[Chester LUG] Microblogging

[David Holden]

On Thursday 05 February 2009, Les Pritchard wrote:
> No doubt you've all heard the sudden discovery of Twitter by celebs over
> the past few weeks!  It seems like loads of celebs are doing it now that
> Steven Fry mentioned it on prime time!
>
> So it got me wondering - how many people in the LUG use Twitter or any
> other microblogging service already?  I had thought before Christmas about
> getting us a LUG feed of some sort going, so it would be interesting to
> hear who uses it.  If you do have an account; do you post or just listen?
>
> Les

I have a twitter account but never use it, telling people (in effect noone, 
since none would be interested) what I've just had for breakfast or about the 
bus being late isn't the best use of my time. That said I have found it 
useful as a reader since I use the webmynd firefox plugin which when you 
search google also logs into to a load of other services and  returns results 
from those along side, occasional someone on twitter has posted something 
interesting. 

Like much of the web I don't think it has an impressive signal to noise ratio.

 Dave.


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