Twitter C/D

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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.

its positive impact on my role as a journalist can't be questioned

Not the first time I've heard this, and I'm beginning to believe it. At least to the extent that tweets can also be hot tips, or at least idea catalysts. I suppose they could be that for anyone, non-profession-specific.

It's getting to the point that the only time I don't tweet is when I'm asleep

"It's getting to the point that the only time I don't drink 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!

Ooh! Wow! What a terrible idea!

i wld dig this bc i often do not remember my dreams

Actually, that's true. I could have my dreams emailed to myself.

But not anyone else, plz.

no no no What am I saying? I don't want to have to have to passwd protect my dreams. If I forget them, I should have had a pad and paper handy. Old media thinking, I know.

i been remembering my dreams a lot lately

dunno why

Need more people to follow. Interesting actual people this time, not ilxors (not that ilxors are not etc etc)

i still don't understand twitter, and i have facebook so i already have a method of microblogging, but i've decided to get a twitter so i can follow shaq.

okay here's what bugs me, maybe it's easily fixable, but certain accounts i would like to follow are 75% replies to other comments, and since i don't see the original comment there's absolutely no context and it's totally unintelligible.

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Need more people to follow. Interesting actual people this time

No one can be fecking interesting in 140 characters.

^ Absolute balls. Sorry. That's the whole principle of editing: can you grab people's interest in a sentence? I quite accept that "a lot of people can't be interesting in 140 characters", but they're not going to be any more interesting in 1,400,000, either.

The joy of a good Tweet is that piques the interest *and* has a link to more information.

In a nutshell: microblogging >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> blogging.

Twitter = "Typing What I'm Thinking To Everyone Reading"

tl; dr. Tweets should be 140 pixels.

http://www.rappersontwitter.com/rappers

No one can be fecking interesting in 140 characters.

― one art, please (Trayce), Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

stephenfry Director just casually dropped a bombshell. I have to ride a mule tomorrow. A thousand boiling arses. Two hours up a mountain. Buttery fuck.
about 18 hours ago from Tweetie

The joy of a good Tweet is that piques the interest *and* has a link to more information.

Yeah, I like the dudes who link to cool videos/articles more than the dudes who prattle on about their lives (unless they're Shaq).

Telling everyone what you're doing is purely fucking boring. You has to go the extra mile.

Yes well its all well and good to use Stephen Fry as the only example which is what everyone's been doing for weeks. The man says poo and bum a lot, bravo for him.

Sorry, Ive had like half an hours sleep and I am in a foul mood.

I'm having trouble choosing sides in the LeVar Burton / Michael Ian Black conflict.

sticking by this one

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/eno-twitter.png

Notice "Do something boring" is a recent entry.

Fakery!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/02/latest-phony-tw.html

stephenfry Director just casually dropped a bombshell. I have to ride a mule tomorrow. A thousand boiling arses. Two hours up a mountain. Buttery fuck.
about 18 hours ago from Tweetie

"Buttery fuck" wins Swear of the Month.

totally digging the eno twitter

Trayce, perhaps we all use Fry as an example because he IS a good example. If he were the ONLY example I wouldn't be wasting my time with it.

Well he's the only good example anyone's shown me thus far. Eno doesnt count, because that's just his obscure strategies things and you can get them online already anyway.

Well, there are links to interesting things, too, and new strategies. Pretty sure "No pants!" isn't canon. Yet.

Also, yer just being obstinate. No need to plan your day around tweets, but sometimes they're fun, is all.

Yeah, Trayce is missing the point (but I did for years too so that's not a criticism).

If there's a point, I'm afraid I'm not really interested :)

A caveat: I've had a facebook for quite some time and I dont use it or find it remotely interesting either. I dont like or have a myspace any more. I spell out all my txt messages in full with proper grammar.

Communication is a great tool, but too much, too short, too sensationalist, too "there", all the time, every day, is just damaging and stressful.

*this kind of communication, that meant to say.