Date: 2008-01-18 09:37 Subject: who's a-twitter? Security: Public Music: Nelly McKay - Testify Tags: community, web2.0

And who's willing to be?  After enjoying the status updates on FaceBook I realized I wanted to go one further and try this "twitter" thing.

Same username for me, of course.

Seems like this could be useful for social/work coordination/synergy.  On the other hand, the wider the shared network, the less value my range of messages will have.

Seems like the way to do it is

1. sign up for the account
2. find friends (import gmail addresses, but also putting out this post to find who else is on it)
3. set up my cell phone and GTalk addresses for easy post access
4.  Set up the friends I want to monitor to use the IM address for twitters.

Then, free and clear. Use IM to twitter@twitter.com to set updates, and see updates from monitored friends. Use the web page for additional browsing, more friends.  It's the finding people part that's hard... That's why I'm posting this :) to find out which of you are already doing twitter or could be arm-twisted to do so. Lovingly, of course. For our mutual enjoyment.

Oh yeah, and for those of us still dabbling with FaceBook, no need to lose status updated - you can have your twitter and sync it too.

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