Yme

Twittering Away....

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 2:02:38 PM

Recently I've been playing with Twitter with various degrees of success. For one, I've realised there are scores of twitter clients, each with it's own strengths and weaknesses. Another is that I'm still trying to decide if it's worth wasting my time with.

It's definitely easier to post a quick (140 chars max) message on Twitter versus writing a blog, e.g. on MyOpera. With some clients you can see what other users located near you are posting. Yet it's not quite as satisfying as blogging.

I guess it amounts to personal tastes and probably how much you have to say... (and how often)

I've been using two different clients to connect to twitter and I'm still split between them. There's Twhirl and the Twitter widget included with Opera.

Twhirl has a very polished and smooth look and is easy to work with. The Twitter widget however allows you to see posts from users near you. Also, it looks and operates the same as the twitter widget installed on my cellphone (comes Opera Mobile).

I'd really love to hear anything anybody has to say on the subject. Maybe you know of better clients or maybe you feel it's a waste of time. Let me know....

PS: my twitter link is http://twitter.com/MajorProblem

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Comments

ShallowMuse # Tuesday, February 3, 2009 4:47:40 PM

i have twitter and i find it kind of pointless... maybe its my slowness showing but i dont know how to 'invite' of follow or whatever you do.. i just know how to post updates on what i am doing.. and 99% of the time its not what i'm doing but random quotes! i much prefer blogging

YmePinkyGeneral # Tuesday, February 3, 2009 9:39:03 PM

I think it depends on what you're trying to say... "Hey I'm jumping off this here bridge", or a monologue about why you chose that exact bridge...

Following people is easy, but I figure it's more like facebook and other social networking sites: it allows you to keep in touch and stay up date with your friends (whom you also convinced to join)

Strangely I only joined twitter to follow the nasa missions. Breaks it into bite-size chunks and keeps the missions interesting.

....Runbroken # Thursday, February 5, 2009 10:17:52 AM

I hate twitter

it's complicated

"hey, you!"
come over here

Got a lil secret for you

and yes... POKE

Unregistered user # Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:29:16 AM

n3rin3 writes: Try TweetDeck, once you've tried it you'll love it. You can create groups, filter your @ replies, do searches and it's a full page view so you can view several posts at once. Plus it works will all windows OS from 98 and Mac & Linux

YmePinkyGeneral # Thursday, March 12, 2009 5:26:42 PM

Tweetdeck is probably the best client around, I just always seem to run out of API calls. And there is one thing available on the Twitter widget from Opera that I haven't yet found anywhere else: the ability to view posts from people located near you geographically. Show me how to do that on Tweetdeck and I'll make the final move.

PS searching for Cape Town doesn't work...