Comments on: My heart is all a-Twitter http://www.davekawalec.com/2007/05/my-heart-is-all-a-twitter/ People and Technology Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:00:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jessica http://www.davekawalec.com/2007/05/my-heart-is-all-a-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-206 Jessica Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:56:26 +0000 http://www.davekawalec.com/?p=5#comment-206 PS I didn't know about the With Friends feature. Checking it out... PS I didn’t know about the With Friends feature. Checking it out…

]]> By: Jessica http://www.davekawalec.com/2007/05/my-heart-is-all-a-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-205 Jessica Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:55:04 +0000 http://www.davekawalec.com/?p=5#comment-205 I just joined Twitter, which I swore I'd never do, but that is how I found you. And all of these reasons that it is a cool tool. ;-) PS I didn’t know about the With Friends feature. Checking it out… I just joined Twitter, which I swore I’d never do, but that is how I found you. And all of these reasons that it is a cool tool. ;-)

PS I didn’t know about the With Friends feature. Checking it out…

]]> By: Victoria Champion http://www.davekawalec.com/2007/05/my-heart-is-all-a-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Victoria Champion Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:41:46 +0000 http://www.davekawalec.com/?p=5#comment-11 Hi, interesting article. I noticed you said you wrote a tweet about a blog post you were about to blog. I use 'Twitterfeed' for that, and just have the text "Blogging about:" used as the opener. It feeds a snippet to Twitter with a URL to the original post. Very handy. I actually found you because I was using 'Twits Like Me' to try to find people to add to my friends list. We actually don't have anything in common I think other than Twitter, ha. (I was looking for other artists.) Regarding the use of "microblogging". I think it's a totally accurate term, because the tweets are archived, and you can post a badge to your blog's sidebar showing your most recent tweets. I call my badge "Twitter Microblog." You may find it interesting, as far as social dynamics go, that I use Twitter primarily to send and receive text messages on my cell while I am in the art studio, in which I spend around 10 hours every weekday. Otherwise I'd be very lonely, but Twitter helps my studio to feel like a virtual cafe. Again, interesting read, your post. My heart is all a-Twitter, too. :) Victoria Hi, interesting article. I noticed you said you wrote a tweet about a blog post you were about to blog. I use ‘Twitterfeed’ for that, and just have the text “Blogging about:” used as the opener. It feeds a snippet to Twitter with a URL to the original post. Very handy.

I actually found you because I was using ‘Twits Like Me’ to try to find people to add to my friends list. We actually don’t have anything in common I think other than Twitter, ha. (I was looking for other artists.)

Regarding the use of “microblogging”. I think it’s a totally accurate term, because the tweets are archived, and you can post a badge to your blog’s sidebar showing your most recent tweets. I call my badge “Twitter Microblog.”

You may find it interesting, as far as social dynamics go, that I use Twitter primarily to send and receive text messages on my cell while I am in the art studio, in which I spend around 10 hours every weekday. Otherwise I’d be very lonely, but Twitter helps my studio to feel like a virtual cafe.

Again, interesting read, your post. My heart is all a-Twitter, too. :)

Victoria

]]> By: Ken Heutmaker http://www.davekawalec.com/2007/05/my-heart-is-all-a-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Ken Heutmaker Mon, 21 May 2007 16:39:05 +0000 http://www.davekawalec.com/?p=5#comment-2 I wanted to add a few more real world examples that illustrate the value of twitter. The first group of twitter people that I started following are a group of traditional news media types on the East Coast. It was actually quite random that I started following them. When I signed up for Twitter, I didn't know anyone else who had signed up. So I found some people who had made interesting comments in the public timeline. I found newmediajim, started following him, then started following some of his friends so that I cold see both sides of the conversation as they twittered each other. I saw it as a tremendous opportunity to follow the conversation of a group of people who 1) do something interesting and 2) I would not normally have the opportunity to talk to. I now consider newmediajim a true 'twitter friend'. We have had a couple of conversations about his interest in "new media". I learned of the Virginia Tech shootings from Jim through twitter. Being an NBC news cameraman, he was on his way there to cover the story. Jim was giving a first hand account of the details as they unfolded. Jim 'tweets' were short and frequent, breaking the traditional news media 'sound bite' model which made me feel more connected to the event. Another interesting story is a connection that I made with a potential client. I'm a freelance web programmer. One of my twitter friends, lisapadilla, sent out a tweet asking if anyone could help here with some CSS coding. She works at an internet company where they are redesigning their website. The programmers who are developing the bulk of their new website are busy working out the ASP code on the web server and are running out time to do the formatting. Within 24 hours of Lisa's tweet, I had talked with Lisa on the phone and given her a proposal. I don't have the work yet (and may not get it), but that doesn't matter because I've made this connection that I wouldn't have made otherwise. One final example, I made a connection with a college student in Manchester, England, nikf. He and I have had a couple conversations about topics related to javascript. As far as I can tell, that is about the only thing we have in common. Nonetheless, a true camaraderie has developed between us. It is an unlikely connection that was enabled by Twitter. ...and I only have 33 friends and 20 followers...and have only been using twitter for about a month. I can't wait to see what happens when I build my network up to 100 or more twitter friends. I wanted to add a few more real world examples that illustrate the value of twitter. The first group of twitter people that I started following are a group of traditional news media types on the East Coast. It was actually quite random that I started following them. When I signed up for Twitter, I didn’t know anyone else who had signed up. So I found some people who had made interesting comments in the public timeline.

I found newmediajim, started following him, then started following some of his friends so that I cold see both sides of the conversation as they twittered each other. I saw it as a tremendous opportunity to follow the conversation of a group of people who 1) do something interesting and 2) I would not normally have the opportunity to talk to.

I now consider newmediajim a true ‘twitter friend’. We have had a couple of conversations about his interest in “new media”. I learned of the Virginia Tech shootings from Jim through twitter. Being an NBC news cameraman, he was on his way there to cover the story. Jim was giving a first hand account of the details as they unfolded. Jim ‘tweets’ were short and frequent, breaking the traditional news media ‘sound bite’ model which made me feel more connected to the event.

Another interesting story is a connection that I made with a potential client. I’m a freelance web programmer. One of my twitter friends, lisapadilla, sent out a tweet asking if anyone could help here with some CSS coding. She works at an internet company where they are redesigning their website. The programmers who are developing the bulk of their new website are busy working out the ASP code on the web server and are running out time to do the formatting. Within 24 hours of Lisa’s tweet, I had talked with Lisa on the phone and given her a proposal. I don’t have the work yet (and may not get it), but that doesn’t matter because I’ve made this connection that I wouldn’t have made otherwise.

One final example, I made a connection with a college student in Manchester, England, nikf. He and I have had a couple conversations about topics related to javascript. As far as I can tell, that is about the only thing we have in common. Nonetheless, a true camaraderie has developed between us. It is an unlikely connection that was enabled by Twitter.

…and I only have 33 friends and 20 followers…and have only been using twitter for about a month. I can’t wait to see what happens when I build my network up to 100 or more twitter friends.

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