Comments on: Why I love Twitter http://tinfoiling.com/2008/07/28/why-i-love-twitter/ The mental pursuit of things material and immaterial eventually transcribed. Everything originates from Burnaby Mountain. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:26:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Morriss Partee http://tinfoiling.com/2008/07/28/why-i-love-twitter/#comment-2323 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:19:09 +0000 http://tinfoiling.wordpress.com/?p=536#comment-2323 Gene, I’m guessing you don’t want to join the Justice League of CoffeeHeroes then. But we do have room for a tea drinker; every team needs their Aquaman, whose super abilities come in handy once every twelve episodes. If you are interested in combating the evil forces of sleepiness and boredom everywhere, simply follow @Ventiman, @Capt_Americano, @DarkRoastKnight, @FrapBoy, @CoffeeBatGirl, @TripleShot, @americanomaniac, and @koffecat.

]]> By: Christopher Stevenson http://tinfoiling.com/2008/07/28/why-i-love-twitter/#comment-2322 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:27:15 +0000 http://tinfoiling.wordpress.com/?p=536#comment-2322 Gene,
You’ve nailed Twitter. I’ve never quite figured out why it’s such an appealing tool, but I enjoy reading it everyday. Sometimes I’ll even open it on a Saturday night after the kids are in bed to see how my Twitter friends are spending their weekend.

Twitter helps me better understand the people behind the blogs I read. Reading blog posts is great, but posts are typically edited and polished; they don’t always reveal the personality behind the blog. (There are a few notable exceptions.) Twitter exposes other facets of the bloggers’ personalities.

]]> By: Ron Shevlin http://tinfoiling.com/2008/07/28/why-i-love-twitter/#comment-2321 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:06:14 +0000 http://tinfoiling.wordpress.com/?p=536#comment-2321 Thank you for making the point about icons. Privately, it’s bugged me that people change their icons all the time (Magnum Mondays is cute, time to move on). While I do read most (if not all) the tweets that come through, I have to work just that much harder to figure out who it is if 5 tweets in a row look like Tom Selleck. Even beyond Magnum Monday, some people seem to change their icon every other day (yes, I’m talking to you Denise).

As for “what to post?”, I commented on my blog a while back that if I ran Twitter, I’d change the prompt to “what are you thinking?” not “what are you doing?” So, Gene — let us know what you’re thinking at any given point in time.

Lastly, I’m OK w/ my Twitter friends letting me know they’re at Starbucks — IF they offer to buy me a latte.

]]> By: Morriss Partee http://tinfoiling.com/2008/07/28/why-i-love-twitter/#comment-2320 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:40:49 +0000 http://tinfoiling.wordpress.com/?p=536#comment-2320 Gene, perhaps you just need to tweet more often about what kind of tea you are drinking. ;)

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