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Title: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: rbcp on September 07, 2008, 01:37:17 AM
I'm really liking Twitter lately, but I don't feel like I've found the most efficient way to keep up with Twitter posts yet.  I'm currently reading most of them via Digsby (http://www.digsby.com), which is an instant messaging program that also shows you Twitter, Myspace and Facebook statuses.  When I'm on vacation or out of town I'll sometimes receive Twitters via SMS on my phone, but I think that would get annoying to have running every day even when I'm at home.

I've tried other Windows applications and Firefox extensions and haven't liked them much.  Digsby is nice, but it seems like I could do better.  Anyone have any suggestions?  Here are links to other Twitter programs:

http://twitter.com/downloads (http://twitter.com/downloads)

http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Apps (http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Apps)

What would be perfect is if I could just subscribe to the RSS feed of my Twitter friends list.  But Twitter won't allow that.  From what I've read, I think they used to let you do that but for some reason they won't anymore.  I could subscribe to the individual feeds of every person I follow on Twitter, but that would be tedious.  It shouldn't be that difficult.
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: rogueclown on September 07, 2008, 06:14:10 AM
i love texting by twitter, and getting my twitters by text.  i use it some from my computer, but far more often from the phone..  i should probably stick to doing it from my computer from home, but i find it bizarrely fun to use by text wherever i am.
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: linear on September 08, 2008, 05:33:18 AM
i suckered both of you into to twitter, morons.
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: rbcp on September 08, 2008, 02:54:29 PM
What?  I was on Twitter months before you, linear!  I'm so much more of an old school Twitterer than you are.  I've been using this service for 5 or 6 months, you know!
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: Tachyon on September 08, 2008, 04:40:16 PM
I still haven't checked to find out what Twitter is.
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: MelloKira on September 09, 2008, 03:01:32 AM
I still haven't checked to find out what Twitter is.

DON'T!
For once you enter the world of the Twitter, you can never escape it. It consumes you.
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: nova on September 09, 2008, 03:20:08 AM
I still haven't checked to find out what Twitter is.

same here
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: Nod on September 09, 2008, 06:40:29 PM
I refuse to deal with twitter until someone explains what it is. It sounds new and scary and I'll have nothing to do with it until someone can explain it with a simple metaphor that makes it seem all alright.
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: Nod on September 09, 2008, 08:56:31 PM
So, it's like an IM deal that isn't real time? Didn't we have that in the nineties and we called it a "guest book?'
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: rogueclown on September 09, 2008, 11:53:26 PM
but you can do it by TEXT MESSAGE!  :D
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: linear on September 10, 2008, 04:32:45 AM
twitter is what happens when you Facebook "status" changes meet txt messaging.
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: rbcp on September 10, 2008, 04:47:32 AM
twitter is what happens when you Facebook "status" changes meet txt messaging.

Don't encourage them, they know exactly what Twitter is.  They're just trying to be too cool for it.
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: rogueclown on September 10, 2008, 05:24:40 AM
twitter is what happens when you Facebook "status" changes meet txt messaging.

Don't encourage them, they know exactly what Twitter is.  They're just trying to be too cool for it.

i can't profess to be too cool for twitter when, on the occasions when i do update twitter from computer instead of text message, i update from a client i wrote for the hell of it.  i am pretty sucked in, and i do realise how pathetic i am.
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: z3wb on September 10, 2008, 07:30:21 AM
web 2.0 is gay.

i miss the web 1.0, where the only thing there was to do was hack aol accounts and watch stickdeath cartoons.
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: Sidepocket on September 10, 2008, 08:02:11 AM
web 2.0 is gay.

i miss the web 1.0, where the only thing there was to do was hack aol accounts and watch stickdeath cartoons.

Yea, and those 22k modems that took five years to boot up while it made sounds like it was giving birth, and you missed those phone calls that your sister died because you tied up the line and...

Oh yea, I forgot. Web 1.0 sucked.  ;D
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: z3wb on September 10, 2008, 09:12:49 AM
No way. Reading bomb guides and terrorist handbooks on a 28.8 modem completely owns reading Digg comments and 4chan posts on broadband.
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: Nod on September 10, 2008, 06:14:13 PM
Don't encourage them, they know exactly what Twitter is.  They're just trying to be too cool for it.

I actually didn't. I'm to l4m3 for twitter.
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: Sidepocket on September 10, 2008, 06:56:23 PM
No way. Reading bomb guides and terrorist handbooks on a 28.8 modem completely owns reading Digg comments and 4chan posts on broadband.

You know most of that stuff was lies right?
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: vixen on September 10, 2008, 07:24:52 PM
i suckered both of you into to twitter, morons.

you suckered me into it, too. and you dont even reply to me

and rbcp wont follow me!
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: rbcp on September 10, 2008, 07:59:16 PM
I didn't know you were on twitter, vixen.
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: vixen on September 10, 2008, 08:07:08 PM
that's cuz im on as "kunt"

:\
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: linear on September 10, 2008, 08:37:02 PM
twitter is what happens when you Facebook "status" changes meet txt messaging.

Don't encourage them, they know exactly what Twitter is.  They're just trying to be too cool for it.

i can't profess to be too cool for twitter when, on the occasions when i do update twitter from computer instead of text message, i update from a client i wrote for the hell of it.  i am pretty sucked in, and i do realise how pathetic i am.

rogue please send me this client
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: linear on September 10, 2008, 08:37:50 PM
you suckered me into it, too. and you dont even reply to me

sorry, i missed your tweet.

Edwards is a bar by work.

I wish all @ replies to me would send me an SMS
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: vixen on September 10, 2008, 09:05:05 PM
you suckered me into it, too. and you dont even reply to me

sorry, i missed your tweet.

Edwards is a bar by work.

I wish all @ replies to me would send me an SMS

do you have my mobile updates turned on? if not, you wont get em :)
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: linear on September 10, 2008, 09:24:46 PM
you suckered me into it, too. and you dont even reply to me

sorry, i missed your tweet.

Edwards is a bar by work.

I wish all @ replies to me would send me an SMS

do you have my mobile updates turned on? if not, you wont get em :)

i have them on. i only recieve updates from the people i select though. i wish i could get updates from ANY @thelinear reply
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: vixen on September 10, 2008, 09:26:44 PM
well maybe you should select me you jerk

maybe you should complain to twitter!
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: ErrorLoading on September 10, 2008, 11:45:43 PM
I honestly tried to use twitter, but I just don't get it.  I don't care what my friends do all the time to be honest.  The only use it would be good for is getting to know people you've met online or something a bit more personally, but I don't want random people online knowing my daily details.

"Just took a big poop"

"Eating a Big Mac"

"Jacking off to gay dolphin porn"

"My dad caught me jacking off to gay dolphin porn again"

I have an account and subscribe to worthwhile news sources like the mars lander and political figures, but I don't care to delve into the personal side of things.  For some people, politicians, site admins, or some other person that actually has an audience it is a neat tool, but for the average person, it is just a fabricated sense of celebrity and egotism that is really quite stupid.  I don't care that my neighbor Billy found a neat new shirt at wal-mart.

I've had my account for a couple months and have gotten several requests from complete strangers to follow me.  Why?  If you add random people that you haven't the slightest clue who they are, doesn't it kind of alienate the whole thing?  Who gives a fuck what I do?  I don't give a fuck what you do. 

It's a big community of nothing.

Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: rogueclown on September 11, 2008, 12:28:29 AM
twitter is what happens when you Facebook "status" changes meet txt messaging.

Don't encourage them, they know exactly what Twitter is.  They're just trying to be too cool for it.

i can't profess to be too cool for twitter when, on the occasions when i do update twitter from computer instead of text message, i update from a client i wrote for the hell of it.  i am pretty sucked in, and i do realise how pathetic i am.

rogue please send me this client

i will when i'm done with it...i'm working on blogger and LJ functionality still.
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: linear on September 11, 2008, 02:03:17 AM
eeeeeeeeeew

i just want a decent twitter client.

actually, i just want a decend twitter command-line client.
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: rbcp on September 11, 2008, 04:16:40 AM
actually, i just want a decend twitter command-line client.

That would certainly make using something as gay-sounding as Twitter more forgivable.
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: rogueclown on September 11, 2008, 05:29:43 AM
eeeeeeeeeew

i just want a decent twitter client.

actually, i just want a decend twitter command-line client.

i can't say mine's necessarily decent.  :D  it's the product of a n00b with a bash scripting textbook and too much time on her hands.
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: Nod on September 11, 2008, 06:12:19 AM
i can't say mine's necessarily decent.  :D  it's the product of a n00b with a bash scripting textbook and too much time on her hands.

Might possibly want.
Title: Re: How do you read Twitter?
Post by: RTF on September 13, 2008, 06:20:32 PM
I just keep up with the few of you who are decent enough to set up that Loudtwitter thing to copy everything to your damn Livejournals where it belongs.