Adventures in Maybe Twitting
I am now on Twitter.
I’ve just sent the 20 characters above as my first Twit, in fact. (Like I said a couple of posts ago, I can’t accept “tweet” as either a noun or a verb when it comes to Twitter. It’s not called Tweeter. It’s called Twitter and so using the service is “twitting” or Twittering and the messages are Twits or perhaps Twitterings.)
My Twitter handle is @BrianLamken. I found out quite a while back that @blamken
was already taken; I rejected @blamsblog or something else along those lines because that would look weird when people use my handle to refer to me as a person — “still waiting for @BrianLamken to show up” — and @BrianSanerLamken is too long.
I don’t expect to Twitter out many Twits of my own for a while, although enthusiasm may get the better of me. Eventually I’ll be promoting the blog and other stuff when
my online activity increases, fingers crossed, and I’m sure that the more I follow other people on Twitter the more I’ll want to join the conversation. For now, I’ve signed up mostly in the name of checking out the feeds of friends and acquaintances and folks I admire without having to click through from their own websites and such to catch up.
I won’t make any promises but if you follow me I will very possibly follow you.
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That's our Blam: Dragged kicking and screaming into the strange modern world of 2007!
ReplyDeleteNext comes Facebook, then AOL chat rooms and perhaps even CB radio.
I feel like we've down this road before...
Ugh. I can't even read this post.
ReplyDeleteTwitter, Blam?
Really?
You with the twits (or worse)?
Who am I to say anything? After all, I joined Formsping for all of 2 days a year or so ago.
Still.
Never the Twitter, Blam, never.
Oh, I'll read it but I won't like it*.
*I probably will.
Gah! Twitter?
ET TU BLAM!?
Just read it!
ReplyDeleteStill mad!
Don't know why!
Good for you, that's what I am supposed to and will say!
ReplyDelete@LK: Next comes Facebook, then AOL chat rooms and perhaps even CB radio.
I was in the AOL chat rooms once upon a time.
My uncle and cousins had a CB set when I was a kid, too. I don't remember if my handle was "Superman" or "Clark Kent"; I was a modest kid.
Facebook? I'm getting there.
@Joan: You with the twits (or worse)?
I'd just like to warn LK not to take that one too far.
Nobody says that you have to sign up for Twitter, Joan. You can just click through my sidebar gadget to check out my feed now and then. I just got tired of doing that myself for too many people who were sharing interesting things, and I must say that I enjoy having an outlet for pithy little comments that don't really fit well on the blog — as well as the built-in potential instant audience. Of course the danger is there being just too much stuff to take in, which does weigh on me. I don't think that Twitter is inherently a bad thing, though.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I plan on collecting my Twits occasionally in posts here for the benefit of the folks who just want nothing to do with Twitter but can't stand the thought of being deprived of my Twitticism.
So, in summation, Nyah.
I don't get it, I responded via the email and it didn't show up here. Is that right?
ReplyDeleteWhatever, as you all know, I don't mind repeating myself:
I actually laughed out loud at your "Groucho mask" comment. #bitteroldladyenjoysherselfbriefy
Thanks for the shout-out on Nikki's blog! As always, I took it in the best way possible :)
ReplyDelete@Joan: I don't get it, I responded via the email and it didn't show up here. Is that right?
... No?
@Joan: Thanks for the shout-out on Nikki's blog! As always, I took it in the best way possible :)
You're welcome. I tease out of luh...out of luh... out of not minding you all that much sometimes.
You're not as old as you look, you know. #thingsyoushouldneversaytoawoman
I have followed you on Twitter.
ReplyDelete@Blam @Joan: You're not as old as you look, you know. #thingsyoushouldneversaytoawoman
ReplyDeleteHa!
Huzzah! Twitter has become a better place. You've been followed, good sir.
ReplyDelete(And Joan, you should really get on Twitter. It's missing an inherent Joan-ness that only you can provide).