can even twitter via my dreams!

On a serious point though, Twitter is proving hugely advantageous. Not only is it improving BusinessZone.co.uk's traffic figures but its positive impact on my role as a journalist can't be questioned.

It's becoming very common, for instance, for news stories to break on Twitter and the times recently when people have alerted me to a story hours after I'd read it in a tweet are too numerous to list.

With all that mind, I've decided to run a little experiment and to the public relations executives reading this blog it's time for you to pay special attention.

The journalist/PR relationship is a strange one. I admit I'm prone to the odd rant following a call from someone pitching me a story which is completely irrelevant to the subjects I write about or far too advertorial to warrant coverage but unfortunately given my job, listening to the occassional pitch which I can do nothing with is a necessary evil.

But PRs, it's time for a change!

I really don't have time to take irrelevent calls but I will read tweets so next Monday and Tuesday - 23rd and 24th February - I will only accept PR pitches via Twitter. That means you have just 140 characters to grab my attention so it had better be good. I will only deal with single tweets so no pitches which expand into multiple updates will be considered.

If you're not on Twitter and you plan on giving me a call, I'd advise registering now and the usernames you need to bear in mind are @---------------- and @----------------. The best stories will get covered and I'll even publish your tweets.

Let the challenge commence!

Twitter reminds me of the Internet and the people on it circa 1999.

All those exclamation marks let you know he really means business here

The problem is he's in PR.