Comments on: Early adopter … me?

By: richarddennison

richarddennison — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:42:15 +0000

Thanks, Steve. Have just done it … at least I think I have – will wait and see what happens!

By: Steve Ellwood

Steve Ellwood — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:41:58 +0000

As an aside, as a recognised blogger, you might want to have a look at Twitterfeed which will automatically tweet when you make a blog posting. You can use your wordpress blog as your OpenID. Even with my little blog, I've found twitter does add significant traffic... and gets me some interesting comments.

By: richarddennison

richarddennison — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:46:42 +0000

Thanks for the tips Alex … enjoying it so far!

By: Alex (Melcrum)

Alex (Melcrum) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:07:21 +0000

Hi Richard,

I’d definitely recommend a desktop client such as Twhirl or Twitteriffic. You can configure them so an messages fade in and fade out from the corner of your screen, (similar to an email notifier).

As Steve says, it’s a flow, so there’s no need to feel beholden to it like you might do with email.

Will be interesting to hear your thoughts on it!

By: richarddennison

richarddennison — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:59:35 +0000

Thanks Steve … really useful information – I’ll definitely subscribe to the RSS feed … I’m sure I’ll get the hang of it soon enough!

By: shaidorsai

shaidorsai — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:48:25 +0000

Richard, it’s a stream, not a tap. Dip into when you want, and let the rest flow by.

You’ll receive any DM (direct messages).
Set up tweetscan to search for RichardDennison and if you want, you can even get an RSS feed to see when your name is mentioned (yours is http://tweetscan.com/rss.php?s=RichardDennison)

You could try twhirl/snitter as clients.

As far as lifestreams go, you could have a go at friendfeed.com if you haven’t – or I have the odd socialthing! invite available.

I’ve written about the multiplicity of social media and how I deal with it. I stopped twitter feeding Facebook altogether.