Arkansas Blog

I don't get twitter. It's basically one feature that Facebook has. Status Updates. Why not just use Facebook like everyone else?

I love twitter it gets your point out in the magic of a click. Follow me on twitter my name is una4dable.

It took me a while, but now I'm addicted to twitter. My twitter is connected to my facebook, so that when I update twitter - it updates my facebook status message as well ( which I probably do 3 or 4 times a day )

I use it as email as well, as you can send a private text message to someone through your phone to their twitter account. ( you just type a "d" then the name of who you want to message, and then the message ) Of course, the entire message must be less than 140 letters. It good for people like me who have unlimted txt, but no internet on my phone.

If you use igoogle as your start page, you can send messages as well as view the "tweets" you follow through a gadget called Betwittered

If you go to twittermail.com -- you can easily email a message and any link URL to your twitter account, and the link will be shorted for you (tinyURL) , so it won't swallow your message. There is a similar product so you can send photos from your mobile phone to everyone who follows you on twitter, or to just those you chose to send them too. Twitxr.com

Twitter is great to follow trends, so if you follow a certain word, like Obama tonight, you can read what people are saying about the election world wide.

Although it's just one more way to waste time, it's also a great way to keep up with people, and meet new like minded people online. After you sign up - just type in "follow" to follow those you want so - "follow arkansasblog" to start You can search for people in Arkansas or just Little Rock to get started as well.

Lordy mercy! Do I gotta master SkyPilot's who/whom rules AND learn to twitter?

Being even less technologically advanced than Max, I find myself twitterless. I do not have a cellphone, blackberry, blueberry, or anyberry so I could not, should not, would not twitternot. It sounds so interesting but that's 'bout far as I can go 'cause a good book is what gets me all a twitter.

Go 'Bama!

Amen Durango, I'm just mastering the URL clicky thing,,,,please don't throw any new

shit my way, my nerves won't take anymore.

Twitter is wonderful. We tried using it for multiple live updates from Denver during the convention, to a special feed box on firedoglake's front page.... but we crashed twitters servers. I really enjoyed updates and comments on it during the debates.

Makes me want an iphone that much more.

Twitter's a great service, but the infrastructure running it is as fragile as a ceramic cup. The "fail whale" appears quite often, and I expect it tomorrow with the election.

That said, the last few weeks have gotten me addicted to the service. Now if the IM gateway would just return. Also Max, you should get your IT guys to set it up so that new AT blog posts are twittered automatically so you don't have to remember to do so.

Hey, I asked for the who/whom lesson. Skypilot can't help it if I'm still trying to learn a thing or two but my brain's like a block of cement these days. (Besides I thought everyone had gone on and left us to our lessons.) It was I who drug sky down the who/whom boring path.

I'm with you, jazzy, I'm just now mastering my cell phone. I don't know how much more of this fancy schmancy techno stuff I can handle. Told my beautician I was considering a new cell phone...one that could take video. She promptly snatched mine and took a video of me...with a, well, funny look on my face.

You guys with real internet connections just don't understand how it is "off the grid"--of broadband that is.

With no cable access, the telco (CenturyTel) putting around slowly getting Lincoln County out of the dialup age, its rough. I could go the aircard route through (cough...) AT&T, but D/L speeds are slow outside of larger towns. I'd be lucky to do 128 down. I'm waiting for that letter from CT telling me that I'm finally DSL Eligible, but at this rate, someone will had it to my skeleton.

Oh geez.....look I still have a few phones with rotary dials, I have a Sony Betamax in my bedroom, an attic full of 8-track tapes. I've got AIM, Yahoo, myspace, 5 kinds of browsers and most of my cars have round headlights.

Do I really need Twitter? What will Twitter do for me? I'm not selling anything and my wife won't let me date. Why would I like Twitter? Can't tell jack about Max's page. Where's the nude pictures? I'm old....do the old need Twitter?

I'm already signed up for so much stuff that if McCain gets elected and the new McCarthy hearings commence....I'll be on the witness stand for months and months! Why do I need or want Twitter?

Durango (and Zelda) the last thing people with text-messaging cell phones need is who/whom rules.

I don't know about Twitter, because I don't have anything more technologically advanced than a computer with DSL and a cell phone on which I talk when I want to (means it's turned off unless I call out or specifically ask someone to call me on it).

But I know that the linguistic "shorthand" will pretty well do away with our older conventions of language use.

And if you think who/whom, lie/lay/lain, shall/will and those sorts of things are bad, just think if American English hadn't progressed past the era of King James and Shakespeare and we were still using thee/thou/thine, wilt, hast, etc., etc., etc. Even contemporary "English people" use "whilst."

Even formal speakers, such as political candidates, no longer bother with "going to" and simply say 'gonna." And contractions are no longer forbidden in formal speech, perhaps not even in formal writing: I'm, we're, he's, she's, etc.

So enjoy life as you wish to live it, and recognize that good grammar, like good manners, is for only those who desire its benefits.

As much as it kicks me in the "America's Funniest Videos," I have to agree with the death guy. The only cell phone I know of is the one call I get every time I'm arrested. Blackberries and dingleberries I can pick, but the seeds are irritating. I can understand texting, because you texturize squirrel meat so you can chew it. We all know what twits are. There are companies selling us "family minutes" for the time we don't spend with family.

They are only too happy to sell you expensive doodad you absolutely need to do this and another to do that, while you drift into the next lane and kill a previously happy family. Next month they scold you for not buying a newer more improved version of the do-nothing machine. Every time I turn around, there's always another way to spend time and money on something you can happily live without, like blogging, instead of living.

In a way Khrushchev was right, we will buy the shovel to bury us, on credit.

I miss George Carlin.

Welcome to the interwebs 2.0, Max! Now you can have the pleasure of becoming friends with the Twitter Fail Whale.

In all seriousness, I think the AR Blog on Twitter is perfect. I already follow KATV, KTHV, KLRT, the Log Cabin Democrat and a few other local news outlets, so I'm glad for the opportunity to follow one of my favorites.

Forward Arkansans, into the new millennium!

I quit reading printed newspapers, as a daily practice, about 3 years ago. Less hassle really. No mess, no fuss. No more clip and save articles.

I have my first of the small cellphones, unlike my 90s bag phone. I have a toshiba computer that is about 1 1/2" thick and 500x more powerful than the box I had 15 yrs ago and actually costs less.

Tell me why, if I'm so busy that I cannot find time to use a computer, that I have time to
look at twitter? Other than a neat little message, what the fuk is the need?

I can see where political operatives would find it useful. So is that it? Wired world folks are
mostly political operatives?

Cross functioning utility is good. I bought my girlfriend a banana-shaped vibrator in the early 70s. Then they were sold as health items, and only at pharmacies. I discovered that deep buzz was great for my injured neck/shoulder. Had one in my coat pocket or sometimes back pocket every day for months. It gave her a real twitter. It gave me relief.

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I guess this basically is a user friendly RSS feeder.

The Arkansas Blog has an RSS feed. It would be trivial to have Twitter acquire automatic updates from that.

Why use twitter? Why, to help track voter suppression efforts, of course, and how voting's going in general. Click my blue name to read more about it.

This is FANTASTIC news! Twitter is huge, and because of the enormous number of newsies who Tweet, stories tend to break there first. Especially useful during the weeks leading up to the election has been the "hot election topics" bar at the top of the page, that allows you to see what actually people are talking about in real time. A couple of years ago (has it been quite that long?), I thought it was a cute way to engage in "micro-blogging" and to keep up with a few friends. Cut to the present, and I follow 525 people, have 1,143 followers of my own, and have posted 13,544 updates. Who knew? It's gotten so that I actually hit Twitter first to see what the election topics are, before visiting the blogs to read about them.

I've been DYING for the Times to get hooked up on Twitter! On my way to "follow" arkansasblog NOW!

Belinda
proudly geeky Twitter early-adopter http://www.twitter.com/ninjapoodles

Oh, and to answer some earlier comments--Twitter is not something that's made for mobile devices. It CAN be accessed from a mobile device, and many, many people use it that way, but I, for one, only use the web-based app. I just keep it open anytime I'm online, and check my @ replies every so often to see who's Tweeting at me. Direct Messages (private) are emailed to my gmail account. No biggie!

I have to force myself to NOT get addicted any further, and have not succumbed yet to any form of "smart" phone. However, my mother got me a Kindle for my birthday, and I must admit that one of the first things I played around with was figuring out a hack that would allow me to check Twitter via the Kindle's wonderful (and free) Whispernet connection.

Yeah, I might have a problem. ;-P