March 22, 2007

Twitter!

Michael Arrington

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Join me on Twitter, and follow every last detail of my glorious life. You can see updates like “2 am…blogging” so you’ll know just what I’m up to.

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where did the mybloglog widget go! you need more blog bling!

 

forgive me for not being a twitter-er.

 

I’m thinking of starting up a reverse manual twitter. Every 5 minutes, I’m going to IM everyone I know and ask what they’re doing.

 

I’ve heard of this twitter thing before back in the early 90s. Back then it was just called IRC.

 

We so don’t care about your life, Michael.

 

you don’t want to know what i am doing right now ….

;-)

 

Glad to see you active on twitter, Michael - Been a “follower” of twitter.com/techcrunch since I joined twitter. good to see you “microblogging” over there now

 

Your prolific tweets have brought down their IM service. Weet

 

@Michael

2am blogging?

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities. ~Benjamin Franklin

 

This is the best advertisement you can buy. I wonder how much it costs in comparison to the advertising blocks on the techcrunch side bar.

 

alex et al., Think of Techcrunch’s twitter as crunchnotes with smaller blog posts, Twitter is a LOT more than telling everybody what you are doing. Just like you get live blog updates on RSS, you get live microblog updates on SMS.

 

Twitter is for self-important folks.

 

yeah, well, so is blogging I guess. Expression requires you to like yourself at least a little bit.

 

Yeah, until your freakin’ mobile bill comes in. txt msgs get expensive with twitter. Pointless application. Go crazy for one month then realize you wasted a lot of money txting yourself.

 

Andrew, if you signed up for something that sends you tons of SMS messages without knowing what text messages cost on your phone plan, you can’t blame Twitter.

I don’t think I’d want SMS notifications, though. I get enough text messages as it is. I’ll just stick with Twitterific for now so it can only reach me at my computer.

 

yeah i turned text messages off very, very quickly. Too many beeps on my phone.

 

lol; You still haggleing with that Moto Q ? -

- Anyways, Michael you the man; Im interested in your life. Your living the american dream - I hope you find time to enjoy it …

-Rb

 

#13 - mike…

he that ‘likes himself’ too much, has hairy palms!!!

and no.. i don’t want/need to know how much/how often you like yourself!

peace..

 

i dig the micro-blogging aspect of twitter, but jeesh, pimping for friends? how cool; a-listing twitter… not.

 

Too bad this will quickly go the way of the “how can I make easy money of this new thing” crowd.

… busy checking out this great micro-cap stock that’s ready to skyrocket (spam link)
or
… off to shop for awesome deal on a HP Pavilion m7790 series Media Center PC (affiliate link)
or
… can’t talk I just got some cheap Viagra ;-) (spam link)

 

For all twitter fans we have released a new service to post tweets from a blackberry or a email enabled cellular.

Check it on http://www.mail2twitter.com

Have fun!

 

Mike: do NOT try out TwitterVision: http://twittermap.com/twittervision — you’ll never get anything else done.

 

Thats incredible Robert, blown away that your a Twitter Mike

 

http://www.froodz.com/profiles

Not the only players.

The next play for CTO of failed startup mfoundry.com is this early stage twitter clone.

Big question is how do they monetize this ?

 

@Bob Angus:
I was thinking the same thing about the spam bots invading Twitter but that would only be a problem on the public timeline. People have full control over who their friends are, so will spam really be a problem?

 

twitter? What a useless idea? Hm. Spending time on this? Not for me.

 

“I’m thinking of starting up a reverse manual twitter. Every 5 minutes, I’m going to IM everyone I know and ask what they’re doing.”
- Adam Kalsey

I think that is just about the best idea I’ve ever heard.

 

Until today I hadn’t thought of Mr. Arrington so much as a twit as a nutter, but apparently I’m wrong.

Is there a comparable service for us nuts?

I checked out nutter.com and sure enough, there it was - Nutter investment advisors!

 

I just found out about jaiku.com and for me it’s the concept of twitter but done right. Essentially it’s a timeline of your “web life”.

So if you add a delicious bookmark, upload a flickr photo, leave a comment on a blog, or even create a twitter message it will appear on a timeline on Jaiku.com - and for me that’s a tool I’d like to see and use.

So Mike could have an account and then he’d have a profile page with what he did that week on the web. I believe Jaiku even provides the same txt messaging services that twitter uses so you don’t even need to use twitter.

Twitter, right now, is not a tool I’d use. Well, ok, I guess maybe - Crapper.

 

hmmm…interesting, useless?

 

twitter sounds great for uber-caffeinated teenagers and presidential candidates - everyone else…not so much

 

we are twitterholics. There was a lot of good information on there, like a guy today said that he had earwax

 

I thought you said twitter was a worthless waste of time.

classic web 1.0: we’ll do something cool and find way to make money later….from the guys that brought us ODEO…good tech heads, no biz heads :-)

 

Uhm, can we say stalker central 101?

 

People act like test messages cost a lot of money. A lot of people actually have unlimited sms messaging, especially those with smartphones. The shift is inevitable, sms and sms-based services will take the world by storm one day. Twitter might be THE application that propels the U.S. sms market to the next level.

 

Its always interesting with new blog bling. If it wasn’t for TechCrunch I wouldn’t be able to find interesting and sometimes crazy new web appls.

I just love reading this site and see all the creative people out there :-)

 

Well I’m a twitter to - BUT it’s soooo slow to load on my blog i had to move it down a bit… and i can see you have the same problem here !!!

Think JAIKU is much better !

 

Do we really need this? Who wants to know what I am doing all the time?
(Of course we all want to know, what you are doing ;-)

 

Joining twitter == jumping the shark

 

isn’t ‘twitter’ vulgar slang?

 

5:32 pm - Enjoying myself publicly - Anyone cares ?

 

this is probably the stupidest idea for this month :-)

 

Here’s a SMTPTwitter gateway, that lets users post Twitter updates and retrieve their Twitter timelines via a cellular phone or other e-mail enabled mobile device without incurring SMS fees. It has some neat features like the ability to direct message people on your friend’s list by emailing them at ‘yourfriend@emailtwitter.com’ without any weird ‘d username’ syntax, you can register your source e-mail address (to post Tweets without putting your login/password in emails), retrieve your timeline on-demand via e-mail, etc.

EmailTwitter.com

 

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