7 posts tagged “twitter”
Last night, I dreamt I was in some kind of college setting with some people I apparently knew in my dream. I was watching, "Hazy Shade of Winter" (a remake of the remake by some unknown girl band) on YouTube, and then went to check my twitter feed. I saw that an hour earlier one of my friends posted, "grrrr. stuck in sox traffic en route to cape cod." And then I looked over at said friend, who was laying around on the other side of the room, putzing with her laptop. I said, "Hey, what's the deal with your tweet?" and she said, "Eh, my life is boring. Going to Cape Cod coupled with the ubiquitous stuck in traffic tweet is so much more interesting."
This brings up two points. One being that all of my Boston twitter peeps have obviously made an impression on me. But the other brings up the idea of honesty online. I am one of those rare naive souls (also known as "sucker") who takes a lot of what she reads at face value. If you say you work for company x and do y for a living, I believe you. And the likely extension of that is :if you tweet or blog that you're on vacation in Hawaii sipping Mai Tais I believe you. I believe the pictures you post on flickr are yours. I believe the artwork you post on our site is yours. But what if it isn't?
(I think I much prefer the dream I had about David Tennant the night before, lol)
how does one embed their twitter widget into vox's sidebar?
I thought I was pretty damned geeky just over a year ago by providing online customer support for members of my online artist community in the postpartum recovery ward (which still probably would have happened had Liam not been stuck in the NICU for meconium aspiration and me bored out of my mind). Just now, a gent on my twitter friendslist has been posting updates of his wife going into labour through the delivery, including the most recent post informing me that the baby is crowning.
ETA: Marc just tweeted the following: Naomi Tamar Nathan - born 7:46am 7lbs. 8oz 20in long - perfect health 10 fingers and 10 toes all in the right places!
Congrats to you and the fam, Marc!
I have a phone conference in half an hour, and normally to prep, I go forth and twitter with my companeros. But noooo, the server cats are coughing up hairballs and I can't tweet to save my life. Damn flaky cats. Must be related to ours.
currently sitting at PIT waiting for my flight to SFO and twitter won't bloody let me log in. i miss my peeps!
I have noticed that since I got busy watching all of the activity at SXSW in real time roughly 10 days ago, I have been blogging less and less and twittering more. In some ways, I've noticed it fits my lifestyle very well. Who has time to blog deep thoughts when juggling a full-time business, a toddler, and an infant? There's also the admitted thrill of watching the pulse of web2.0 as it happens. The real world is beginning to take notice. I was amused beyond end to see the Tara Hunt/Robert Scoble twitter war make the Wall Steet Journal because I had been watching the thing unfold in real time in my friends' feed. We even twittered our most recent EBSQ Live event as it happened.
Following the lead of innovators 30boxes and mag.nolia, EBSQ even created its own official feed for news and service updates. And now the burden is upon me to explain twitter to a sub-group of people to whom I have had a hard time explaining the likes of Squidoo lenses or why blogging will help their art careers. It should be an interesting conversation that I'll no doubt document on twitter.
Did Scoble break Twitter? Can't get the site up...
