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  • Bagman
    Bagman Posts: 311
    girv73 wrote:
    Twitter is a "micro blog" service where you post short messages - 140 chars max - about what you're doing, questions you have etc. The idea is to "follow" people you find helpful or interesting; doing so means you get to see all their messages. In turn, people who find you helpful, interesting, funny or whatever "follow" you and get to see all your messages. Over time, you build up a list of followers and followees and you get a kind of message stream to read and participate in.

    Blimey! It sounds dull and a complete waste of time. Still each to their own
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    henry_ho_yin wrote:
    biondino wrote:
    I don't think you can say it's overrated - it's a new fun fad which may well disappear in 6 months time. I don't actually think it will, partly because of the Stephen Fry effect - getting a Twitter from him gives the strongest feeling you're actually mates! A powerful draw indeed.

    Obviously if LiT posted on Twitter rather than just reading it she'd easily surpass Mr Fry's 163,000 followers.

    he is one of the reason why i don't like Twitter too. :) i find him really "Apple fanboy" like as a tech reviewer, specially with the Blackberry Storm review

    Now hold on there a minute kiddo...

    The eminent, brilliant Stephen Fry is so much more than a tech reviewer, he is an institution and a national treasure.
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  • don_don
    don_don Posts: 1,007
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    But I did post on twitter! Only yesterday I said 'bicycle bicycle bicycle' to see if my phone was playing ball....

    Where are my 163,000 followers? Hmmmmm?

    Only yesterday? Have some patience girl..

    :wink:
  • girv73
    girv73 Posts: 842
    don_don wrote:
    Only yesterday? Have some patience girl.. :wink:

    Yes, be patient. don_don needs to figure out how to get a Twitter account before he can add himself to your online stalker list.
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  • don_don
    don_don Posts: 1,007
    henry_ho_yin wrote:
    he is one of the reason why i don't like Twitter too. :) i find him really "Apple fanboy" like as a tech reviewer, specially with the Blackberry Storm review

    Did anyone see the program about him a year or so ago? He suffers from bi-polar disorder and cannot resist shopping when he's feeling 'high'. He owns (or owned) 10 digital cameras that he's never used. Probably explains the obsession with new tech stuff.
  • don_don
    don_don Posts: 1,007
    girv73 wrote:
    don_don wrote:
    Only yesterday? Have some patience girl.. :wink:

    Yes, be patient. don_don needs to figure out how to get a Twitter account before he can add himself to your online stalker list.

    :lol::lol:

    girv - PM me what to do to get a Twitter account will you?
  • soy_sauce
    soy_sauce Posts: 987
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    henry_ho_yin wrote:
    biondino wrote:
    I don't think you can say it's overrated - it's a new fun fad which may well disappear in 6 months time. I don't actually think it will, partly because of the Stephen Fry effect - getting a Twitter from him gives the strongest feeling you're actually mates! A powerful draw indeed.

    Obviously if LiT posted on Twitter rather than just reading it she'd easily surpass Mr Fry's 163,000 followers.

    he is one of the reason why i don't like Twitter too. :) i find him really "Apple fanboy" like as a tech reviewer, specially with the Blackberry Storm review

    Now hold on there a minute kiddo...

    The eminent, brilliant Stephen Fry is so much more than a tech reviewer, he is an institution and a national treasure.

    i know he is more than a tech reviewer and im not saying that he is rubbish at what he does or questioning his ablities neither but at the tech reviewer front, i just don't agree with him and i lost all the repect for him as a tech reviewer after that biaed review. this same apply to that tech reviewer from New York Times.
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  • iain_j
    iain_j Posts: 1,941
    I did. Wasn't it a part of a series about people with depression? I thought it was fascinating.
  • girv73
    girv73 Posts: 842
    edited February 2009
    don_don wrote:
    girv - PM me what to do to get a Twitter account will you?

    :lol:

    Go to http://twitter.com/signup and ... erm ... sign up.

    Then use the search tool to find ... people and click "Follow"

    Sorry LiT :roll: He made me do it!
    Today is a good day to ride
  • iain_j
    iain_j Posts: 1,941
    Only found Twitter recently (posts about Lance Armstrong's over on the Race forum) but I wasn't taken by it. Thought it was a bit dull. I take a look on Facebook every day but Twitter doesn't interest me.

    Yet.
  • don_don
    don_don Posts: 1,007
    iain_j wrote:
    I did. Wasn't it a part of a series about people with depression? I thought it was fascinating.

    Yes, that's the one. Can't remember what it was called. It put my occasional mild bouts of S.A.D. into context!
  • bratboy
    bratboy Posts: 82
    There are quite a few pro-cyclists twittering and Johan Bruyneel was posting from the Astana Team car during the Tour of Down Under which gave a different slant to the usual view. It'll be interesting to see if he continues to do so at the gior and TdF.
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    bratboy wrote:
    There are quite a few pro-cyclists twittering and Johan Bruyneel was posting from the Astana Team car during the Tour of Down Under which gave a different slant to the usual view. It'll be interesting to see if he continues to do so at the gior and TdF.

    Can you name some of the pros? There are one or two I'd be interested in following... actually I'll go have a look formyself :)
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    ChristianVDV and dzabriskie might be worth following!
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  • bratboy
    bratboy Posts: 82
    yup - but watch out for the fakers. Contador and Boonen were outed by Armstrong who called them up to check them out :D
    SC61.10a: FCN 3, with clip-on guards for winter
    Uncle John: FCN ?? knobblies, or 'fat' slicks n guards

    If you haven't tried these things, you should.
    These things are fun, and fun is good.
  • camerone
    camerone Posts: 1,232
    and basso and hincapie
  • camerone
    camerone Posts: 1,232
    didnt mean to suggest basso and hincapie fakers - just worth following..... :o

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