[Chester LUG] Microblogging

[Les Pritchard]

Two words....band and wagon :-)

Seriously though, I'm not looking to replace the list just thought it could
be addition that might enourage people to contribute the odd comment.

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:56 PM, David Holden <dh at iucr.org> wrote:

> 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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