Twitter

[Italian_Stallion]

In the past few days, I've familiarized myself with such wonderful web technologies as deli.icio.us, Flickr, MySpace, Facebook, Soundslides, Audacity, mobile phone alerts, etc., etc. I already had some familiarity with several of these.

And then there's Twitter. I signed up for it, and I've posted four or five messages. But I haven't the slightest clue what I'm actually doing. In fact, it appears that I'm just talking to myself. I can't imagine how this technology would be useful to anyone, much less to the news industry. Can someone fill me in?

 

[Chef]

This should be fun.

Countdown to the first twatter joke in 3.........2............

 

[Italian_Stallion]

Why do I get the feeling nobody has the slightest clue what Twitter is?

 

[Captain_Kirk]

Heelllllllloooooooo......

Is any...any.....anybody....body.....body.......out there.....there.....there......

 

[Oggiedoggie]

Nobody loves a Twitter.

 

[StormSurge]

I use Twitter. It's interesting.

Tuesday night, there was a pretty sweet setup using Twitter to track the primaries. They had a Google Map up & the Twitter messages would appear on the map where they were posted. I'm not sure what purpose it served but it was interesting.

 

[jakewriter82]

I thought this thread was about Bobby Knight.

 

[forever_town]

I don't even know what Twitter is.

 

[old_tony]

Twitters never win and winners never twit.

 

[Italian_Stallion]

I use Twitter. It's interesting.

Tuesday night, there was a pretty sweet setup using Twitter to track the primaries. They had a Google Map up & the Twitter messages would appear on the map where they were posted. I'm not sure what purpose it served but it was interesting.

A lot going on with map technology and journalism these days. I understand that Twitter is also useful to give shout-outs about breaking news or just to advertise something. Of course, we already have instant messaging and e-mail.

 

[Rockbottom]

We experimented with Twitter to send text messages for National Signing Day to our readers. It was about a 28-step process to get a person hooked up to get them, so we scrapped it. It is an interesting idea, to be sure.

rb

 

[KYSportsWriter]

What, exactly, is it?

 

[StormSurge]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

 

[TigerVols]

Dragging up an old Twitter thread to ask:

Does anyone use Tweetdeck?

More specifically, does anyone know how to customize/change the design? Mine defaults to white type on black background and I hate it!

 

[Gutter]

You can change colors/fonts in Settings ... look for the "wrench" in the upper right corner.

 

[TigerVols]

You can change colors/fonts in Settings ... look for the "wrench" in the upper right corner.

I'm using the tweetdeck app via Chrome and there is no wrench.

 

[Gutter]

You can change colors/fonts in Settings ... look for the "wrench" in the upper right corner.

I'm using the tweetdeck app via Chrome and there is no wrench.

Oh, because I just have the downloaded program. Web-based Twitter modules suck, IMO.

 

[Ace]

You can change colors/fonts in Settings ... look for the "wrench" in the upper right corner.

I'm not very good with wrenches. Is there a hammer?

 

[TigerVols]

Help!

Just spent an hour in various Twitter help sites and I can't find the answer to a very basic problem.

Just updated to an iPhone 4S...I use the basic Twitter app (prefer it to Tweetdeck) but when I go to the home page, all i see is the notice "protected tweets" and it won't let me do anything.

Suggestions?

 

[SpeedTchr]

Help!

Just spent an hour in various Twitter help sites and I can't find the answer to a very basic problem.

Just updated to an iPhone 4S...I use the basic Twitter app (prefer it to Tweetdeck) but when I go to the home page, all i see is the notice "protected tweets" and it won't let me do anything.

Suggestions?

I gather you saw this:
@asharris says:

Had the "Protected Tweets" issue myself. Solved it by going into Settings, scrolling down to Twitter, tapping on my account, and re-entering my password. Went back to the app, pulled down to refresh the Home page, and it refreshed with tweets. Hope this helps.