[Chester LUG] Microblogging

[David Holden]

On Friday 06 February 2009, Les Pritchard wrote:
> he he.  Well as Dan said I think it could be useful for announcements at
> least.  I also thought it could be handy for the odd message like "I'm
> looking for an app that does XXXXX" or "Just trying our XXXX, very useful".
> The kind of comments that may come out at a meet (ok maybe not all the kind
> of comments that come out there!).

Yeh maybe but not sure how this is better than posting to the list.

 Dave.


>
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:40 AM, David Holden <dh at iucr.org> wrote:
> > 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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> > Dr. David Holden.
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