Is anyone on twitter at the Org? [Archive]

Brandon Sheley

26 Jan 2009, 05:55

So I've had a twitter account for about a year and used it off an on from time to time. Than I found www.ping.fm and seen I could post my "status updates" to facebook, myspace, twitter.. several sites..

Anyways, I just started getting back into twitter this month by finding www.tweetdeck.com
It's a great app.
Here you can see my graph, you could say it picked up in the last 30 days, that's when I found tweetdeck and seen I could group people.
http://tweetstats.com/graphs/vbsetup

Anyways, I've seen vBulletin mentioned a few times on twitter, but was interested to find out how many of you are on twitter as well?

Follow me (www.twitter.com/vbsetup) and I'll follow you (unless your just a feed, than I might not) :up:
www.twitter.com/vbsetup

Spank

26 Jan 2009, 07:07

I joined twitter recently. www.twitter.com/maxspank

I should get an app for it too, it might encourage me to use it more.

lasto

26 Jan 2009, 07:37

Loco.M going by your graphs you talk to much :)

Also in responce to your question ive never used Twitter.Only chat programs i use are MSN (hate this really do but i need it occassionaly) and Mirc (Irc chat).

djxcee

26 Jan 2009, 08:09

I just recently started to use twitter too. Pretty neat.

TweetDeck looks neat. I might give it a go :)

Dean C

26 Jan 2009, 08:14

This poll is not complete. What about "No, it's full of self-consumed idiots who think people actually give a rats ass about what they do in 140 chars or less, every few hours" :)

lasto

26 Jan 2009, 09:50

This poll is not complete. What about "No, it's full of self-consumed idiots who think people actually give a rats ass about what they do in 140 chars or less, every few hours" :)

Whats your view on facebook ?
I dont use it because i dont want to broadcast details about my life/Freinds etc on the Internet.
And i dont want people to poke me either :)
I find most of the stuff on the net such as facebook/Youtube is taken over by kids and other idiots who think gang culture is the way forward.

Dean C

26 Jan 2009, 14:42

Whats your view on facebook ?
I dont use it because i dont want to broadcast details about my life/Freinds etc on the Internet.
And i dont want people to poke me either :)
I find most of the stuff on the net such as facebook/Youtube is taken over by kids and other idiots who think gang culture is the way forward.

I see Facebook as a great tool for keeping up to date with my friends who I wouldn't normally know what's going on in their life. I don't buy the argument, that if you wouldn't know what they're up to or contact them normally, then they're not real friends. In fact I'd say that's the whole point of facebook, it helps friendships :)

KTBleeding

26 Jan 2009, 15:11

I see Facebook as a great tool for keeping up to date with my friends who I wouldn't normally know what's going on in their life.But.. Isn't that exactly what Twitter is for?

Personally, I have an account at both sites.. Facebook was so I could get some free cleaner for my laptop and I haven't used it once since.. Twitter was just to see what all the fuss was about and haven't used it since either.

Social updating isn't my kind of thing, at all.. I can't find time out of developing to go read that my friend is on his way to a movie, or if he/she just bought the latest game and they "luv it!! LOL!!"

Come over to my house and party, we can catch up on all that shit then and there.. you know, in person? People spend HOURS on these kinds of sites. Literally, hours.. that's extremely sad.

Dean C

26 Jan 2009, 15:52

But.. Isn't that exactly what Twitter is for?

Personally, I have an account at both sites.. Facebook was so I could get some free cleaner for my laptop and I haven't used it once since.. Twitter was just to see what all the fuss was about and haven't used it since either.

Social updating isn't my kind of thing, at all.. I can't find time out of developing to go read that my friend is on his way to a movie, or if he/she just bought the latest game and they "luv it!! LOL!!"

Come over to my house and party, we can catch up on all that shit then and there.. you know, in person? People spend HOURS on these kinds of sites. Literally, hours.. that's extremely sad.

Yes, but to a ridiculously self-consumed level. Not many people on my list update their facebook statuses more than once a day, whereas on twitter I see people tweeting (or whatever stupid verb they're using now) several times a day. Why would I want to twitter, when I can just use facebook.

lasto

26 Jan 2009, 16:06

i dont need facebook or twitter to keep in touch with my real friends :)

Even real friends are sometimes best left in the background sometimes.

Brandon Sheley

26 Jan 2009, 16:10

I don't feel I talk to much at all, and Deans remark is a bit ignorant :rolleyes:

Twitter is a great place to network, I've been to a few "tweetups" here in my city. I've been able to get answers as well as answer questions on twitter, and I've also been able to find vBulletin work via twitter.

Twitter is going to be the next big thing, just wondering how many of you are going to go along for the ride. :)

Lynne

26 Jan 2009, 16:16

I've heard of twitter but never bothered to figure out what it is.

Brandon Sheley

26 Jan 2009, 16:39

I've heard of twitter but never bothered to figure out what it is.

I was the same way, well I actually had signed up, but didn't mess with it for months.
I've recently seen how useful it can be, I can track the links that I send out and see that ppl are actually clicking though.
It's a very useful marketing tool if anything else.

Think if you could send a message to everyone that interested in the same type of stuff you are ;) and get instant feedback as well :)

Wayne Luke

26 Jan 2009, 16:56

I use it to follow several blogs that I am interested in.

Brandon Sheley

26 Jan 2009, 16:58

I use it to follow several blogs that I am interested in.

care to post your twitter link? I wouldn't find following you :)

iogames

26 Jan 2009, 17:09

KW802

26 Jan 2009, 17:19

I've used twitter once & only once... when trying to get some of those Black Friday deals last year in the TigerDirect / "Pink Friday" fund drive (which turned into a complete fiasco but, at times, was entertaining watching the situation get worse & worse).

I don't think I could actually use "tweet", "tweetup", "tweeting" or "twitter" in a conversation with fellow adults while keeping a straight face.

UKBusinessLive

26 Jan 2009, 18:47

I've never twitted before, what is it?? :confused:

Brandon Sheley

26 Jan 2009, 18:52

Twitter? next best thing??? I will feel stupid 'twitting' with my clients! I grew up! I'm family man now :mad:
I'm a family man as well ;) I know several people older than me that twitter.
and I think you misread, I said "The next big thing" :)

I don't think I could actually use "tweet", "tweetup", "tweeting" or "twitter" in a conversation with fellow adults while keeping a straight face.
I understand what you mean, but you get use to it :D
I've never twitted before, what is it?? :confused:

www.twitter.com

UKBusinessLive

26 Jan 2009, 18:59

Thanks loco :D

Just been to the twitter site and saw this...

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

When i finish work, i go home, turn off my mobile phone and spend some quality time with the kids, the missues and you guys on here. I just can't find the extra time to twit unfortunately :rolleyes:

Danny.VBT

26 Jan 2009, 19:04

UKBusinessLive

26 Jan 2009, 19:12

Facebook has been proven to increase social capital - especially with already bonded relationship that would suffer otherwise due to geographical changes. [Eg; I'm off to college, but I can still talk to my close friends in my hometown]

Twitter...it's not for me, in fact micro-blogging seems just a bit too intrusive for my personal taste...but a lot of people enjoy it.

Hi Danny,

I must be the odd one out as i've never really felt the need to join facebook, Bebo or any of the social network sites, All the people i've ever wanted to speak to are on my mobile phone directory, I don't relish the idea that someone would be trying to find me to have a "Chat" whilst i may be busy doing something else.

Its a big brother thing if you ask me, Government Departments use it to find people that owe them money, Not for me i'm afriad :cool:

********Edit *********

not that i owe the goverment any money :o;)

Brandon Sheley

26 Jan 2009, 19:30

Well it's not for everyone
I don't ever "clock out" so it's a good thing for me. Speaking of facebook, I've gotten in contact with a lot of old friends on it, that I never thought I'd talk with again. :)

iogames

27 Jan 2009, 12:29

Brandon Sheley

27 Jan 2009, 17:13

Coca Cola > Pepsi
McDonalds > Burger King
Playboy > Hustler
MySpace > Facebook
.
.
.

:D

pepsi :D
both suck
again, both suck
and myspace is dead :D

iogames

27 Jan 2009, 23:45

and myspace is dead :D

that's where you fail to perceive reality, I haven't used MySpace for me... but I recognize MySpace as the #1 social network in the world... :up:

p.s. Wanna bet boards? ;)

Brandon Sheley

28 Jan 2009, 00:00

that's where you fail to perceive reality, I haven't used MySpace for me... but I recognize MySpace as the #1 social network in the world... :up:

p.s. Wanna bet boards? ;)

myspace is old news :)
I know if I'm going to market something, I'll go to facebook vs myspace and twitter is getting close to passing facebook.

Wayne Luke

28 Jan 2009, 12:43

care to post your twitter link? I wouldn't find following you :)
http://twitter.com/Wayne_Luke

Don't really post to it much. Just use it to follow a few sites though. Some sites like SitePoint give you free books if you follow them. Will probably start posting there though once I get a couple projects off the ground next month. Well to Twitter and Facebook.

I agree with Loco.M about MySpace. MySpace will probably be surpassed by Facebook this year in overall popularity. The largest problem with MySpace is the lack of controls on the community. It has rampant hacking and spam throughout the entire system and makes for a bad experience to a lot of people. MySpace is also perceived as many as a breeding grounds for crime including stalking, pedophilia and hate. It has a negative connotation among many people as being a site where teens hang out and perverts try to coerce them into bed. I know a lot of people that are moving to Facebook because of this. Plus Facebook puts on a more professional face and if you manage your profile correctly, you're more likely to make business contacts and land a job. Whereas if a potential employer can find your MySpace page, you most likely just ended your job prospects with them.

Brandon Sheley

30 Jan 2009, 23:19

Don't really post to it much. Just use it to follow a few sites though. Some sites like SitePoint give you free books if you follow them. Will probably start posting there though once I get a couple projects off the ground next month. Well to Twitter and Facebook.

oh you did make a post, when I added you I didn't see any :p
Here is a site I just put up that allows you to answer questions that are posted on twitter (http://www.tweetqa.com).
I still have a few things I want to add to it, but I think it's a great idea :)

I have this one friend that I'm trying to explain how twitter and facebook could help his career, but I guess he's just to "old school".:erm:

Floris

06 Feb 2009, 00:11

Added you Wayne and vBSetup.

I've got twitter and have months where I dont' use it, and weeks where I overuse it. It just depends on my free time and whatever.

http://twitter.com/floris - feel free to follow me.

Wayne Luke

06 Feb 2009, 00:53

oh you did make a post, when I added you I didn't see any :p
Here is a site I just put up that allows you to answer questions that are posted on twitter (http://www.tweetqa.com).

I downloaded Twhirl.. Didn't like Tweetdeck as it seemed big and bulky. The other recommended one was Mac only. This works good so will probably post more updates.

Brandon Sheley

06 Feb 2009, 01:10

I downloaded Twhirl.. Didn't like Tweetdeck as it seemed big and bulky. The other recommended one was Mac only. This works good so will probably post more updates.

I've never tired twhirl

on a side note, I've been finding several vBulletin admins on twitter.. Even Floris :)

Paul M

06 Feb 2009, 15:08

I bit the bullet a few weeks ago and created a facebook account, dont really use it much as few people I know are on it (think I have 3 friends ....). Never even looked at twitter, tho I have heard of it.

jlew24asu

06 Feb 2009, 16:47

This poll is not complete. What about "No, it's full of self-consumed idiots who think people actually give a rats ass about what they do in 140 chars or less, every few hours" :)

haha couldnt have said it better

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Whats your view on facebook ?
I dont use it because i dont want to broadcast details about my life/Freinds etc on the Internet.
And i dont want people to poke me either :)
I find most of the stuff on the net such as facebook/Youtube is taken over by kids and other idiots who think gang culture is the way forward.

facebook is completely different. there you are friends with people you actually know. and if you dont want your friends to know what you are doing, then you obviously have no need for twitter or facebook.

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I bit the bullet a few weeks ago and created a facebook account, dont really use it much as few people I know are on it (think I have 3 friends ....). Never even looked at twitter, tho I have heard of it.

its for the youngins ;)

facebook is a great tool to find and keep in touch with old friends. without facebook, I would have no way of getting back in touch with hundreds of friends from my college days (and prior)

Paul M

06 Feb 2009, 19:08

its for the youngins ;)
Pretty sure there is no age limit ;)

Wayne Luke

06 Feb 2009, 19:36

its for the youngins ;)

Twitter actually has a lot of marketing and business value. You don't have to post what you're doing every hour in 140 characters or less. However if you want to share an interesting news story or website with friends or business associates, its very quick and easy to do so. I actually have Firefox setup to do so in one click from the address bar. In return I follow a series of blogs about web development and the environment. I don't have time to go read every post at say Smashingmagazine.com, Sitepoint.com or Mashable.com every single day. So I let them push it to me. It isn't really that much different than signing up for their RSS feed but I do find it easier to weed through stuff that I am not interested in versus an RSS feed.

It also allows me to discover new people, sites and ideas that I probably wouldn't have noticed before. This is its value. If someone has a good site and posts decent updates than I'll follow them. I am not very interested in seeing when someone goes to bed or wakes up or even what they had for dinner but it allows me to get more information off of the Internet over time.

Now, personally, I have my Twitter and Facebook accounts intertwined so any update I post to Twitter goes automatically to Facebook. I find it easier that way.

Now, I am sure that teens and tweens are posting updates saying what they do every minute of the day. In this aspect its just mass SMS messaging. That is the appeal to them. However for professionals, network marketing is and always has been the way to create leads, gain information and make money. Instead of business cards people are now exchanging "tweets" and status updates.

Of course if you have a negative impression of something and aren't even willing to try it out then it will never benefit you.

Hendrizius

08 Feb 2009, 02:38

Followed all of you guys.

Brandon is producing some good Vbulletin related tweets. I can only recommend you to follow him :-).

I am @hendricius on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hendricius
My tweets are mainly about AdSense and advertising related topics.

King Kovifor

08 Feb 2009, 03:12

http://www.twitter.com/KingKovifor

vBSetup didn't even need to be told. He found me anyways!

vbplusme

08 Feb 2009, 07:47

What does this bogus "survey" have to do with vBulletin?

Wayne Luke

08 Feb 2009, 18:02

What does this bogus "survey" have to do with vBulletin?
Shrug... Stuff in this forum isn't supposed to have anything to do with vBulletin though. The rest of the site is dedicated to vBulletin.

AWS

08 Feb 2009, 18:22

me @ twitter (http://twitter.com/betatime)

Joined a couple days ago.

jlew24asu

09 Feb 2009, 01:11

Pretty sure there is no age limit ;)

Twitter actually has a lot of marketing and business value.

I was just kidding about the age thing, and I was talking about facebook not twitter :)

I just created an account and am going to give it another shot and try to follow people who are actually relevant to what I'm trying to learn about.

www.twitter.com/allmyforums

Marco van Herwaarden

09 Feb 2009, 07:40

Cleaed thread from commercial postings. Please do not use this thread to promote your twitter account if it is advertising business.

jlew24asu

09 Feb 2009, 13:01

Cleaed thread from commercial postings. Please do not use this thread to promote your twitter account if it is advertising business.

:rolleyes:

Brandon Sheley

10 Feb 2009, 13:41

What does this bogus "survey" have to do with vBulletin?
I don't know how you figure it's a bogus survey...lol
it's a poll, it has options, this in the the general forums.. what more do you want..lmao :rolleyes:

keith455

11 Feb 2009, 19:32

I'm on them all.. keith455 on everything.

GSeybold

16 Feb 2009, 23:41

Ok so what is Twitter? Is it like Facebook? I looked on to the main site and it looks so boring.

Wayne Luke

17 Feb 2009, 00:13

Ok so what is Twitter? Is it like Facebook? I looked on to the main site and it looks so boring.
Twitter is microblogging. That is blogging around the 140 character limit of the original SMS (text messaging) protocol. Its similar to Facebook in that you follow people and they follow you. When you follow someone you see all of their tweets (messages) on your Twitter homepage. Think of it primarily has a party line for text messaging. People use it for different purposes though.

I use it primarily to keep up with a few websites that I enjoy but don't have time to visit every day. I can easily go through their tweets and find interesting articles. Others use it to chat and follow each other through the day as well as learn new things both about the online world and offline.

Shazz

17 Feb 2009, 02:48

What is twitter useful?

GSeybold

17 Feb 2009, 15:01

Thanks Wayne,
I was wondering what all the hoopla was about:)

Gabby

Twitter is microblogging. That is blogging around the 140 character limit of the original SMS (text messaging) protocol. Its similar to Facebook in that you follow people and they follow you. When you follow someone you see all of their tweets (messages) on your Twitter homepage. Think of it primarily has a party line for text messaging. People use it for different purposes though.

I use it primarily to keep up with a few websites that I enjoy but don't have time to visit every day. I can easily go through their tweets and find interesting articles. Others use it to chat and follow each other through the day as well as learn new things both about the online world and offline.

KTBleeding

17 Feb 2009, 17:30

I'm actually giving twitter another go, and it's.. surprisingly.. entertaining?

http://twitter.com/XBleed

GSeybold

17 Feb 2009, 21:21

I had to laugh today because I went to go get a burrito and on their sneeze shield was a sign that said something like, "Find Us on Twitter". Now see, I've learn so much from vb.org members as I would have never known what they were talking about had it not been in a thread here. LOL

ArnyVee

19 Feb 2009, 01:35

http://www.twitter.com/TheWDBoards

Please follow me :D

Spiritinthesky

21 Feb 2009, 07:57

I'm not, but everyone is talking about it at the moment.

ragtek

21 Feb 2009, 08:05

yes, atm there's a real hype around it...

RedeemedWarrior

21 Feb 2009, 10:26

I'm there as of lately

Brandon Sheley

21 Feb 2009, 20:15

I'm there as of lately

What's your profile url? :)

Domenico

27 Feb 2009, 11:14

Twitter is cool and can be very entertaining but also very interesting. Worldnews travels faster on twitter then on websites, radio or tv.

Anyways, it is a very powerful tool when you use it with an iPhone. On the go twittering small messages and including snapshots is just plain fun. Try it first and judge later. Don't forget to get some friends starting with you. It's really cool to know what some of your friends are doing at some moments in time.