tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post3179353331418496460..comments2024-01-27T18:00:54.268+00:00Comments on This Is My Blog: Lovely Day (and Twitter)Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11639094548415759560noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-29279739942957890562007-04-09T12:57:00.000+01:002007-04-09T12:57:00.000+01:00Pete: it's sort of a cross between a chatty-type m...Pete: it's sort of a cross between a chatty-type messageboard, msn messenger, and a blog. You choose whose updates you want to follow, and there are options to exercise control over who follows you. Posts have a 140 character limit.<BR/><BR/>You can post messages from a phone, and get updates to your phone. You can also prioritise updates - so if for example you follow the BBC news headline updates, you can set them so they pop up on your list online, but don't make your phone go off.<BR/><BR/>Some of it is stuff like "waiting for pizza" or "popping out for milk" but not usually.<BR/><BR/>Often it's things that you might want to chatter with friends about - "I just had some Jehovah's Witnesses at the door" or "I just completed a level on X computer game" - but which don't warrant a full blog post, and aren't appropriate for a messageboard, and where you don't want to start fifteen MSN conversations just to tell people. Post it on Twitter, and anyone who feels like chatting about it can respond.<BR/><BR/>It's also good socially, if you have a lot of local friends who use it. You might look on Twitter and see that Bob has "gone to the King's Head to play pool for a couple of hours" and think hey, that's a good idea, I'll go join him - rather than phoning round everyone and saying "what you doing? What you doing? What you doing?" one at a time.<BR/><BR/>Mostly though, and I admit it, it's just another fun, cleverly made, but trivial internet timewaste.Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11639094548415759560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-18743279262822405632007-04-09T11:37:00.000+01:002007-04-09T11:37:00.000+01:00Glad you had such a nice time. :-)Glad you had such a nice time. :-)The Goldfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-10479308904512952522007-04-08T21:18:00.000+01:002007-04-08T21:18:00.000+01:00I'm not sure I get it (Twitter that is). Is it jus...I'm not sure I get it (Twitter that is). <BR/><BR/>Is it just a really trivial blog that encourages really mundane posts like "Just popping out for milk", rather than thought-out essays?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com