Living in a World of Tweets
I am not a big tweeter, or to put it properly, a big user of the twitter social network, but I have to admit that it is slowly growing on me. If you don’t know, “tweets” are a name for the micro-blogs posted on twitter. They are limited to 140 characters for each post. Tweets give a very different sense of a person. I enjoy reading them. For someone I know, it gives a different perspective on their life, what they’re up to, how they like to share themselves. And, when I see them in person, I don’t really have to say, “How ‘ya doing?” I know that already.
I am also getting into crafting my own postings, from a simple tweet telling my world about this blog post, to my more zen-like…
Andrew loves the leaves popping out. God always brings forth life from the dead.
…with a little Christian structure thrown in. If you want more of these, you can follow me at alewis7.
Twitter postings are an interesting word puzzle. When you’re limited to 140 characters you have to choose your message, and your words very will. This is tough for someone as long winded as me.
The world’s expert on twitter?
I have also been following a few people I’ve never met, like Jack the twitter founder. I figure he must know best how to express oneself in 140 key strokes. He is the zen master of this world. So I sit at his feet for now and learn the way. Oh, for I am wrong. He says…
Grasshopper, there are many tweets that make a song. Be true to your inner voice.
Hmmm… just kidding. I guess there is no one right way to tweet. Anyways, at this moment, Jack has 336,254 followers, and he follows 414 people. He needs what I’m going to tell you about next.
TweetDeck, a cool new app…
Keeping up with all the twitter postings, plus facebook wall postings, can be like trying to drink out of a firehose. I have found a cool new Mac app called TweetDeck. It does a great job managing the firehose and provides a lot of other handy features. It’s a free download, and, woops… silly me, it’s also available for Windows users. Better, let the people at Tweetdeck tell you about it…
But at the heart of TweetDeck is its ability to group people together and search across the twittersphere. Grouping friends or work colleagues separately means you have a window on all aspects of your twitter life. Searching across the twittersphere means you can monitor any subject within Twitter. These additional columns automatically update so providing the user with a very effective dashboard of realtime information.
Go here to download…
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Very cool. I still don’t twitter (or tweet) but an app like this makes it all the more enticing. Most of what holds me back from Twitter is the potential for it to be a huge time suck.
But if you don’t twitter, you’ll miss out on those existential relationships…