Archive for the tag 'Twitter'

Blogie
17 Apr '08

Saved by Twitter

After reading about a man who was practically saved from Egyptian detention thanks to Twitter, I think I may have been too harsh on this online service. According to the story, James Karl Buck, a graduate student of journalism in University of California at Berkeley, was arrested in Egypt. The charge: none, but he was picked up while photographing a public demonstration.

Thank goodness for Twitter’s mobile phone service! Come to think of it, I used to twit from my cellphone before… but it’s just too darned expensive (P10 per text message, I believe). The important thing is, it’s an available option!

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Blogie
11 Apr '08

Twittered out

When I first signed up for a Twitter account, I thought it would be nice to have a cute little gadget on my blog for letting people know what I was up to. It was a way to connect with my readers, to let them in on my personal side once in a while. So that’s how I used it at first — just a glossy-looking box in my sidebar to tell people I was doing this or that. Oh, and it was a good way of announcing events and stuff. So I left it at that.

Before I knew it, people were using it like it was a chat room, a globally public chat room. Until now I feel put off by this. But I do get it. It’s just not my thing.

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