Twitter

I have been using the service for a little while now and I have been finding it more and more useful. As kids (I can’t really talk, I’m only 24) are texting quicker and quicker with their mobile phones, the geeks among us have taken this long established medium and turned it into an internet application, texting friends you have never met. Who knew that keeping the world and his dog updated on what you had for dinner, where you are flying to and your opinion on OpenID could be so fun?

One thing I have found is how useful it is to send “Tweets” to Social Media websites. I have sent questions and points to Mixx on their Twitter page and had responses in under an hour, something an email to technical support would result in an extra day of waiting for a response.

I messaged Disgby, notifying them that they didn’t advertise anywhere on their site that they supported Twitter in their application. A few minutes later:

It can be tedious documenting things on there, that’s a given. However, now there are so many ways to add Tweets to Twitter like FriendFeed, Digsby, Thwirl and of course via the web and txt message, you can stay updated and hear news faster than your usual channels of communication.

I’ll get bored and get rid of it soon no doubt but for now it’s all a bit of good harmless fun.

It’s Been A While But Never Fear For I Am Back

Sorry for the lack of updates, it’s just pure laziness on my part. After coming back from my holiday, I have been holed up at work, tapping away like a monkey at my keyboard.

Updates are sparse on this occasion, Katie has a new job and is now working as a Regional Sales Manager in Basildon so watch out if you find yourself booking an appointment for anything pub/club/restaurant/etc related. Other than that, the wedding is now three months away and we are working furiously on getting the finalised photographer and all that guff.

I have signed up to Twitter. Pownce (which I signed up for first) as a service is very similar but the ability to see the Public Timelime was the killer function for me, people seeing your tweets and being able to reply to them meant Twitter just edged my interest. Pownce has an Adobe Air application that allows you to post and to update but Twitter again edges this feature set too. I have been using Digbsy, an instant messaging app that allows you to integrate Gmail, Hotmail, Facebook, Gtalk, MSN, AIM and of course Twitter. You get updates on your desktop with a nice looking, unobtrusive notification which has led me to bin my Firefox extensions for email and Pidgin for my instant messaging….it’s that good.

Ok, that’s enough rambing, I’ll be updating more now.